Visibility and Access Control

Lecture 4 - Slide 31 : 40

C++ supports the well-known distictions of private, protected and public members

Access control in C++
- Visibility is associated with regions of declarations in the class, not the individual members
- Classes and structs have different default visibility rules
- Access rights to private members can be delegated to other parts of a C++ program by use of friends

C++ is similar to most other object-oriented programming languages with respect handling of visibility

With one notable exception, friends, which will be discussed next