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 section explains how access control applies to objects of class type and to derived classes. This section includes the following topics:

• Controlling access to class members

• Access specifiers

• Access specifiers for base classes

• Friend classes and functions

• Access to virtual functions

• Multiple access

See Also

Other Resources

C++ Language Reference