Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!inxsvcs!mwg
From: mwg@inxsvcs.UUCP (Phil Blecker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: accessing base class protected members
Message-ID: <116@inxsvcs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 23:35:25 GMT
References: <26619@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
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In article <26619@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) questsion:
> // test use of "protected" members
>
> 	... error: botint is protected
> Is the complaint valid?  If so, why?

I don't know what the official definition of protected is, but I know how it
seems to work. Protected means that only derived classes have access to the
members. That doesn't include friends. Friends only have access to the
private and public members declared in the class the made them friends. Being
a friend doesn't give access to base classes, even when protected is used in
the base class. You have to do that explicitly. Makes sense, and it seems to
be the way it works.
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