Specify the accessibility of entities in a module. (These attributes are also called accessibility attributes.) The PRIVATE and PUBLIC attributes can be specified in a type declaration statement or in a PRIVATE or PUBLIC statement, and take one of the following forms: Type Declaration Statement: type, [att-ls,] PRIVATE [,att-ls] :: ent [,ent]... type, [att-ls,] PUBLIC [,att-ls] :: ent [,ent]... Statement: PRIVATE [[::] ent [,ent]...] PUBLIC [[::] ent [,ent]...] type Is a data type specifier. att-ls Is an optional list of attribute specifiers. ent Is one of the following: A variable name A procedure name A derived type name A named constant A namelist group name In statement form, an entity can also be a generic identifier (a generic name, defined operator, or defined assignment). The PRIVATE and PUBLIC attributes can only appear in the scoping unit of a module. Only one PRIVATE or PUBLIC statement without an entity list is permitted in the scoping unit of a module; it sets the default accessibility of all entities in the module. If no PUBLIC or PRIVATE statements are specified in a module, the default is PUBLIC accessibility. Entities with PUBLIC accessibility can be accessed from outside the module by means of a USE statement. If a derived type is declared PRIVATE in a module, its components are also PRIVATE. The derived type and its components are accessible to any subprograms within the defining module through host association, but they are not accessible from outside the module. If the derived type is declared PUBLIC in a module, but its components are declared PRIVATE, any scoping unit accessing the module though use association (or host association) can access the derived-type definition, but not its components. If a module procedure has a dummy argument or a function result of a type that has PRIVATE accessibility, the module procedure must have PRIVATE accessibility. If the module has a generic identifier, it must also be declared PRIVATE. If a procedure has a generic identifier, the accessibility of the procedure's specific name is independent of the accessibility of its generic identifier. One can be declared PRIVATE and the other PUBLIC. The PRIVATE attribute is compatible with the ALLOCATABLE, DIMENSION, EXTERNAL, INTRINSIC, PARAMETER, POINTER, SAVE, STATIC, TARGET, and VOLATILE attributes. The PUBLIC attribute is compatible with the ALLOCATABLE, DIMENSION, EXTERNAL, INTRINSIC, PARAMETER, POINTER, SAVE, STATIC, TARGET, and VOLATILE attributes. EXAMPLES: The following examples show type declaration statements specifying the PUBLIC and PRIVATE attributes: REAL, PRIVATE :: A, B, C INTEGER, PUBLIC :: LOCAL_SUMS The following is an example of the PUBLIC and PRIVATE statements: MODULE SOME_DATA REAL ALL_B PUBLIC ALL_B TYPE RESTRICTED_DATA REAL LOCAL_C DIMENSION LOCAL_C(50) END TYPE RESTRICTED_DATA PRIVATE RESTRICTED_DATA END MODULE The following derived-type declaration statement indicates that the type is restricted to the module: TYPE, PRIVATE :: DATA ... END TYPE DATA The following example shows a PUBLIC type with PRIVATE components: MODULE MATTER TYPE ELEMENTS PRIVATE INTEGER C, D END TYPE ... END MODULE MATTER In this case, components C and D are private to type ELEMENTS, but type ELEMENTS is not private to MODULE MATTER. Any program unit that uses the module MATTER, can declare variables of type ELEMENTS, and pass as arguments values of type ELEMENTS.