Double underscores -- ugly?

[Steve Holden]

castironpi at gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 19, 10:26 am, Wildemar Wildenburger
> <lasses_w... at klapptsowieso.net> wrote:
>> Jason wrote:
>>> Hmm.  I must be the only person who doesn't think the double
>>> underscores are ugly.
>> Nope. I like them too. :)
>>
>> Frankly, I think it's just a matter of adaption. I too found it rather
>> "ugly" in the beginning, but with anything, I've gotten used to it. (And
>> I wholeheartedly support your "looks like underlined / is unintrusive
>> like whitespace" argument.)
>>
>> /W
> 
> My editor actually renders them as miniature chess pieces.  The
> bartender said she runs a pre-execution step, that searches and
> replaces a double-colon with the underscores.

If you're taking programming advice from a bartender your postings 
suddenly start to make sense (though not, unfortunately, as comments 
about programming). Do you think perhaps yo might be trying just a 
little too hard?

regards
  Steve
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