protected inheritance

Question

Why protected and private inheritance are defined and proposed? I understand some cases private inheritance could be used but it is not recommended. How about protected inhe

Answer 1

This is a situation i would use Protected inheritance

Base -> Derived1 -> Derived2

• I dont want Derived1 to be substituted for the Base class
• I want to use functionality in base and also allow the Derived2 to use it without exposing the functionality to client classes