public static boolean equal(@CheckForNull Object a, @CheckForNull Object b) {
    return a == b || (a != null && a.equals(b));
  }

  /**
   * Generates a hash code for multiple values. The hash code is generated by calling {@link
   * Arrays#hashCode(Object[])}. Note that array arguments to this method, with the exception of a
   * single Object array, do not get any special handling; their hash codes are based on identity
   * and not contents.

  private DiscreteDomain(boolean supportsFastOffset) {
    this.supportsFastOffset = supportsFastOffset;
  }

  /**
   * Returns, conceptually, "origin + distance", or equivalently, the result of calling {@link
   * #next} on {@code origin} {@code distance} times.
   */
  C offset(C origin, long distance) {
    C current = origin;
    checkNonnegative(distance, "distance");
    for (long i = 0; i < distance; i++) {

   * Returns the index of the first matching BMP character in a character sequence, or {@code -1} if
   * no matching character is present.
   *
   * <p>The default implementation iterates over the sequence in forward order calling {@link
   * #matches} for each character.
   *
   * @param sequence the character sequence to examine from the beginning
   * @return an index, or {@code -1} if no character matches
   */

    final ImmutableList<Timeout> timeouts;

    TimeoutsToUse(Timeout... timeouts) {
      this.timeouts = ImmutableList.copyOf(timeouts);
    }
  }

  /** Possible outcomes of calling any of the methods under test. */
  private enum Outcome {

    /** The method returned normally and is either void or returned true. */
    SUCCESS,

    /** The method returned false. */
    FAILURE,

   * in a {@code RuntimeException}. <b>Note:</b> Be sure to declare all of the checked exception
   * types your try block can throw when calling an overload of this method so as to avoid losing
   * the original exception type.
   *
   * <p>This method always throws, and as such should be called as {@code throw closer.rethrow(e);}

   * in the manner of {@link Number#byteValue}.
   *
   * <p>Elements are copied from the argument collection as if by {@code collection.toArray()}.
   * Calling this method is as thread-safe as calling that method.
   *
   * @param collection a collection of {@code Number} instances
   * @return an array containing the same values as {@code collection}, in the same order, converted

   * even to an intermediate buffer) should be considerably more efficient than potentially
   * copying the CharSequence to a String and then calling getBytes(Charset) on that String, in
   * reality there are optimizations that make the getBytes(Charset) approach considerably faster,
   * at least for commonly used charsets like UTF-8.
   */

  @Override

 *   <li>a {@linkplain ThreadFactory#newThread backing thread factory}
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>If no backing thread factory is provided, a default backing thread factory is used as if by
 * calling {@code setThreadFactory(}{@link Executors#defaultThreadFactory()}{@code )}.
 *
 * @author Kurt Alfred Kluever
 * @since 4.0
 */
@J2ktIncompatible
@GwtIncompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault

import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

/**
 * A ScheduledExecutorService that executes all scheduled actions immediately in the calling thread.
 *
 * <p>See {@link TestingExecutors#sameThreadScheduledExecutor()} for a full list of constraints.
 *
 * @author John Sirois
 * @author Zach van Schouwen
 */
@GwtIncompatible

   * tiny bit of syntactic sugar for {@code newArrayList(}{@link Arrays#asList asList}{@code
   * (...))}, or for creating an empty list then calling {@link Collections#addAll}. This method is
   * not actually very useful and will likely be deprecated in the future.
   */
  @SafeVarargs
  @GwtCompatible(serializable = true)