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>
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 487d535..914da42 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -672,6 +672,9 @@
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