First, I'd like to highlight my personal premise on error handling approaches in C++ (as it might be the source of confusion in the first place). C++ Standards, 2004 (Sutter, Aleksandrescu), item 68 states as follows: Use assert or an equivalent liberally to document assumptions internal to a module (i.e., where the caller and callee are maintained by the same person or team) that must always be true and otherwise represent programming errors (e.g., violations of a function's postconditions d...
