The difference between private and protected visibility is that child classes can see and use protected
members, but they cannot see private ones. Since a sealed class cannot have children, marking its members
protected is confusingly pointless.
Noncompliant code example
public sealed class MySealedClass
{
protected string name = "Fred"; // Noncompliant
protected void SetName(string name) // Noncompliant
{
// ...
}
}
Compliant solution
public sealed class MySealedClass
{
private string name = "Fred";
public void SetName(string name)
{
// ...
}
}
