Re: [Boost-users] [serialization]

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-10 13:56:57

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> But a close substiture might be to convert the variable to
>> an integer, throw an exception if its not equal to 0 or 1 
>
> No!!  If you convert a bool to an integer and get something other than
> 0 or 1 then there's a bug in the program (or in the compiler).  An
> assertion is appropriate.

But that said, I wouldn't try to assert that any more than I'd try to
validate that every pointer passed points at a valid object of the
pointee type.  

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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