Inner class is regarded as an attribute of the Outer class. Therefore, no matter the Inner class instance variable is private or not, Outer class can access without any problem just like accessing its other private attributes(variables) .
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An inner class is a friend of the class it is defined within. So, yes; an object of type Outer::Inner can access the member variable var of an object of type Outer .8 Kas 2011
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