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Possible Duplicate: C++ STL stack question: Why does pop() not throw an exception if the stack is empty? When designing a stack in C++, what should the pop() method (or front() method) return when the stack is empty? Which of the following design is better? Throw an exception Undefined, but require the user calling isempty() method to check before calling pop() Return a bool code, while using an extra parameter (a reference) to pass the popped element Define an unique empty element OK, I see that my question is not that clear, let me try to rewrite it: There are some data structures which can be implemented based on linked list like stack, queue, and each of them has a methods returning the front element (or the tail). I want to know, is there any principle guideline about designing such a method regarding the case when the data is empty. And my definition of better is "easy to use correctly and hard to use incorrectly".
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