On 08/22/2016 09:02 AM, Joe Quinn wrote: > On 8/22/2016 8:54 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 08/21/2016 03:22 PM, Damian wrote: >>> There is no such set B, as it would contain itself. >> The empty set contains itself. > That's an easy mistake to make. The empty set is {}, the set that > contains only the empty set is {{}}. Sets are discrete elements that > don't get "flattened". > > In perl syntactic lists do get flattened though, which leads to some fun > times. You can do silly things like @concatenated = (@listOne, @listTwo).
"Contains" in the context of sets means "is a superset of" =) (I'm just being pedantic, I don't actually have a point.)