[project @ 1999-02-02 14:14:11 by sof]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / docs / users_guide / 4-02-notes.vsgml

diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/4-02-notes.vsgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/4-02-notes.vsgml
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--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/4-02-notes.vsgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/4-02-notes.vsgml
@@ -4,11 +4,7 @@
 
 <itemize>
 
-<item> Some Haskell 98 changes:
-       <itemize>
-       <item> Lazy name-clash detection.
-       <item> Scoped infix declarations.
-       </itemize>
+<item> Full Haskell 98 language support.
 
 <item> Scoped type variables implemented.
 
@@ -32,4 +28,17 @@ the simplifier.
 
 <item> <tt/OccName/ is a separate module, and is an abstract data type.
  
+<item> A new generational garbage collector: the number of generations
+is variable, using the -G RTS option (see <ref id="rts-options-gc"
+name="RTS options to control the garbage-collector">).  This collector
+is faster and more space-efficient than the two-space collector in 4.01.
+
+<item> Error messages and warnings are now printed out in the order they
+occur in the source code.
+
+<item> <tt/isEmptyMVar/ operation added to the <tt/Concurrent/ library.
+
+<item> Two new functions exported from <tt/ST/ (and <tt/LazyST/):
+<tt/unsafeIOToST/ and <tt/stToIO/.
+
 </itemize>