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Derived Classes and Private members

Posted by Erik Buitenhuis on July 04, 2000 at 11:19 AM

> or am I misunderstanding this point in the first place?

yes!
private data and methods are inherited from the base class.
an instance of a subclass has all methods and data its superclass has (and probably more).

-erik