Checking function parameters in Phobos

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-20 13:22, Marco Leise wrote:

> None of that is feasible. We can only hope that we simply
> catch every case of user input (or untrusted data) and check
> it before passing it to Phobos APIs. That's why there are
> functions to validate and also to sanitize UTF strings on a
> best effort basis in Phobos.
>
> So in my opinion Phobos should continue forward with assert
> instead of enforce. I/O functions, of course, have to use
> exceptions.
>
> That said, I never thought of validating args[] before passing
> it to getopt or using them as a filename. Lesson learned, I
> guess?

I don't know how getopt behaves but using them as a filename will most 
likely end up calling a system function, which will hopefully take care 
of the checking.

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/Jacob Carlborg