Overview of Covariance/contravariance in Some Programming Languages
Both the subtype and method overriding concepts are defined differently between programming languages. They do not necessarily follow the substitution principle above, sometimes adding runtime checking instead. What follows is a simple comparison of how overriding methods behave in some common programming languages.
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