Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * For sets {x, y} union {y, z} = {x, y, z}. The natural way of > extending this to multisets is having the union operator take the > max of the multiplicities of each element, i.e.
That certainly doesn't fit the intuition of a bag of objects. I'd think of the union of two bags as the result of dumping the contents of both bags onto the table, i.e. you'd add the two vectors. > * Similarly, for intersection one would take the min of > multiplicities, i.e. This is a reasonable interpretation I guess. > A difference B = A - (A intersection B) I think difference would mean subtraction. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list