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

Well, if you have access to base class, you can declare class B as friend class. But as others explained it: because you can, it does not mean it's good idea. Use protected members, if you want derived classes to be able to access them.