Chapter Summary

  1. Encapsulation helps reduce the number of visible names
  2. Scope refers to the portions of a program where a name is visible
  3. A variable that hides another variable of the same name in a different scope is said to shadow the hidden name
  4. protected members are accessible to derived classes
  5. A friend is a function or another class that is granted access to all features of a class
  6. A nested class is defined inside another class to limit the nested class' names to the outer class' scope
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