Should I use `!IsGood` or `IsGood == false`?

Question

I keep seeing code that does checks like this

if (IsGood == false)
{
   DoSomething();
}

or this

if (IsGood == true)
{
   D         


        

Answer 1

Some people find the explicit check against a known value to be more readable, as you can infer the variable type by reading. I'm agnostic as to whether one is better that the other. They both work. I find that if the variable inherently holds an "inverse" then I seem to gravitate toward checking against a value:

if(IsGood) DoSomething();

or

if(IsBad == false) DoSomething();

instead of

if(!IsBad) DoSomething();

But again, It doen't matter much to me, and I'm sure it ends up as the same IL.