> it just feels wrong to have a class that does nothing but validate and store values For me, it feels perfectly fine - as long as you can come up with a **meaningful name** for the class. I don't know your domain, but `Angles` sounds pretty meaningless to me - but maybe it is just so inexpressive for the sake of this example, not in the real code. Same holds for `convert` - give the function a name which expresses clearly what kind of conversion it does - from what input to what output. And the comment behind `_Angle0` indicates the method should have a name like `_validateAngle0`, for example. Alternatively, consider to implement the conversion functions as *class methods* of `Angle`. It is probably not possible to implement them as different `Angle` constructors, since they are cannot be distinguished just by their signature, so class methods should be the canonical choice here.