import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A {@link List} whose contents will never change, with many other important properties detailed at
 * {@link ImmutableCollection}.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=
 * "https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/ImmutableCollectionsExplained">immutable collections</a>.
 *
 * @see ImmutableMap
 * @see ImmutableSet
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */

 *
 * <p>All the operations in this class treat {@code char} values strictly numerically; they are
 * neither Unicode-aware nor locale-dependent.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
 * href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/PrimitivesExplained">primitive utilities</a>.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 1.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
public final class Chars {
  private Chars() {}

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Static utility methods pertaining to {@code short} primitives, that are not already found in
 * either {@link Short} or {@link Arrays}.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
 * href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/PrimitivesExplained">primitive utilities</a>.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 1.0
 */
@GwtCompatible

 * read operations will work correctly. To allow concurrent update operations, wrap your multimap
 * with a call to {@link Multimaps#synchronizedListMultimap}.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=
 * "https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/NewCollectionTypesExplained#multimap">{@code Multimap}</a>.
 *
 * @author Mike Bostock
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible

 * {@link com.google.common.util.concurrent.AtomicLongMap} instead. Note, however, that unlike
 * {@code Multiset}, {@code AtomicLongMap} does not automatically remove zeros.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=
 * "https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/NewCollectionTypesExplained#multiset">{@code Multiset}</a>.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible

 * final} constants.
 *
 * <p>The {@link Joiner} class provides the inverse operation to splitting, but note that a
 * round-trip between the two should be assumed to be lossy.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
 * href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/StringsExplained#splitter">{@code Splitter}</a>.
 *
 * @author Julien Silland
 * @author Jesse Wilson
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @author Louis Wasserman

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/**
 * Static utility methods pertaining to {@code Predicate} instances.
 *
 * <p>All methods return serializable predicates as long as they're given serializable parameters.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
 * href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/FunctionalExplained">the use of {@code Predicate}</a>.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
public final class Predicates {

import java.util.function.BinaryOperator;
import java.util.stream.Collector;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Provides static methods that involve a {@code Table}.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=
 * "https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CollectionUtilitiesExplained#tables">{@code Tables}</a>.
 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 7.0
 */
@GwtCompatible

 * implementations, synchronization is unnecessary between a thread that writes to one cell and a
 * thread that reads from another.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a href=
 * "https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/NewCollectionTypesExplained#table">{@code Table}</a>.
 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 * @since 10.0
 */