CHAPTER 7
Other Class Details
This chapter discusses some of the miscellaneous issues of classes, including constructors, nesting, and overloading rules.
Nested Classes
Sometimes, it is convenient to nest classes within other classes, such as when a helper class is used by only one other class. The accessibility of the nested class follows similar rules to the ones outlined for the interaction of class and member modifiers. As with members, the accessibility modifier on a nested class defines what accessibility the nested class has outside of the nested class. Just as a private field is visible only within a class, a private nested class is visible ...
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