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[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1598,6 +1598,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
     variable.  (found by Rolf Wester)
   * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
     variables.  (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
+  * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
        types got intertwined, has been fixed;
@@ -1610,6 +1611,25 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
     ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
        on malformed property lists;
 
+changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
+  * the old distinction between CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS
+    objects has been removed.  The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is
+    now a CLOS class, and likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF;
+    CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS, CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name
+    CLOS classes.
+  * an interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
+    des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
+    MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
+  * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered a
+    private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
+    interface.
+  * known functions, which cannot be open coded by backend, are
+    considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (reported
+    by Nathan J. Froyd)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
+       list;
+
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
     down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe later, it might impact TRACE. They both