Python supports LSP, does it?

en.karpachov at ospaz.ru en.karpachov at ospaz.ru
Fri Aug 12 02:18:58 EDT 2005


On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:02:08 -0400
Terry Reedy wrote:

> I remember discussion of the LSP on comp.object some years ago when I
> was  reading it.  (I presume there still are, just don't read it
> anymore.).  One  of the problems is that biology and evolution do not
> obey it.  Birds (in  general) can fly,

I suspect it is not the exact scientific criteria used in the biology whether an
animal ISA bird, is it? I mean, flying is not bird property in the biological sense,
so it is nothing against the LSP here.

> but those in the ratite family, evolved later than order 
> aves, cannot.

-- 
jk



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