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    Is the main point of the node still accurate?

	When you specified a variable using the @code{defvar} special
	form, you could distinguish a readily settable variable from
	others by typing an asterisk, @samp{*}, in the first column of its
	documentation string.  ....

The use of the * is not obsolete, but it is vital also to document
proper use of defcustom.