Re: naming convention for faces?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Miles Bader wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > I don't think it's redundant: it's useful for searching with `apropos',
> > and, in general, tells volumes about the variable's purpose.
> 
> Well that's the thing -- they aren't variables.

??? Does ELisp have something beyond functions and variables?  If not, 
anything that's not a function is a variable.

> It's like calling all variables `foo-variable'.

I don't think the analogy is accurate: Lisp already knows about the 
difference between functions and variables, so the user can differentiate 
between them by using different commands (apropos-command vs 
apropos-variable, etc.).