How to disallow temporaries

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Another macro-based solution:

#define Foo class Foo

The statement Foo("hi"); expands to class Foo("hi");, which is ill-formed; but Foo a("hi") expands to class Foo a("hi"), which is correct.

This has the advantage that it is both source- and binary-compatible with existing (correct) code. (This claim is not entirely correct – please see Johannes Schaub’s Comment and ensuing discussion below: “How can you know that it is source compatible with existing code? His friend includes his header and has void f() { int Foo = 0; } which previously compiled fine and now miscompiles! Also, every line that defines a member function of class Foo fails: void class Foo::bar() {}”)

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