From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 49818 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2018 11:55:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 49468 invoked by uid 89); 23 Mar 2018 11:55:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*c:alternative X-HELO: mail-lf0-f48.google.com Received: from mail-lf0-f48.google.com (HELO mail-lf0-f48.google.com) (209.85.215.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:55:19 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f48.google.com with SMTP id y2-v6so17898831lfc.5 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:55:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Q3NGDLe2H1yeqhBVMZTJXbsKp5v5zkgj7bLKgE9kyvE=; b=JSFMTvxScLKG/PTjjjPwGhejivi0k6M9B4/ozFco9M6+zrFFVZQdpM30J/Qaq76NHq 20Ht9Dbp76TptwvuYDqeT93opzvmD6iTaizf2Ld7CCeg+2eTJcZ/tTMR9W9lLeYbMNhs 851g/tNaY82Oq5yY0fvJIEtgA/ROkEvOuSfe8JqSGnjwiClENtC2JcwvHt8x16CTTdfP IoFJe+mrci7D6QV2yekkwBx6itINARq4cNBWnICEjX9ti3pysbUSmsi9S4iByVsyAPg2 9hDpOw77oLCnm0eLtcCxLxfW+Eh1x4bp4uaZON47E4ZIWbG7UedRlSdVIgolUqK9m1bA uYBw== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7E/3d4s9IC6iOjAsNYmvcMZnYUkU9rzixP7krNIdTfzl08P1WGS FIYZ8V76QELyinWTyLG6QlaDye2pCUwJC06BlWNRug== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELvip+vbPBNeH5sQ2/9qX2o8Pe7vyGTqlgAzsQUeIHt3lB6oCFeTO74dYZC3FR6ziA/BgFRF5+G014fEaSEWxyY= X-Received: by 10.46.73.73 with SMTP id b9mr9873675ljd.129.1521806116579; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:55:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a19:e818:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:55:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Cyril Magnin Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Please improve wording of explanation of a Gfortran extension To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00226.txt.bz2 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 ...". Thanks.