Re: Overriding inherited face attributes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 22:33:23 +0100
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> In (info "(elisp) Special Properties") it says this: "The value of the
> [`face'] property can be... A list of faces... Faces occurring earlier
> in the list have higher priority."  And in (info "(elisp) Face
> Attributes") it says: "Attributes from inherited faces are merged into
> the face like an underlying face would be, with higher priority than
> underlying faces."  Whether this implies the above observed behavior is
> not clear to me.

Is it really not clear?  What part(s) make(s) the above text not
clear about the order in which the face attributes are applied?