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The Substitution Principle

• Formulated by Barbara Liskov
• You can use a subclass object whenever a superclass object is expected
• Example:
  Employee e;
  ...
  System.out.println("salary=" + e.getSalary());
• Can set e to Manager reference
• Polymorphism: Correct getSalary method is invoked

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