On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
Speaking from memory, I often use BOTH assert and exception. Sometimes
something looks like a program error which should never happen so I use an
assert. But should this occur during release mode, it should throw an
exception.
Asserts should be used to report logic errors. In this case the error is triggered by incorrect format of the data file -- which is not a logic error, so the correct behavior is to throw and to not assert.