For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.