Question

I have the following code:

public class PersonInitializer
{
    private Person _person;

    public static Person LoadFromFile(string path)
    {
        PersonInitializer x = new PersonInitializer();

        Person p = x._person; //Why am I accessible?

        return x.LoadFromFile(); //Sure.

    }

    public Person LoadFromFile(string path)
    {

    }
}

Why is _person accessible from x even if it is private? What can I do to “protect” _person?

Answer 1

This is because you are accessing it from a member function.
If you want to prevent access from that particular function, you may want to move that static function to a new class.