ACCESS SPECIFIERS IN C++

 

Access specifiers in C++

Access specifiers, as the name suggests, specifies the access boundary or scope of a data member or function. In C++, there are three C++ keywords that act as access specifiers, these are:

a)private

b)public

c)protected

By default, the data members and functions are private to the class it is declared in. This means that are accessible only by the members of the class.

The data members and member functions declared public , are accessible by the objects, derived classes, friend class and friend function.

The data and functions declared protected are accessible by the class member functions and derived classes but not by objects or friend function(s) and classes.

  

Access specifiers in C++