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by slaymaker1907 1888 days ago
I like the use of "not" because it stands out more clearly than "!". "if (not (x and y))" seems more readable to me than "if (! (x && y))".
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I agree, “!” is something easy to miss. I prefer “!=“ mostly for this reason.

I am just surprised I’ve never seen this in any code base before.