Brian van den Broek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   ...
> (I'm just a hobbyist, so if this suggestion clashes with some well 
> established use of 'Bag' in CS terminology, well, never mind.)

Yep: a Bag is a more common and neater name for a "multiset" -- a
set-like container which holds each item ``a certain number of times''
(you can alternatively see it as a mapping from items to counts of
number of times the item is held).


Alex
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