Is this a data type?

[TpOreilly]

In my class called GameEgnine it has:

GameEngine* m_pGameEngine;

Is "GameEngine*" a data type? Which is a pointer to the class?

[Bazzy]

GameEngine* is a pointer to GameEngine

[matsom]

is the class declaration like this?

class GameEngine
{
private:
    GameEngine* m_pGameEngine;
    //other private members
public:
    //other declarations
};

m=member, p=pointer -> Hungarian notation.

[TpOreilly]

Yes. Do we still refer to pointers as variables, or are they there own things?

[hanst99]

They are variables, of course. The same rules that apply to variables apply to pointers as well.