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Tom Ruby (alias "THE DOCTOR." <MSRS002@ECNCDC.EARN) says:
> I hope the forthcomming standard says something reasonable about sets.
I would like to state the situation re sets as far as IST/5/13 (the
Working Group of the British Standards Institution) is concerned:
   1.   BITSET will be associated with a word.
   2.   The actual representation of other sets will be left to
        the implementation.   I guess the representation of a set-type
        may vary from one set-type to another, depending on the number
        of values in the set-type.
   3.   It will be mandatory to provide SET OF CHAR.
   4.   Even if an implementation provides set-types with up to 128
        elements, it should still be able to compile code involving:
           TYPE yearset = SET OF [1900.2000];
        [This is different from Pascal.]
The above are my interpretations of IST/5/13's current position.
I may be wrong.
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