return candidate;
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns a hash code, having the same bit length as each of the input hash codes, that combines
   * the information of these hash codes in an ordered fashion. That is, whenever two equal hash
   * codes are produced by two calls to this method, it is <i>as likely as possible</i> that each
   * was computed from the <i>same</i> input hash codes in the <i>same</i> order.
   *

   * of the supertype that suggests that implementations are expected to tolerate null. That said, I
   * see calls in Google code that pass a null `dir` to a FilenameFilter.... So let's declare the
   * parameter as non-nullable (since passing null to a FilenameFilter is unsafe in general), but if
   * someone still manages to pass null, let's continue to have the method work.
   *

   *
   * @since 8.0
   */
  public static final byte ESC = 27;

  /**
   * File Separator: These four information separators may be used within data in optional fashion,
   * except that their hierarchical relationship shall be: FS is the most inclusive, then GS, then
   * RS, and US is least inclusive. (The content and length of a File, Group, Record, or Unit are
   * not specified.)
   *

   * or extract a variable, and put the suppression on that. However, a local variable typically
   * doesn't work: Because nullness analyses typically infer the nullness of local variables,
   * there's no way to assign a {@code @Nullable T} to a field {@code T foo;} and instruct the
   * analysis that that means "plain {@code T}" rather than the inferred type {@code @Nullable T}.

   * <p>The returned object is serializable if {@code function} is serializable.
   *
   * @param function the function to be used for loading values; must never return {@code null}
   * @return a cache loader that loads values by passing each key to {@code function}
   */
  public static <K, V> CacheLoader<K, V> from(Function<K, V> function) {
    return new FunctionToCacheLoader<>(function);
  }

  /**

   * Returns the innermost cause of {@code throwable}. The first throwable in a chain provides
   * context from when the error or exception was initially detected. Example usage:
   *
   * <pre>
   * assertEquals("Unable to assign a customer id", Throwables.getRootCause(e).getMessage());
   * </pre>
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if there is a loop in the causal chain
   */
  public static Throwable getRootCause(Throwable throwable) {

   * Returns the innermost cause of {@code throwable}. The first throwable in a chain provides
   * context from when the error or exception was initially detected. Example usage:
   *
   * <pre>
   * assertEquals("Unable to assign a customer id", Throwables.getRootCause(e).getMessage());
   * </pre>
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if there is a loop in the causal chain
   */
  public static Throwable getRootCause(Throwable throwable) {

   * elements.
   *
   * <p>To cycle over the elements {@code n} times, use the following: {@code
   * Iterables.concat(Collections.nCopies(n, Arrays.asList(elements)))}
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> If passing a single element {@code e}, the {@code Stream} equivalent
   * of this method is {@code Stream.generate(() -> e)}. Otherwise, put the elements in a collection

   *
   * @param formal The type whose type variables or itself is mapped to other type(s). It's almost
   *     always a bug if {@code formal} isn't a type variable and contains no type variable. Make
   *     sure you are passing the two parameters in the right order.
   * @param actual The type that the formal type variable(s) are mapped to. It can be or contain yet
   *     other type variables, in which case these type variables will be further resolved if

 * worst case time complexity of O(N^2). You are extremely unlikely to hit this quadratic case on
 * randomly ordered data (the probability decreases faster than exponentially in N), but if you are
 * passing in unsanitized user data then a malicious user could force it. A light shuffle of the
 * data using an unpredictable seed should normally be enough to thwart this attack.
 *