Double underscores -- ugly?

castironpi at gmail.com castironpi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 21:31:01 EST 2008


On Feb 19, 8:20 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> castiro... 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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It's definitely possible.  I've been hacking the code for some time,
and so far, the furthest I've gotten is:

>>> bartender.think()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Bartender' object has no attribute 'think'
>>>

Any ideas?



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