From: sewardj Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:22:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [project @ 2001-04-09 09:22:00 by sewardj] X-Git-Tag: Approximately_9120_patches~2176 X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=5d8b92ea22f8c0a79c86624de2078dd62f6e845f;p=ghc-hetmet.git [project @ 2001-04-09 09:22:00 by sewardj] Mention fundeps. --- diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE index da0cc46..aed31f8 100644 --- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ This should be a stable release. Major changes since 4.08.2 are: Combinations of compiled and interpreted modules may be used. All the GHC libraries are available in interactive mode, as are most of the Glasgow extensions to Haskell 98. Compilation in - interactive mode is fast enough to be useful. + interactive mode (to bytecode) is about three times faster than + compiling to object code. - Batch compilation of multiple modules at once, with automatic dependency chasing. For large programs this can halve compilation @@ -64,10 +65,11 @@ This should be a stable release. Major changes since 4.08.2 are: - Support for the latest Foreign Function Interface (FFI) proposals. Marcin Kowalczyk's hsc2hs tool is included. - - A language extension: parallel list comprehensions. + - Language extensions: parallel list comprehensions and functional + dependencies. - - The usual vast stack of bug fixes. Most reported bugs have been - fixed. + - The usual huge collection of bug fixes. Most reported bugs have + been fixed. For full details see the release notes: diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-00-notes.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-00-notes.sgml index 075fab3..d375b0a 100644 --- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-00-notes.sgml +++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-00-notes.sgml @@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ linkend="parallel-list-comprehensions">. + Functional dependencies are now fully implemented. + + + Profiling: please use {-# SCC ".." #-} rather than _scc_ "...". The latter