Re: [boost] RFC: Example file for using Pascal-Like Set Class

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-24 14:44:05

I didn't come  up with the name.  I wouldn't have suggested it myself, but 
I recall it being a popular name back when Pascal was in common use.  I was 
reminded of the name when I was pointed to a white paper by per Brinch 
Hansen on condition variables in which he mentioned the name.

I believe it came from: if you have a universe of n enumerated items, then 
you can represent _any_ set of them in something with 2^n states.

Pascal implemented such a concept and called it 'set'

At Saturday 2002/08/24 11:03, you wrote:

>From: "Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]>
> >I hope I suggested powerset, not PowerSet.
>
>The set of all subsets?  If it isn't that then powerset is
>a very bad name.  A container for efficiently maintaining
>sets of subsets would be interesting...maybe in conjunction
>with permutation library.
>
>Joel
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