On 8 April 2013 11:30, scalpel4k wrote: > On Monday 08 Apr 2013 11:24:16 Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> Access control in C++ does not affect visibility. > Am I reading something else in section 11.2 ??? > [...] If a class is declared to be a base class for another class using the private access specifier, the public and protected members of the base > class are accessible as private members of the derived class. [....] That only talks about accessibility, not visibility.