Inheritance/Derived Classes

[louflow]

Hi guys any help appreciated...

Assume the existence of a BankAccount class. Define a derived class, SavingsAccount that contains two instance variables: the first a double, named interestRate, and the second an integer named interestType. The value of the type variable can be 1 for simple interest and 2 for compound interest. There is also a constructor that accepts two parameters: a double that is used to initialize the interestRate variable, and a string that you may assume will contain either "Simple", or "Compound", and which should be used to initialize the type variable appropriately. There should also be a pair of functions getInterestRate and getInterestType that return the values of the corresponding data members (as double and int respectively).

My code so far:

class SavingsAccount : public BankAccount
{
private:
double interestRate;
int interestType;
public:
SavingsAccount()
{
interestRate=0;
interestType=0;
}
SavingsAccount (double, string);
double getInterestRate() const
{return interestRate;}
int getinterestType () const
{return interestType;}
};

SavingsAccount :: SavingsAccount (double a, string b)
{
interestRate=a;

if(b=="Simple")
interestType=1;
else
interestType=2;
}

Not sure what is wrong with my code, the only error I get is "Error at compilation", I am using an online compiler.

[Disch]

There's no 'BankAccount' class here.

But after I made a dummy BankAccount class it compiled just fine for me.

Also, a compiler is not worth using if it doesn't tell you what the error is.