* converter.apply(), anyway. If clients use only converter.convert(), then their nullness
     * checkers are unlikely to ever look at the annotations on this declaration.
     *
     * Historical note: At one point, we'd declared this method as accepting and returning nullable
     * values. For details on that, see earlier revisions of this file.
     */
    return convert(a);
  }

  /**

      assertEquals(expected, string);
      if (howManyChecked++ == 5) {
        break;
      }
    }

    // We left the last iterator pointing to "b". But a new iterator should
    // always point to "a".
    assertEquals("a", cycle.iterator().next());
  }

  public void testCycle_emptyIterable() {
    FluentIterable<Integer> cycle = FluentIterable.<Integer>of().cycle();

 *       SHORT is always discriminable from zero time, and always allows enough time for the small
 *       amounts of computation (creating a thread, calling a few methods, etc) needed to reach a
 *       timeout point. Similarly, a SMALL is always discriminable as larger than SHORT and smaller
 *       than MEDIUM. And so on. These constants are set to conservative values, but even so, if

              factory, args, i, generateDummyArg(param, newFreshValueGenerator()))) {
        // If the implementation uses identityHashCode(), referential equality is
        // probably intended. So no point in using an equal-but-different factory argument.
        // We check twice to avoid confusion caused by accidental hash collision.
        equalArgs.set(i, shouldBeEqualArg);
      }
    }
    return equalArgs;
  }

          }
        };
    EscaperAsserts.assertBasic(surrogateEscaper);

    // A surrogate pair defining a code point within the safe range.
    String safeInput = "\uD800\uDC00"; // 0x10000
    assertEquals(safeInput, surrogateEscaper.escape(safeInput));

    // A surrogate pair defining a code point outside the safe range (but both
    // of the surrogate characters lie within the safe range). It is important

    }
  }

  @Override
  protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
    // We don't want to leave stray threads running after each test. At this point, every thread
    // launched by this test is either:
    //
    // (a) Blocked attempting to enter the monitor.
    // (b) Waiting for the single guard to become satisfied.

          // Mostly 3-byte UTF-8 sequences - "Asian" text
          return Character.MIN_SUPPLEMENTARY_CODE_POINT;
        } else if (userFriendly.matches("(?i)(?:Cuneiform|rare|exotic|supplementary.*)")) {
          // Mostly 4-byte UTF-8 sequences - "rare exotic" text
          return Character.MAX_CODE_POINT;
        } else {
          throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't decode codepoint " + userFriendly);
        }
      }

            if (valueReference.isLoading()) {
              return waitForLoadingValue(e, key, valueReference);
            }
          }
        }

        // at this point e is either null or expired;
        return lockedGetOrLoad(key, hash, loader);
      } catch (ExecutionException ee) {
        Throwable cause = ee.getCause();
        if (cause instanceof Error) {

              <!-- Under JDK8, we continue to use errorprone's javac9 (even
                   though we don't run Error Prone itself, which no longer
                   supports JDK8!).

                   Why? At some point, presumably after
                   https://github.com/google/guava/commit/e06a8cec65815599e510d7f9c1ea9d2a8eaa438a,
                   builds with JDK8 began failing animal-sniffer with the error:

      @Override
      @CheckForNull
      protected char[] escape(int cp) {
        // If a code point maps to a single character, just escape that.
        if (cp < Character.MIN_SUPPLEMENTARY_CODE_POINT) {
          return escaper.escape((char) cp);
        }
        // Convert the code point to a surrogate pair and escape them both.
        // Note: This code path is horribly slow and typically allocates 4 new