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

[Peter Wang]

On 2008-04-29, Ian MacLarty <maclarty at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> For review by anyone.
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 0.3
> Branches: main
> 
> 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
> ===================================================================
> 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."
> +),

by

> +
> +"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."

by

Peter

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