[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc/examples/muxing: make compatible with C++

[Nicolas George]

Le quartidi 24 ventôse, an CCXXII, Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
> People who want to use ffmpeg from C++ need examples which work in
> C++.

People who want to use ffmpeg from INTERCAL need examples that work in
INTERCAL, shall we make the examples INTERCAL-compatible too?

INTERCAL is a ridiculous example, but the same applies to all languages that
are actually used, including java and PHP.

The casts you added are necessary in c++ but they are bad practice in C.
That makes the example weaker, as it no longer shows the best practices.

There are certainly dozens of tutorials on how to get C code to build as
c++, explaining just what you did with the examples. And actually, this is
basic programming skill: someone who does not have it should probably not
try something as hard as multimedia processing yet.

I am not against a pure c++ example, but making the C examples less readable
and getting them to show bad practice is IMHO a very bad idea.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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