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Re:Why not inherit from List? by deliminator on Sunday February 16, 2014 @04:39AM (#7247153)
"Can I guarantee every function that expects a T to behave exactly the same way when I pass a P instead (where P is a subclass of T)?"

For those who don't know, that's the Liskov Substitution Principle [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle

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