Silently passing wrong input for good one

[Paolo Carlini]

Martin Sebor wrote:

> Paolo Carlini wrote:
> [...]
>
>> Another option would be to just fail in that case. But then we have to
>> avoid mentioning scanf
>
> I think that's a given if our goal is to fix issue 23.

Excellent. Only, we are well beyond the (interesting) issue 23... We
want to basically rewrite the entire parsing ;) And there is also the
nasty issue with the missing type_traits::find vs widen vs narrow, which
I learned from you...

>> or, at least, ask the C committee for a
>> clarification about the behavior of the latter, because, at variance
>> with EXAMPLE 3 that interestingly you mention, *all* the implementions
>> that you mentioned, *succesfully* extract -3.0,
>
> Which is incorrect. How funny!

Eh! ;)

Paolo.