Hello. I am trying the examples from Bruce Eckel's Thinking in C++ 2nd edn and am getting a problem. I have attached the examples I am using and the error messages (basically the same kind) which I got. I am unable to understand what is wrong when I have followed the book example perfectly (AFAIK) except for the variablenames which is immaterial. Please explain what I did wrong. I am using: $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5) Thank you. Shriramana Sharma.