strange problem with global string object

[KarlisRepsons]

This might be something simple, but I just didn't get what.
GCC 4.5 outputs "error: ‘s’ does not name a type" for this code (line 4):

#include <string>

std::string s;
s = "IO";

int main(){
  return 0;
}

[isnork]

Shouldn't you be doing std::string s; s = "IO"; inside main function??

[hamsterman]

I can't say why the compiler is talking about types, but the thing is that you can't do assignments outside functions in C/C++. std::string s = "IO"; should be fine though. That's initialization - a slightly different thing.

[KarlisRepsons]

the thing is that you can't do assignments outside functions in C/C++

I missed that... So it's just a function code outside of any function and object...

[Moschops]

I can't say why the compiler is talking about types,

It's because the compiler thinks this must be a declaration, but it doesn't know what an object of type s is.