today (08.22.2007) I reviewed chapter 3, with most of the review focused on the usage of makefiles... then went into chapter 4 of the book, which provides an intro on developing a c++ library (as well as integrating other libraries). The main focus was the distinction between C coding v. C++ in these regards. As I am not too familiar with the former, this was a slow read, but I've left it with a 'fair' understanding of the differences. Basically, no need to typedef, and declaration and initializations take place within the struct. Scope resolution operators are used to identify specific struct or global scopes, so that the call is: Struct::add vs. add(CStruct s etc)