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Concepts of Object-oriented Programming 389

This process is called encapsula-

tion. The access of members of

a class can be protected or made

public by using access specifiers.

The member variables are pro-

tected from external access under

private or protected specifiers

whereas variables are public in the

case of public specifiers. So private

members can be accessed within

the class and public members can

be accessed from outside the class.

Objects are used for controlling

the access of member functions

and member variables in object-

oriented programming. The

forthcoming sections discuss the

concepts of object oriented pro-

gramming in detail ...