defined type while the latter is a type literal
(but they are still <a href="#Assignability">assignable</a>).
</p>

<h3 id="Assignability">Assignability</h3>

<p>
A value <code>x</code> of type <code>V</code> is <i>assignable</i> to a <a href="#Variables">variable</a> of type <code>T</code>
("<code>x</code> is assignable to <code>T</code>") if one of the following conditions applies:
</p>

<ul>
<li>

      int k = 0;
      int i = takeIndex;
      while (k < count) {
        // This cast is not itself safe, but the following statement
        // will fail if the runtime type of items[i] is not assignable
        // to the runtime type of a[k++], which is all that the method
        // contract requires (see @throws ArrayStoreException above).
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        T t = (T) items[i];

func new(TypeOrExpr) *Type

// The complex built-in function constructs a complex value from two
// floating-point values. The real and imaginary parts must be of the same
// size, either float32 or float64 (or assignable to them), and the return
// value will be the corresponding complex type (complex64 for float32,
// complex128 for float64).
func complex(r, i FloatType) ComplexType

    return new InstanceOfPredicate<>(clazz);
  }

  /**
   * Returns a predicate that evaluates to {@code true} if the class being tested is assignable to
   * (is a subtype of) {@code clazz}. Example:
   *
   * {@snippet :
   * List<Class<?>> classes = Arrays.asList(Object.class, String.class, Number.class, Long.class);

  }

  public void testisSupertypeOf_resolved() {
    assertFalse(Assignability.of().isAssignable());
    assertTrue(new Assignability<Integer, Integer>() {}.isAssignable());
    assertTrue(new Assignability<Integer, Object>() {}.isAssignable());
    assertFalse(new Assignability<Integer, String>() {}.isAssignable());
    TypeTokenTest.<Number, Integer>assignabilityTestWithTypeVariables();
  }

    return new InstanceOfPredicate<>(clazz);
  }

  /**
   * Returns a predicate that evaluates to {@code true} if the class being tested is assignable to
   * (is a subtype of) {@code clazz}. Example:
   *
   * {@snippet :
   * List<Class<?>> classes = Arrays.asList(Object.class, String.class, Number.class, Long.class);

      int k = 0;
      int i = takeIndex;
      while (k < count) {
        // This cast is not itself safe, but the following statement
        // will fail if the runtime type of items[i] is not assignable
        // to the runtime type of a[k++], which is all that the method
        // contract requires (see @throws ArrayStoreException above).
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        T t = (T) items[i];

  }

  public void testisSupertypeOf_resolved() {
    assertFalse(Assignability.of().isAssignable());
    assertTrue(new Assignability<Integer, Integer>() {}.isAssignable());
    assertTrue(new Assignability<Integer, Object>() {}.isAssignable());
    assertFalse(new Assignability<Integer, String>() {}.isAssignable());
    TypeTokenTest.<Number, Integer>assignabilityTestWithTypeVariables();
  }

   */
  public static <V extends @Nullable Object> ListenableFuture<V> immediateFuture(
      @ParametricNullness V value) {
    if (value == null) {
      // This cast is safe because null is assignable to V for all V (i.e. it is bivariant)
      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
      ListenableFuture<V> typedNull = (ListenableFuture<V>) ImmediateFuture.NULL;
      return typedNull;
    }