Text from a book that I don't understand

[Tony]

Hello!

I'm reading a book called Visual C# 2005 and there one thing here that you
might be able to answer.

public class MyClass
{
// Class member
}
Here is the text that I don't understand what they mean. It says "Note that
classes declared in their own right in this way
cannot be private or protected." what do they mean by that ?

//Tony

[Tony]

Hello!

I was to fast to sent the question.
When I come to think about the question I found the answer myself.

//Tony
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Hello!

I'm reading a book called Visual C# 2005 and there one thing here that you
might be able to answer.

public class MyClass
{
// Class member
}
Here is the text that I don't understand what they mean. It says "Note

that

classes declared in their own right in this way
cannot be private or protected." what do they mean by that ?

//Tony

[Peter Morris]

Maybe you should include the answer in your follow up post, in case there is
someone reading that doesn't know :-)

[cfps.Christian]

My understanding is that you can't declare a class private or
protected because private would mean that nothing could use it outside
of itself and thus it would be a useless class. Protected would say
that this class can only be used by another class that inherits from
it, but if its protected nothing can inherit from it also making it a
useless class.

[Peter Duniho]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:13:36 -0700, cfps.Christian <ge*******@otc.edu>
wrote:

My understanding is that you can't declare a class private or
protected because private would mean that nothing could use it outside
of itself and thus it would be a useless class. Protected would say
that this class can only be used by another class that inherits from
it, but if its protected nothing can inherit from it also making it a
useless class.

But none of that is really true.

Whether it even pertains to Tony's question I don't know...his original
question was vague and lacking the context needed to really understand
what the book was saying.

But nested classes can in fact be protected or private and those access
modifiers in that context can in fact be useful.

Pete