checkNotNull(executor, "Executor was null.");

    // Lock while we check state. We must maintain the lock while adding the new pair so that
    // another thread can't run the list out from under us. We only add to the list if we have not
    // yet started execution.
    synchronized (this) {
      if (!executed) {
        runnables = new RunnableExecutorPair(runnable, executor, runnables);
        return;
      }
    }

    future. (Previously, we sometimes removed such APIs after a deprecation
    period. The last release to remove non-`@Beta` APIs was Guava 21.0.) Even
    `@Deprecated` APIs will remain (again, unless they are `@Beta`). We have no
    plans to start removing things again, but officially, we're leaving our
    options open in case of surprises (like, say, a serious security problem).

3.  Guava has one dependency that is needed for linkage at runtime:

public interface Function<F extends @Nullable Object, T extends @Nullable Object>
{
  /**
   * Returns the result of applying this function to {@code input}. This method is <i>generally
   * expected</i>, but not absolutely required, to have the following properties:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>Its execution does not cause any observable side effects.
   *   <li>The computation is <i>consistent with equals</i>; that is, {@link Objects#equal