* **Professional appearance**: Consistent APIs and documentation appear more polished
* **Clearer contribution guidelines**: [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../CONTRIBUTING.md) now includes this requirement

### Negative Consequences

* **Historical inconsistencies**: Existing code may contain British English spellings that cannot be changed due to backward compatibility

### Migration and Enforcement

   * equivalent {@link Character#compare} method instead.
   *
   * @param a the first {@code char} to compare
   * @param b the second {@code char} to compare
   * @return a negative value if {@code a} is less than {@code b}; a positive value if {@code a} is
   *     greater than {@code b}; or zero if they are equal
   */
  @InlineMe(replacement = "Character.compare(a, b)")

  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  public FakeTicker setAutoIncrementStep(long autoIncrementStep, TimeUnit timeUnit) {
    checkArgument(autoIncrementStep >= 0, "May not auto-increment by a negative amount");
    this.autoIncrementStepNanos = timeUnit.toNanos(autoIncrementStep);
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Sets the increment applied to the ticker whenever it is queried.
   *

        void nullName() {
            FileEntry mock = mock(FileEntry.class);
            when(mock.getName()).thenReturn(null);
            assertNull(mock.getName());
        }

        @Test
        @DisplayName("Negative length is allowed via mock")
        void negativeLength() {
            FileEntry mock = mock(FileEntry.class);
            when(mock.length()).thenReturn(-10L);
            assertEquals(-10L, mock.length());
        }

		{seek: io.SeekStart, off: 0, n: 20, want: "0123456789"},
		{seek: io.SeekStart, off: 1, n: 1, want: "1"},
		{seek: io.SeekCurrent, off: 1, wantpos: 3, n: 2, want: "34"},
		{seek: io.SeekStart, off: -1, seekerr: "bytes.Reader.Seek: negative position"},
		{seek: io.SeekStart, off: 1 << 33, wantpos: 1 << 33, readerr: io.EOF},
		{seek: io.SeekCurrent, off: 1, wantpos: 1<<33 + 1, readerr: io.EOF},
		{seek: io.SeekStart, n: 5, want: "01234"},

    initCollectionWithNullElement();
    try {
      assertSetCount(null, 1);
    } catch (UnsupportedOperationException tolerated) {
    }
  }

  // Negative count.

  @CollectionFeature.Require(SUPPORTS_REMOVE)
  public void testSetCount_negative_removeSupported() {
    assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> setCountNoCheckReturnValue(e3(), -1));
  }

  @Override
  public int add(@ParametricNullness E element, int occurrences) {
    if (occurrences == 0) {
      return count(element);
    }
    checkArgument(occurrences > 0, "occurrences cannot be negative: %s", occurrences);
    Count frequency = backingMap.get(element);
    int oldCount;
    if (frequency == null) {
      oldCount = 0;
      backingMap.put(element, new Count(occurrences));
    } else {

    return new UnsignedLong(bits);
  }

  /**
   * Returns an {@code UnsignedLong} representing the same value as the specified {@code long}.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code value} is negative
   * @since 14.0
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  public static UnsignedLong valueOf(long value) {
    checkArgument(value >= 0, "value (%s) is outside the range for an unsigned long value", value);

        // fid 0x1234, lastWriteTime 0 -> UTime all 0xFF
        return Stream.of(Arguments.of(0x1234, 0L, new byte[] { 0x34, 0x12, (byte) 0xFF, (byte) 0xFF, (byte) 0xFF, (byte) 0xFF }),
                // negative fid wraps around, lastWriteTime = 1000 -> 1 second -> int value 1
                Arguments.of(-1, 1000L, new byte[] { (byte) 0xFF, (byte) 0xFF, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 }));
    }

    /**

// RTrimSlice Right trims the given slice by given length
func RTrimSlice[T any](v []T, trimLen int) []T {
	if trimLen >= len(v) { // trimLen greater than slice len means fully sliced
		return v[:0]
	}
	if trimLen < 0 { // negative trimLen is ignored
		return v[:]
	}
	return v[:len(v)-trimLen]