"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

4 comments

• bregma 23 minutes ago
  Author has used LLMs to generate Java code in C++. It detracts from his point.
• jsymolon 24 minutes ago
  First thought, assuming that birth year starts at 1900 is bad for a number of reasons; one of which, "process this list of authors and ..."

  What about everyone born before 1900?

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  • Neywiny 6 minutes ago
    Or what if they were born after 1999?

    It's just a toy example not a production ready birthday validation library.
  • alpinisme 13 minutes ago
    It’s a contrived example. And I have to assume the author intended it to be contrived given that he also put an upper bound at 1999 in an article written in 2026 in an industry that skews young.

    But the pattern applies regardless of the validation logic.
• rienbdj 1 hour ago
  C++ could use some do-notation