Why is my static data member and function not counting the objects correctly?

[AL88]

Why is my static data member and function not counting the objects correctly?

#include<iostream>

class myClass
{
public:
myClass(int data):theDataMenber(data){howManyInstances++;}
~myClass(){howManyInstances--;}
static int getHowManyInstances(){return howManyInstances;}
private:
int theDataMenber;
static int howManyInstances;
};

int myClass::howManyInstances = 0;

int main()
{
myClass ObjectOne(5);
myClass ObjectTwo(10);
myClass ObjectThree(20);

std::cout<<"There are : " <<myClass::getHowManyInstances<< " objects."<<std::endl;

}

[Peter87]

You forgot the parentheses after the function name.

std::cout << "There are : " << myClass::getHowManyInstances() << " objects." << std::endl;
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