# Which five features should Fortran 202Y implement?

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**Created:** [July 11, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/which-five-features-should-fortran-202y-implement/3977 "2022-07-11T18:45:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 13, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/which-five-features-should-fortran-202y-implement/3977/39 "2022-07-13T15:46:36Z")

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Thank you everybody who commented so far (@paprof welcome to the forum!), keep it coming.

There was a very important discussion here about how to handle implicit typing going forward, which I split into a dedicated thread here (this topic requires a deep discussion):

> [@Implicit typing and backwards compatibility](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/implicit-typing-and-backwards-compatibility/3991):
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> Note 7/13/2022: I split this thread from [Which five features should Fortran 202Y implement?](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/which-five-features-should-fortran-202y-implement/3977). Unfortunately the first comment that started the discussion was deleted, but here is the rest of the discussion starting from the second comment: @kargl you are correct that these behaviors are well documented (including in the standard) and well-known to experienced practitioners of Fortran, but when I teach Fortran to people who don’t know it, these are the very first issues that every single beginne…

So that we can keep this thread to just suggestions to present to the standards committee.

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