Subject: bug#26564: Document that only functions and not variables can end with "-p"

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:24:36 +0300

> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> > -p is used in function names.
> > For a variable, it is better to end in -flag.
> 
> `-flag' has been used only, AFAIK, for user options.

User options are variables, and I see no reason not to use it for
variables that are not user options.

If you want to see the text that is now actually in the manual, please
use the cgit interface at savannah.  I suggest to do that before
arguing further about this.