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<div><h1>Bag -- the class of all bags</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><p>A bag can be used for enclosing something in a container to prevent it from being printed, in normal circumstances. Any mutable list can be used for this purpose, but bags are designed for this purpose. In comparison and sorting, they are declared to be incomparable.</p>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_unbag_lp__Bag_rp.html" title="">unbag</a></span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Methods that use a bag :</h2>
<ul><li>Bag ? Bag</li>
<li><span><a href="_unbag_lp__Bag_rp.html" title="">unbag(Bag)</a></span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2>
<p>The object <a href="___Bag.html" title="the class of all bags">Bag</a> is <span>a <a href="___Self__Initializing__Type.html">self initializing type</a></span>, with ancestor classes <a href="___Mutable__List.html" title="the class of all mutable lists">MutableList</a> < <a href="___Basic__List.html" title="the class of all basic lists">BasicList</a> < <a href="___Thing.html" title="the class of all things">Thing</a>.</p>
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