GHC now handles impredicative polymorphism and there are
changes to the way scoped type variables work; see
<ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-January/009565.html"> Simon's e-mail</ulink>
- for more details.
+ for more details of the change, or <xref linkend="impredicative-polymorphism" /> for the documentation.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<programlisting>
f (x, y) | x `seq` False = undefined
| otherwise = [x,y]</programlisting>
+ See <xref linkend="sec-bang-patterns" /> for more details.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
performance when a lot of memory is taken up by
<literal>STArray</literal>s, <literal>IOArray</literal>s,
<literal>STRef</literal>s or <literal>IORef</literal>s.
+ For more details see
+ <ulink url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/650">trac bug #650</ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
It is now possible, with the <literal>-I</literal> RTS flag,
to control the amount of idle time that happens before a major
- GC is performed.
+ GC is performed. There is more detail in
+ <xref linkend="rts-options-gc" />.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- The <option>-split-objs</option> flag can now be used with
- <option>--make</option>, and hence can be used by cabal.
+ The <option>-split-objs</option> flag, which makes libraries
+ smaller, can now be used with <option>--make</option> and hence
+ can be used by cabal.
+ See <xref linkend="options-linker" /> for more information.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Template Haskell used to have limited support for type signatures in
+ patterns, but since that design is in flux for Haskell (let alone
+ Template Haskell), we've removed type signatures in patterns from
+ Template Haskell.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ GHC now supports postfix operators, as a simple generalisation of
+ left sections (<xref linkend="postfix-operators"/>).
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Parallel arrays, as enabled by <literal>-fparr</literal>, no
+ longer work. They'll be coming back shortly, in full glory.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- Version number 1.1.5 (was 1.1.4).
+ Version number 1.1.6 (was 1.1.4).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Added <filename>cabal-setup</filename>, a user interface to
- building and installing Cabal packages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Added <filename>cabal-install</filename>, an automated
- installer for cabal packages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- There is now a <literal>Network.Hackage</literal> hierarchy
- for code needed by hackage, the package server.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
There are now modules
<literal>Distribution.Simple.<replaceable>compiler</replaceable></literal>
for each of <literal>GHC</literal>, <literal>NHC</literal>,