“…The concept of a family of sets indexed by a (discrete) set was asked to be defined in Bishop (1967, Exercise 2, p. 72), and a definition, attributed to Richman, was given in Bishop and Bridges (1985, Exercise 2, p. 78). An elaborate study though, of this concept within BISH, was missing, despite its central character in the measure theory of Bishop (1967), its extensive use in the theory of Bishop spaces (Petrakis 2015a(Petrakis ,b, 2016a(Petrakis ,b, 2019a(Petrakis ,b, 2020a(Petrakis ,b, 2021(Petrakis , to appear, 2022a and in abstract constructive algebra (Mines et al 1988). Actually, in Mines et al (1988) Richman introduced the more general notion of a family of objects of a category indexed by some set, but the categorical component in the resulting mixture of Bishop's set theory and category theory was not explained in constructive terms.…”