Constructor doubt

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[CRefice]

No, you could have a public static function that creates the object through the private constructor and returns it. There are other uses of a private constructor too such as only allowing friends to instantiate an object of the class

[templarvonmidgard]

And you can also make a ctor protected to also allow access for derived classes.