* except that they are always enabled. These methods should be used instead of Java assertions
 * whenever there is a chance the check may fail "in real life". Example:
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * Bill bill = remoteService.getLastUnpaidBill();
 *
 * // In case bug 12345 happens again we'd rather just die
 * Verify.verify(bill.status() == Status.UNPAID,

 * to lock different stripes and proceed concurrently, instead of creating contention for a single
 * lock.
 *
 * <p>The guarantee provided by this class is that equal keys lead to the same lock (or semaphore),
 * i.e. {@code if (key1.equals(key2))} then {@code striped.get(key1) == striped.get(key2)} (assuming
 * {@link Object#hashCode()} is correctly implemented for the keys). Note that if {@code key1} is

                   animal-sniffer so that they can check that we're sticking to
                   JDK6-like APIs.

                   So instead, we use javac9, which doesn't lead to this error.
              -->
              <compilerArgs combine.children="append">

   * Foo<Enum<?>>} according to JLS. See testRecursiveWildcardSubtypeBug() for a real example.
   *
   * <p>It appears that properly handling recursive type bounds in the presence of implicit type
   * bounds is not easy. For now we punt, hoping that this defect should rarely cause issues in real
   * code.
   *
   * @param formalType is {@code Foo<formalType>} a supertype of {@code Foo<T>}?

    assertThat(newArray).isEqualTo(new short[] {(short) 0, (short) 1, (short) 2});
    newArray[1] = (short) 5;
    assertThat((short) list.get(1)).isEqualTo((short) 1);
  }

  // This test stems from a real bug found by andrewk
  public void testAsList_subList_toArray_roundTrip() {
    short[] array = {(short) 0, (short) 1, (short) 2, (short) 3};
    List<Short> list = Shorts.asList(array);

   *     greater than {@code b}; or zero if they are equal
   */
  public static int compare(double a, double b) {
    return Double.compare(a, b);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if {@code value} represents a real number. This is equivalent to, but not
   * necessarily implemented as, {@code !(Double.isInfinite(value) || Double.isNaN(value))}.
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> use {@link Double#isFinite(double)} instead.
   *

      for (RoundingMode mode : ALL_SAFE_ROUNDING_MODES) {
        // Promote the long value (rather than using longValue() on the expected value) to avoid
        // any risk of truncation which could lead to a false positive.
        assertEquals(BigIntegerMath.sqrt(valueOf(x), mode), valueOf(LongMath.sqrt(x, mode)));
      }
    }
  }

  /* Relies on the correctness of sqrt(long, FLOOR). */

  }

  /**
   * Support removal operations when filtering a filtered multimap. Since a filtered multimap has
   * iterators that don't support remove, passing one to the FilteredEntryMultimap constructor would
   * lead to a multimap whose removal operations would fail. This method combines the predicates to
   * avoid that problem.
   */
  private static <K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>

     * nullness annotations in ImmutableMap and those in its own Map type. In response, it considers
     * the parameter and return type both to be platform types. As a result, Kotlin permits calls
     * that can lead to NullPointerException. That's unfortunate. But hopefully most Kotlin callers
     * use `get(key) ?: defaultValue` instead of this method, anyway.
     */
    V result = get(key);

     * handling not just {@code Iterable<S>} instances, but also any {@code
     * Iterable<? extends S>}. However, the need for this comes up so rarely
     * that it doesn't justify making everyone else deal with the very ugly
     * wildcard.
     */
    return new LexicographicalOrdering<S>(this);
  }

  // Regular instance methods

  @Override