private inheritance
Hello
I am having difficulty in getting my head around private inheritance. Can anyone give a simple explanation of what it is and a simple example of when you might need to use it?
Its something to do with the level of access and what that access has been granted to that I don't get...
Help!
Da_fall_guy
When you inherit as "public", everything that was "public" in the base class is "public" in the derived class.
i.e. A public function in the base class can be called from a user program which has declared an instance of the derived class.
When you inherit "private", everything that was "public" in the base class becomes "private" in the derived class.
i.e. A public function in the base class cannot be called from a user program which has declared an instance of the derived class. Internally, the derived class can call the "public" members of the base class.
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Thankyou adrianxw
That has cleared that up for me.
So with private inheritance the derived class can access all data/methods in the base class via methods of its own. Is that right?
Instances of the derived class can then access the methods/data in this mediated way?
Do you know of any examples a beginner might understand?
Thanks again
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So with private inheritance the derived class can access all data/methods in the base class via methods of its own. Is that right?
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Internally, the class can directly access any public members of the base class. Remember that at all times, private members of the base class are not accessible to the derived regardless of the inheritence qualifier.
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