sscanf and Gmp.mpq

Would it hurt much to feed the constructor the remainder of the string and have the genereated object remember how much of it that it wanted?

/ Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!)

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2004-02-07 16:57: Subject: sscanf and Gmp.mpq

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Since the functionality is the opposite of sprintf("%O"), I think it's reasonable to use %O. The trick is of course that you'd need to provide a program sometimes but not always.

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Maybe sscanf could ask the object how many characters it wants.

Slight causality problem here: Since the string is to be sent to the constructor, the length must be known before there even exists an object.

/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)