[comp.lang.c++] How are protected fields inherited

daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) (05/13/89)

How are protected fields inherited under 
public and private derivation. I'll use my intuition
and ask the community to correct me if I'm wrong.

Under private derivation I'd expect a protected field to
become private in the derived class. Under public I'd guess
that the protected field would remain protected. Is this
correct?

struct A {
protected:
	int foo;
};

struct B : private A {
private:
	// I'd expect A::foo to be effectively private in a B
};

struct C : public A {
protected:
	// I'd expect A::foo to be effectively protected in a C
};

If there's a difference between how this is currently handled
and how it will be handled under version 2 I'd appreciate knowing
that.

Thanks in advance.

daniel edelson
daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu