[m-rev.] for review: add 2 news items to web site

[Ian MacLarty]

For review by anyone.

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news/newsdb.inc:
	Add implementation-defined literals and support for currying of
	multi-moded predicates to web site news, with MC plugs.

Index: news/newsdb.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/news/newsdb.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.105
diff -u -r1.105 newsdb.inc
--- news/newsdb.inc	31 Oct 2007 07:15:08 -0000	1.105
+++ news/newsdb.inc	29 Apr 2008 00:15:20 -0000
@@ -22,6 +22,24 @@
 
 $newsdb = array(
 
+"29 April 2008" => array("Currying of multi-moded predicates",
+"We now support currying of multi-moded predicates where the mode to
+use can be determined from the curried arguments.
+For example one can now use expressions such as
+list.foldl(list.foldl(int.plus), [[1, 2], [3, 4]], 0), which were previously
+not supported.
+This feature was added my Mission Critical Australia."
+),
+
+"28 April 2008" => array("Implementation-defined literals",
+"We now support "implementation-defined literals".  These are
+symbolic names that are replaced by context-dependent values at compile time.
+Examples include \$file, which is replaced by a string containing the name
+of the file in which it appears, and \$line which is replaced by an integer
+representing the current line number.
+This feature was added my Mission Critical Australia."
+),
+
 "1 November 2007" => array("Three new papers",
 "We have three new papers available from our 
 <A HREF=\"information/papers.html\">papers page</A>.
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