I'm having trouble understanding a bool concept in the book. Below is some code presented in Chapter 8 pg. 458 of Starting Out with C++ From Control Structures Through Objects 8th Edition (the part I'm confused about is in bold):

int searchList(const int list[], int numElems, int value) { int index = 0; // Used as a subscript to search array int position = 1; // To record position of search value bool found = false; // Flag to indicate if the value was found while (index < numElems && !found) { if (list[index] == value) // If the value is found { found = true; // Set the flag position = index; // Record the value's subscript } index++; // Go to the next element } return position; // Return the position, or 1 }

My question is why is the while statement checking if "found" is true instead of false? Wouldn't that mean that the while statment would continue even when found is true?