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Update `NEWS'.

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@ -197,6 +197,26 @@ allows Guile's copy of SSAX to override any Guile-Lib copy the user has
installed. Also it should cut the number of `stat' system calls by half,
in the common case.
** Compile-time warning: -Wunused-toplevel
Guile can warn about potentially unused top-level (global)
variables. Pass the -Wunused-toplevel on the `guile-tools compile'
command line, or add
`#:warnings '(unused-toplevel)' to your `compile' or `compile-file'
invocation.
** New reader options: `square-brackets' and `r6rs-hex-escapes'
The reader supports a new option (changeable via `read-options'),
`square-brackets', which instructs it to interpret square brackets as
parenthesis. This option is on by default.
If this causes problems with your code, make sure to report it to
bug-guile@gnu.org so we can change the default.
When the new `r6rs-hex-escapes' reader option is enabled, the reader
will recognize string escape sequences as defined in R6RS.
** And of course, the usual collection of bugfixes
Interested users should see the ChangeLog for more information.
@ -246,6 +266,15 @@ Running Guile with no arguments drops the user into the new REPL. While
it is self-documenting to an extent, the new REPL has not yet been
documented in the manual. This will be fixed before 2.0.
** New reader options: `square-brackets' and `r6rs-hex-escapes'
The reader supports a new option (changeable via `read-options'),
`square-brackets', which instructs it to interpret square brackets as
parenthesis. This option is on by default.
When the new `r6rs-hex-escapes' reader option is enabled, the reader
will recognize string escape sequences as defined in R6RS.
** Function profiling and tracing at the REPL
The `,profile FORM' REPL meta-command can now be used to statistically
@ -937,7 +966,7 @@ There was an EBCDIC compile flag that altered some of the character
processing. It appeared that full EBCDIC support was never completed
and was unmaintained.
** Compile-time warnings: -Wunbound-variable, -Warity-mismatch.
** Compile-time warnings
Guile can warn about potentially unbound free variables. Pass the
-Wunbound-variable on the `guile-tools compile' command line, or add
@ -948,6 +977,9 @@ Guile can also warn when you pass the wrong number of arguments to a
procedure, with -Warity-mismatch, or `arity-mismatch' in the
`#:warnings' as above.
Other warnings include `-Wunused-variable' and `-Wunused-toplevel', to
warn about unused local or global (top-level) variables.
** A new `memoize-symbol' evaluator trap has been added.
This trap can be used for efficiently implementing a Scheme code