Double underscores -- ugly?

[Ben Finney]

Marco Mariani <marco at sferacarta.com> writes:

> 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.

The wrong typeface can make anything awful to read. This is unrelated
to double-underscores.

The solution, therefore, is also unrelated to double-underscores:
choose an appropriate typeface.

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