Re: Usage of private inheritance

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:18:28 -0400
Message-ID:
<e7h0o7$i6f$1@news.datemas.de>
Jim Langston wrote:

"Indraseena" <murali.indra@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1150970571.332962.18140@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...

Hi friends,

    Can anybody answer me where exactly is the private inheritance is
used?
example:

class Base
{

public :

      virtual int hello();
      void fun();
};

class Derieved : private Base
{

 public:

// lets hope some proto types are here

};

what is the usage of making a class inherit under private scope to
another class?


Anything that derived from Derieved would not be able to see Base's
public items.


Correction: making 'Base' private has the same effect as with any other
member of 'Derieved' that is private. Nobody except the *members* of
'Derieved' and its *friends* can access 'Base' part of 'Derieved'.

[Note: It was probably a typo in the original post, and both Jim's
 and my intentions here not to support a wrong spelling of the word
 'derived' but rather to follow the naming of the classes chosen by
 the OP]

V
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