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Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [review][constrained_value] Review of Constrained Value Library begins today
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-21 03:08:21
on Sat Dec 20 2008, Mika Heiskanen <mika.heiskanen-AT-fmi.fi> wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Exceptions should almost never be used in response to broken invariants.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but how come? The constraints I have to validate usually
> concern broken user input
That's not a broken invariant. A broken invariant means your program is
broken.
> via the command line or a query string. How should I deal with them if
> not with exceptions? Or to be more precise, why should I not use
> constrained types for validating user input if it saves me a lot of
> if-statements in the long run?
I would never argue that you shouldn't do that.
-- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com
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