For posterity: some older entries
-<sect1>Release notes for version~3-02---4/97
+<sect1>Release notes for version~3-02---5/97
<label id="release-3-02">
<p>
<label id="release-3-02">
<p>
-<item> CharLike and IntLike closures fixed (should reduce allocation
-slightly).
+<item> After a prolonged rest in the bit bucket, the Specialiser is
+now back on-line again! It has been completely rewritten and the
+implementation is a great deal simpler than the version that came with
+@ghc-0.29@.
+(ToDo: insert summary of capabilities.)
-<item> Pattern binding desugaring improved to eliminate intermediate
-tuples in some cases.
+<item> The addition of a data type or an instance to a module A should
+now mostly avoid the recompilation of modules that import A.
+
+<item> More internal code cleanup and simplifications
+
+<item> @showList@ and @Show@ instances for tuples now uses @","@ as
+element separators rather than @", "@. Changed to make the strings
+generated by
+
+<item> Misc. bugfixes to
-<item> Fixed parsing problem: declaring a record with an infix constructor.
<item> When computing the Makefile dependencies, using either
<tt/ghc -M/ (preferred) or by invoking the <tt/mkdependHS/ script
<item> When computing the Makefile dependencies, using either
<tt/ghc -M/ (preferred) or by invoking the <tt/mkdependHS/ script