Observer patern using the standard FRP conventions? Are these situations inside the aims of FRP? There are several flavours of FRP that approach reactivity from different angles. I'd say Grapefruit is the one most relevant to the Observer pattern, since it models complex systems as a network of interconnected circuits, where circuits are effectful entities, and they can communicate through both discrete and continuous signals. The other system that might be relevant is Yampa, since you model entities as stateful signal functions (but unlike in Grapefruit they cannot perform side effects), and connect them however you want. Incidentally, both of
Hi,
When talking about the Observer pattern I was thinking in the case that
appears in the reactive programming entry in Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming).
If we have a reactive setting then the sentence
a := b + c
could mean that there is a dynamic data flow from the values b and c to the
value a, so whenever b or c change, a is automatically changed.
This has similarities to the OO Observer pattern (in fact, you can implement
it using the pattern) and is also supported in some new scripting languages
as JavaFX.
It seems that some goals of reactive programming are shared with the goals
of the Observer pattern. Are they actually related? Maybe this relationship
is between the pattern and reactive programming in general, not FRP. Is this
so or is Wikipedia just wrong about that? Anyway, is it possible to
implement something alike the a := b + c case using Reactive or any oher FRP
package? Can someone show any example?
Thanks,
Alvaro.
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