Is it a bad programming practice to have "Public" members inside an "Internal" class?

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Published on 2010-06-09T14:49:11Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 16:32 UTC
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I mean, won;t it be more specific and appropriate if i "only" keep "protected","internal" and "private" members (field,method,property,event) in a class which is declared as "internal" ?

I have seen this practice ( having "public" members in an "internal" class) in various code so just wanted to know is it a bad practice or does it has some benefit or advantage.

[Only concerned about C#] Thanks for your interest.

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