</blockquote>

## Investigation { #investigation }

By using all the previous alternatives I had the chance to learn from all of them, take ideas, and combine them in the best way I could find for myself and the teams of developers I have worked with.

For example, it was clear that ideally it should be based on standard Python type hints.

 */
package org.apache.maven.api;

import java.time.Clock;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.ZoneOffset;

/**
 * A Clock implementation that combines monotonic timing with wall-clock time.
 * <p>
 * This class provides precise time measurements using {@link System#nanoTime()}
 * while maintaining wall-clock time information in UTC. The wall-clock time

     * repository. It is worth to point out that merging does not simply choose one of the input repositories and
     * discards the others but actually combines their possibly different policies.
     *
     * @param repositories The original repositories, may be {@code null}.
     * @return The effective repositories or {@code null} if the input was {@code null}.
     */

  //
  // class Entry {
  //    int hash;
  //    Entry next;
  //    K key;
  //    V value;
  // }
  //
  // The imaginary `hash` and `next` values are combined into a single `int` value in the `entries`
  // array. The top bits of this value are the remaining bits of the hash value that were not used

   */
  @SafeVarargs
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object> Iterable<T> cycle(T... elements) {
    return cycle(Lists.newArrayList(elements));
  }

  /**
   * Combines two iterables into a single iterable. The returned iterable has an iterator that
   * traverses the elements in {@code a}, followed by the elements in {@code b}. The source
   * iterators are not polled until necessary.
   *

         */
        I result = requireNonNull(elements[index]);
        elements[index] = null;
        index++;
        return result;
      }
    };
  }

  /**
   * Combines two iterators into a single iterator. The returned iterator iterates across the
   * elements in {@code a}, followed by the elements in {@code b}. The source iterators are not
   * polled until necessary.
   *

      }
  }

  for (sectionList in result.values) {
    mergeAdjacentDeltaMappedRanges(sectionList)
  }

  return result.toMap()
}

/**
 * Modifies [ranges] to combine any adjacent [MappedRange.InlineDelta] of same size to single entry.
 * @returns same instance of [ranges] for convenience
 */

    @Override
    public Builder<E> addAll(Iterator<? extends E> elements) {
      super.addAll(elements);
      return this;
    }

    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    Builder<E> combine(Builder<E> builder) {
      super.combine(builder);
      return this;
    }

    @Override
    public ImmutableSortedSet<E> build() {
      return copyOfInternal(comparator, contents.iterator());
    }
  }

        assertEquals(-1, SmbConstants.FOREVER);
    }

    @Test
    @DisplayName("Should validate flag combinations work correctly")
    void testFlagCombinations() {
        // Test that flags can be combined with bitwise OR
        int combinedShareAccess = SmbConstants.FILE_SHARE_READ | SmbConstants.FILE_SHARE_WRITE;
        assertEquals(0x03, combinedShareAccess);

 * ACE and <i>all</i> of the bits in the desired access bits match bits in
 * the access mask of the ACE, the access check is successful. Otherwise,
 * more ACEs are evaluated until all desired access bits (combined)
 * are "allowed". If all of the desired access bits are not "allowed"
 * the then same process is repeated for inherited ACEs.
 * <p>
 * For example, if user <code>WNET\alice</code> tries to open a file