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| The Composite design pattern | 
A Composite design pattern composes objects into tree structures. Clients operate uniformly on leaves and composite nodes  | 
![]()  |  A template of the class structure in the Composite design pattern.  | 
The tree structure may be non-mutable and built via constructors Alternatively, the tree structure may be mutable, and built via Add and Remove operations  |