+8  A: 

If you're asking whether you can make private members visible to derived classes, the answer is no - that's why they are private. Use protected members in the base class if you want derived classes to be able to access them.

casablanca  2010-07-03 01:05:48
thank you very much
Alan  2010-07-03 01:08:20
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greyfade  2010-07-03 02:35:15
+1  A: 

If you could inherit private members, then all you would have to do to access something private would be to inherit items from a parent class.

Bruce  2010-07-03 01:17:59
That's an important part of encapsulation. The same for protected members really - if they're protected, someone just has to inherit to get access to them, so they might as well be public. If you would never write a class with public member variables, why would you write one with protected?
tenpn  2010-07-03 09:26:15

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