is there a good equivalent of a "multiset" in Kotlin? I don't care about order. I simply care about element count and I want to compare equality between to multisets.

You could easily implement this with a extension function

I don’t believe this is available in the stdlib

alright, I'll just implement my own then

What language does

multiset

come from? How does it differ from a

set

?

setOf(1, 4, 4, 7) == setOf(7, 4, 1, 4)

@Alan Evans I’ve seen it in C++, Google provides it for the JVM with Guava

right, so

multiSetOf(1, 4, 4, 7) != multiSetOf(7, 4, 1, 1)

?

right