Locale.class,
        Currency.class,
        List.class,
        Entry.class,
        Object.class,
        Equivalence.class,
        Predicate.class,
        Function.class,
        Comparable.class,
        Comparator.class,
        Ordering.class,
        Class.class,
        Type.class,
        TypeToken.class,
        TimeUnit.class,
        Ticker.class,
        Joiner.class,

    assertFalse(isNumber.apply(null));
  }

  @GwtIncompatible // Predicates.instanceOf
  public void testIsInstanceOf_interface() {
    Predicate<@Nullable Object> isComparable = Predicates.instanceOf(Comparable.class);

    assertTrue(isComparable.apply(1));
    assertTrue(isComparable.apply(2.0f));
    assertTrue(isComparable.apply(""));
    assertFalse(isComparable.apply(null));
  }

   */
  @SuppressWarnings({
    "rawtypes", // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/989
    "NonApiType", // acts as a direct substitute for a constructor call
  })
  public static <E extends Comparable> TreeSet<E> newTreeSet() {
    return new TreeSet<>();
  }

  /**
   * Creates a <i>mutable</i> {@code TreeSet} instance containing the given elements sorted by their
   * natural ordering.
   *

- github.com/docker/distribution: [v2.7.1+incompatible → v2.8.1+incompatible](https://github.com/docker/distribution/compare/v2.7.1...v2.8.1)
- github.com/docker/docker: [v20.10.7+incompatible → v20.10.12+incompatible](https://github.com/docker/docker/compare/v20.10.7...v20.10.12)

   * the cache, but only the "generic" one is type-safe. That is, it will properly prevent you from
   * building caches whose key or value types are incompatible with the types accepted by the
   * weigher already provided; the {@code CacheBuilder} type cannot do this. For best results,
   * simply use the standard method-chaining idiom, as illustrated in the documentation at top,

 * object.
 *
 * <p><b>Comparison to {@code java.util.Optional} (JDK 8 and higher):</b> A new {@code Optional}
 * class was added for Java 8. The two classes are extremely similar, but incompatible (they cannot
 * share a common supertype). <i>All</i> known differences are listed either here or with the
 * relevant methods below.
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>This class is serializable; {@code java.util.Optional} is not.

   *       to make such changes to our serialized forms, and we have made them before, usually
   *       without trouble. In this case, my guess is that our chosen approach is even less likely
   *       to lead to trouble than an incompatible change would be.
   *   <li>We could make {@link #countMap} no longer be {@code final}. Then we could write to it
   *       directly during deserialization. However, we would lose Java's guarantees for {@code

  public Spliterator<E> spliterator() {
    return Spliterators.spliterator(this, SPLITERATOR_CHARACTERISTICS);
  }

  private static final Object[] EMPTY_ARRAY = {};

  @Override
  @J2ktIncompatible // Incompatible return type change. Use inherited (unoptimized) implementation
  public final Object[] toArray() {
    return toArray(EMPTY_ARRAY);
  }

  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  @Override
  /*

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v5.6.0+incompatible → v4.12.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.6.0...v4.12.0)
- github.com/google/cel-go: [v0.16.0 → v0.16.1](https://github.com/google/cel-go/compare/v0.16.0...v0.16.1)

### Removed

- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.24.0
- gotest.tools/v3: v3.0.2
- k8s.io/klog/v2: v2.2.0

### Changed
- cloud.google.com/go: v0.38.0 → v0.51.0
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v35.0.0+incompatible → v43.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v35.0.0...v43.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.5.0 → v0.8.2](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.5.0...v0.8.2)