protected fields

[saneman]

Are protected fields not only relevant when using inheritance?

I am currently changing some code that use inheritance to code that does not
use inheritance and don't see the point in keeping the fields protected.

 

[Jianwei Sun]

Hello saneman,

Are protected fields not only relevant when using inheritance?

I am currently changing some code that use inheritance to code that
does not use inheritance and don't see the point in keeping the fields
protected.

Yes, and you may want to change it to private.