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-rw-r--r--src/library/scala/collection/immutable/Set.scala4
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diff --git a/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/Set.scala b/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/Set.scala
index 7c5138d700..a90c20fb69 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/Set.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/collection/immutable/Set.scala
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ package scala.collection.immutable;
* <code>scala.collection.Set</code> as well as for <code>+</code> and
* <code>-</code>.
*
+ * Note that abstract immutable.Set's are not covariant in their type
+ * parameter. This is because some subclasses cannot support the
+ * <code>+</code> method for arbitrary types.
+ *
* @author Matthias Zenger
* @version 1.1, 03/05/2004
*/