* Re: Please improve wording of explanation of a Gfortran extension
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@ 2018-03-23 12:00 ` Jonathan Wakely
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From: Jonathan Wakely @ 2018-03-23 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cyril Magnin; +Cc: gcc, fortran@gcc.gnu.org List
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On 23 March 2018 at 11:55, Cyril Magnin <cyrmag7@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the page
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Unary-operators.html#Unary-operators,
> we find the following statement:
>
> 6.1.11 Unary operators
>>
>> As an extension, GNU Fortran allows unary plus and unary minus operators
>> to appear as the second operand of binary arithmetic operators without the
>> need for parenthesis.
>>
>> X = Y * -Z
>>
>>
>> The meaning is quite clear, but the wording can be improved. An "operator
> appears as the second operand" ? Perhaps this could say, "...unary plus or
> minus operators to be applied to the second operand of.." or "unary plus or
> minus operators to be prefixed to the second operand of ...".
Or "allows the result of unary plus and unary minus operators to appear ..."
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