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Message: [QUOTE="Alf P. Steinbach, post: 2555737"] * [email]fakeprogress@gmail.com[/email]: Tell your professor about the existence of std::string. It's Very Bad Form to expose internal variables via references or pointers to non-const. Also, the prefix "get" has negative value in C++. It does have some positive value in languages like Java and C# that support dynnamic introspection, combined with a commonly accepted convention for identifying getters and setters. Third, there should presumably be some arguments? Ouch, ditch that professor, if that's /actually/ the specification. An uninitialized object, of a class with non-trivial constructor(s), should never exist. [snip] Yes, the return type. What's the book title? Have you looked it up in ACCU's book reviews? [/QUOTE]