*/
  @IgnoreJRERequirement
  public NullPointerTester() {
    try {
      /*
       * Converter.apply has a non-nullable parameter type but doesn't throw for null arguments. For
       * more information, see the comments in that class.
       *
       * We already know that that's how it behaves, and subclasses of Converter can't change that
       * behavior. So there's no sense in making all subclass authors exclude the method from any

    for (int i = 0; i < elementCount; i++) {
      E element = (E) stream.readObject();
      add(element);
    }
  }

  /*
   * For discussion of the safety of the following methods, see the comments near the end of
   * CompactHashMap.
   */

  private Object requireTable() {
    return requireNonNull(table);
  }

  private int[] requireEntries() {
    return requireNonNull(entries);
  }

        if (src != null) {
            if (sourceDominant || target.getComments() == null) {
                target.setComments(src);
                target.setLocation("comments", source.getLocation("comments"));
            }
        }
    }

    protected void mergeMailingList(
            MailingList target, MailingList source, boolean sourceDominant, Map<Object, Object> context) {

 * x}, but the reverse does not necessarily hold.
 *
 * <table>
 * <caption>Encodings</caption>
 * <tr>
 * <th>Encoding
 * <th>Alphabet
 * <th>{@code char:byte} ratio
 * <th>Default padding
 * <th>Comments
 * <tr>
 * <td>{@link #base16()}
 * <td>0-9 A-F
 * <td>2.00
 * <td>N/A
 * <td>Traditional hexadecimal. Defaults to upper case.
 * <tr>
 * <td>{@link #base32()}
 * <td>A-Z 2-7
 * <td>1.60
 * <td>=

 *
 * <p>Note that this specifically does <strong>not</strong> represent the value of the MIME {@code
 * Content-Type} header and as such has no support for header-specific considerations such as line
 * folding and comments.
 *
 * <p>For media types that take a charset the predefined constants default to UTF-8 and have a
 * "_UTF_8" suffix. To get a version without a character set, use {@link #withoutParameters}.
 *
 * @since 12.0

 *
 * <p>Note that this specifically does <strong>not</strong> represent the value of the MIME {@code
 * Content-Type} header and as such has no support for header-specific considerations such as line
 * folding and comments.
 *
 * <p>For media types that take a charset the predefined constants default to UTF-8 and have a
 * "_UTF_8" suffix. To get a version without a character set, use {@link #withoutParameters}.
 *
 * @since 12.0

     *     might be the keys' natural order)
     * @since 31.0
     */
    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // see inline comments
    public ImmutableSortedMap<K, V> buildOrThrow() {
      switch (size) {
        case 0:
          return emptyMap(comparator);
        case 1:
          // We're careful to put only K and V instances in.

         * pending, so its `state` field hasn't been nulled out yet.
         *
         * OK, it's technically possible for this to fail in the presence of unsafe publishing, as
         * discussed in the comments in TimeoutFuture. TODO(cpovirk): Maybe check for null before
         * calling recordOutputCancellation?
         */
        requireNonNull(localState).recordOutputCancellation(interruptIfRunning);
        return true;

</pre>

<h2 id="Lexical_elements">Lexical elements</h2>

<h3 id="Comments">Comments</h3>

<p>
Comments serve as program documentation. There are two forms:
</p>

<ol>
<li>
<i>Line comments</i> start with the character sequence <code>//</code>
and stop at the end of the line.
</li>
<li>
<i>General comments</i> start with the character sequence <code>/*</code>

        assertEquals("https://project.url/license", pom.getValue("licenses[1]/url"));
        assertEquals("repo", pom.getValue("licenses[1]/distribution"));
        assertEquals("free", pom.getValue("licenses[1]/comments"));

        assertEquals(1, ((List<?>) pom.getValue("developers")).size());
        assertEquals("dev", pom.getValue("developers[1]/id"));
        assertEquals("project-developer", pom.getValue("developers[1]/name"));