How is protected inheritance related to private inheritance?
Similarities: both allow overriding virtual[20] functions in the private/protected base class, neither claims the derived is a kind-of its base. Dissimilarities: protected inheritance allows derived classes of derived classes to know about the inheritance relationship. Thus your grand kids are effectively exposed to your implementation details. This has both benefits (it allows subclasses of the protected derived class to exploit the relationship to the protected base class) and costs (the protected derived class can’t change the relationship without potentially breaking further derived classes). Protected inheritance uses the : protected syntax: class Car : protected Engine { public: // …
