* information on "bogons", including lists of IPv6 bogon space, see:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><a target="_parent"
 *       href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering">http://en.wikipedia.
 *       org/wiki/Bogon_filtering</a>
 *   <li><a target="_parent"
 *       href="http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/ipv6.txt">http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/ ipv6.txt</a>

 * information on "bogons", including lists of IPv6 bogon space, see:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><a target="_parent"
 *       href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering">http://en.wikipedia.
 *       org/wiki/Bogon_filtering</a>
 *   <li><a target="_parent"
 *       href="http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/ipv6.txt">http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/ ipv6.txt</a>

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  `Why not?' said the March Hare.

  Alice was silent.

  The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going
off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up
again with a little shriek, and went on:  `--that begins with an

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                .compare(Boolean.TRUE, true)
                .compare(Boolean.TRUE, Boolean.TRUE)
                .result())
        .isEqualTo(0);
  }

  public void testDegenerate() {
    // kinda bogus, but who cares?
    assertThat(ComparisonChain.start().result()).isEqualTo(0);
  }

  public void testOneEqual() {
    assertThat(ComparisonChain.start().compare("a", "a").result()).isEqualTo(0);
  }

   *
   * <p>Memory consistency effects: Actions in a thread prior to adding a listener <a
   * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-17.html#jls-17.4.5">
   * <i>happen-before</i></a> its execution begins, perhaps in another thread.
   *
   * <p>Guava implementations of {@code ListenableFuture} promptly release references to listeners
   * after executing them.
   *

   *
   * <p>Memory consistency effects: Actions in a thread prior to adding a listener <a
   * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-17.html#jls-17.4.5">
   * <i>happen-before</i></a> its execution begins, perhaps in another thread.
   *
   * <p>Guava implementations of {@code ListenableFuture} promptly release references to listeners
   * after executing them.
   *

   *
   * <p>Memory consistency effects: Actions in a thread prior to adding a listener <a
   * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-17.html#jls-17.4.5">
   * <i>happen-before</i></a> its execution begins, perhaps in another thread.
   *
   * <p>Guava implementations of {@code ListenableFuture} promptly release references to listeners
   * after executing them.
   *

        # args, so each arg winds up back in the position where it started, but
        # possibly modified.
        #
        # NB: a `for` loop captures its iteration list before it begins, so
        # changing the positional parameters here affects neither the number of
        # iterations, nor the values presented in `arg`.
        shift                   # remove old arg

 * That can be expensive.
 *
 * @author Mark Davis
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
public abstract class ComparisonChain {
  private ComparisonChain() {}

  /** Begins a new chained comparison statement. See example in the class documentation. */
  public static ComparisonChain start() {
    return ACTIVE;
  }

  private static final ComparisonChain ACTIVE =