Global object

I was wondering if the following is considered poor practice, as the object is not
created in main.

I placed this sort of thing in a header file and linked it and had no errors, but Dev showed that the object I had created from the class was global, as it was seperate from main.

Code:

#ifndef HEADER_H
#define HEADER_H

class Foo
{
public:
    Foo() {};
    ~Foo();

private:
    int something;
};

Foo fo;  // this is considered global, is this poor practice

#endif

>I was wondering if the following is considered poor practice, as the object is not
created in main.
Yes, but not because the object isn't created in main. It's because the object is defined in a header file. If you include the header more than once in your project (as would be expected), you'll get multiple definition errors from the linker. The proper way to do something like this is to define the object in an implementation file and simply declare it in the header file:

Code:

#ifndef HEADER_H
#define HEADER_H

class Foo
{
public:
    Foo() {};
    ~Foo();

private:
    int something;
};

extern Foo fo;

#endif

Code:

#include "header.h"

Foo fo; // Define here, link this file, and be happy

Thanks prelude, I understand