Double underscores -- ugly?

[Marco Mariani]

Ben Finney wrote:

>> I realise that double underscores make the language conceptually
>> cleaner in many ways (because fancy syntax and operator overloading
>> are just handled by methods), but they don't *look* nice.
> 
> That's a good thing, in that it draws attention to the names.

Well, double underscore is awful when you have to read code with the 
wrong typeface, possibly printed.