Certain Changes We Don't Want to Make

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.