How to delete the default constructor?

Question

Sometimes I don\'t want to provide a default constructor, nor do I want the compiler to provide a system default constructor for my class. In C++ 11 I can do thing like:

Answer 1

Additionally to declaring the default constructor private, you could also throw an exception when somebody tries to call it.

class MyClass
{
  private:
    MyClass() 
    {
      throw [some exception];
    };
}