Inheriting private members in C++

Question

suppose a class has private data members but the setters and getters are in public scope. If you inherit from this class, you can still call those setters and getters -- ena

Answer 1

It depends on the inheritance type. If you inherit privately, then the derived class does NOT have access to the Base's private members.

Access                      public     protected    private
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members of the same class      yes           yes        yes
members of derived classes     yes           yes         no
not members                    yes            no         no