not operator operator..

[S. Chancellor]

On 2006-04-04 00:06:06 -0700, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> said:

> S. Chancellor wrote:
> 
>> I really really hate the !in, !is syntax.   I think a lot of other 
>> people do too.
> 
> I do too. Hmm, does "!in" even exist ?
> 
>> I propose that the word not, become an operator on operators.  For example:
>> 
>> Foo not is null
>> Foo not in Bar
> 
> But this just looks just as horrible ?
> 
> Back in the day it was suggested that the Foo !== null syntax
> was changed into !(Foo is null), so I guess you can use that ?
> 
> I just gave up and converted it to !Foo... Boolean be damned.
> 
> --anders

I liked the other syntax better.  But this isn't perl, there shouldn't 
aliased operators. IMO.