Design Patterns in Modern C++: Reusable Approaches for Object-Oriented Software Design

© Dmitri Nesteruk 2018

Dmitri NesterukDesign Patterns in Modern C++https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3603-1_20

20. Observer

Dmitri Nesteruk¹ 

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St. Petersburg, Russia

 

The observer pattern is a popular and necessary pattern, so it is surprising that, unlike other languages (e.g., C#), neither C++ nor the Standard Library come with a ready-to-use implementation. Nonetheless, a safe, properly implemented observer (if there can be such a thing) is a technically sophisticated construct, so in this chapter we’ll investigate it with all its gory details.

Property Observers

People get old. It’s a fact of life. But when someone gets older by a year we might want to congratulate them on their birthday. But how? Given a definition such as:

1   struct Person ...