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authorAndrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>2018-11-07 17:59:45 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2018-11-07 17:59:45 (GMT)
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Add a reference to the name mangling description in the tutorial to the index. (GH-10138)
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@@ -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