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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-Sep-1999, Mark Anthony BROWN <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 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 made a similar change there, as you suggested, and changed the log
message to mention these changes.  I've committed this now.
Thanks for the review.

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