The set type models the mathematical notion of a set. The set's basetype can
only be an ordinal type of a certain size, namely:
  * ``int8``-``int16``
  * ``uint8``/``byte``-``uint16``
  * ``char``
  * ``enum``
or equivalent. The reason is that sets are implemented as high
performance bit vectors. Attempting to declare a set with a larger type will
result in an error:

.. code-block:: nim

  var s: set[int64] # Error: set is too large

Sets can be constructed via the set constructor: ``{}`` is the empty set. The
empty set is type compatible with any concrete set type. The constructor
can also be used to include elements (and ranges of elements):

.. code-block:: nim
  type
    CharSet = set[char]
  var
    x: CharSet
  x = {'a'..'z', '0'..'9'} # This constructs a set that contains the
                           # letters from 'a' to 'z' and the digits
                           # from '0' to '9'

These operations are supported by sets:

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operation             meaning
==================    ========================================================
``A + B``             union of two sets
``A * B``             intersection of two sets
``A - B``             difference of two sets (A without B's elements)
``A == B``            set equality
``A <= B``            subset relation (A is subset of B or equal to B)
``A < B``             strong subset relation (A is a real subset of B)
``e in A``            set membership (A contains element e)
``e notin A``         A does not contain element e
``contains(A, e)``    A contains element e
``card(A)``           the cardinality of A (number of elements in A)
``incl(A, elem)``     same as ``A = A + {elem}``
``excl(A, elem)``     same as ``A = A - {elem}``
==================    ========================================================

Sets are often used to define a type for the *flags* of a procedure. This is
a much cleaner (and type safe) solution than just defining integer
constants that should be ``or``'ed together.