Re: Factoring [Was: Common Opensource codec API]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * Steve Lhomme <[email protected]> [2004-01-06 20:44:49 +0100]:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>I agree for languages interaction. There's almost no other choice. But 
>>that simply means having the shared structures inside extern "C" {}. But 
>>all the system can be built with C++.
> 
> Also API functions must be plain C.
> 
> But, what should C++ really bring for you ?
> You can really use OOP, since it cannot be exported into the API.
> (if you put a C wrapper around a classlib, its huge resource wastal)
> 
> So why just completey stay in plain C ?

Because of the power of C constructors and inheritance. Anyway, that's 
juts a proposal.