它与基类的公共成员如何从派生类中公开有关。

Public——>基类的Public成员为Public(通常为默认值) Protected ->基类的公共成员将受到保护 Private ->基类的public成员为Private

As litb points out, public inheritance is traditional inheritance that you'll see in most programming languages. That is it models an "IS-A" relationship. Private inheritance, something AFAIK peculiar to C++, is an "IMPLEMENTED IN TERMS OF" relationship. That is you want to use the public interface in the derived class, but don't want the user of the derived class to have access to that interface. Many argue that in this case you should aggregate the base class, that is instead of having the base class as a private base, make in a member of derived in order to reuse base class's functionality.

我发现了一个简单的答案，所以我想把它贴出来，作为我未来的参考。

它来自http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/115-inheritance-and-access-specifiers/的链接

class Base
{
public:
    int m_nPublic; // can be accessed by anybody
private:
    int m_nPrivate; // can only be accessed by Base member functions (but not derived classes)
protected:
    int m_nProtected; // can be accessed by Base member functions, or derived classes.
};

class Derived: public Base
{
public:
    Derived()
    {
        // Derived's access to Base members is not influenced by the type of inheritance used,
        // so the following is always true:

        m_nPublic = 1; // allowed: can access public base members from derived class
        m_nPrivate = 2; // not allowed: can not access private base members from derived class
        m_nProtected = 3; // allowed: can access protected base members from derived class
    }
};

int main()
{
    Base cBase;
    cBase.m_nPublic = 1; // allowed: can access public members from outside class
    cBase.m_nPrivate = 2; // not allowed: can not access private members from outside class
    cBase.m_nProtected = 3; // not allowed: can not access protected members from outside class
}

1)公共继承:

a.基类的私有成员在派生类中不可访问。

b.基类的受保护成员在派生类中仍然受保护。

c.基类的公共成员在派生类中保持为公共。

因此，其他类可以通过派生类对象使用基类的公共成员。

2)受保护遗产:

a.基类的私有成员在派生类中不可访问。

b.基类的受保护成员在派生类中仍然受保护。

c.基类的公共成员也成为派生类的受保护成员。

因此，其他类不能通过派生类对象使用基类的公共成员;但它们可用于派生的子类。

3)私人继承:

a.基类的私有成员在派生类中不可访问。

b.基类的Protected & public成员变成派生类的private成员。

因此，基类的成员不能被其他类通过派生类对象访问，因为它们在派生类中是私有的。甚至是Derived的子类 类不能访问它们。

私人:

基类的私有成员只能被该基类的成员访问。

公众:

基类的公共成员可以被该基类的成员、其派生类的成员以及基类和派生类之外的成员访问。

保护:

基类的成员可以访问基类的受保护成员，也可以访问其派生类的成员。

简而言之:

私人:基地

Protected:基础+派生

Public: base + derived +任何其他成员

任何继承自您的类的类都可以访问受保护的数据成员。但是，私有数据成员不能。假设我们有以下内容:

class MyClass {
    private:
        int myPrivateMember;    // lol
    protected:
        int myProtectedMember;
};

从扩展到这个类，引用这个。myPrivateMember不能工作。然而,这。myProtectedMember意志。这个值仍然是封装的，所以如果我们有一个myObj类的实例化，那么myObj。myProtectedMember不能工作，所以它的功能类似于私有数据成员。

如果你公开地从另一个类继承，每个人都知道你在继承，任何人都可以通过基类指针多态地使用你。

如果你继承受保护的只有你的孩子类将能够多态地使用你。

如果你私有继承，只有你自己能够执行父类方法。

这基本上象征着其他类所拥有的关于你与父类关系的知识