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  1. Feb 5th, 2005, 06:05 PM #1
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    Public inheritance... Private members?

    Assuming I have two classes, the base containing a private member variable and the other class being derived from base, what is stopping me from accessing that private variable as a member inside of the derived class?

    g++ gives me:

    'int base::variable' is private
    within this context
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    Re: Public inheritance... Private members?

    What is stopping you? The rules of the language

    http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit....html#faq-24.6
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    Re: Public inheritance... Private members?

    OK... makes enough sense, I suppose that private members are really only for the implementation of the actual derived class, so that's where they should be put. Thanks a lot
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    Re: Public inheritance... Private members?

    Use protected instead, that is why it is there.
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