Access Specifiers

• Specify which members of structures and classes are accessible to clients and which are not
• Members that are declared public are accessible; members declared private are not
• By default, members of a struct are public and members of a class are private

struct EmployeeA         // EmployeeA is a new type
{
  public:                // members are visible
    char firstName[10];  // first name is a char array
    char lastName[12];   // last name is char array
    float salary;        // yearly pay is float
    int years;           // years of service
};

class EmployeeB          // EmployeeB is a new type
{
  private:               // members are not visible
    char firstName[10];  // first name is a char array
    char lastName[12];   // last name is char array
    float salary;        // yearly pay is float
    int years;           // years of service
};