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access restrictions will be applied. The class will be accessible to other classes in the same package but will be inaccessible to classes outside the package. When we say that a class is inaccessible, it simply means that we cannot create an object of that class or declare a variable of that class type. The protected access specifier too cannot be applied to a class.
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is the default, used if no other access modifier keyword is specified. The meaning of these modifiers may differ from one language to another. A comparison of the keywords, ordered from the most restrictive to the most open, and their meaning in these three languages follows. Their visibility ranges
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When the class is declared as public, it is accessible to other classes defined in the same package as well as those defined in other packages. This is the most commonly used specifier for classes. However, a class itself cannot be declared as private. If no access specifier is stated, the default
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In Swift, there are five different access levels relative to both the source file in which the entity is defined and the module containing that source file.
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from the same class to the package where the class is defined to a general access permission. Below, the maximal access is written into the table.
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has four access modifiers, but three keywords for this purpose. In Java, having no keyword before defaults to the package-private modifier.
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