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Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> Freddy wrote:
> > Sometimes even an SET type would be nice.
> 
> Well, as I said, you sort of have one with arrays of booleans. It 
> doesn't handle large sparse sets as well as my old M2 compiler did, ...

Really?  I was under the impression that Modula-2 compilers implemented
sets as packed arrays of booleans, and don't do anything special for
sparse sets.  What did your old M2 compiler do?

- Bob