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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2018 / Imperative programming / 8 / b / Solution by

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A Scala Swing Publisher is the subject-side event source. Calling publish(e) notifies its subscribed reactors. A Reactor is the observer-side participant: listenTo(p1,p2) registers it with the specified sources, deafTo ends those subscriptions, and reactions contains the event-handling cases.

listenTo(pounds, euros, rate)
reactions += {
  case EditDone(source) => handleCommittedEdit(source)
}

Here the containing frame supplies the reactor behavior, and each text field supplies publication. Defining reactions without listenTo is insufficient to establish the subscription. The pattern-matching cases can handle only events of interest while other events are ignored. This is the Observer pattern expressed through event publication rather than a separate hand-written update method for every subject.^[ref]

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