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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: Preventing type extensions
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:30:29 +0300
Date: 2010-09-24T16:30:29+03:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8g3nflFnruU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1qwl6jiun2mik$.s1k2xnzg8dv6$.dlg@40tude.net>

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:11:33 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> On 21.09.10 18:25, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>> horse /= animal
>> It will help immensely, I think, at least those of us who do
>> not do type theory on an every day basis, if we had a glossary
>> of terms for interpreting expression like "horse /= animal".
> 
> Gosh, it was no more than just this: if horse is an animal that does not
> imply they are interchangeable. Compare: "all horses have hoofs" and "all
> animals have hoofs."
> 
> is-a /= is
> member /= set
> 
> Moreover:
> 
> is-a /= substitutable (greeting to the LSP!)
> 
> Compare: "some animals have tentacles" and "some horses have tentacles."

Those are not properties of "horses" and "animals", but properties of 
the *set* of horses and the *set* of animals. I don't think such 
properties have any role in LSP substitutability, as such properties 
often will be different for the whole set and for a proper subset.

The property "all horses have hooves" expresses a universal property of 
horses: if X is a horse, then X has hooves. The statement "some horses 
have tentacles" says nothing about any given horse X.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 107+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-12 10:18 Preventing type extensions Florian Weimer
2010-09-12 11:59 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-12 12:53   ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-12 21:23     ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-09-13  5:32       ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-13  7:13         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13  9:19           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-13  9:42             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 10:23               ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-13 12:55                 ` Cyrille
2010-09-13 13:55                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 21:13                   ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-21 13:57                     ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 14:19                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 14:44                         ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 16:25                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 17:11                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-21 18:11                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-23 20:00                                 ` Simon Wright
2010-09-23 20:49                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-24  9:10                                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-24 10:24                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-24 13:30                                 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2010-09-24 16:27                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-24 17:47                                     ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-24 19:42                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 14:32                       ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-21 15:02                         ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 15:26                           ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-21 16:18                             ` Cyrille
2010-09-22  8:01                               ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-22 17:28                                 ` Cyrille
2010-09-22 19:30                                   ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-22 19:51                                     ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 20:14                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 20:25                                         ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 20:38                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 21:25                                             ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-22 21:20                                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-22 20:16                                       ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-22 20:34                                         ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 22:45                                           ` Britt Snodgrass
2010-09-23  8:02                                           ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-23 16:51                                     ` Pascal Obry
2010-09-23 18:37                                       ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-23 18:55                                         ` Pascal Obry
2010-09-23 20:28                                       ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-24  9:20                                         ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-24 14:49                                           ` Simon Wright
2010-09-24 15:09                                             ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-09-24 16:21                                           ` Robert A Duff
2010-09-25  7:10                                         ` Pascal Obry
2010-09-25 12:03                                           ` Brian Drummond
2010-09-24  8:16                                   ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-24  8:39                                     ` Cyrille
2010-09-24  9:27                                       ` Cyrille
2010-09-29 16:47                                         ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-30 10:08                                           ` Cyrille
2010-10-05 17:02                                             ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-08  7:50                                               ` Cyrille
2010-10-08 13:58                                               ` Cyrille
2010-10-08 20:12                                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-11  7:57                                                   ` Cyrille
2010-10-11  8:24                                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-12  5:23                                                   ` Shark8
2010-10-13  9:06                                                 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-10-13 17:37                                                   ` Cyrille
2010-10-13 18:50                                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-21 14:50                       ` (see below)
2010-09-21 17:37                         ` Cyrille
2010-09-21 19:07                           ` (see below)
2010-09-13 13:05                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 20:21                   ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-13 21:00                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 21:10                 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-14 12:16                   ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-14 16:46                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 18:08                       ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-14 18:32                         ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-15  8:18                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 17:04                     ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-13 15:12               ` Securing type extensions (was: Preventing type extensions) Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-13 15:29                 ` Securing type extensions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 17:23                 ` Simon Wright
2010-09-13 20:22                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-13 20:41                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 10:02                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-14 12:22                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 21:18                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-15  8:15                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-15 20:47                               ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-16  7:47                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-16 11:52                                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-16 12:45                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-16 20:53                                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-16 21:37                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-17  8:45                                           ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-17  9:39                                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-05  5:59                     ` Randy Brukardt
2010-09-13 18:32           ` Preventing " Florian Weimer
2010-09-13 20:30             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 19:41               ` Florian Weimer
2010-09-22 20:34                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-22 21:10                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-17  0:16           ` Shark8
2010-09-17  7:04             ` AdaMagica
2010-09-17 21:05               ` Shark8
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