My opinion on this is that it is too small to matter.
The only use case is, when you have a whole negation of the condition and that is the only branch, it doesn’t allow you to do anything that you can’t already do as it is.
It sacrifices a little bit of syntax consistency and the only thing you get in return is to save 2 parentheses.
Doesn’t look like it could harm, but also doesn’t look like it does much for me either. It’s a big meh.
That the pattern if(!()) occurs often doesn’t convince me as sufficient reason.
My 2c
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Subject: [std-proposals] if !(condition)
I've wrote a proposal that suggests allowing the omission of the outermost parentheses to simplify the conditions in if statements:
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