On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's scope! No worries mate! ;-) > > But seriously, it does sound heavyweight compared to a single sscanf > function call. > Honestly, std.stream is just barely functional enough to write the > simplest stream code, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it > takes to scan strings with it. Not much worse than what it takes to > do it with std::stream in c++ though. > > I'm really talking out of my ass though, because I can probably count > on one hand how many times written code to use scanf or stringstream > in my life. If I have to parse input I'm much more likely to reach > for the regexp hammer or write a simpler parser.
I could never quite figure out why Stream.readf was not separated out into a separate function in std.format. It probably wouldn't be a lot of work.
