Best way to “negate” an instanceof

Question

I was thinking if there exists a better/nicer way to negate an instanceof in Java. Actually, I\'m doing something like:

if(!(str instanceof String))         


        

Answer 1

I don't know what you imagine when you say "beautiful", but what about this? I personally think it's worse than the classic form you posted, but somebody might like it...

if (str instanceof String == false) { /* ... */ }