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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-11-07 10:30:12 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-11-07 10:30:12 -0800 |
| commit | d06b60fca35dd597a6009c643c90a6601a365932 (patch) | |
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Add a reference to the name mangling description in the tutorial to the index. (GH-10138)
(cherry picked from commit c5eec4426d9144b2255500217d0e3ff9463d2770)
Co-authored-by: Andrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 9935ccb927..b17e150cff 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -620,6 +620,9 @@ be treated as a non-public part of the API (whether it is a function, a method or a data member). It should be considered an implementation detail and subject to change without notice. +.. index:: + pair: name; mangling + Since there is a valid use-case for class-private members (namely to avoid name clashes of names with names defined by subclasses), there is limited support for such a mechanism, called :dfn:`name mangling`. Any identifier of the form |