note 44520 rejected from language.oop5.visibility by tomsommer

Note Submitter: seec77@zahav.net.il ---- "[...] Public declared items can be allow access to any caller. Protected limits access access to only classes inherited. Protected limits visiblity only to the class that defines the item." There is a mistake in this paragraph. I believe that in the last sentence ("Protected limits visiblity only to the class that defines the item."), the "Protected" should be replaced by "Private" (or "Privatized"). It makes sense, that private items are only visible in the class that defined them. Another proof of this is the example code: <?php class MyClass { public $public = "MyClass::public!\n"; protected $protected = "MyClass::Protected!\n"; protected $protected2 = "MyClass::Protected2!\n"; private $private = "MyClass::private!\n"; //[...] } class MyClass2 extends MyClass { //[...] } //[...] $obj2 = new MyClass2(); print "Main:: " . $obj2->private; /* Undefined */ //[...] ?> That shows, that the MyClass2's "private" element is undefined, because that variable is visible only to the class that created it, MyClass, although MyClass2 inherits MyClass.