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. |