"*" in variable names

[Simon Josefsson]

There was some clarification of "*" in variable names recently, but
the "Tips" node of the Emacs Lisp Reference manual wasn't updated. Is
the text below really correct?  Doesn't Emacs use a convention of
choosing variable names that begin with "*" sometimes?

   * In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable
     names that begin and end with `*'.  We don't use that convention
     in Emacs Lisp, so please don't use it in your programs.  (Emacs
     uses such names only for special-purpose buffers.)  The users will
     find Emacs more coherent if all libraries use the same conventions.