Do you want to lie to your users, or do you just want to use unconventional operators? If the latter, you could consider using something like ruby's `unless`.
(the number of times I've noticed code that does `unless !some_condition`... which is of course just the same thing as `if some_condition`)
(the number of times I've noticed code that does `unless !some_condition`... which is of course just the same thing as `if some_condition`)