diff: fact tables in NEWS file

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Tue Jul 29 17:08:08 AEST 1997


NEWS:
WORK_IN_PROGRESS:
	Move the mention of `pragma fact_table' from the
	WORK_IN_PROGRESS file to the NEWS file.

cvs diff: Diffing .
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/staff/zs/imp/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.69
diff -u -r1.69 NEWS
--- NEWS	1997/07/28 14:22:22	1.69
+++ NEWS	1997/07/29 07:06:11
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@
   so if you want to take advantage of this, you must explicitly
   enable it as described in README.Linux.
 
+* We have added support for very large tables of facts.
+
+  See the documentation for `pragma fact_table' in the
+  "implementation-dependent pragmas" section of the Mercury
+  language reference manual.
+
 * We have fixed quite a few bugs.
 
   Mode inference now works a little bit better. 
Index: WORK_IN_PROGRESS
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/staff/zs/imp/mercury/WORK_IN_PROGRESS,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 WORK_IN_PROGRESS
--- WORK_IN_PROGRESS	1997/07/28 10:21:47	1.2
+++ WORK_IN_PROGRESS	1997/07/29 07:01:38
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@
 * We now allow programmers to give names to the arguments of constructor
   function symbols.  (Disabled, due to lack of a suitable operator.)
 
-* Support for big tables of facts.
-  (Only supports `string', `int', and `float'.  Not yet documented.)
-
 
 We also have some code that goes at least some part of the way towards
 implementing the features below.   However, for these features, the

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