Re: We do not use C++ exceptions
Seungbeom Kim <musiphil@bawi.org> wrote:
Daniel T. wrote:
Seungbeom Kim <musiphil@bawi.org> wrote:
Suppose you write a program that takes an IP address from the
user. How do you ensure that the user input is always valid?
Before calling the constructor? Then we're back to the double
testing problem.
I don't think assert is the right one to use here.
Is the constructor's job to validate user input, construct an
IP_Address object or both? If your answer is the latter, then I
think you need to brush up on the single responsibility
principle...
The constructor's job is to construct an object, which may entail
validating the input needed to construct the object. Since the two
may not be those that can be carried out very independently, this
seems like a wrong situation for the single responsibility principle.
Validating *user input* can and should be carried out independently of
constructing any particular object.
For example, what do you think of the question: is the job of
fopen() to open the file, or to check for the ability to open it?
But is it fopen's job to validate user input? I think not.
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