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

Using the pattern

class MyClass {
  private: int a;
  public: void setA(int x) { a = x; }
  public: int getA() const { return a; }
};

seems object-orientated and has the sent of encapsulation.

However as you noticed, you can still directly access the private field and there is nothing gained over just making a public and accessing it directly.

Using getters and setters like this does not really make sense in C++.