@Override
  protected <E extends Comparable<? super E>> SortedSet<E> of() {
    return ImmutableSortedSet.of();
  }

  @Override
  protected <E extends Comparable<? super E>> SortedSet<E> of(E e) {
    return ImmutableSortedSet.of(e);
  }

  @Override
  protected <E extends Comparable<? super E>> SortedSet<E> of(E e1, E e2) {
    return ImmutableSortedSet.of(e1, e2);
  }

   * ordering.
   *
   * @since 11.0 (but the bound of {@code E} was changed from {@code Object} to {@code Comparable}
   *     in 15.0)
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/989
  @J2ktIncompatible
  @GwtIncompatible // PriorityBlockingQueue
  public static <E extends Comparable> PriorityBlockingQueue<E> newPriorityBlockingQueue() {
    return new PriorityBlockingQueue<>();
  }

  @Generates
  static <R extends Comparable, C extends Comparable, V>
      RowSortedTable<R, C, V> generateRowSortedTable(R row, C column, V value) {
    return generateTreeBasedTable(row, column, value);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // TreeBasedTable.create() is defined as such
  @Generates
  static <R extends Comparable, C extends Comparable, V>

  @Generates
  static <R extends Comparable, C extends Comparable, V>
      RowSortedTable<R, C, V> generateRowSortedTable(R row, C column, V value) {
    return generateTreeBasedTable(row, column, value);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // TreeBasedTable.create() is defined as such
  @Generates
  static <R extends Comparable, C extends Comparable, V>

 * @since 14.0
 */
@GwtIncompatible // NavigableMap
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public class ImmutableRangeMap<K extends Comparable<?>, V> implements RangeMap<K, V>, Serializable {

  private static final ImmutableRangeMap<Comparable<?>, Object> EMPTY =
      new ImmutableRangeMap<>(ImmutableList.<Range<Comparable<?>>>of(), ImmutableList.of());

  /**
   * Returns a {@code Collector} that accumulates the input elements into a new {@code

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of();

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e);

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e1, E e2);

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e1, E e2, E e3);

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e1, E e2, E e3, E e4);

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of();

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e);

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e1, E e2);

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e1, E e2, E e3);

  protected abstract <E extends Comparable<? super E>> Set<E> of(E e1, E e2, E e3, E e4);

  @Override
  protected <E extends Comparable<? super E>> SortedSet<E> of() {
    return ImmutableSortedSet.of();
  }

  @Override
  protected <E extends Comparable<? super E>> SortedSet<E> of(E e) {
    return ImmutableSortedSet.of(e);
  }

  @Override
  protected <E extends Comparable<? super E>> SortedSet<E> of(E e1, E e2) {
    return ImmutableSortedSet.of(e1, e2);
  }

   * a {@link NullPointerException} when passed a null parameter.
   *
   * <p>The type specification is {@code <C extends Comparable>}, instead of the technically correct
   * {@code <C extends Comparable<? super C>>}, to support legacy types from before Java 5.
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> use {@link Comparator#naturalOrder} instead.
   */
  @GwtCompatible(serializable = true)

type any = interface{}

// comparable is an interface that is implemented by all comparable types
// (booleans, numbers, strings, pointers, channels, arrays of comparable types,
// structs whose fields are all comparable types).
// The comparable interface may only be used as a type parameter constraint,
// not as the type of a variable.
type comparable interface{ comparable }