[m-rev.] for review: announce term_conversion module

[Julien Fischer]

For review by anyone.

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Announce the term_conversion module.

NEWS:
     Announce the term_conversion module and document the changes
     to the term module that were a result of it.

     Fix spelling in a spot.

Julien.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 73be100..3047291 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ Changes that may break compatibility
    `string.poly_type` should be used directly. This may require an explicit
    import of the `string` module.

+* The predicates and functions in the `term` module that provide conversion
+  from arbitrary types to terms and vice versa have been moved to their own
+  module, `term_conversion`. See the changes to the `term` module below for
+  a list of affected predicates and functions.
+
  * We have removed legacy support for the following systems:

      - IRIX
@@ -298,6 +303,13 @@ Changes to the Mercury standard library
    export operations that make it particularly suitable for representing domains
    in finite domain constraint solvers.

+### New Module: `term_conversion`
+
+* This module provides generic operations for converting arbitrary type to
+  terms and vice versa that were previously provided by the `term` module.
+
+  See the list of changes to the `term` module below.
+
  ### New Module: `thread.barrier`

  * This module provides the `barrier/0` type. This type can be used to control
@@ -798,6 +810,15 @@ Changes to the Mercury standard library
      - `uint_to_decimal_term/2`
      - `uint{8,16,32,64}_to_decimal_term/2`

+* The following predicates and functions have been moved to the
+  `term_conversion` module:
+
+   - `try_term_to_type/[12]`
+   - `term_to_type/2`
+   - `det_term_to_type/[12]`
+   - `type_to_term/[12]`
+   - `univ_to_term/[12]`
+
  ### Changes to the `thread` module

  * The following predicates have been added:
@@ -818,7 +839,7 @@ Changes to the Mercury standard library
      - `impure_init/1`
      - `try_read/4`

-* The following function has been deprecated and will be revoved in a
+* The following function has been deprecated and will be removed in a
    future release:

      - `init/1`