Just as a side note, you would benefit greatly by learning about classes. Try the tutorials at cplusplus.com: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ , I learned a lot about C++ there.

Also, I believe the right term for your problem is "the following code won't compile". I don't think there's such thing as C++ initialization.

Just as a side note, you would benefit greatly by learning about classes. Try the tutorials at cplusplus.com: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ , I learned a lot about C++ there.