Discuss access specifier. Describe static data members and static member functions with a suitable program.
Access specifiers in C++ are used to control the visibility of class members. There are three types of access specifiers in C++: public, private, and protected. Public members are accessible from anywhere outside the class. Private members are only accessible from within the class itself. Protected members are accessible from within the class itself and its derived classes. Static data members are those members of a class that belong to the class itself rather than to any particular object of the class. A static data member is shared by all objects of the class, and there is only one copy of the member in the program. It is declared using the keyword 'static' and must be initialized outside the class. Static member functions are functions that can be called on the class itself, rather than on an instance of the class. Like static data members, static member functions belong to the class itself rather than to any particular object of the class. They are also declared using the ...