/**
   * Returns the given string if it is non-null; the empty string otherwise.
   *
   * @param string the string to test and possibly return
   * @return {@code string} itself if it is non-null; {@code ""} if it is null
   */
  public static String nullToEmpty(@CheckForNull String string) {
    return Platform.nullToEmpty(string);
  }

  /**
   * Returns the given string if it is nonempty; {@code null} otherwise.
   *

   * can be granted. Tells the amount of time slept, if any.
   *
   * @param permits the number of permits to acquire
   * @return time spent sleeping to enforce rate, in seconds; 0.0 if not rate-limited
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the requested number of permits is negative or zero
   * @since 16.0 (present in 13.0 with {@code void} return type})
   */

    checkNotNull(type);
    if (type instanceof TypeVariable) {
      return typeTable.resolve((TypeVariable<?>) type);
    } else if (type instanceof ParameterizedType) {
      return resolveParameterizedType((ParameterizedType) type);
    } else if (type instanceof GenericArrayType) {
      return resolveGenericArrayType((GenericArrayType) type);
    } else if (type instanceof WildcardType) {

    Iterator<? extends T> it = iterable.iterator();
    if (it.hasNext()) {
      T prev = it.next();
      while (it.hasNext()) {
        T next = it.next();
        if (comparator.compare(prev, next) > 0) {
          return false;
        }
        prev = next;
      }
    }
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if each element in {@code iterable} after the first is <i>strictly</i>

          } finally {
            task = null;
          }
        }
      } finally {
        // Ensure that if the thread was interrupted at all while processing the task queue, it
        // is returned to the delegate Executor interrupted so that it may handle the
        // interruption if it likes.
        if (interruptedDuringTask) {
          Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
        }
      }
    }

    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns {@code true} if {@code object} is an {@code ImmutableDoubleArray} containing the same
   * values as this one, in the same order. Values are compared as if by {@link Double#equals}.
   */
  @Override
  public boolean equals(@CheckForNull Object object) {
    if (object == this) {
      return true;
    }
    if (!(object instanceof ImmutableDoubleArray)) {
      return false;

      // next permutation.
      if (j == -1) {
        return;
      }

      while (true) {
        int q = c[j] + o[j];
        if (q < 0) {
          switchDirection();
          continue;
        }
        if (q == j + 1) {
          if (j == 0) {
            break;
          }
          s++;
          switchDirection();

      Multiset<E> self, Multiset<? extends E> elements) {
    // It'd be nice if we could specialize for ImmutableMultiset here without also retaining
    // its code when it's not in scope...
    if (elements instanceof AbstractMapBasedMultiset) {
      return addAllImpl(self, (AbstractMapBasedMultiset<? extends E>) elements);
    } else if (elements.isEmpty()) {
      return false;
    } else {

  public boolean containsValue(Object value) {
    for (Timestamped<V> val : cachingHashMap.values()) {
      if (val.getValue().equals(value)) {
        if (!isExpired(val)) {
          return true;
        }
      }
    }
    return false;
  }

  private boolean isExpired(Timestamped<V> stamped) {
    if ((expireAfterAccess == UNSET_INT) && (expireAfterWrite == UNSET_INT)) {
      return false;
    }

   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code elements} contains a null element
   */
  public static <E> ImmutableList<E> copyOf(Iterator<? extends E> elements) {
    // We special-case for 0 or 1 elements, but going further is madness.
    if (!elements.hasNext()) {
      return of();
    }
    E first = elements.next();
    if (!elements.hasNext()) {
      return of(first);
    } else {