Re: LSP

Bardur Arantsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.scala
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06/18/2015 11:48 PM, Shelby wrote:
> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 2:37:49 AM UTC+8, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> 
>> Uh, see the formal definition with is slightly below on the same 
>> Wikipedia page. 
>>
>> And yes, it's very hard to *not* violate that rule. Hence "prefer 
>> composition over inheritance" and such guidelines. 
>>
> 
> Seems it is easy to not violate is for covariant List[T] for as long as the 
> types in T don't use inheritance. Well I am not really making a point am I. 
> Because being covariant on its type parameter is not inheritance. 
> 

Subtyping isn't really needed much in practice[1] if you have
existential types. (See e.g. Haskell.)

(Of course you could argue that existential types are a limited form of
subtyping, I guess.)

[1] AFAICT from my own experience. YMMV, of course.

Regards,

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