I know that Java doesnt allow a top level class to be private however is there any way that the private classes are allowed apart from top level class?
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2Did you try it? – home Nov 27 '16 at 17:04
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1I tried it for top level class but compiler error as - illegal modifier for the class. – geekNava Nov 27 '16 at 17:09
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1So, other than top-level classes, what kind of classes are there? *(that was a hint question)*. Did you try making any of *them* private? – Andreas Nov 27 '16 at 17:11
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1I just tried inner / nested class ...thanks for responding! – geekNava Nov 27 '16 at 17:12
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You could use nested classes.
Link: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/nested.html
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2Thanks, I have gone through the link and understood that inner / nested class can be private. – geekNava Nov 27 '16 at 17:11
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A class is a user-defined (custom) datatype and you can't declare a class in Java as private, but if you do not want to expose a particular user-defined data type (class) outside of another public class, then you can declare that as a nested/inner class (i.e., as a member of the public class). You can refer here for details.
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