Make all use of __private go through interpolation

serde_derive/src/lib.rs

@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ extern crate proc_macro;
 mod internals;
 
 use proc_macro::TokenStream;
+use proc_macro2::{Ident, Span};
+use quote::{ToTokens, TokenStreamExt as _};
 use syn::parse_macro_input;
 use syn::DeriveInput;
 
@@ -89,6 +91,21 @@ mod pretend;
 mod ser;
 mod this;
 
+#[allow(non_camel_case_types)]
+struct private;
+
+impl private {
+    fn ident(&self) -> Ident {
+        Ident::new("__private", Span::call_site())
+    }
+}
+
+impl ToTokens for private {
+    fn to_tokens(&self, tokens: &mut proc_macro2::TokenStream) {
+        tokens.append(self.ident());
+    }
+}
+
 #[proc_macro_derive(Serialize, attributes(serde))]
 pub fn derive_serialize(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
     let mut input = parse_macro_input!(input as DeriveInput);