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* NEWS updates and typo fixes.

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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This has been done to prevent problems on lesser operating systems
that can't tolerate `*'s in file names. The exported macro continues
to be named `and-let*', of course.
On systems that support it, there is also a compatability module named
On systems that support it, there is also a compatibility module named
(ice-9 and-let*). It will go away in the next release.
** New modules (oop goops) etc.:
@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ Asking for the type of an object
(is-a? v <2D-vector>) --> #t
See further in the GOOPS tutorial available in the guile-doc
distribution in info (goops.info) and texinfo formats.
See further in the GOOPS manual and tutorial in the `doc' directory,
in info (goops.info) and texinfo formats.
** New module (ice-9 rdelim).
@ -117,6 +117,38 @@ http://www.star-lab.com/wright/code.html 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
underlying source of input that reads and returns its input in chunks.
The underlying input source is a Scheme procedure, specified by the
caller, which the port invokes whenever it needs more input.
This is useful when building an input port whose back end is Readline
or a UI element such as the GtkEntry widget.
** Documentation
The reference and tutorial documentation that was previously
distributed separately, as `guile-doc', is now included in the core
Guile distribution. The documentation consists of the following
manuals.
- The Guile Tutorial (guile-tut.texi) contains a tutorial introduction
to using Guile.
- The Guile Reference Manual (guile.texi) contains (or is intended to
contain) reference documentation on all aspects of Guile.
- The GOOPS Manual (goops.texi) contains both tutorial-style and
reference documentation for using GOOPS, Guile's Object Oriented
Programming System.
- The Revised^4 and Revised^5 Reports on the Algorithmic Language
Scheme (r4rs.texi and r5rs.texi).
See the README file in the `doc' directory for more details.
* Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
** Evaluation of "()", the empty list, is now an error.
@ -433,6 +465,7 @@ Set or get the hostname of the machine the current process is running
on.
** New function: mkstemp! tmpl
mkstemp creates a new unique file in the file system and returns a
new buffered port open for reading and writing to the file. TMPL
is a string specifying where the file should be created: it must
@ -442,7 +475,7 @@ of the temporary file.
** New function: open-input-string string
Return an input string port which delivers the characters from
`string'. This procedure, together with `open-input-string' and
`string'. This procedure, together with `open-output-string' and
`get-output-string' implements SRFI-6.
** New function: open-output-string
@ -454,9 +487,11 @@ The data can then be retrieved by `get-output-string'.
Return the contents of an output string port.
** Deprecated: close-all-ports-except. This was intended for closing
ports in a child process after a fork, but it has the undesirable side
effect of flushing buffers. port-for-each is more flexible.
** Deprecated: close-all-ports-except.
This was intended for closing ports in a child process after a fork,
but it has the undesirable side effect of flushing buffers.
port-for-each is more flexible.
** The (ice-9 popen) module now attempts to set up file descriptors in
the child process from the current Scheme ports, instead of using the