Re: scroll-down with pixel transition

[Stefan Monnier]

> Stefan, why did you remove that convention from the Emacs Lisp Manual?

As already explained, because such hungarian-style notation doesn't let
you change the variable's type without renaming it.  For -face
and -function variables it's usually not a problem, but in my
experience, it's common for boolean config vars to want to evolve
seamlessly to a new type by adding new meanings to non-nil non-t values.

Furthermore, in my experience using the FOO instead of FOO-flag name
works just as well (`toto-use-zipa' is just as clear as
`toto-use-zipa-flag`, and reads even better in the code).


        Stefan