}
      if (lhs == null) {
        // lhs (null) comes just before justAfterNull.
        // If rhs is b, lhs comes first.
        if (rhs.equals(justAfterNull)) {
          return -1;
        }
        return justAfterNull.compareTo(rhs);
      }
      if (rhs == null) {
        // rhs (null) comes just before justAfterNull.
        // If lhs is b, rhs comes first.
        if (lhs.equals(justAfterNull)) {

              sneakyThrow(new SomeCheckedException());
              throw new AssertionError(); // unreachable
            }
          }
        };

    // The first time, the sneakily-thrown exception comes out
    try {
      iter.hasNext();
      fail("No exception thrown");
    } catch (Exception e) {
      if (!(e instanceof SomeCheckedException)) {
        throw e;
      }
    }

        return first.length() - second.length();
      } else {
        return first.compareTo(second);
      }
    }
  }

  /** Decreasing integer values. A {@code null} comes before any non-null value. */
  private static final Comparator<@Nullable Integer> DECREASING_INT_COMPARATOR =
      Ordering.<Integer>natural().reverse().<Integer>nullsFirst();

  private SetMultimap<String, Integer> create() {

    }
    if (that == aboveAll()) {
      return -1;
    }
    int result = Range.compareOrThrow(endpoint, that.endpoint);
    if (result != 0) {
      return result;
    }
    // same value. below comes before above
    return Booleans.compare(this instanceof AboveValue, that instanceof AboveValue);
  }

  C endpoint() {
    return endpoint;
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // catching CCE
  @Override

 * <p>In order to allow proper garbage collection of unused locks, the edges of the lock graph are
 * weak references.
 *
 * <p><strong>Performance</strong>
 *
 * <p>The extra bookkeeping done by cycle detecting locks comes at some cost to performance.
 * Benchmarks (as of December 2011) show that:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>for an unnested {@code lock()} and {@code unlock()}, a cycle detecting lock takes 38ns as

    int pos = indexIn(string);
    if (pos == -1) {
      return string;
    }

    char[] chars = string.toCharArray();
    int spread = 1;

    // This unusual loop comes from extensive benchmarking
    OUT:
    while (true) {
      pos++;
      while (true) {
        if (pos == chars.length) {
          break OUT;
        }
        if (matches(chars[pos])) {

      }
      if (lhs == null) {
        // lhs (null) comes just before justAfterNull.
        // If rhs is b, lhs comes first.
        if (rhs.equals(justAfterNull)) {
          return -1;
        }
        return justAfterNull.compareTo(rhs);
      }
      if (rhs == null) {
        // rhs (null) comes just before justAfterNull.
        // If lhs is b, rhs comes first.
        if (lhs.equals(justAfterNull)) {

import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;

/**
 * Unchecked variant of {@link java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException}. As with {@code
 * ExecutionException}, the exception's {@linkplain #getCause() cause} comes from a failed task,
 * possibly run in another thread.
 *
 * <p>{@code UncheckedExecutionException} is intended as an alternative to {@code

    }
    for (N node : subgraph.nodes()) {
      for (N successorNode : graph.successors(node)) {
        if (subgraph.nodes().contains(successorNode)) {
          // requireNonNull is safe because the endpoint pair comes from the graph.
          subgraph.putEdgeValue(
              node,
              successorNode,
              requireNonNull(graph.edgeValueOrDefault(node, successorNode, null)));
        }
      }
    }

  }

  /**
   * Calls {@code next()} on {@code iterator}, either {@code numberToAdvance} times or until {@code
   * hasNext()} returns {@code false}, whichever comes first.
   *
   * @return the number of elements the iterator was advanced
   * @since 13.0 (since 3.0 as {@code Iterators.skip})
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue