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Hi,
Alex Martelli (martelli@cadlab.it) wrote:
: Which unfortunately only applies to the overload of getline() that is
: there described, the one taking an array of chars, not to others such
: as the one taking a string -- Mr Kanze pointed out the discrepancy
: between the "extracts no chars" and "appends no chars" wordings used
: in the two places.  Let's indeed hope it's just a minor editorial
: oversight (perfectly understandable, as Mr Kanze says, given the huge
: amount of work the editors have been doing!) that's going to be fixed
: at some point... with the public comment period closed, is there any
: way to submit such concerns to the committee...?

It already has been fixed in the september working paper. Here is a quote
from http://www.cygnus.com/misc/wp/sep95/lib-strings.html (lib.string.io)

"If the function extracts no characters, it calls
is.setstate(ios_base::failbit) which may throw ios_base::failure
(_lib.iostate.flags_)."

dk
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