.. Copyright 1988-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is part of the GCC manual. For copying conditions, see the copyright.rst file. .. _gfortran_optional_plus: GFORTRAN_OPTIONAL_PLUS---Print leading + where permitted ******************************************************** If the first letter is :samp:`y`, :samp:`Y` or :samp:`1`, a plus sign is printed where permitted by the Fortran standard. If the first letter is :samp:`n`, :samp:`N` or :samp:`0`, a plus sign is not printed in most cases. Default is not to print plus signs.