Derek Davis wrote: > Do you have a link to the super faq? > I stand mistaken. It's called the C++ FAQ LITE, and this is the URL: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ Lots of good stuff there, like should you use the "this" pointer in a constructor? :) http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.7 --Dave