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default vs. public

Posted by john on August 31, 2000 at 11:05 AM

> In many books it is writen that if we donot put public in front of a variable then it is default access . But at the same time it is also written that public access and default access are the same thing . But i donot agree with this . So I want to ask that
> What is the difference between default and public access ?

Basically, DEFAULT means it's accessible only by classes within the same package, where's PUBLIC is accessible by classes inside (same as default), as well as outside the package.