Access modifiers

Different types of accessibility

public The type or member can be accessed by any other code. The accessibility level of public members of a type is controlled by the accessibility level of the type itself.
private The type or member can be accessed only by code in the same class or struct.

Caller's location	public	private
Within the class	✔️️	✔️️
Derived class	✔️️	❌
Non-derived class	✔️️	❌

Inheritance

Lua is not an OO language. To simplify the logic and ensure performance, all members regardless of accessibility are inherited by default (unless the static keyword is used).