for review: update NEWS file
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sun Jan 25 14:13:07 AEDT 1998
On 25-Jan-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 25-Jan-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tyson, can you please review this one?
> >
> > NEWS:
> > Update to reflect recent additions, in particular
> > - primitive 4-port debugger
> > - type classes
> > - `pragma import' and nondet `pragma c_code'
> > - transitive intermodule optimization
> > - various changes to the standard library interface
>
> The change is fine, except I prefer "Mercury User's Guide" to
> "Mercury user's guide".
That was for consistency with the HISTORY file.
But I think I prefer initial capitals too.
So how about I change them all to use initial capitals?
Index: HISTORY
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/HISTORY,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -u -r1.11 HISTORY
--- HISTORY 1997/09/11 07:08:13 1.11
+++ HISTORY 1998/01/25 03:09:57
@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@
trouble with this, we'll be happy to help you.)
We have also added "mostly unique" modes, which provide support
for backtrackable destructive update.
- See the Mercury language reference manual.
+ See the Mercury Language Reference Manual.
* We now provide genuinue arrays with destructive update.
See the library module `uniq_array'. (Warning: this has not had
much testing. The interface is not yet stable.)
* We now support interfacing to C code.
- See the documentation in the Mercury language reference manual.
+ See the documentation in the Mercury Language Reference Manual.
* There is now an `inline' pragma which you can use as a hint to the
compiler to inline a particular predicate.
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
pi = 3.14159265359.
We also support higher-order functions and function lambda expressions.
- See the Mercury language reference manual for details.
+ See the Mercury Language Reference Manual for details.
The support for functions is not quite complete; there is one minor
limitation and one major one. The minor limitation is that the C
@@ -340,8 +340,8 @@
(Thanks to Andreas Kuehlmann.)
* We have made a few changes to the Mercury standard library.
- The changes are listed here, but see the library reference manual for
- details such as documentation on the new predicates.
+ The changes are listed here, but see the Mercury Library Reference Manual
+ for details such as documentation on the new predicates.
- The getopt library is now more flexible. It can handle command
line switches (such as `-O2') that affect the values of many
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
See the documentation for `pragma fact_table' in the
"implementation-dependent pragmas" section of the Mercury
- language reference manual.
+ Language Reference Manual.
* We have fixed quite a few bugs.
@@ -493,8 +493,8 @@
* We have made quite a few changes to the Mercury standard library.
- The changes are listed here, but see the library reference manual for
- details such as documentation on the new predicates.
+ The changes are listed here, but see the Mercury Library Reference Manual
+ for details such as documentation on the new predicates.
- The std_util.m module now contains functions and predicates for
traversing and constructing terms of arbitrary type, and for
--
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WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | of excellence is a lethal habit"
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