Not everything can be written in an object-oriented manner. The OP asked about C, which doesn't directly support the object oriented paradigm.

Generally, the design is specific to the application. Use the most suitable tool for the job ! If all you're writing is a set of list utilities, for example, no object orientation is *really* needed. In some designs, however, there really is a place for objects.

One of the most important things to keep in mind about this is that a library is better to be "stateless". This allows to write multi-threaded code with no problems. Object oriented programming in Perl (passing $self around) is stateless if done right. Writing a C library with a bunch of static objects and functions that act upon them is far from being stateless, however, and if such a thing is absolutely required don't forget to document it.

In reply to Re^2: Binding C libraries by spurperl
in thread Binding C libraries by fauria

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