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> From: Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:59:41 +0200
> 
> It is really easy to invent all kinds of smart stuff to the defface
> spec at the Lisp level.  Comming up with good UI is way harder.

Sorry, I don't understand: what UI?  defface is not a user-level
feature, it's a programmer feature.  Did you mean API, perhaps?

If you do mean the API, I believe Miles was trying to make it better,
more convenient.  The need to repeat the same face attributes over
and over is a PITA, IMHO.