Standard ML of New Jersey
                          Version 110.68 NEWS
                           August 13, 2008
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http://smlnj.cs.uchicago.edu/dist/working/110.68/
Summary:
Details:
  - General:
- 
    
      - first batch of changes moving FLINT transforms and
  computations out of front end to translate phase; improves type
  checking and type error messages for val declarations.
      
- added build support for OpenBSD (not tested)
- fixed Int64.fromString to use base-10
 
  
- SML/NJ Library:
- 
    
      - New library to support the reading and writing of JSON files.
- Committed a major overhaul of the RegExp library.  There is now a new
	engine that implements Ken Thompson's RE matching algorithm.  The result
	type of the RE matches has also been simplified by removing an unecessary
	option type.
	
 NOTE: the new RE engine is not complete in that it does not yet support
	end marks.
- Added additional operations to the FormatComb module
 
  
- ml-lpt changes:
- 
    
      - ml-ulex bug fix for corner case
- documentation updates
- bugs in the parsing of specifications were fixed
- changes to be more compatable with MLton
 
  
- Windows:
- 
    
      - implemented timer-based profiling
- completed implementation of SML Basis Library Windows structure.
- added nlffi support (see README for info)
- various fixes to installation process