[Liblas-devel] Throwing out_of_range exceptions on read

[Howard Butler]

Mateusz,

Mark in Florida has some 1.1 LAS files that have points with Scan  
Angle Ranks that are outside the -90/90 range that the specification  
says.  I just commented out the check for now:

http://liblas.org/browser/trunk/src/laspoint.cpp#L113

This begs the question, what do we do for reading invalid input?  Scan  
angle doesn't really mean too much, so for this case, following the  
spec exactly isn't going to be a deal, especially if there are other  
writers out there who aren't following.  But for other items,  
especially the flags attributes, this is a big deal.

Any ideas on a reasonable tact to take?  Liberal in what we read and  
strict in what we write?  That changes our design a bit if we're to do  
that...

Howard