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## Discussion

Objects of classes in the Collection hierarchy can be thought of as ``shells'' surrounding a storage medium from the Container class hierarchy. These shells filter the messages sent to the underlying Container instance, thus providing a small, clean interface to the Container hierarchy. Set primitive operations are defined for any two objects of the Collection hierarchy.

- Organization
- Reference Counting
- Comparisons
- Set Primitive Operations
- Interface