areop

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Comment · 11 years ago

The right answer for a API to draw a line like you describe is to provide every possible way to draw a line since you never know which one the user wants to use. Granularity is one of the general five properties of every good API, of course it is not always good to provide all possible ways since it hurts compactness. The best I have ever heared about API design was a talk from Casey Muratori: http://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0028.html

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Comment · 12 years ago

This way of script like interactive programming in C with dynamic libraries is quite known in game programming. The game code in Quake 2, Quake 3, Doom 3, Half Life and even the rendering module in Quake 2 [0] was written that way. In addition to the obvious advantage of interactive programming, dynamic libraries also served as a great way to abstract over submodules like the render and sound engine and made it possible to have a in runtime switchable opengl- and software-renderer.

[0] http://fabiensanglard.net/quake2/quake2Polymorphism.php

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Comment · 12 years ago

Added your project as a reference. Sorry for the missing reference I originally never planned to make the project known publicly and therefore never added the references.

Comment · 12 years ago

Yeah I was looking for unit test macros and found your project. I added your project as a reference in the README for clarification of the origin.

Comment · 12 years ago

I wrote a JSON-Parser in C with minimal validation in ~250 LOC that does not allocate memory, but leaves the type check and conversion to the user. https://github.com/vurtun/json