[m-dev.] for review: update NEWS file in preparation for 0.9

[Peter Schachte]

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:54:40PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> +Changes to the Mercury standard library:
> +* Exception handling support is now part of the standard library.
> +* There's a new standard library modules `time' and `gc'.

s/There's a/There are/

> +* We've added function versions of many of the predicates in the

Maybe s/function/functional/

But then there's a danger people will write to ask which ones don't
function :-).

Other than that, it looks good to me.

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