/**
     * @return a <code>Settings</code> object from the user settings file.
     * @throws IOException if any
     * @throws XmlPullParserException if any
     */
    Settings buildSettings() throws IOException, XmlPullParserException;

    /**
     * @param useCachedSettings if true, doesn't reload the user settings
     * @return a <code>Settings</code> object from the user settings file.

   * null} if no replacement should be made. This method is intended for use in tests through the
   * {@code EscaperAsserts} class; production users of {@link UnicodeEscaper} should limit
   * themselves to its public interface.
   *
   * @param cp the Unicode code point to escape if necessary
   * @return the replacement string, or {@code null} if no escaping was needed
   */

   */
  Set<E> outEdges(N node);

  /**
   * Returns the count of {@code node}'s {@link #incidentEdges(Object) incident edges}, counting
   * self-loops twice (equivalently, the number of times an edge touches {@code node}).
   *
   * <p>For directed networks, this is equal to {@code inDegree(node) + outDegree(node)}.
   *

public interface PredecessorsFunction<N> {

  /**
   * Returns all nodes in this graph adjacent to {@code node} which can be reached by traversing
   * {@code node}'s incoming edges <i>against</i> the direction (if any) of the edge.
   *
   * <p>Some algorithms that operate on a {@code PredecessorsFunction} may produce undesired results
   * if the returned {@link Iterable} contains duplicate elements. Implementations of such

 *       hand, is multiple-use, and does implement {@link Iterable}.
 *   <li>Streams offer many features not found here, including {@code min/max}, {@code distinct},
 *       {@code reduce}, {@code sorted}, the very powerful {@code collect}, and built-in support for
 *       parallelizing stream operations.

 * parameter whose declaration or type isn't annotated with an annotation with the simple name
 * {@code Nullable}, {@code CheckForNull}, {@code NullableType}, or {@code NullableDecl}.
 *
 * <p>The tested methods and constructors are invoked -- each time with one parameter being null and
 * the rest not null -- and the test fails if no expected exception is thrown. {@code
 * NullPointerTester} uses best effort to pick non-null default values for many common JDK and Guava

   * <p>This escaper does not escape non-ASCII characters to their numeric character references
   * (NCR). However, horizontal tab {@code '\t'}, line feed {@code '\n'} and carriage return {@code
   * '\r'} are escaped to a corresponding NCR {@code "&#x9;"}, {@code "&#xA;"}, and {@code "&#xD;"}
   * respectively. Any other non-ASCII characters appearing in the input will be preserved in the
   * output.
   *

 *       {@code reduce}, {@code sorted}, the very powerful {@code collect}, and built-in support for
 *       parallelizing stream operations.
 *   <li>{@code FluentIterable} contains several features not available on {@code Stream}, which are
 *       noted in the method descriptions below.
 *   <li>Streams include primitive-specialized variants such as {@code IntStream}, the use of which

   * way to obtain a {@code List<ListenableFuture<T>>} from this method is an unchecked (but safe)
   * cast:
   *
   * <pre>
   *   {@code @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // guaranteed by invokeAll contract}
   *   {@code List<ListenableFuture<T>> futures = (List) executor.invokeAll(tasks);}
   * </pre>
   *
   * @return A list of {@code ListenableFuture} instances representing the tasks, in the same

   * words, the new supplier's value will be computed by retrieving the value from {@code supplier},
   * and then applying {@code function} to that value. Note that the resulting supplier will not
   * call {@code supplier} or invoke {@code function} until it is called.
   */
  public static <F extends @Nullable Object, T extends @Nullable Object> Supplier<T> compose(