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The Liskov Substitution Principle

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The Liskov Substitution principle can be stated as:

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  1. 1.

    Robert C. Martin, “Principles of OOD,” http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod

  2. 2.

    Joel Spolsky, “The Law of Leaky Abstractions,” https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/

  3. 3.

    Box, G. E. P.; Draper, N. R. (1987), Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces, John Wiley & Sons.

  4. 4.

    See the documentation for PHP’s Traversable type at: https://secure.php.net/traversable

  5. 5.

    See the documentation for PHP’s Iterator type at: https://secure.php.net/iterator

  6. 6.

    See the documentation for PHP’s Countable type at: https://secure.php.net/countable

  7. 7.

    See the unofficial guideline for documenting types in PHP code, as proposed by phpDocumentor, at: https://docs.phpdoc.org/references/phpdoc/types.html

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Noback, M. (2018). The Liskov Substitution Principle. In: Principles of Package Design. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4119-6_3

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