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Expand Up @@ -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
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