* comparable</a>. If you pass objects that are not mutually comparable, this method may throw an
   * exception. (The reason for this decision is lost to time, but the reason <i>might</i> be that
   * we wanted to support legacy classes that implement the raw type {@code Comparable} (instead of

   *     arguments
   */
  boolean apply(@ParametricNullness T input);

  /**
   * Indicates whether another object is equal to this predicate.
   *
   * <p>Most implementations will have no reason to override the behavior of {@link Object#equals}.
   * However, an implementation may also choose to return {@code true} whenever {@code object} is a

  }

  // Wrapper of EnumMultiset factory methods, because we need to skip create(Class).
  // create(Enum1.class) is equal to create(Enum2.class) but testEquals() expects otherwise.
  // For the same reason, we need to skip create(Iterable, Class).
  private static class EnumMultisetFactory {
    public static <E extends Enum<E>> EnumMultiset<E> create(Iterable<E> elements) {
      return EnumMultiset.create(elements);
    }

   * identical inputs: This sounds like it ought to be a problem here, since the goals of this class
   * include testing that {@code equals()} is reflexive and is tolerant of {@code null}. However,
   * there's no problem. The reason: {@link EqualsTester} tests {@code null} and identical inputs
   * directly against {@code equals()} rather than through the {@code Equivalence}.
   */
  private final Equivalence<? super T> equivalence;

 * java.util.LinkedHashMap}. Generally speaking, this class reduces object allocation and memory
 * consumption at the price of moderately increased constant factors of CPU. Only use this class
 * when there is a specific reason to prioritize memory over CPU.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@J2ktIncompatible // no support for access-order mode in LinkedHashMap delegate
@GwtIncompatible // not worth using in GWT for now

       * fastest (more than twice as fast as the Java implementation, vs ~1.5x with non-final static
       * fields, on x86_32) under the Hotspot server compiler. The reason is obviously that the
       * non-final fields need to be reloaded inside the loop.
       *
       * And, no, defining (final or not) local variables out of the loop still isn't as good

 * java.util.LinkedHashSet}. Generally speaking, this class reduces object allocation and memory
 * consumption at the price of moderately increased constant factors of CPU. Only use this class
 * when there is a specific reason to prioritize memory over CPU.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtIncompatible // not worth using in GWT for now
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault

 * Generally speaking, this class reduces object allocation and memory consumption at the price of
 * moderately increased constant factors of CPU. Only use this class when there is a specific reason
 * to prioritize memory over CPU.
 *
 * @author Dimitris Andreou
 * @author Jon Noack
 */
@GwtIncompatible // not worth using in GWT for now
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault

    sequences.add(new StringBuilder("apple"));
    sequences.add("lemon");

    assertEquals(3, Iterables.indexOf(sequences, STARTSWITH_A));
  }

  public void testIndexOf_genericPredicate2() {
    List<String> sequences = Lists.newArrayList("bob", "charlie", "henry", "apple", "lemon");
    assertEquals(3, Iterables.indexOf(sequences, STARTSWITH_A));
  }

            throws ArtifactResolutionException, ArtifactNotFoundException {
        resolve(artifact, remoteRepositories, localRepository, null);
    }

    /**
     * ThreadCreator for creating daemon threads with fixed ThreadGroup-name.
     */
    @Deprecated
    static final class DaemonThreadCreator implements ThreadFactory {