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- Reduce the amount of detail about library changes that is listed

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NEWS:
	- Reduce the amount of detail about library changes that is listed
	  in the "HIGHLIGHTS" section.
	- In the "DETAILED LISTING" section, list a few library
	  interface changes that had previously not been mentioned, and
	  mention the need to declare solver types using ":- solver type".
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Fergus Henderson
2003-12-09 15:03:00 +00:00
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@@ -26,32 +26,13 @@ Changes to the Mercury compiler:
with `mmc --make'.
Changes to the Mercury standard library:
* We've added a new module, cord, for sequences with O(1) consing and
concatenation.
* Several new functions have been added to the string module, namely
elem/2, unsafe_elem/2, chomp/1, lstrip/1, lstrip/2, rstrip/1, rstrip/2,
strip/1, prefix_length/2, and suffix_length/2.
* We've added two new modules: cord, for sequences with O(1) consing and
concatenation, and array2d, for two-dimensional arrays.
* New procedures have been added to many of the existing standard library
modules. Most notably, these include procedures for creating
directories and symbolic links, for checking file types and file
accessibility, for detecting floating point infinities and NaNs.
* The dir module now handles Microsoft Windows pathnames correctly.
* dir__split_name and dir__basename are now semidet, not det.
* We've added some new predicates and functions to the dir module:
basename_det/1,
expand_braces/1,
is_directory_separator/1,
make_directory/4,
make_single_directory/4,
foldl2/6,
parent_directory/0,
path_name_is_absolute/1,
path_name_is_root_directory/1,
recursive_foldl2/7.
* We've added several new predicates to the io module:
have_symlinks/0,
make_symlink/4,
follow_symlink/4,
check_file_accessibility/5,
file_type/4,
input_stream_foldl2_io_maybe_stop/{6,7},
binary_input_stream_foldl2_io_maybe_stop/{6,7}.
Portability improvements:
* Nothing yet.
@@ -103,8 +84,14 @@ Changes to the Mercury language:
For details, see the "Higher-order impurity" section of the "Impurity"
chapter of the Mercury Language Reference Manual.
* The (undocumented) support for dynamic modes and constraint solving
has changed. Types which may have dynamic modes must now be declared
using ":- solver type" instead of ":- type".
Changes to the Mercury standard library:
* We've added a new library module, `array2d', for two-dimensional arrays.
* We've added a new module, cord, for sequences with O(1) consing and
concatenation. A cord is essentially a tree structure with data stored
in the leaf nodes. Joining two cords together to construct a new cord
@@ -149,10 +136,8 @@ Changes to the Mercury standard library:
elem/2, unsafe_elem/2, chomp/1, lstrip/1, lstrip/2, rstrip/1, rstrip/2,
strip/1, prefix_length/2, and suffix_length/2.
* We've added a new library module, `array2d'.
* We've added some new predicates, list__map2_foldl and list__foldl4,
to list.m.
* We've added some new predicates, list__map2_foldl, list__map_foldl3,
and list__foldl4 to list.m.
* We've added some new predicates, map__common_subset and map__foldl3,
to map.m.
@@ -169,6 +154,10 @@ Changes to the Mercury standard library:
* getopt.m now accepts a `maybe_string_special' option type.
* We've added a predicate, copy_mutvar, to store.m.
* We've added a function, clk_tck, to time.m.
* builtin.m now contains types and insts `unify' and `compare' for use
in defining user-defined equality and comparison predicates.