No, public is an access modifier. Virtual is a keyword as you correctly indicated, though neither refer to any .NET library in particular. They don’t refer to any attributes and it wouldn’t be correct to call them attributes for that matter. Attributes are distinctly different. How does they internally work? Please refer to the links … Read more
In Java if you leave the access specifier off then the member is “package” level. Package level members can be seen by the class that defines the member and other classes in the same package. The difference between that and private are private members may only be seen by the class which defines it. 10 … Read more
The package access is something that allows programmers to use their sloppy programming techniques while writing code within one package, but then they have to reconsider it when making more packages. It is a compromise between good business practices and the ugly reality. Like: write some spaghetti code, if you insist, but please leave the … Read more