From b949f74f4b055c1503561e0fdd674ff20f62db05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 10:29:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add a reference to the name mangling description in the tutorial to the index. (GH-10138) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (cherry picked from commit c5eec4426d9144b2255500217d0e3ff9463d2770) Co-authored-by: Andrés Delfino --- Doc/tutorial/classes.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 487d535e169..914da426df3 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -672,6 +672,9 @@ 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