The default access specification of class members is ________________.

Access specifiers are keywords in object-oriented programming languages that set the visibility and accessibility of class members (variables and functions). There are three main access specifiers in most programming languages: 1. Private: Members declared as private are accessible only within the class they are defined. 2. Public: Members declared as public are accessible from any part of the program. 3. Protected: Members declared as protected are accessible within the class they are defined and also by the derived classes (subclasses).

In the context of C++, the default access specification for class members is "private". If no access specifier is mentioned explicitly, the class members are assumed to be private by default. However, in other programming languages like Java, the default access specifier is "package-private" (no keyword needed), which makes class members accessible within the same package. For Python, there's no strict private access, but a single underscore prefix is used by convention to indicate that a member is for internal use (default), and Python uses a name mangling technique for name prefixed with double underscores (to emulate private access). To summarize: - C++: private - Java: package-private - Python: single underscore prefix (for internal use, by convention) For this exercise, the answer is: The default access specification of class members is private.