From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-08-28T16:39:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: scanf for Ruby

Hi,

In message "ANN: scanf for Ruby"
    on 02/08/22, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|This is the product of the Austin Ruby Codefest 2002,
|a weekend event which concluded on Wednesday.
|
|Contributing were David Alan Black, Hal Fulton,
|Nolan Darilek, and Jason Johnston.
|
|This is a pure Ruby implementation of (most of)
|the C scanf(3) function.
|
|Look in the RAA or at this URL:
|http://rubyhacker.com/code/scanf/
|
|There are scanf methods added to String, IO, and
|Kernel (corresponding to C's sscanf(), fscanf(), 
|and plain vanilla scanf(), respectively). 

This sounds great.  Can I put this into the standard 1.7 distribution?
Only comment of mine for improvement is you don't have to include
Scanf module to Kernel, IO, String.  You just need to full qualified
class name, e.g Scanf::FormatSpecifier.

							matz.