Message-ID: <36DC0B86.843FC788@xyz.net>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Hansen <viking AT xyz DOT net>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: pointer question
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 17
NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.14.89.137
X-Trace: news7.ispnews.com 920422974 207.14.89.137 (Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:02:54 EDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 20:02:54 EDT
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 16:02:15 +0000
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

If I have a global pointer to a Ship class I made declared like this:

Ship *scouts=NULL

and then in my main function I do this:

scouts=new Ship

why can't I do this in one of my other functions?

Ship *selected_ship;
selected_ship=scouts[0];