title: Line continuation with gfortran does not work
body: <p>I'm compiling my gfortran code using Mingw. I struggle to find a way how to continue my formula on the next line of the code. I tried to use continuation character <code>&amp;</code> according to instructions for standard Fortran code but it doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>My code is following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>program test
      implicit none
      real :: a
      a=1.+ &amp;
      2.
      print *,'Gfortran code  ',a 
  end program test
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and when I try to compile it the compiler returns the following statement:</p>
  
  <pre><code>test.f:4.13:
            a=1.+ &amp;
                  1
  Error: Syntax error in expression at (1)
  test.f:5.8:
            2.
             1
  Error: Invalid character in name at (1)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I continue lines?</p>