Private Member in Derived Class

[Adrian]

Is there any possibility of inheriting a private member from a derived class?

[norman]

The scope resolution operator denoted by :: is used for accessing private variable and members from outside the class. Hope this clarifies your query.

[Sandhya.Kishannag]

Private members can only be accessed by member functions of the same class. Note that this means derived classes can not access private members!

Example:

class Base
{
public:
int m_nPublic;
private:
int m_nPrivate;
protected:
int m_nProtected;
};

Base can access it’s own members without restriction. The public can only access m_nPublic. Derived classes can access m_nPublic and m_nProtected.