C++ tips - Preventing automatic variables of a class

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PROBLEM: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login (Howard Ferguson),

I wish to define a class in a library which the library user
can create by dynamic allocation via the new operator, but
I want to prevent him from creating automic instances.


RESPONSE: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login (Nikki Locke), 6 Jan 93

Leave the constructors public. Make the DESTRUCTOR private. Provide an
inline member function ...

   void destroy() { delete this; }

Users have to call destroy instead of delete, but they won't be able to
create automatic, static or extern objects of the class.