Luke: Have a look at "Static Member variables" and how to use them.

for the thing about '#include <list>' check out http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=344569 . Pretty much the STL containers all don't have '.h' as an extension. Reason told was that the non-extension headers are contained within a namespace, the .h ones are not, and then will be added to the global namespace.

I'm pretty sure with static member variables you need to do...

class Test { public: static int m_var; }; int Test::m_var = 0;

C++ is great, if you learn it. "Industry Standard", Oh yeah, and for a good reason, actually several! As you can see I like C++ :P It's good to you if you treat it right you just need to give it a little love and it'll give you a little love. Though best if we don't get into a C++ vs Java battle, I have actually done some Java (J2ME), it's nice, but I'll always go back to C++.

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