CCing the fortran list. On 23 March 2018 at 11:55, Cyril Magnin <cyrm...@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 ..."