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Access Control
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The function compute_access returns one of three values:
`access_public'
means that the field can be accessed by the current lexical scope.
`access_protected'
means that the field cannot be accessed by the current lexical
scope because it is protected.
`access_private'
means that the field cannot be accessed by the current lexical
scope because it is private.
DECL_ACCESS is used for access declarations; alter_access creates a
list of types and accesses for a given decl.
Formerly, DECL_{PUBLIC,PROTECTED,PRIVATE} corresponded to the return
codes of compute_access and were used as a cache for compute_access.
Now they are not used at all.
TREE_PROTECTED and TREE_PRIVATE are used to record the access levels
granted by the containing class. BEWARE: TREE_PUBLIC means something
completely unrelated to access control!