From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Tue Nov  1 12:58:16 1994
Subject: Re: Octave I/O 
From: "John C. Campbell" <jcc at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: Steve Swinnea <swinnea at weiss dot che dot utexas dot edu>
cc: bug-octave
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 12:58:13 +22305350

Steve Swinnea <swinnea at weiss dot che dot utexas dot edu> wrote:

| John,
| 
| Is this correct behavior?
| 
| octave:1> function a=foo()
| > printf("Enter a winning number: ");
| > a = scanf( "%f" );
| > endfunction
| 
| octave:2> foo
| 5
| Enter a winning number: ans = 5
| 
| Note that the printf doesn't occur until after the value that scanf
| expects is entered.  My TA was trying to write something that prompts
| for a value and came upon this.

I believe that this is incorrect behavior, but I feel like this is
something that is out of my Octave coding domain.  It looks like a
problem in the way Octave returns scanf output perhaps jwe will see
the real source of the problem.

John