* <i>first</i> and <i>last</i> are considered to refer to the elements' ordering in a list.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
final class SortedLists {
  private SortedLists() {}

  /**
   * A specification for which index to return if the list contains at least one element that
   * compares as equal to the key.
   */

    return new Strings();
  }

  @Override
  public Queue<String> create(Object... elements) {
    String[] array = new String[elements.length];
    int i = 0;
    for (Object e : elements) {
      array[i++] = (String) e;
    }
    return create(array);
  }

  protected abstract Queue<String> create(String[] elements);

  @Override
  public String[] createArray(int length) {
    return new String[length];

    }

    @Override
    public boolean setCount(T element, int oldCount, int newCount) {
      return standardSetCount(element, oldCount, newCount);
    }

    @Override
    public int setCount(T element, int count) {
      return standardSetCount(element, count);
    }

    @Override
    public Set<T> elementSet() {
      return new StandardElementSet();
    }

    @Override

    final BlockingQueue<Object> q;
    final int elements;
    final CountDownLatch beganProducing = new CountDownLatch(1);
    final CountDownLatch doneProducing = new CountDownLatch(1);

    Producer(BlockingQueue<Object> q, int elements) {
      this.q = q;
      this.elements = elements;
    }

    @Override
    public @Nullable Void call() throws InterruptedException {

  // Query Operations

  /**
   * Returns the number of occurrences of {@code element} in this multiset.
   *
   * @param element the element to look for
   * @return the nonnegative number of occurrences of the element
   */
  @Override
  public int count(@CheckForNull Object element) {
    AtomicInteger existingCounter = safeGet(countMap, element);
    return (existingCounter == null) ? 0 : existingCounter.get();
  }

    assertEquals("Should have removed an element", 2, list.size());
    assertFalse("Second element should be gone", list.contains("B"));
  }

  static class ThrowsAtEndException extends RuntimeException {
    /* nothing */
  }

  /**
   * This Iterator claims to have more elements than the underlying iterable, but when you try to
   * fetch the extra elements, it throws an unchecked exception.
   */

     * Returns the option followed by a string representation of the given path elements.
     * The path elements are separated by an option-specific or platform-specific separator.
     * If the given {@code paths} argument contains no element, then this method returns an empty string.
     *
     * <h4>Examples</h4>
     * If {@code paths} is a list containing two elements, {@code dir/path1} and {@code dir/path2}, then:
     *
     * <ul>

                Collections.reverse(list);
                return list;
              }

              @Override
              public Set<E> create(Object... elements) {
                NavigableSet<E> navigableSet = (NavigableSet<E>) delegate.create(elements);
                return navigableSet.descendingSet();
              }
            })
        .named(parentBuilder.getName() + " descending")

                return false;
              }
              List<TypeWithDuplicates> elements1 = ImmutableList.copyOf(ms1.elementSet());
              List<TypeWithDuplicates> elements2 = ImmutableList.copyOf(ms2.elementSet());
              for (int i = 0; i < ms1.elementSet().size(); i++) {
                if (!elements1.get(i).fullEquals(elements2.get(i))) {
                  return false;
                }
              }

   * @since 3.0
   */
  // TODO(kevinb): rerun benchmarks including new options
  public <E extends @NonNull T> ImmutableList<E> immutableSortedCopy(Iterable<E> elements) {
    return ImmutableList.sortedCopyOf(this, elements);
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if each element in {@code iterable} after the first is greater than or