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From: marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: libraries, compilers, class info, exceptions
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Date: 4 Oct 90 04:51:20 GMT
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In article <1549@camex.COM> geoff@circus.UUCP (Geoffrey Knauth) writes:
    What's the difference between a set and a bag?

Every element in a set is unique.  Not so in a bag.  {1,2,3} can be either
a set or a bag.  {1,2,2,3} is only a bag.  (At least that's how I was
taught).

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