* Please improve wording of explanation of a Gfortran extension
@ 2018-03-23 11:55 Cyril Magnin
2018-03-23 12:00 ` Jonathan Wakely
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From: Cyril Magnin @ 2018-03-23 11:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc
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.
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* Re: Please improve wording of explanation of a Gfortran extension
2018-03-23 11:55 Please improve wording of explanation of a Gfortran extension Cyril Magnin
@ 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
CCing the fortran list.
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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