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duplicated or it can be used to extend the documentation of an inherited
member.
- The link object can point to a member, a class, a namespace, a group,
- a page, or a file (checked in that order). To copy the
- documentation for a member of a class for instance one can put the
- following in the documentation
+ The link object can point to a member (of a class, file or group),
+ a class, a namespace, a group, a page, or a file (checked in that order).
+ Note that if the object pointed to is a member (function, variable,
+ typedef, etc), the compound (class, file, or group) containing it
+ should also be documented for the copying to work.
+
+ To copy the documentation for a member of a
+ class for instance one can put the following in the documentation
\verbatim
/*! @copydoc MyClass::myfunction()