Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Michael> This must be one of those cases where I am mislead by my > Michael> background... I thought of Liskov substitution principle > Michael> as a piece of basic CS background that everyone learned > Michael> in school (or from the net, or wherever they learned > Michael> programming). Clearly, that's not true. > > Note that some us were long out of school by the time Barbara Liskov > first published the idea (in 1988 according to > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LiskovSubstitutionPrinciple). Also, since it > pertains to OO programming it was probably not taught widely until > the mid-90s. That means a fair number of people will have never > heard about it.
...and then there are those Python users who have no formal CS background at all. Python is used quite a bit by people who's main job is not programming. <sidebar>I'm one of those, and whatever I know about CS, I owe it mostly to the Python community. I learned an awful lot just by hanging out on various Python mailing lists.</sidebar> > Michael> Guido writes: > >> How about SubstitutabilityError? > > I don't think that's any better. At the very least, people can > Google for "Liskov violation" to educate themselves. I'm not sure > that the results of a Google search for "Subtitutability Error" will > be any clearer. Well, with a bit of luck Google will point to the Python documentation then... Just _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
