Very wierd error with cout - dumb mistake I think

[Tjvelcro]

Hi all,

I'm working on using classes, and functions inside those classes. However right now I'm having a problem with my "cout" command. I'v cutted the most basic class with the cout statement into another .cpp file to help narrow the problem but now I think its just missing a ; somewhere. See below for my code... the errors I get are just before the code.

(11) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '<<'
(11) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
(11) : error C2238: unexpected token(s) preceding ';'

#include <cstdlib> //for srand(), rand()
#include <ctime> //for time for srand()
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class Stack
{
private:
	static const int MAX = 52;		
        int j;
	int nTop;
	int acDeck[52];
public:
	cout << endl; //This is where the error occurs
};

void main()
{
}

[kooth]

I think the error messages are pointing to line eleven (11) : erro C2143 ...

However, you have execuable code at line 14 that is not in a function! That is probably it! Perhaps you should define a construtor and place that line in it and try again.

[JoR]

It's really hard to understand what you're trying to do. You're trying to call something within a data structure, that's simply impossible, when should this line be called?

[Galik]

What are you intending to do at line 14? because you can't put executable code there. All executable code needs to be inside a function definition.