guile/guile-core NEWS RELEASE

[Marius Vollmer]

CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    guile
Changes by:     Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> 01/02/04 10:21:38

Modified files:
        guile-core     : NEWS RELEASE 

Log message:
        

CVSWeb URLs:
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/guile/guile-core/NEWS.diff?r1=1.243&r2=1.244
http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/guile/guile-core/RELEASE.diff?r1=1.87&r2=1.88

Patches:
Index: guile/guile-core/NEWS
diff -u guile/guile-core/NEWS:1.243 guile/guile-core/NEWS:1.244
--- guile/guile-core/NEWS:1.243 Thu Jan 25 09:40:49 2001
+++ guile/guile-core/NEWS       Sun Feb  4 10:21:38 2001
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@
 
 * Changes to the distribution
 
+** The module (ice-9 and-let*) has been renamed to (ice-9 and-let-star)
+
+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
+(ice-9 and-let*).  It will go away in the next release.
+   
 ** New modules (oop goops) etc.:
 
   (oop goops)
Index: guile/guile-core/RELEASE
diff -u guile/guile-core/RELEASE:1.87 guile/guile-core/RELEASE:1.88
--- guile/guile-core/RELEASE:1.87       Sat Feb  3 04:26:37 2001
+++ guile/guile-core/RELEASE    Sun Feb  4 10:21:38 2001
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 system should be called Godot: "This is the one you've been waiting
 for."
 
+* Remove compatability module (ice-9 and-let*) eventually (when a
+  major release with the real module (ice-9 and-let-star) has been out
+  long enough, probably release 1.6).
+
 * Deprecate `read-only-string?'.
 
 After signal handling and threading have been fixed: