what is the use of declaring constructor as private?
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Answer / ranganathkini
By declaring the class constructor as private, other classes
cannot create instances of the class.
This design is usually used in singleton patterns.
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Answer / ranganathkini
By making all the constructors of a class private, you can
also prevent other class from extending the class without
marking the class final.
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Answer / suganya
prevent to access by other class even sub class cant have
permission to create object of that base class.
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Answer / ravikiran
In order to restrict the class to get subclassed
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Answer / anshul
A private constructor is a special instance constructor. It is commonly used in classes that contain static members only. If a class has one or more private constructors and no public constructors, then other classes (except nested classes) are not allowed to create instances of this class.
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