Re: Help with Compile Error :)

"Kush" <kbubbar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:151380bd-49f9-487a-8223-9d8207005eaa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi Ben,
> Thank you for your reply.  I played with the code further and
> determined that the error was due to the fact that within the
> definition of the RunProgram class I define two member objects: the
> first being raceCoordinator of type RaceCoordinator and the second,
> raceEnvironmentalFactors of type EnvironmentalFactors.  Apparently,
> for some reason I am not aware of, if I remove the brackets after the
> definition, the code compiled.
>
> So I had the below code originally which did not compile.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> class RunProgram
> {
>        private:
>                RaceCoordinator raceCoordinator();
>                EnvironmentalFactors raceEnvironmentalFactors();

This is declaring a private function called raceEnvironmentalFactors that 
takes no parameters and returns an EnvironmentalFactors.

>        public:
>                RunProgram();
>                void Run(void);
> };
>
> If I changed it to:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> class RunProgram
> {
>        private:
>                RaceCoordinator raceCoordinator;  //Note the lack of
> "()"
>                EnvironmentalFactors raceEnvironmentalFactors;  //Note

This is declaring a private variable raceEnvironmentalFactors of type 
EnvironmentalFactors.

> the lack of "()"
>        public:
>                RunProgram();
>                void Run(void);
> };
>
> I don't quite understand why this is, but it worked.  I was under the
> impression that if you called the default constructor you still needed
> the "()".  I believe this is the case in C#.NET, which may have
> confused me.

What is raeEnvironmentalFactors supposed to be?  A function or a variable?

Without more code it is hard to understand what you are attempting.