JJ>The integer HowMany is owned by the class, and is not unique to each
JJ>object. Let each constructor increment the counter. If the counter
JJ>starts at zero, this means that the first instance of the object sets
excuse me for stepping in, I was wandering through this thread and most of 
it makes sense, but how does HowMany know to start at zero - I was taught 
not to assume anything is initialised to 0 - is it different for class's?
thanx
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...an ISO standard for C++, does that mean our code will make sense now??
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