0.pre8.9:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1619,10 +1619,19 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
     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.  
+    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 a bug in computing method discriminating functions: it is
+    now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
+    forward-referenced superclasses.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+  * 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