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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 23-Nov-1999, Peter Schachte <schachte at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 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/

I went with Zoltan's suggestion of "There's two ...".

> > +* 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 :-).

I think "function" is better here, so I left that unchanged.

Thanks for the feedback.

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