[Liblas-devel] Throwing out_of_range exceptions on read

[Howard Butler]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
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> Another point is that in most cases LASWriter throws if its internal  
> state is invalid, and it does not make sense to continue calling  
> writer.

If this is true, a client must do try ... catch to be robust  
regardless.  I agree the simple boolean has a cleaner form, but if  
WritePoint is already expected to throw exceptions, we might as well  
take advantage of it.

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> But if a point is invalid, state of writer object is OK and we can  
> safely continue using writer.


Maybe we need two validation methods, one boolean and one that throws.