yes, when writing this as other_bool_variable=!bool_var you make it much better because the code speaks for itself ("other_bool_variable is the opposite of bool

yes, when writing this as other_bool_variable=!bool_var you make it much better because the code speaks for itself ("other_bool_variable is the opposite of bool_variable"). The risk is that you may end with such concise code that nobody understands what it does. I went that dark path with perl 20 years ago, form "oh what a cool language for someone who comes from C" to "let's squeeze that in half a line, and either do no understand what it does, or add three lines of comments to explain". But yes, there is a good middle-groud somewhere