See section 7.2 Class Member Specifications for the syntax of access-specifier . In particular, it may have more private and protected base classes, as these are not usually of concern to clients. See section 10.3 Specifying Protected and Private Interfaces for a discussion of when you might want to specify such information about an implementation.
Good style recommends explicitly specifying giving the access-specifier for all base classes.
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