[m-rev.] diff: NEWS file adjustments

[Julien Fischer]

Branches: main, 10.04

NEWS:
 	Fix an awkwardly worded entry.

 	Group entries concerning the globals field in the I/O state
 	together.

Julien.

Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.524
diff -u -r1.524 NEWS
--- NEWS	10 Jun 2010 07:00:59 -0000	1.524
+++ NEWS	13 Jul 2010 07:38:05 -0000
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@
    the access predicates, io.set_globals/3 and io.get_globals/3 have been
    changed accordingly.

+* We have added io.update_globals/3 which allows for atomic updates to
+  the globals field in the I/O state in the presence of multiple threads.
+
  * We have moved some of the concurrency primitives out of the extras
    distribution and into a new standard library module called `thread',
    and its submodules `thread.channel', `thread.mvar', and `thread.semaphore'.
@@ -177,14 +180,12 @@
  * The following function has been added to the pqueue module
  	pqueue.length/1

-* We have added maybe_is_yes/2 semidet predicate to the maybe module.
+* The following predicate has been added to the maybe module
+	maybe_is_yes/2

  * We have changed the interface of the ops module to make lookups of operators
    more efficient.

-* We have added io.update_globals/3 which allows for atomic updates to
-  the globals field in the I/O state in the presence of multiple threads.
-
  * We have added string.c_pointer_to_string/{1,2} and string.from_c_pointer/1
    to convert c_pointers to a human readable form.


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