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On 11/10/2012 4:56 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>   A proper intersection method for EnumSets would be implemented
> with a single AND machine instruction.
>


Have you checked the source code, Roedy?


> Mathematicians have been using the term "intersection" for at least
> 100 years. I think it was improper of Sun/Oracle to rename the
> functions.
>


Maybe.  Maybe Sun was just checking who could read the docs.