What are access specifiers? Should I inherit with private, protected or public?

Question

I am confused about the meaning of access modifiers with respect to inheritance. What is the difference between inheritance involving the private, protect

Answer 1

The explanation from Scott Meyers in Effective C++ might help understand when to use them:

Public inheritance should model "is-a relationship," whereas private inheritance should be used for "is-implemented-in-terms-of" - so you don't have to adhere to the interface of the superclass, you're just reusing the implementation.