Glossary: Public

The public keyword in the class statement means that the following members of the class are available to users of the objects of the class, and consequently form part of its public interface. Its part of the craft of a class designer to make public just enough to satisfy its abstraction requirements whilst keeping private i.e. encapsulating its implementation. See also private and protected

See OO Concepts: Private & Public

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