Private Member Access Java

Question

Is the private member access at the class level or at the object level. If it is at the object level, then the following code should not compile

    class Pr         


        

Answer 1

Just to add to DevSolar's answer, I would expect messWithI to be declared static as such:

public static void messWithI(PrivateMember t) {
  t.i *= 2;

} I had a hard time even reading what it is that you were trying to do without the 'static' hint... And it also makes it easier to answer your original question -- which is that private members are not limited in scope to just the instance in question.