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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 00:11:57 +0200
From: Egon Eckert <egon AT heaven DOT industries DOT cz>
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Subject: Re: scanf: strange behavior?
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> > But: the use of the code above would be to collect arguments passed to 
> > the command line _except_ yours have no variable to collect!
> > 
> > Since you have put in the body of your main, is no longer a prototype!
> 
> You apparently don't understand C++ enough.

Thank you for my defence.  It's hard for me (without a brand name in
this mailing list) to defend against acm.org member ending each
sentence with an exclamation mark. :)

Anyway, reading this again and again (libc.inf/scanf)--

Return Value
------------

The number of items successfully matched and assigned.  If input ends,
or if there is any input failure before the first item is converted and
assigned, `EOF' is returned.

-- I'm becoming more and more confident, that it's actually
inconsistent with the current implementation.

To return EOF, the input has to end *before* the first item
converted/assigned, because when it has to end otherwise?  It has to
end sometime...  No word about conversion items pending.

Egon