* this function.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning: do not depend</b> on the behavior of this method.
   *
   * <p>Historically, {@code Function} instances in this library have implemented this method to
   * recognize certain cases where distinct {@code Function} instances would in fact behave
   * identically. However, as code migrates to {@code java.util.function}, that behavior will
   * disappear. It is best not to depend on it.
   */

   * all super-classes, that are annotated with {@code @Subscribe}. The cache is shared across all
   * instances of this class; this greatly improves performance if multiple EventBus instances are
   * created and objects of the same class are registered on all of them.
   */
  private static final LoadingCache<Class<?>, ImmutableList<Method>> subscriberMethodsCache =

   * this parameter is marked nullable, this method does nothing.
   *
   * @param instance the instance to invoke {@code method} on, or null if {@code method} is static
   */
  public void testMethodParameter(@Nullable Object instance, Method method, int paramIndex) {
    method.setAccessible(true);
    testParameter(instance, invokable(instance, method), paramIndex, method.getDeclaringClass());
  }

  /**

  }

  private static void assertFreshInstance(Class<?> type, int instances) {
    assertFreshInstance(TypeToken.of(type), instances);
  }

  private static void assertFreshInstance(TypeToken<?> type, int instances) {
    FreshValueGenerator generator = new FreshValueGenerator();
    EqualsTester tester = new EqualsTester();
    for (int i = 0; i < instances; i++) {
      tester.addEqualityGroup(generator.generateFresh(type));

     * we always return a new instance with a null valueComparator, as we already do if the input is
     * empty or a partial view?
     *
     * Related: Should methods that do accept a comparator (like fromMapEntries, or like this one if
     * we were to choose to *preserve* an input comparator) return not the generic empty of()
     * instance but instead an empty ImmutableSetMultimap instance with the requested

 * the order in which these configuration methods are called is never significant.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> Splitter instances are immutable. Invoking a configuration method has no
 * effect on the receiving instance; you must store and use the new splitter instance it returns
 * instead.
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * // Do NOT do this
 * Splitter splitter = Splitter.on('/');
 * splitter.trimResults(); // does nothing!

            "No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.", "The security ID structure is invalid.",
            "The file system is full.", "All pipe instances are busy.", "All pipe instances are busy.", "The pipe state is invalid.",
            "All pipe instances are busy.", "No process is on the other end of the pipe.", "The pipe is being closed.",

        }
      };

  enum NullListener implements RemovalListener<Object, Object> {
    INSTANCE;

    @Override
    public void onRemoval(RemovalNotification<Object, Object> notification) {}
  }

  enum OneWeigher implements Weigher<Object, Object> {
    INSTANCE;

    @Override
    public int weigh(Object key, Object value) {
      return 1;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns the empty multimap.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> the instance returned is a singleton.
   */
  // Casting is safe because the multimap will never hold any elements.
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <K, V> ImmutableListMultimap<K, V> of() {
    return (ImmutableListMultimap<K, V>) EmptyImmutableListMultimap.INSTANCE;
  }

  /** Returns an immutable multimap containing a single entry. */

   *
   * <p><b>Warning: do not depend</b> on the behavior of this method.
   *
   * <p>Historically, {@code Predicate} instances in this library have implemented this method to
   * recognize certain cases where distinct {@code Predicate} instances would in fact behave
   * identically. However, as code migrates to {@code java.util.function}, that behavior will
   * disappear. It is best not to depend on it.
   */