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    On a related note, I find the arguments for defvaralias and defalias more
    confusing than those for define-obsolete-*-alias.

defalias seems clear to me, but defvaralias is unclear.  For
defvaralias, I suggest the names NEW-ALIAS and BASE-VARIABLE.

If using similar names in defalias would make it clearer to some people,
we could change that too--it costs little to change this.