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  1. In object-oriented design, the term "has-a" applies to classes
  2. that are composed of objects of other classes.  In contrast, the
  3. term "is-a" applies to the relationship of public inheritance.
  4. Here, a Drink_Machine object has a Status object "OK", a Selection
  5. object "menu", and a Change object "coins".
  6.