[m-dev.] for review: mention exception handling changes in NEWS

[Mark Anthony BROWN]

Fergus Henderson writes:
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 0.5
> 
> NEWS:
> w3/news/newsdb.inc:
> 	Mention that exception handling is now part of the standard library.
> 
> Workspace: /usr/hg2/fjh/mercury
> Index: NEWS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
> retrieving revision 1.144
> diff -u -r1.144 NEWS
> --- NEWS	1999/07/14 04:28:01	1.144
> +++ NEWS	1999/08/31 05:29:50
> @@ -36,12 +36,24 @@
>    instead.  The compiler still supports the old-style syntax, but
>    we plan to eventually drop this support in some future release.
>  
> -* Terms in the form of x `fun` y are transformed into fun(x, y).  `fun`
> +* We now support a simple form of user-defined infix operators.
> +  
> +  Terms in the form of x `fun` y are transformed into fun(x, y).  `fun`
>    is parsed as an infix operator with the highest possible precedence
>    and left associativity.
>  

Since you are changing this news item here, it might be a good
idea to also change this item in w3/news/newsdb.inc.

I don't see any other problems with the change.

Cheers,
Mark
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