Google Code Jam 2011 Language Usage

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/9/11 2:53 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On 8/05/11 11:57 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Looking forward to detailed feedback about readf. It was implemented in
>>> a hurry so definitely it has a long way to go.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> What I consider the most important points about readf:
>>
>> 1. Whitespace handling is different than scanf. It is much stricter
>> and even feels
>> inconsistent, Eg:
>
> std.readf is broken.
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4656
>
> This bug makes it quite difficult to evaluate readf. I just use scanf now.

That's not a bug, see my comment in 
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4656. The error message 
_is_ a bug though!

Andrei