should have std::endl; :)

Great tutorials btw; already had a basic grasp of C, but really like the ideas and usage of classes in OOP.

[ Fixed! Thanks -Alex ]

Thanks, Daniel

However, instead of using exit() to terminate your program, there are other options. One way is to design your program so it “exits normally” (eg. at the end of main) instead of wherever it happens to be at the moment. A related idea is to throw an exception and catch it in main(), allowing the program to exit normally.

QUOTE: assuming you don’t exit() early
ah, is there an easy way around this? to call the destructor on an exit() call?

The answer is that when you have static variables, they get constructed before main() and destructed just before your program ends (assuming you don’t exit() early)

class basic
{
public:
basic() {
cout << "constructor called" << endl;
}

~basic() {
cout << "destructor called" << endl;
}
};

static basic myThing;

int main()
{

system("pause");
return 0;
}
It outputs:
constructor called
pause stuff
destructor called