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"Overriding" private methods

 
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While taking a mock exam, I ran into the following question:
Q: Which of the following are true:
One of the options was:
"A private method can not be overriden and made public."
The answer that was given in the exam was that this is a false statement. However, even though it's true that, when overriding methods, you can make them "more public," you can't override a private method, right? If you can't override a private method, you can't override it to make it public, right?
Just a quick addition to this question. If class B extends class A, which contains a private member C, is B considered to inherit B from A even though it doesn't have access to it?
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private methods are not inherited, and thus, cannot be overridden. That does not mean that you can't have a method in the subclass having the same signature than the method in the superclass, but this is not overriding...
See this code:

You can have a method in the subclass having the same signature than a private method in the superclass, but overriding does not apply because the private method is not inherited...
 
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Thanks, Val - that's just what I thought.
 
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