placement of implicit none

beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: 27 Jan 2005 08:50:27 -0800

Why does Fortran require the "implicit none" statement to follow any
"use" statements? Could this constraint be removed? I would like to
write

program xx
implicit none
use yy
end program xx

Currently, the 2nd and 3rd lines must be switched to have a legal
program. I want "implicit none" to appear as early as possible in a
code.