[FFmpeg-user] Rewriting 'fieldmatch' using the State Machine Method

Mark Filipak markfilipak.imdb at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 20:29:48 EEST 2025


On 11/06/2025 12.15, Carl Zwanzig wrote:
> On 6/10/2025 6:45 PM, Mark Filipak wrote:
>> Now, you can discount what I write, but you can't discount that you code by trial and error. It's 
>> up to you.
> 
> Everyone "codes" by trial and error ...

That's the culture, but it's not true.

>... and a part of that process is also known as "debugging" ...

I'm not addressing debugging. I'm addressing code coverage.

>... - almost 
> nothing more complicated than "Hello world" fully works correctly the first time, if it does that's 
> a happy accident. It also often means the programmer has overlooked something.

What I wrote either makes sense to you or it doesn't. I'm not going to argue.




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