[Carpet] [Carpet-darcs] CarpetLib: Replace "!" by "not"

[Jonathan Thornburg]

> > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Carpet-Repository wrote:
> > > The Carpet repository at ~darcs/carpet received a new patch:
> > > 
> > >   CarpetLib: Replace "!" by "not"
> > > 
> > > This patch was recorded by Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu> at
> > > 2006-09-04 02:02:13.

I asked:
> > I'm curious: why are you making this replacement?

> To try and make Carpet's coding style consistent.

Sorry, perhaps I should have phrased my question more explicitly.
What I mean to ask was/is:  I'm curious, what do you see as the
benefits of using "not" instead of "!" in C++ code?  I've never run
across such a coding-style guideline before...

ciao,

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