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Double hyphen in Elisp function names

Why do some people use -- in their function names? Here's an example from elfeed-search.el: (defun elfeed-search--header () "Returns the string to be used as the Elfeed header." (if (eql (car elfeed-search--header-cache) (buffer-modified-tick)) …
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