trivial diff: add section headers to NEWS
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Mar 18 22:09:27 AEDT 1999
Estimated hours taken: 0.1
NEWS:
Add section headers saying which items are changes
to the language, the library, extras, and the implementation.
Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.137
diff -u -r1.137 NEWS
--- NEWS 1999/03/18 11:01:46 1.137
+++ NEWS 1999/03/18 11:05:43
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
NEWS since Mercury release 0.8:
-------------------------------
+Changes to the Mercury language:
+********************************
+
* We've made a small change to the rule for quantification of lambda
expressions.
@@ -26,10 +29,13 @@
predicate argument and unify it with the compound term in the body of
the lambda expression.
+Changes to the Mercury standard library:
+****************************************
+
* We've added a new predicate to the Mercury standard library:
bag__count_value/3.
- The following predicates have been replaced by functions with
+* The following predicates have been replaced by functions with
the same names, and will be removed in a future release.
The predicate versions were intended for use in programs which needed
to work in both Prolog and Mercury, but executing Mercury programs using
@@ -51,6 +57,9 @@
float__min_exponent/1,
float__max_exponent/1.
+New library packages in the Mercury extras distribution:
+********************************************************
+
* We've added support for optional lazy evaluation.
The extras distribution now includes a new module `lazy',
@@ -64,6 +73,9 @@
The interface is based on the C functions dlopen(), dlsym(), and co.,
which are supported by most modern Unix systems.
See the files in extras/dynamic_linking for details.
+
+Changes to the Mercury implementation:
+**************************************
* The debugger now includes support for interactive queries.
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