Doubt on Modifiers

[balajee annamalai]

I know that we cannot declare a class as both abstract and final this is beacuse both modifiers are opposite to each other.But i dont understand why cant we declare a class as private or protected is there any reason behind this?

[Jelle Klap]

You can, in fact, use any visibility modifier when declaring a class, be it package default, private, protected or coderanch.

[Nadeem Khan]

Hey Jelle,
Can you please give an example where we can declare a class as "private".Because it is not allowed with class-declaration statement as far as i know.

[Jelle Klap]

Only in the case of an inner class definition.
I'm afraid my previous statement was lacking nuance.

public class MyPublicClass
{  
  private class MyPrivateInnerClass
  {    
  }
}

[Nadeem Khan]

Ok that explains