Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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C code primitive), enabling the computations to run in parallel
while the scripting code runs single-threadedly.
-** New module (srfi srfi-26)
+** Support for require-extension, SRFI-55, has been added.
-This is an implementation of SRFI-26.
+The SRFI-55 special form `require-extension' has been added. It is
+available at startup, and provides a portable way to load Scheme
+extensions. SRFI-55 only requires support for one type of extension,
+"srfi"; so a set of SRFIs may be loaded via (require-extension (srfi 1
+13 14)).
+
+** New module (srfi srfi-26) provides support for `cut' and `cute'.
+
+The (srfi srfi-26) module is an implementation of SRFI-26 which
+provides the `cut' and `cute' syntax. These may be used to specialize
+parameters without currying.
** New module (srfi srfi-31)
Migrate according to the following table:
- scm_make_uve -> scm_make_typed_aray, scm_make_u8vector etc.
+ scm_make_uve -> scm_make_typed_array, scm_make_u8vector etc.
scm_make_ra -> scm_make_array
scm_shap2ra -> scm_make_array
scm_cvref -> scm_c_generalized_vector_ref