私有成员只能从类内部访问，受保护成员可以在类和派生类中访问。这是面向对象语言中继承的一个特性。

在c++中可以有私有、受保护和公共继承，这将决定哪些派生类可以在继承层次结构中访问。例如，c#只有公共继承。

私有访问修饰符和受保护访问修饰符是相同的，只是基类的受保护成员可以在子(派生)类的基类范围之外被访问。 它也同样适用于继承。 但是使用私有修饰符，基类的成员只能在基类的作用域或代码中访问，它的友函数只能是''''

与私有属性和方法不同，标记为受保护的属性和方法在子类中仍然可见。

除非您不想在可能的子类中使用或提供重写该方法的可能性，否则我会将它们设为private。

Private:可由类成员函数和好友函数或好友类访问。 对于c++类，这是默认的访问说明符。

Protected:可由类成员函数、友元函数或友元类及派生类访问。

您可以根据需要将类成员变量或函数(甚至是typedefs或内部类)保留为私有或受保护。 大多数情况下，保持类成员为私有，并添加get/set函数进行封装。这有助于代码的维护。 一般来说，当你想要保持公共函数模块化或消除重复代码而不是将整个代码写入单个函数时，就会使用私有函数。这有助于代码的维护。

更多细节请参考这个链接。

Private =只能由母类(基类)访问 (只有我父母才能进我父母的卧室)

Protected =母类(基类)和她的子类可以访问 (只有父母可以进父母的卧室，但允许儿子/女儿进父母的卧室)

Public =母类(基类)、子类和其他所有人都可以访问 (只有我父母才能进我父母的卧室，但那是家庭聚会——我的家是我的家)

The protected keyword specifies access to class members in the member-list up to the next access specifier (public or private) or the end of the class definition. Class members declared as protected can be used only by the following: Member functions of the class that originally declared these members. Friends of the class that originally declared these members. Classes derived with public or protected access from the class that originally declared these members. Direct privately derived classes that also have private access to protected members. When preceding the name of a base class, the protected keyword specifies that the public and protected members of the base class are protected members of its derived classes. Protected members are not as private as private members, which are accessible only to members of the class in which they are declared, but they are not as public as public members, which are accessible in any function. Protected members that are also declared as static are accessible to any friend or member function of a derived class. Protected members that are not declared as static are accessible to friends and member functions in a derived class only through a pointer to, reference to, or object of the derived class.

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