private final List<E> expectedElements;
  private final int startIndex;
  private final KnownOrder knownOrder;

  /**
   * Meta-exception thrown by {@link AbstractIteratorTester.MultiExceptionListIterator} instead of
   * throwing any particular exception type.
   */
  private abstract static class PermittedMetaException extends RuntimeException {
    static final PermittedMetaException UOE_OR_ISE =

 * comparators for the row keys and the column keys, or you may use natural ordering for both.
 *
 * <p>The {@link #rowKeySet} method returns a {@link SortedSet} and the {@link #rowMap} method
 * returns a {@link SortedMap}, instead of the {@link Set} and {@link Map} specified by the {@link
 * Table} interface.
 *
 * <p>The views returned by {@link #column}, {@link #columnKeySet()}, and {@link #columnMap()} have

     * best we can do (since logging may overflow the stack) is to let the error propagate. Because
     * it is an Error, it won't be caught and logged by AbstractFuture.executeListener. Instead, it
     * can propagate through many layers of AbstractTransformFuture up to the root call to set().
     *
     * https://github.com/google/guava/issues/2254
     *
     * Other kinds of Errors are possible:

   * create, cache and return" pattern. For further improvements, use {@link LoadingCache} and its
   * {@link LoadingCache#get(Object) get(K)} method instead of this one.
   *
   * <p>Among the improvements that this method and {@code LoadingCache.get(K)} both provide are:
   *
   * <ul>

   * fromElement}. However, this method doesn't throw an exception in that situation, but instead
   * keeps the original {@code fromElement}. Similarly, this method keeps the original {@code
   * toElement}, instead of throwing an exception, if passed a {@code toElement} greater than an
   * earlier {@code toElement}.
   */
  @Override

   * element.
   */
  /*
   * Just as Converter could implement `Function<@Nullable A, @Nullable B>` instead of `Function<A,
   * B>`, convertAll could accept and return iterables with nullable element types. In both cases,
   * we've chosen to instead use a signature that benefits existing users -- and is still safe.
   *

   * equals()} contract.
   *
   * <p><b>Java 7+ users:</b> This method should be treated as deprecated; use {@link
   * java.util.Objects#equals} instead.
   */
  public static boolean equal(@CheckForNull Object a, @CheckForNull Object b) {
    return a == b || (a != null && a.equals(b));
  }

  /**

   * ParametricNullness parametric nullness}. If a type parameter instead ranges over only non-null
   * types (or if the type is a non-variable type, like {@code String}), then code should almost
   * never use this method, preferring instead to call {@code requireNonNull} so as to benefit from
   * its runtime check.
   *

     * readable name.
     */
    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    public ToStringHelper addValue(@CheckForNull Object value) {
      return addHolder(value);
    }

    /**
     * Adds an unnamed value to the formatted output.
     *
     * <p>It is strongly encouraged to use {@link #add(String, boolean)} instead and give value a
     * readable name.

      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <!-- Passing `-subpackages com.google.common` breaks things, so we explicitly exclude everything else instead. -->
          <!-- excludePackageNames requires specification of packages separately from "all subpackages".
               https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MJAVADOC-584 -->
          <excludePackageNames>