Access Specifiers
You learned from the Access Specifiers chapter that there are three specifiers available in C++.
Until now, we have only used public (members of a class are accessible from outside the class) and private (members can only be accessed within the class).
The third specifier, protected , is similar to private , but it can also be accessed in the inherited class:
Example
// Base class class Employee { protected: // Protected access specifier int salary;
};
// Derived class class Programmer: public Employee { public: int bonus; void setSalary(int s) { salary = s;
}
int getSalary() {
return salary;
}
};
int main() {
Programmer myObj;
myObj.setSalary(50000);
myObj.bonus = 15000;
cout << "Salary: " << myObj.getSalary() << "\n";
cout << "Bonus: " << myObj.bonus << "\n";
return 0;
}