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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: |