From f203ecc621c0af594c43c7fce8a765a8259e3b43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Pavel=20Jan=C3=ADk?= Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 19:48:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Shadowing is not enabled by default, update doc accordingly. --- doc/developer-notes.md | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md index fd75ada79f..cf860a1bf2 100644 --- a/doc/developer-notes.md +++ b/doc/developer-notes.md @@ -343,10 +343,9 @@ Strings and formatting Variable names -------------- -The shadowing warning (`-Wshadow`) is enabled by default. It prevents issues rising -from using a different variable with the same name. - -Please name variables so that their names do not shadow variables defined in the source code. +Although the shadowing warning (`-Wshadow`) is not enabled by default (it prevents issues rising +from using a different variable with the same name), +please name variables so that their names do not shadow variables defined in the source code. E.g. in member initializers, prepend `_` to the argument name shadowing the member name: