pendingDescription = "Exception thrown from implementation: " + e.getClass();
      }
      // The future may complete during or before the call to getPendingToString, so we use null
      // as a signal that we should try checking if the future is done again.
      if (!isNullOrEmpty(pendingDescription)) {
        builder.append("PENDING, info=[").append(pendingDescription).append("]");
      } else if (isDone()) {

    // don't execute 'immediately'.  By checking isDone here we avoid that.
    // A corollary to all that is that we don't need to check isDone inside the loop because if we
    // get into the loop we know that we weren't done when we entered and therefore we aren't under
    // an obligation to execute 'immediately'.
    if (!isDone()) {
      Listener oldHead = listeners;