How to disallow temporaries

Question

For a class Foo, is there a way to disallow constructing it without giving it a name?

For example:

Foo(\"hi\");

And only allow it i

Answer 1

No, I'm afraid this isn't possible. But you could get the same effect by creating a macro.

#define FOO(x) Foo _foo(x)

With this in place, you can just write FOO(x) instead of Foo my_foo(x).