Re: Private and Protected Inheritance
Marcelo De Brito wrote:
I do not know if it is a standard, but I got surprised when I made a
private inheritance and called, inside the derived class, a public/
protected member function from the base class without any compiler
complain (I got a similar feedback when using protected inheritance).
Is that a standard?
It's not "a" standard, but it is a language feature. The derived class
can access anything public or protected in the base class subobject.
The relationship between the derived class and the base class is not the
same as 'public' inheritance to the "outside observer".
I thought that when it comes to private inheritance, the derived class
could not access any member from the base class, since all of them
would become private too.
No. Anything public and protected in the base class is accessible to
the derived class *regardless* of the type of inheritance. It matters
only to the outside code.
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