for she had read several nice little histories about children who
had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules
their friends had taught them:  such as, that a red-hot poker
will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your
finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had

  static <E> Queue<E> discardingQueue() {
    return (Queue) DISCARDING_QUEUE;
  }

  /*
   * Note: All of this duplicate code sucks, but it saves a lot of memory. If only Java had mixins!
   * To maintain this code, make a change for the strong reference type. Then, cut and paste, and
   * replace "Strong" with "Soft" or "Weak" within the pasted text. The primary difference is that

    bulkFuture.addListener(
        new Runnable() {
          @Override
          public void run() {
            /*
             * firstFuture just completed, but AggregateFuture hasn't yet had time to record the
             * exception in seenExceptions. When we complete secondFuture with the same exception,
             * we want for AggregateFuture to still detect that it's been previously seen.
             */

    bulkFuture.addListener(
        new Runnable() {
          @Override
          public void run() {
            /*
             * firstFuture just completed, but AggregateFuture hasn't yet had time to record the
             * exception in seenExceptions. When we complete secondFuture with the same exception,
             * we want for AggregateFuture to still detect that it's been previously seen.
             */

for she had read several nice little histories about children who
had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules
their friends had taught them:  such as, that a red-hot poker
will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your
finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had

  static <E> Queue<E> discardingQueue() {
    return (Queue) DISCARDING_QUEUE;
  }

  /*
   * Note: All of this duplicate code sucks, but it saves a lot of memory. If only Java had mixins!
   * To maintain this code, make a change for the strong reference type. Then, cut and paste, and
   * replace "Strong" with "Soft" or "Weak" within the pasted text. The primary difference is that

        return whenClosed = new CountDownLatch(1);
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns an object that can be used to wait until this objects' deferred closeables have all had
   * {@link Runnable}s that close them submitted to each one's closing {@link Executor}.
   */
  @VisibleForTesting
  CountDownLatch whenClosedCountDown() {
    return closeables.whenClosedCountDown();
  }