*       not</b> allow the endpoint instances to mutate after the range is created!
 *   <li>Your value type's comparison method should be {@linkplain Comparable consistent with
 *       equals} if at all possible. Otherwise, be aware that concepts used throughout this
 *       documentation such as "equal", "same", "unique" and so on actually refer to whether {@link
 *       Comparable#compareTo compareTo} returns zero, not whether {@link Object#equals equals}