Hi I very recently did the C++ online Quiz and was surprised to find that my answer (1) to the following question (below) was incorrect. Is there something I am missing here, or is the answer incorrect. I thought this was the point of Private. "Always inaccessible regardless or derivation access".Apparently (3) in the correct answer! according to the quiz!The private member in derived class ...

abooorah515

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• May 10th, 2010

Cannot be inherited

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• Oct 19th, 2009

You can if the base class provides public or protected methods that modify its private data.  Then derived class can expose this using access specifiers.

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