*       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

 *       String}.
 * </ul>
 *
 * This is the same behavior as type-variable usages have to Kotlin and to the Checker Framework.
 * Contrast the method above to:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>methods whose return type is a type variable but which can never return {@code null},
 *       typically because the type forbids nullable type arguments: For example, {@code

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

/**
 * An object that accurately measures <i>elapsed time</i>: the measured duration between two
 * successive readings of "now" in the same process.
 *
 * <p>In contrast, <i>wall time</i> is a reading of "now" as given by a method like
 * {@link System#currentTimeMillis()}, best represented as an {@link java.time.Instant}. Such values

  /**
   * Scary constructor for ContiguousSet. This constructor (in this file, the GWT emulation of
   * ImmutableSortedSet) creates an empty sortedDelegate, which, in a vacuum, sets this object's
   * contents to empty. By contrast, the non-GWT constructor with the same signature uses the
   * comparator only as a comparator. It does NOT assume empty contents. (It requires an

   * keep an eye out for problems that new users encounter. Note also that convertAll could support
   * both use cases by using @PolyNull. (By contrast, we can't use @PolyNull for our superinterface
   * (`implements Function<@PolyNull A, @PolyNull B>`), at least as far as I know.)
   */
  public Iterable<B> convertAll(Iterable<? extends A> fromIterable) {

    return transformEntries(fromMap, asEntryTransformer(function));
  }

  /**
   * Returns a view of a map whose values are derived from the original map's entries. In contrast
   * to {@link #transformValues}, this method's entry-transformation logic may depend on the key as
   * well as the value.
   *

   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> Iterator<T> concat(
      Iterator<? extends Iterator<? extends T>> inputs) {
    return new ConcatenatedIterator<>(inputs);
  }

  /** Concats a varargs array of iterators without making a defensive copy of the array. */
  static <T extends @Nullable Object> Iterator<T> concatNoDefensiveCopy(
      Iterator<? extends T>... inputs) {