* safe to do so. The exact circumstances under which a copy will or will not be performed are
   * undocumented and subject to change.
   *
   * <p>This method is not type-safe, as it may be called on elements that are not mutually
   * comparable.
   *
   * @throws ClassCastException if the elements are not mutually comparable
   * @throws NullPointerException if any of {@code elements} is null
   */

   * the members of the element set of {@code multiset2} that are not contained in {@code
   * multiset1}, with repeated occurrences of the same element appearing consecutively.
   *
   * <p>Results are undefined if {@code multiset1} and {@code multiset2} are based on different
   * equivalence relations (as {@code HashMultiset} and {@code TreeMultiset} are).
   *
   * @since 14.0
   */

   * whose keys and values are the result of applying the provided mapping functions to the input
   * elements.
   *
   * <p>For streams with defined encounter order (as defined in the Ordering section of the {@link
   * java.util.stream} Javadoc), that order is preserved, but entries are <a
   * href="ImmutableMultimap.html#iteration">grouped by key</a>.
   *
   * <p>Example:

  }

  /**
   * Returns a {@code Collector} that returns the {@code k} smallest (relative to the specified
   * {@code Comparator}) input elements, in ascending order, as an unmodifiable {@code List}. Ties
   * are broken arbitrarily.
   *
   * <p>For example:
   *
   * <pre>{@code
   * Stream.of("foo", "quux", "banana", "elephant")
   *     .collect(least(2, comparingInt(String::length)))
   * // returns {"foo", "quux"}

   * TypeResolver#resolveType} will not be able to call {@code getAnnotatedBounds()} on it, but that
   * should hopefully be rare.
   *
   * <p>TODO(b/147144588): We are currently also missing the methods inherited from {@link
   * AnnotatedElement}, which {@code TypeVariable} began to extend only in Java 8. Those methods

 * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> several common uses for this class are now more comprehensively
 * addressed by the new {@link java.util.stream.Stream} library. Read the method documentation below
 * for comparisons. This class is not being deprecated, but we gently encourage you to migrate to
 * streams.
 *
 * <p><i>Performance notes:</i> Unless otherwise noted, all of the iterables produced in this class

import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.annotation.CheckForNull;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * Generates fresh instances of types that are different from each other (if possible).
 *
 * @author Ben Yu
 */
@GwtIncompatible
@J2ktIncompatible
class FreshValueGenerator {

  private static final ImmutableMap<Class<?>, Method> GENERATORS;

  }

  /**
   * Returns a {@link Collector} that accumulates elements into an {@code ImmutableMap} whose keys
   * and values are the result of applying the provided mapping functions to the input elements.
   *
   * <p>If the mapped keys contain duplicates (according to {@link Object#equals(Object)}), the
   * values are merged using the specified merging function. If the merging function returns {@code

  }

  /**
   * Returns an {@code ImmutableRangeSet} containing each of the specified disjoint ranges.
   * Overlapping ranges and empty ranges are forbidden, though adjacent ranges are permitted and
   * will be merged.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if any ranges overlap or are empty
   * @since 21.0
   */
  public static <C extends Comparable<?>> ImmutableRangeSet<C> copyOf(Iterable<Range<C>> ranges) {

  /**
   * Returns a {@code Collector} that accumulates the input elements into a new {@code
   * ImmutableRangeMap}. As in {@link Builder}, overlapping ranges are not permitted.
   *
   * @since 33.2.0 (available since 23.1 in guava-jre)
   */
  @SuppressWarnings({"AndroidJdkLibsChecker", "Java7ApiChecker"})