2001-06-18 Martin Grabmueller <mgrabmue@cs.tu-berlin.de>

[bpt/guile.git] / NEWS

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@@ -161,8 +161,6 @@ ice-9/match.scm for brief description or
 
 for complete documentation.
 
-This module requires SLIB to be installed and available from Guile.
-
 ** New module (ice-9 buffered-input)
 
 This module provides procedures to construct an input port from an
@@ -339,6 +337,13 @@ work on the top level.  The forms `define-public' and
 behave just like `define' and `defmacro', respectively, when they are
 used in a lexical environment.
 
+Also, `export' will no longer silently re-export bindings imported
+from a used module.  It will emit a `deprecation' warning and will
+cease to perform any re-export in the next version.  If you actually
+want to re-export bindings, use the new `re-export' in place of
+`export'.  The new `re-export' will not make copies of variables when
+rexporting them, as `export' did wrongly.
+
 ** The semantics of guardians have changed.
 
 The changes are for the most part compatible.  An important criterion
@@ -647,6 +652,15 @@ return.
 
 * Changes to the C interface
 
+** Types have been renamed from scm_*_t to scm_t_*.
+
+This has been done for POSIX sake.  It reserves identifiers ending
+with "_t".  What a concept.
+
+The old names are still available with status `deprecated'.
+
+** scm_t_bits (former scm_bits_t) is now a unsigned type.
+
 ** Deprecated feature have been removed.
 
 *** Macros removed