intern-soft, find-face/get-face, and facep for determining faces' definedness

[Miles Bader]

Brian Palmer <bpalmer at gmail.com> writes:
> If find-face in emacs didn't return a face object, it wouldn't be
> doing a very good job of compatibility, now.

What's a "face object" in Emacs?  [Indeed, what's a "face object" in Xemacs?]

How are they different than a face name (other than what `facep' returns
in Xemacs)?

Given that Xemacs has a differing definition of facep requiring one to
use `find-face' instead, would an Emacs version:

   (defun find-face (face) (and (facep face) face))

do the job?

-Miles
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