Another scanf interpretation question

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <21624 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
-... strtol and strtoul
- are defined such that they `accept' numbers of the form
-	+
-and
-	-
-(which both convert to the value 0).  ...

No, I don't think so.  A subset of the "expected form" of the subject
sequence is an integer constant according to the rules of 3.1.3.2, and
empty strings do not qualify as valid integer constants.