return columnComparator();
    }

    int compare(Object a, Object b) {
      // pretend we can compare anything
      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
      Comparator<Object> cmp = (Comparator<Object>) comparator();
      return cmp.compare(a, b);
    }

    boolean rangeContains(@Nullable Object o) {
      return o != null
          && (lowerBound == null || compare(lowerBound, o) <= 0)

  @Override
  public ImmutableMap<R, Map<C, V>> rowMap() {
    // Casts without copying.
    return ImmutableMap.copyOf(rowMap);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable V get(@Nullable Object rowKey, @Nullable Object columnKey) {
    Integer rowIndex = rowKeyToIndex.get(rowKey);
    Integer columnIndex = columnKeyToIndex.get(columnKey);
    return ((rowIndex == null) || (columnIndex == null)) ? null : values[rowIndex][columnIndex];

    // Three catchers for related types String, Object, and Comparable<?>.
    // String isa Object
    // String isa Comparable<?>
    // Comparable<?> isa Object
    StringCatcher stringCatcher = new StringCatcher();

    List<Object> objectEvents = new ArrayList<>();
    Object objCatcher =
        new Object() {
          @Subscribe
          public void eat(Object food) {
            objectEvents.add(food);
          }

    // Three catchers for related types String, Object, and Comparable<?>.
    // String isa Object
    // String isa Comparable<?>
    // Comparable<?> isa Object
    StringCatcher stringCatcher = new StringCatcher();

    List<Object> objectEvents = new ArrayList<>();
    Object objCatcher =
        new Object() {
          @Subscribe
          public void eat(Object food) {
            objectEvents.add(food);
          }

    private final Object keys;
    private final Object values;

    SerializedForm(ImmutableMap<K, V> map) {
      if (USE_LEGACY_SERIALIZATION) {
        Object[] keys = new Object[map.size()];
        Object[] values = new Object[map.size()];
        int i = 0;
        // "extends Object" works around https://github.com/typetools/checker-framework/issues/3013

     *       object associated with our thread, because if it was the publication wouldn't have been
     *       unsafe and we'd have seen our thread as the value. This state is also why a new
     *       ThreadConfinedTaskQueue object must be created for each inline execution, because
     *       observing a null thread does not mean the object is safe to reuse.

    }

    @Override
    public V getValue() {
      return value;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object object) {
      // Cannot use key and value equivalence
      if (object instanceof Entry) {
        Entry<?, ?> that = (Entry<?, ?>) object;
        return key.equals(that.getKey()) && value.equals(that.getValue());
      }
      return false;
    }

    @Override

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * An abstract composition of multiple hash functions. {@linkplain #newHasher()} delegates to the
 * {@code Hasher} objects of the delegate hash functions, and in the end, they are used by
 * {@linkplain #makeHash(Hasher[])} that constructs the final {@code HashCode}.
 *
 * @author Dimitris Andreou
 */
@Immutable

        range.upperBound.withUpperBoundType(upperBoundType, domain));
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(@Nullable Object object) {
    if (object == this) {
      return true;
    } else if (object instanceof RegularContiguousSet) {
      RegularContiguousSet<?> that = (RegularContiguousSet<?>) object;
      if (this.domain.equals(that.domain)) {
        return this.first().equals(that.first()) && this.last().equals(that.last());

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkPositionIndexes;
import static java.lang.Math.min;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtIncompatible;
import com.google.common.annotations.J2ktIncompatible;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;