@LazyInit private transient @Nullable Comparator<? super K> comparator;

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    public Comparator<? super K> comparator() {
      Comparator<? super K> result = comparator;
      if (result == null) {
        Comparator<? super K> forwardCmp = forward().comparator();
        if (forwardCmp == null) {
          forwardCmp = (Comparator) Ordering.natural();
        }

   * {@code ImmutableList}, use {@code stream.sorted(comparator).collect(toImmutableList())}.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if any element in the input is null
   * @since 21.0
   */
  public static <E> ImmutableList<E> sortedCopyOf(
      Comparator<? super E> comparator, Iterable<? extends E> elements) {
    checkNotNull(comparator);
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // all supported methods are covariant

    }

    @Override
    SortedSet<R> createKeySet() {
      return new Maps.SortedKeySet<>(this);
    }

    @Override
    public @Nullable Comparator<? super R> comparator() {
      return sortedBackingMap().comparator();
    }

    @Override
    public R firstKey() {
      return sortedBackingMap().firstKey();
    }

    @Override
    public R lastKey() {

    /** Constructor for use by subclasses. */
    public StandardElementSet() {
      super(ForwardingSortedMultiset.this);
    }
  }

  @Override
  public Comparator<? super E> comparator() {
    return delegate().comparator();
  }

  @Override
  public SortedMultiset<E> descendingMultiset() {
    return delegate().descendingMultiset();
  }

  /**

  }

  public static <E> ImmutableList<E> sortedCopyOf(
      Comparator<? super E> comparator, Iterable<? extends E> elements) {
    checkNotNull(comparator);
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // all supported methods are covariant
    E[] array = (E[]) Iterables.toArray(elements);
    checkElementsNotNull(array);
    Arrays.sort(array, comparator);
    return asImmutableList(array);
  }

      assertEquals(multimap().valueComparator(), valueSet.comparator());
    }
  }

  public void testAsMapGetImplementsSortedSet() {
    for (K key : multimap().keySet()) {
      SortedSet<V> valueSet = (SortedSet<V>) multimap().asMap().get(key);
      assertEquals(multimap().valueComparator(), valueSet.comparator());
    }
  }

  @MapFeature.Require(SUPPORTS_REMOVE)

      return standardTailSet(fromElement);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    public Comparator<? super E> comparator() {
      Comparator<? super E> forwardComparator = forward.comparator();
      if (forwardComparator == null) {
        return (Comparator) Ordering.natural().reverse();
      } else {
        return reverse(forwardComparator);
      }
    }

   * FluentIterable} in the order specified by {@code comparator}. To produce an {@code
   * ImmutableList} sorted by its natural ordering, use {@code toSortedList(Ordering.natural())}.
   *
   * <p><b>{@code Stream} equivalent:</b> pass {@link ImmutableList#toImmutableList} to {@code
   * stream.sorted(comparator).collect()}.
   *
   * @param comparator the function by which to sort list elements

 * returned.
 *
 * <p>All default instances returned by {@link #get} are generics-safe. Clients won't get type
 * errors for using {@code get(Comparator.class)} as a {@code Comparator<Foo>}, for example.
 * Immutable empty instances are returned for collection types; {@code ""} for string; {@code 0} for

 * invoke methods, they invoke methods on the {@code ForwardingNavigableSet}.
 *
 * <p>Each of the {@code standard} methods uses the set's comparator (or the natural ordering of the
 * elements, if there is no comparator) to test element equality. As a result, if the comparator is
 * not consistent with equals, some of the standard implementations may violate the {@code Set}
 * contract.
 *