Is it good practice to use assert() is class mutators?

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Published on 2010-06-13T05:30:47Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 5:32 UTC
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For example:

void Date::month(unsigned int inMonth) { assert(inMonth <= 12); _month = inMonth; }

If this is not good practice, what is the correct way to go about this?

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