How do I make this C++ object non-copyable?

#include <boost/utility.hpp>
class Foo : boost::noncopyable {...

But as Scott Meyers once said..."It's a fine class, it's just that I find the name a bit un, err non natural", or something like that.

class Foo {
   private:
     Foo();
     Foo( const Foo& ); // non construction-copyable
     Foo& operator=( const Foo& ); // non copyable
   public:
     static Foo* create();
}

If you're using boost, you can also inherit from noncopyable : http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/boost/noncopyable.hpp

EDIT: C++11 version if you have a compiler supporting this feature:

class Foo {
   private:
     Foo();
   public:
     Foo( const Foo& ) = delete; // non construction-copyable
     Foo& operator=( const Foo& ) = delete; // non copyable

     static Foo* create();
}

Note that deleted methods should be public: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#Rc-delete

In C++11, you can explicitly disable the creation of default copy and assignment constructor by placing = delete after the declaration.

From Wikipedia:

struct NonCopyable {
    NonCopyable() = default;
    NonCopyable(const NonCopyable&) = delete;
    NonCopyable & operator=(const NonCopyable&) = delete;
};

The same goes for classes of course.

Make the copy constructor and the assignment operator private as well. Just the declaration is enough, you don't have to provide an implementation.