an uninformed opinion that i hope you will find useful, or at least amusing

[Keith]

in the documentation to gmp, it is written:

> It turns out that it is not entirely true that this function (mpz_set_str)
> ignores white-space. It does ignore it between digits, but not after a minus
> sign or within or after "0x". We are considering changing the definition of
> this function, making it fail when there is any white-space in the input,
> since that makes a lot of sense. Send your opinion of this change to
> address@hidden Do you really want it to accept "3 14" as meaning 314 as it
> does now?

fwiw, i like the change. i can think of no time when i would pass this function 
a string containing white space and want the function to pretend it wasn't 
there. i can think of no reason why i would want this function to ignore white 
space. if i pass this function a string holding a number, and that string 
contains white space, i have probably made a mistake and want to know about it 
right away.

my apologies if this is a long-resolved issue.

paix,
Keith