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Certain Changes We Don't Want to Make
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   This section lists changes that people frequently request, but which
we do not make because we think GNU Fortran is better without them.

Backslash in Constants

Why `'\\'' is a constant that

is one, not two, characters long.

Initializing Before Specifying

Why `DATA VAR/1/' can't precede

`COMMON VAR'.

Context-Sensitive Intrinsicness

Why `CALL SQRT' won't work.

Context-Sensitive Constants

Why `9.435784839284958' is a

single-precision constant, and might be interpreted as `9.435785' or similar.

Equivalence Versus Equality

Why `.TRUE. .EQ. .TRUE.' won't work.

Order of Side Effects

Why `J = IFUNC() - IFUNC()' might

not behave as expected.