Re: Help with Compile Error :)

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>,
Kush  <kbubbar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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();
>        public:
>                RunProgram();
>                void Run(void);
>};
>
>If I changed it to:
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>class RunProgram
>{
>        private:
>                RaceCoordinator raceCoordinator;  //Note the lack of
>"()"
>                EnvironmentalFactors raceEnvironmentalFactors;  //Note
>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.

This is explained in the FAQ:
http://www.para****ft.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.2

Regards,
Ike