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The two writable inputs and Boolean query belong to an abstract class; each concrete logic gate overrides just that query:

abstract class Gate {
  var inp1: Boolean = false
  var inp2: Boolean = false
  def evalGate: Boolean
}

class OrG extends Gate {
  override def evalGate: Boolean = inp1 || inp2
}

class AndG extends Gate {
  override def evalGate: Boolean = inp1 && inp2
}

class XorG extends Gate {
  override def evalGate: Boolean = inp1 ^ inp2
}

All three subclasses satisfy the same object interface, so the Gate declarations in the supplied simulator still allow access to inputs and invoke the correct Boolean function through dynamic dispatch. Boolean ^ is exclusive or; || is Boolean disjunction and && is Boolean conjunction.

The program first sets both inputs of y, so

y = true \land true = true

. It sets

z = false xor false = false

. Therefore

x = y \lor z = true

and

w = z \land true = false

, giving

x: true
w: false

Those are the two output lines. This is a simulation of combinational logic in an order where each gate's inputs have already been calculated; the Boolean assignments copy values rather than create live wire connections.

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