The Old New Thing

Only an idiot would have parameter validation, and only an idiot would not have it

December 10, 2009 Dec 10, 2009 12/10/09

Raymond Chen

The great thing about parameter validation is that there are people who say that only idiots would have it, and other people who say that only idiots wouldn't. Back in the old days, Windows didn't do parameter validation. If you called a function with an invalid window handle, your application crashed. If you called a function with an invalid...