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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
GHC now handles impredicative polymorphism and there are
changes to the way scoped type variables work; see
Simon's e-mail
- for more details.
+ for more details of the change, or for the documentation.
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
f (x, y) | x `seq` False = undefined
| otherwise = [x,y]
+ See for more details.
@@ -96,6 +97,8 @@
performance when a lot of memory is taken up by
STArrays, IOArrays,
STRefs or IORefs.
+ For more details see
+ trac bug #650.
@@ -296,7 +299,8 @@
It is now possible, with the -I 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
+ .
@@ -307,8 +311,30 @@
- The flag can now be used with
- , and hence can be used by cabal.
+ The flag, which makes libraries
+ smaller, can now be used with and hence
+ can be used by cabal.
+ See for more information.
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ GHC now supports postfix operators, as a simple generalisation of
+ left sections ().
+
+
+
+
+ Parallel arrays, as enabled by -fparr, no
+ longer work. They'll be coming back shortly, in full glory.
@@ -753,7 +779,7 @@
- Version number 1.1.5 (was 1.1.4).
+ Version number 1.1.6 (was 1.1.4).
@@ -776,24 +802,6 @@
- Added cabal-setup, a user interface to
- building and installing Cabal packages.
-
-
-
-
- Added cabal-install, an automated
- installer for cabal packages.
-
-
-
-
- There is now a Network.Hackage hierarchy
- for code needed by hackage, the package server.
-
-
-
-
There are now modules
Distribution.Simple.compiler
for each of GHC, NHC,