title: Conversion from 'myItem*' to non-scalar type 'myItem' requested
body: <p>I have this C++ code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include &lt;iostream&gt;
  using namespace std;
  struct MyItem
  {
    int value;
    MyItem* nextItem;
  };
  
  int main() {
      MyItem item = new MyItem;
      return 0;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I get the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>error: conversion from `MyItem*' to non-scalar type `MyItem' requested
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Compiling with g++.  What does that mean?  And what's going on here?</p>