is it bad programming practice or perfectly normal to design a class, in which there is no public member function which can check the status of the objects state? for example what if i implemented it so the object was assumed successfull....until an exception is thrown? is this OK to do or no?
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Jump to PostAbsolutely fine, (IMHO), obviously it depends on your needs, but what about classes that return some kind of evaluation, e.g. a class that calculates the global density from all the objects in a simulation. It knows the materials, object locations and orientations. It has only one public function that returns …
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