/**
     * @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.

 * }
 *
 * <p>If you have some other mechanism for returning the predecessors of a node, or one that doesn't
 * return a {@code Iterable<? extends N>}, then you can use a lambda to perform a more general
 * transformation:
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * someGraphAlgorithm(startNode, node -> ImmutableList.of(node.mother(), node.father()));
 * }
 *
 * <p>Graph algorithms that need additional capabilities (accessing both predecessors and

/**
 * {@link Error} variant of {@link java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException}. As with {@code
 * ExecutionException}, the error's {@linkplain #getCause() cause} comes from a failed task,
 * possibly run in another thread. That cause should itself be an {@code Error}; if not, use {@code
 * ExecutionException} or {@link UncheckedExecutionException}. This allows the client code to

 * 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

   */
  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)}.
   *

   * (NCR). However, horizontal tab {@code '\t'}, line feed {@code '\n'} and carriage return {@code
   * '\r'} are escaped to a corresponding NCR {@code "	"}, {@code "
"}, and {@code "
"}
   * respectively. Any other non-ASCII characters appearing in the input will be preserved in the
   * output.
   *

 *       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.

   * 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(

      if (interrupted) {
        Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Invokes {@code future.}{@link Future#get() get()} uninterruptibly.
   *
   * <p>Similar methods:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>To retrieve a result from a {@code Future} that is already done, use {@link
   *       Futures#getDone Futures.getDone}.

 *       {@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