// so that the cleanup work is visible to listeners.
      // afterDone() should be generally fast and only used for cleanup work... but in theory can
      // also be recursive and create StackOverflowErrors
      future.afterDone();
      // push the current set of listeners onto next
      next = future.clearListeners(next);
      future = null;

  // this would be observable from an afterDone callback
  public void testListenersExecuteImmediately_fromAfterDone() {
    AbstractFuture<String> f =
        new AbstractFuture<String>() {
          @Override
          protected void afterDone() {
            final AtomicBoolean ranImmediately = new AtomicBoolean();
            addListener(

  // this would be observable from an afterDone callback
  public void testListenersExecuteImmediately_fromAfterDone() {
    AbstractFuture<String> f =
        new AbstractFuture<String>() {
          @Override
          protected void afterDone() {
            final AtomicBoolean ranImmediately = new AtomicBoolean();
            addListener(

      ListenableFuture<V> localDelegate = delegate;
      if (localDelegate != null) {
        return "delegate=[" + localDelegate + "]";
      }
      return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void afterDone() {
      delegate = null;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Creates a new {@code ListenableFuture} whose value is a list containing the values of all its