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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:03:51 +0000
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>>duplicate names.  So the accurate mathematical model is a sequence
>>(aka list), and bind is not union of sets or bags, but append of

you're right.  i was trying too hard to justify the term `union' (or not hard enough,
depending on how you look at it).  i've seen it argued elsewhere that union
directories ought to have used another term, for much these reasons.
still, they seem to work whatever you call them.