As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
Information wants to be useful.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.