Cpp Coding Standards/VIRTUAL/LSP
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Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle.
This statement can be put into different wordings to view different aspects:
- Everything you can do with a base class, you need to be able to do with any of its derived classes.
- A derived class must not require more and must not promise less than its base class.
- Overridden versions of virtual functions must not have stronger preconditions or weaker postconditions than the version of the base class.
- The client of a base class must never need to know, which derived class it is using really.
