preparation for new 'is' operator; breaks bootstrapping again, sorry (use generated C code)

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt
index 5058d1355..d919fc6cd 100755
--- a/web/news.txt
+++ b/web/news.txt
@@ -31,11 +31,16 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility
 - Moved ``strutils.validEmailAddress`` to ``matchers.validEmailAddress``.
 - The pointer dereference operator ``^`` has been removed, so that ``^``
   can now be a user-defined operator.
+- The ``is`` operator is now the ``of`` operator.
+- The ``is`` operator is now used to check type equivalence in generic code.
 
 
 Language Additions
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+- Added new ``is`` and ``of`` operators.
+
+
 Compiler Additions
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