access private members in inheritance

Question

I have a class A, which have a field val declared as private. I want to declare a class B, that inherit from A and have an access to val. Is there a way to do it on C++?

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Answer 1

Private members of a base class can only be accessed by base member functions (not derived classes). So you have no rights not even a chance to do so :)

class Base

• public: can be accessed by anybody
• private: can only be accessed by only base member functions (not derived classes)
• protected: can be accessed by both base member functions and derived classes