On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:12 PM, Travis Oliphant <teoliphant@gmail.com> wrote:

 

 agree that we can stop bashing subclasses in general.   The problem with numpy subclasses is that they were made without adherence to SOLID:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID.  In particular the Liskov substitution principle:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle . 

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did not properly apply them in creating np.matrix which clearly violates the substitution principle. 

So -- could a matrix subclass be made "properly"? or is that an example of something that should not have been a subclass?