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

Since the primary goal is to prevent bugs, consider this:

struct Foo
{
  Foo( const char* ) { /* ... */ }
};

enum { Foo };

int main()
{
  struct Foo foo( "hi" ); // OK
  struct Foo( "hi" ); // fail
  Foo foo( "hi" ); // fail
  Foo( "hi" ); // fail
}

That way you can't forget to name the variable and you can't forget to write struct. Verbose, but safe.