* if occurrences == 0. This satisfies both NullPointerTester and
   * CollectionRemoveTester.testRemove_nullAllowed, but it's not clear that it's
   * a good policy, especially because, in order for the test to pass, the
   * parameter must be misleadingly annotated as @Nullable. I suspect that
   * we'll want to remove @Nullable, add an eager checkNotNull, and loosen up
   * testRemove_nullAllowed.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue

 * <td>{@link #base64()}
 * <td>A-Z a-z 0-9 + /
 * <td>1.33
 * <td>=
 * <td>
 * <tr>
 * <td>{@link #base64Url()}
 * <td>A-Z a-z 0-9 - _
 * <td>1.33
 * <td>=
 * <td>Safe to use as filenames, or to pass in URLs without escaping
 * </table>
 *
 * <p>All instances of this class are immutable, so they may be stored safely as static constants.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 14.0
 */

        }
      };
    }

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 0;
  }

  /**
   * Implementation of a transforming random access list. We try to make as many of these methods
   * pass-through to the source list as possible so that the performance characteristics of the
   * source list and transformed list are similar.
   *
   * @see Lists#transform
   */

          // We unwind setFuture specifically to avoid StackOverflowErrors in the case of long
          // chains of SetFutures
          // Handling this special case is important because there is no way to pass an executor to
          // setFuture, so a user couldn't break the chain by doing this themselves.  It is also
          // potentially common if someone writes a recursive Futures.transformAsync transformer.

    combiner = null;
    // combiner should be collected even if the future it returns never completes.
    GcFinalization.awaitClear(combinerRef);
  }

  /*
   * TODO(cpovirk): maybe pass around TestFuture instances instead of
   * ListenableFuture instances
   */

  /**
   * A future in {@link TestFutureBatch} that also has a name for debugging purposes and a {@code

   * ImmutableSortedMultiset}, not this dummy version.
   *
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException always
   * @deprecated <b>Pass a parameter of type {@code Comparable} to use {@link
   *     ImmutableSortedMultiset#of(Comparable)}.</b>
   */
  @DoNotCall("Elements must be Comparable. (Or, pass a Comparator to orderedBy or copyOf.)")
  @Deprecated
  public static <E> ImmutableSortedMultiset<E> of(E element) {

    // Trigger any exception that the comparator would throw for the endpoints.
    /*
     * uncheckedCastNullableTToT is safe as long as the callers are careful to pass a "real" T
     * whenever they pass `true` for the matching `has*Bound` parameter.
     */
    if (hasLowerBound) {
      int unused =
          comparator.compare(

        this(time, properties != null ? properties.get(BUILD_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT_PROPERTY) : null);
    }

    /**
     *
     * @deprecated Use {@link #MavenBuildTimestamp(Instant, Map)} or extract the format and pass it
     *             to {@link #MavenBuildTimestamp(Instant, String)} instead.
     */
    @Deprecated
    public MavenBuildTimestamp(Instant time, Properties properties) {

 * always very useful information.
 *
 * <p>On the other hand, a <i>parameter</i> type of {@link ImmutableList} is generally a nuisance to
 * callers. Instead, accept {@link Iterable} and have your method or constructor body pass it to the
 * appropriate {@code copyOf} method itself.
 *
 * <p>Expressing the immutability guarantee directly in the type that user code references is a

         * processes one artifact at a time and hence cannot associate the artifacts from the same project to use the
         * same timestamp+buildno for the snapshot versions. Allowing the caller to pass in metadata from a previous
         * deployment allows to re-establish the association between the artifacts of the same project.
         */
        for (Metadata metadata : request.getMetadata()) {