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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE (Bernd Froehlich)
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Subject: Re: Number of instances 
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bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE (Bernd Froehlich) writes:
> I'm sure there is a way to get the number of instances in a class.
> Unfortunately I don't know it. Who can give me a hint?

the section in the reference manual on built-in functions describes
the built-in aggregates (such as they are).

retrieve (x = count{foo.oid})
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