Re: XQuery (and XML) vs LISP

JOG wrote:
> Given that the over the last century virtually all of mathematics
> (mereology aside) has been recontextualised in terms of the "set"
> perspective, I'd be mighty impressed if you could find a fact that
> doesn't do so naturally too.

In elementary probability theory bags are fundamental units, not sets

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