builder.append(args[i++]);
      templateStart = placeholderStart + 2;
    }
    builder.append(template, templateStart, template.length());

    // if we run out of placeholders, append the extra args in square braces
    if (i < args.length) {
      builder.append(" [");
      builder.append(args[i++]);
      while (i < args.length) {
        builder.append(", ");
        builder.append(args[i++]);
      }

   *     argument. These are matched by position - the first {@code %s} gets {@code
   *     errorMessageArgs[0]}, etc. Unmatched arguments will be appended to the formatted message in
   *     square braces. Unmatched placeholders will be left as-is.
   * @param errorMessageArgs the arguments to be substituted into the message template. Arguments
   *     are converted to strings using {@link String#valueOf(Object)}.

some of the other birds tittered audibly.

  `What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone,
`was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'

  `What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much
to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY
ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.

   *     argument. These are matched by position - the first {@code %s} gets {@code
   *     errorMessageArgs[0]}, etc. Unmatched arguments will be appended to the formatted message in
   *     square braces. Unmatched placeholders will be left as-is.
   * @param errorMessageArgs the arguments to be substituted into the message template. Arguments
   *     are converted to strings using {@link String#valueOf(Object)}.

      builder.append(args[i++]);
      templateStart = placeholderStart + 2;
    }
    builder.append(template, templateStart, template.length());

    // if we run out of placeholders, append the extra args in square braces
    if (i < args.length) {
      builder.append(" [");
      builder.append(args[i++]);
      while (i < args.length) {
        builder.append(", ");
        builder.append(args[i++]);
      }

      builder.append(args[i++]);
      templateStart = placeholderStart + 2;
    }
    builder.append(template.substring(templateStart));

    // if we run out of placeholders, append the extra args in square braces
    if (i < args.length) {
      builder.append(" [");
      builder.append(args[i++]);
      while (i < args.length) {
        builder.append(", ");
        builder.append(args[i++]);
      }

   *     argument. These are matched by position - the first {@code %s} gets {@code
   *     errorMessageArgs[0]}, etc. Unmatched arguments will be appended to the formatted message in
   *     square braces. Unmatched placeholders will be left as-is.
   * @param errorMessageArgs the arguments to be substituted into the message template. Arguments
   *     are converted to strings using {@link String#valueOf(Object)}.

   *     argument. These are matched by position - the first {@code %s} gets {@code
   *     errorMessageArgs[0]}, etc. Unmatched arguments will be appended to the formatted message in
   *     square braces. Unmatched placeholders will be left as-is.
   * @param errorMessageArgs the arguments to be substituted into the message template. Arguments
   *     are converted to strings using {@link String#valueOf(Object)}.

      builder.append(args[i++]);
      templateStart = placeholderStart + 2;
    }
    builder.append(template.substring(templateStart));

    // if we run out of placeholders, append the extra args in square braces
    if (i < args.length) {
      builder.append(" [");
      builder.append(args[i++]);
      while (i < args.length) {
        builder.append(", ");
        builder.append(args[i++]);
      }

  int recursionCount;

  private static final Object duh = new Object();

  @Param Mode mode;

  enum Mode {
    LAZY_STACK_TRACE {
      @Override
      List<StackTraceElement> getStackTrace(Throwable t) {
        return lazyStackTrace(t);
      }
    },
    GET_STACK_TRACE {
      @Override
      List<StackTraceElement> getStackTrace(Throwable t) {
        return asList(t.getStackTrace());
      }
    };