Public Versus Private

• The assist us with the task of information hiding we can use the keywords public and private

  • public indicates that the definitions in the following section can be “seen’ by the outside of the class
  • private indicates that the definitions in the following section can only be “seen’ from within the class (i.e. by member functions of that class)

• Though you can have as many public and private sections in a class definition as you’d like typically we group all the public members in one section (the first section) and all the private members in another

• By default all members of a class are private

• All of our member variables will be private!

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