Class Member Access

• The instance variables and methods of a class are called members.

  By default, the members of a class can only be accessed from within the class — they are said to have private access.

• Often, however, outside classes need to access a method, for example, getPrice or getColor.

  For methods to be accessible from outside the class, they need to be declared public.

• Instance variables should almost always be private.

  class ItemInfo { public: double getPrice() { return price; } string getColor() { return color; } private: double price; string color; };