From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 18:05:35 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: fmt: document that Scanf returns an error the same as Scan
X-Git-Tag: go1.5beta1~746
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a63ba85a9f0a96cdedc58ba8e97615972b555c44;p=gostls13.git

fmt: document that Scanf returns an error the same as Scan

No semantic change.

Fixes #8708.

Change-Id: Ieda04a86a19bb69bfc2519d381a2f025e7cb8279
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/9740
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/fmt/scan.go b/src/fmt/scan.go
index 93cd553a57..95725303d9 100644
--- a/src/fmt/scan.go
+++ b/src/fmt/scan.go
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ func Scanln(a ...interface{}) (n int, err error) {
 // Scanf scans text read from standard input, storing successive
 // space-separated values into successive arguments as determined by
 // the format.  It returns the number of items successfully scanned.
+// If that is less than the number of arguments, err will report why.
 func Scanf(format string, a ...interface{}) (n int, err error) {
 	return Fscanf(os.Stdin, format, a...)
 }