In C++ there is no notion of an entire class having an access specifier the way that there is in Java or C#. If a piece of code has visibility of a class, it can reference the name of that class and manipulate it. That said, there are a few restrictions on this. Just because … Read more
Use a single underscore prefix: This is the official Python convention for ‘internal’ symbols; “from module import *” does not import underscore-prefixed objects. Reference to the single underscore convention.
The final keyword has several usages in Java. It corresponds to both the sealed and readonly keywords in C#, depending on the context in which it is used. Classes To prevent subclassing (inheritance from the defined class): Java C# Methods Prevent overriding of a virtual method. Java C# As Joachim Sauer points out, a notable difference between the two languages here is that … Read more
In chapter 3.5 , it illustrates the protected modifier with the following words: More precisely, beyond being accessible within the class itself and to code within the same package, a protected member can also be accessed from a class through object references that are of at least the same type as the class that is, … Read more