Member-Access Control

With C++, you can specify the level of access to member data and functions. There are three levels of access: public, protected, and private. This chapter explains how access control applies to objects of class type and to derived classes. This chapter includes the following topics:

• Controlling access to class members
  
  
• Access specifiers
  
  
• Access specifiers for base classes
  
  
• Friends
  
  
• Protected member access
  
  
• Access to virtual functions
  
  
• Multiple access