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authorOlly Betts <olly@survex.com>2022-03-07 17:39:22 +1300
committerOlly Betts <olly@survex.com>2022-03-07 17:40:25 +1300
commitf137840aa9adee7adcb323e87dc62878cf213a7c (patch)
tree93642e6286d255df62ff13a358a15a42008eec23
parente5996be10c65fb9df5195d3126ae1e5f3a16a442 (diff)
downloadswig-f137840aa9adee7adcb323e87dc62878cf213a7c.tar.gz
Clarify name used for matching out typemaps
Based on a patch from Dustin J. Mitchell in https://sourceforge.net/p/swig/bugs/915/
-rw-r--r--Doc/Manual/Typemaps.html8
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diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Typemaps.html b/Doc/Manual/Typemaps.html
index 2d6e5d190..92aa6e2db 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Typemaps.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Typemaps.html
@@ -1060,9 +1060,11 @@ The matching rules can be observed in practice by using the debugging options al
<p>
-Typemaps are matched using both a type and a name (typically the name of a argument). For a given
-<tt>TYPE NAME</tt> pair, the following rules are applied, in order, to find a match. The first typemap found
-is used.
+Typemaps are matched using both a type and a name (typically the name of an
+argument, but in the case of <tt>out</tt> typemaps, the name of a function,
+qualified by the class name if it's a class method). For a given <tt>TYPE
+NAME</tt> pair, the following rules are applied, in order, to find a match.
+The first typemap found is used.
</p>
<ul>