Private members in Java inheritance

Question

I was told that for a Java subclass it can inherit all members of its superclass. So does this mean even private members? I know it can inherit protected members.

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Answer 1

Though https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-8.html#jls-8.2 shows that Private Members are not inherited. Actually, it is inherited by subclass. When we use debuggers to trace variables, it will show the private members under the label of "inherited", so just try it. there is another post discussing this question, and most of them think not inherited, which misleads many people, including me at first.