diff --git a/language/operators.xml b/language/operators.xml
index 4d57ea575f..445995517b 100644
--- a/language/operators.xml
+++ b/language/operators.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.71 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.72 $ -->
  <chapter id="language.operators">
   <title>Operators</title>
   <simpara>
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
    </para>
    <para>
     The following table lists the precedence of operators with the
-    highest-precedence operators listed first.
+    highest-precedence operators listed at the top of the table. Operators
+    on the same line have equal precedence, in which case their
+    associativity decides which order to evaluate them in.
     <table>
      <title>Operator Precedence</title>
      <tgroup cols="2">