From: Martin Grabmüller <mgrabmue@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 18:10:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added section about --use-srfi.
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Added section about --use-srfi.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d5ea8fb4e..b57e4fb41 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -272,6 +272,26 @@ Example:
 (eval '(+ 1 2) m) --> 3
 (eval 'load m) --> ERROR: Unbound variable: load
 
+** New command line option `--use-srfi'
+
+Using this option, SRFI modules can be loaded on startup and be
+available right from the beginning.  This makes programming portable
+Scheme programs easier.
+
+The option `--use-srfi' expects a comma-separated list of numbers,
+each representing a SRFI number to be loaded into the interpreter
+before starting evaluating a script file or the REPL.  Additionally,
+the feature identifier for the loaded SRFIs is recognized by
+`cond-expand' when using this option.
+
+Example:
+$ guile --use-srfi=8,13
+guile> (receive (x z) (values 1 2) (+ 1 2))
+3
+guile> (string-pad "bla" 20)       
+"                 bla"
+
+
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
 ** The empty combination is no longer valid syntax.