From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <008801c34bfd$38c74b60$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <13fdf88296c90ea01a2defa55e0326c6@collyer.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc/plan9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 02:49:04 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f91d0286-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Good point; I rarely use scanf myself. i've only even used scanf() when i new no better, after reading K&R. for toy tools [not programs] i've used sscanf() when i _knew_ what i was expecting, but a construct like: if (*scanf(...)) ; /* do something stupid */ well, crash and burn ... can i be more contrary? gimme a _final solution_ ...