}

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if each element in {@code iterable} after the first is greater than or
   * equal to the element that preceded it, according to the specified comparator. Note that this is
   * always true when the iterable has fewer than two elements.
   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> boolean isInOrder(
      Iterable<? extends T> iterable, Comparator<T> comparator) {

  }

  /**
   * This method returns a {@code ImmutableSortedMap}, consisting of the entries whose keys are less
   * than {@code toKey}.
   *
   * <p>The {@link SortedMap#headMap} documentation states that a submap of a submap throws an
   * {@link IllegalArgumentException} if passed a {@code toKey} greater than an earlier {@code
   * toKey}. However, this method doesn't throw an exception in that situation, but instead keeps

              "estimated size of spliterator after trySplit (%s) is larger than original size (%s)",
              spliterator.estimateSize(), originalSize));
    }
    if (trySplit != null) {
      if (trySplit.estimateSize() > originalSize) {
        fail(
            format(
                "estimated size of trySplit result (%s) is larger than original size (%s)",
                trySplit.estimateSize(), originalSize));

   * IllegalArgumentException} if passed a {@code fromElement} smaller than an earlier {@code
   * fromElement}. However, this method doesn't throw an exception in that situation, but instead
   * keeps the original {@code fromElement}. Similarly, this method keeps the original {@code
   * toElement}, instead of throwing an exception, if passed a {@code toElement} greater than an
   * earlier {@code toElement}.
   */
  @Override

   * @param position position of the element to return
   * @param defaultValue the default value to return if {@code position} is greater than or equal to
   *     the size of the iterable
   * @return the element at the specified position in {@code iterable} or {@code defaultValue} if
   *     {@code iterable} contains fewer than {@code position + 1} elements.
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if {@code position} is negative
   * @since 4.0
   */

    if (componentType instanceof WildcardType) {
      WildcardType wildcard = (WildcardType) componentType;
      Type[] lowerBounds = wildcard.getLowerBounds();
      checkArgument(lowerBounds.length <= 1, "Wildcard cannot have more than one lower bounds.");
      if (lowerBounds.length == 1) {
        return supertypeOf(newArrayType(lowerBounds[0]));
      } else {
        Type[] upperBounds = wildcard.getUpperBounds();

   * message must mention two values that were associated with the duplicate key in two different
   * calls to Builder.put (though we don't really care *which* two values if there were more than
   * two). These considerations lead us to have a field of type DuplicateKey in the Builder, which
   * will remember the first duplicate key we encountered. All later calls to buildOrThrow() can

   * Elements are added in encounter order.
   *
   * <p>If the mapped elements contain duplicates (according to {@link Object#equals}), the element
   * will be added more than once, with the count summed over all appearances of the element.
   *
   * <p>Note that {@code stream.collect(toMultiset(function, e -> 1, supplier))} is equivalent to

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p>Because an inverse of a set multimap cannot contain multiple pairs with the same key and
   * value, this method returns an {@code ImmutableSetMultimap} rather than the {@code
   * ImmutableMultimap} specified in the {@code ImmutableMultimap} class.
   */
  @Override
  public ImmutableSetMultimap<V, K> inverse() {
    ImmutableSetMultimap<V, K> result = inverse;

     * Returns a newly-created immutable map, using the last value for any key that was added more
     * than once. The iteration order of the returned map is the order in which entries were
     * inserted into the builder, unless {@link #orderEntriesByValue} was called, in which case
     * entries are sorted by value. If a key was added more than once, it appears in iteration order