Combine quiz

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What is a `PassthroughSubject` in Combine used for?

1. What is a `PassthroughSubject` in Combine used for?
2. What is the role of a "Subscriber" in Combine?
3. Why is properly managing `AnyCancellable` instances (e.g. storing them in a `Set<AnyCancellable>`) important in a Combine-based app?
4. Why might a developer need to be cautious about retain cycles when capturing `self` inside a Combine `.sink` closure?
5. What is the purpose of `AnyCancellable` in Combine?
6. What does the `.map` operator do when applied to a Combine Publisher?
7. What is Combine?
8. Why might combining multiple asynchronous data sources (like two separate network requests) with Combine's `.combineLatest` or `.zip` operators be preferable to manually coordinating completion handlers?
9. What does it mean for a Combine Publisher to "fail" with a specific error type, as reflected in its generic `Publisher<Output, Failure>` signature?
10. How does ObservableObject conformance combined with @Published typically drive SwiftUI view updates?
11. What is a practical benefit of Combine's type-safe, generic Publisher/Subscriber model for catching bugs at compile time rather than runtime?
12. What does the `.debounce` operator accomplish in a Combine pipeline handling something like search-as-you-type text input?

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