private static final Appendable NASTY_APPENDABLE =
      new Appendable() {
        @Override
        public Appendable append(@Nullable CharSequence csq) throws IOException {
          throw new IOException();
        }

        @Override
        public Appendable append(@Nullable CharSequence csq, int start, int end)
            throws IOException {
          throw new IOException();
        }

        @Override

   * {@code b} have no common prefix, returns the empty string.
   *
   * @since 11.0
   */
  public static String commonPrefix(CharSequence a, CharSequence b) {
    checkNotNull(a);
    checkNotNull(b);

    int maxPrefixLength = Math.min(a.length(), b.length());
    int p = 0;
    while (p < maxPrefixLength && a.charAt(p) == b.charAt(p)) {
      p++;

   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> When implementing an escaper it is a good idea to override this method for
   * efficiency by inlining the implementation of {@link #nextEscapeIndex(CharSequence, int, int)}
   * directly. Doing this for {@link com.google.common.net.PercentEscaper} more than doubled the
   * performance for unescaped strings (as measured by {@code CharEscapersBenchmark}).
   *

   * @since 3.0
   */
  @GwtIncompatible // Only used by other GWT-incompatible code.
  public static Predicate<CharSequence> containsPattern(String pattern) {
    return new ContainsPatternFromStringPredicate(pattern);
  }

  /**
   * Returns a predicate that evaluates to {@code true} if the {@code CharSequence} being tested
   * contains any match for the given regular expression pattern. The test used is equivalent to

    public void checkDefaultValuesForTheseTypes(
        Gender gender,
        Integer integer,
        int i,
        String string,
        CharSequence charSequence,
        List<String> list,
        ImmutableList<Integer> immutableList,
        Map<String, Integer> map,
        ImmutableMap<String, String> immutableMap,
        Set<String> set,

    public <T> Iterable<? super String> wildcardsMatchByLowerBound(
        List<? super CharSequence> list) {
      return isSubtype(list);
    }

    @TestSubtype(suppressGetSupertype = true, suppressGetSubtype = true)
    public <T> Iterable<? super CharSequence> wildCardsDoNotMatchByLowerBound(
        List<? super String> list) {
      return notSubtype(list);
    }

   * {@link #hashString}, usually with a charset of UTF-8. For other use cases, use {@code
   * hashUnencodedChars}.
   *
   * @since 15.0 (since 11.0 as hashString(CharSequence)).
   */
  HashCode hashUnencodedChars(CharSequence input);

  /**
   * Shortcut for {@code newHasher().putString(input, charset).hash()}. Characters are encoded using

    return new Appendable() {

      @Override
      public Appendable append(CharSequence csq) throws IOException {
        a.append(csq);
        return this;
      }

      @Override
      public Appendable append(CharSequence csq, int start, int end) throws IOException {
        a.append(csq, start, end);
        return this;
      }

      @Override

    return new Appendable() {

      @Override
      public Appendable append(CharSequence csq) throws IOException {
        a.append(csq);
        return this;
      }

      @Override
      public Appendable append(CharSequence csq, int start, int end) throws IOException {
        a.append(csq, start, end);
        return this;
      }

      @Override

    <T> void withoutBound(List<T> list) {}

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    <T extends Object> void withObjectBound(List<T> list) {}

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    <T extends Number & CharSequence> void withUpperBound(List<T> list) {}

    static TypeVariable<?> getTypeVariable(String methodName) throws Exception {
      ParameterizedType parameterType =
          (ParameterizedType)