Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
Not quite. When a class element is explicitly declared protected it is available to the declaring class and any classes that extend that class.
and all classes in the same package as the declaring class. The
java access modifiers are strongly hierarchical (at least since 1.1, when they dropped "private protected" :roll: ).
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