Access Specifiers
By now, you are quite familiar with the public
keyword that appears in all of our class examples:
Example
class MyClass { // The class public: // Access specifier // class members goes here };
The public
keyword is an access specifier. Access specifiers define how the members (attributes and methods) of a class can be accessed. In the example above, the members are public
– which means that they can be accessed and modified from outside the code. Continue reading C++ Access Specifiers