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public
subject			fact

public	declares public access
	has definition A keyword that indicates that a method, class or variable may be accessed by any object
	is a subtopic of Access Control
	is an instance of access modifier
	is used to declare a public class, public method or public variable
	modifies methods, classes, and variables
access modifier	has purpose to control which other code can have access to a method or variable
	precedes the definition of a method, instance variable or class variable
	see also access mode
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional