diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md
index fd75ada79..cf860a1bf 100644
--- a/doc/developer-notes.md
+++ b/doc/developer-notes.md
@@ -343,10 +343,9 @@ Strings and formatting
 Variable names
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-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: