What are guard methods/classes?

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Published on 2009-10-20T23:45:58Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 1:42 UTC
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i just noticed the guard method/class mentioned in this question and i don't really get the concept from the answers. And alas, Jon Skeet's link to an MS site never loaded. A few quick Google searches seemed to yield only products, not software engineering concepts.

Any explanation and/or samples would be appreciated. (Especially from the .Net side of things.)

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