}

    @Override
    Comparable<?> leastValueAbove(DiscreteDomain<Comparable<?>> domain) {
      return domain.minValue();
    }

    @Override
    Comparable<?> greatestValueBelow(DiscreteDomain<Comparable<?>> domain) {
      throw new AssertionError();
    }

    @Override
    Cut<Comparable<?>> canonical(DiscreteDomain<Comparable<?>> domain) {
      try {

    checkNotNull(left); // for GWT
    checkNotNull(right);
    return ((Comparable<Object>) left).compareTo(right);
  }

  @Override
  public <S extends Comparable<?>> Ordering<@Nullable S> nullsFirst() {
    Ordering<@Nullable Comparable<?>> result = nullsFirst;
    if (result == null) {
      result = nullsFirst = super.<Comparable<?>>nullsFirst();
    }
    return (Ordering<@Nullable S>) result;

  }

  // J2kt cannot translate the Comparable rawtype in a usable way (it becomes Comparable<Object>
  // but types are typically only Comparable to themselves).
  @SuppressWarnings({"rawtypes", "unchecked"})
  private static MultimapBuilderWithKeys<Comparable<?>> rawtypeToWildcard(
      MultimapBuilderWithKeys<Comparable> treeKeys) {
    return (MultimapBuilderWithKeys) treeKeys;
  }

  private static final RangeMap<Comparable<?>, Object> EMPTY_SUB_RANGE_MAP =
      new RangeMap<Comparable<?>, Object>() {
        @Override
        @CheckForNull
        public Object get(Comparable<?> key) {
          return null;
        }

        @Override
        @CheckForNull
        public Entry<Range<Comparable<?>>, Object> getEntry(Comparable<?> key) {
          return null;
        }

   *
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException always
   * @deprecated <b>Pass the parameters of type {@code Comparable} to use {@link
   *     ImmutableSortedMultiset#of(Comparable, Comparable, Comparable, Comparable, Comparable,
   *     Comparable, Comparable...)} . </b>
   */
  @DoNotCall("Elements must be Comparable. (Or, pass a Comparator to orderedBy or copyOf.)")
  @Deprecated
  public static <E> ImmutableSortedMultiset<E> of(

   *
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException always
   * @deprecated <b>Pass keys of type {@code Comparable} to use {@link
   *     ImmutableSortedMap#of(Comparable, Object, Comparable, Object, Comparable, Object,
   *     Comparable, Object, Comparable, Object)}.</b>
   */
  @DoNotCall("Pass keys of type Comparable")
  @Deprecated
  public static <K, V> ImmutableSortedMap<K, V> of(

    }
  }

  /**
   * Compares two comparable objects as specified by {@link Comparable#compareTo}, <i>if</i> the
   * result of this comparison chain has not already been determined.
   *
   * <p>This method is declared to accept any 2 {@code Comparable} objects, even if they are not <a
   * href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/interfaces/order.html">mutually

   *
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException always
   * @deprecated <b>Pass the parameters of type {@code Comparable} to use {@link
   *     ImmutableSortedMultiset#of(Comparable, Comparable, Comparable, Comparable, Comparable,
   *     Comparable, Comparable...)} . </b>
   */
  @DoNotCall("Elements must be Comparable. (Or, pass a Comparator to orderedBy or copyOf.)")
  @Deprecated
  public static <E> ImmutableSortedMultiset<E> of(

   * element.</b> Proper calls will resolve to the version in {@code ImmutableSortedSet}, not this
   * dummy version.
   *
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException always
   * @deprecated <b>Pass the parameters of type {@code Comparable} to use {@link
   *     ImmutableSortedSet#of(Comparable, Comparable, Comparable, Comparable, Comparable,
   *     Comparable, Comparable...)}. </b>
   */

@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public final class Range<C extends Comparable> extends RangeGwtSerializationDependencies
    implements Predicate<C>, Serializable {
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static <C extends Comparable<?>> Ordering<Range<C>> rangeLexOrdering() {
    return (Ordering<Range<C>>) RangeLexOrdering.INSTANCE;
  }

  static <C extends Comparable<?>> Range<C> create(Cut<C> lowerBound, Cut<C> upperBound) {