June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
292 pages
6h 8m
English
The third SOLID principle, the Liskov Substitute Principle, is somehow an extension of the Open/Closed Principle. In fact, it concerns the possibility of extending a component through inheritance and imposes a constraint that ensures interoperability of objects within an inheritance hierarchy. The principle says:
Subtypes must be substitutable for their base types.
When we use inheritance, we extend a base component to create specialized components. The principle of Liskov invites us to be careful not to disrupt the functionality of the parent component when we define a derived component. Classes, objects, functions, and other software entities that have to do with the components of an inheritance hierarchy must ...
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