*     throw.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  static Error sneakyThrow(Throwable t) {
    throw new SneakyThrows<Error>().throwIt(t);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // not really safe, but that's the point
  private Error throwIt(Throwable t) throws T {
    throw (T) t;
  }

  private SneakyThrows() {}

  }

  /**
   * Returns the empty bimap.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> the instance returned is a singleton.
   */
  // Casting to any type is safe because the set will never hold any elements.
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <K, V> ImmutableBiMap<K, V> of() {
    return (ImmutableBiMap<K, V>) RegularImmutableBiMap.EMPTY;
  }

 * invoke methods, they invoke methods on the {@code ForwardingMultiset}.
 *
 * <p>The {@code standard} methods and any collection views they return are not guaranteed to be
 * thread-safe, even when all of the methods that they depend on are thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible

 * <p>One {@code Type} is visited at most once. The second time the same type is visited, it's
 * ignored by {@link #visit}. This avoids infinite recursion caused by recursive type bounds.
 *
 * <p>This class is not thread safe.
 *
 * @author Ben Yu
 */
abstract class TypeVisitor {

  private final Set<Type> visited = new HashSet<>();

  /**
   * Visits the given types. Null types are ignored. This allows subclasses to call {@code

   *     throw.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  static Error sneakyThrow(Throwable t) {
    throw new SneakyThrows<Error>().throwIt(t);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // not really safe, but that's the point
  private Error throwIt(Throwable t) throws T {
    throw (T) t;
  }

  private SneakyThrows() {}

 * not consistent with {@code equals}.
 *
 * <p>The {@code standard} methods and the collection views they return are not guaranteed to be
 * thread-safe, even when all of the methods that they depend on are thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @author Jared Levy
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible

  @Override
  public abstract int hashCode();

  /*
   * The implementation neither produces nor consumes any non-null instance of type C, so
   * casting the type parameter is safe.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static <C extends Comparable> Cut<C> belowAll() {
    return (Cut<C>) BelowAll.INSTANCE;
  }

        // there are bugs in various JVM that have problems doing this across
        // different filesystem. So we'll incur the small hit to actually copy
        // here and be safe. jvz.
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

        try {
            Files.createDirectories(destination.toPath().getParent());

  ImmutableList() {}

  public static <E> Collector<E, ?, ImmutableList<E>> toImmutableList() {
    return CollectCollectors.toImmutableList();
  }

  // Casting to any type is safe because the list will never hold any elements.
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <E> ImmutableList<E> of() {
    return (ImmutableList<E>) RegularImmutableList.EMPTY;
  }

   * Collections#emptyList}, and is preferable mainly for consistency and maintainability of your
   * code.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> the instance returned is a singleton.
   */
  // Casting to any type is safe because the list will never hold any elements.
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  public static <E> ImmutableList<E> of() {
    return (ImmutableList<E>) EMPTY;
  }

  /**