~ chicken-core (chicken-5) 525e0f71e7ac8d0a3aca597980a61ca84ba46e47

commit 525e0f71e7ac8d0a3aca597980a61ca84ba46e47
Author:     Peter Bex <peter@more-magic.net>
AuthorDate: Sun May 31 15:59:26 2015 +0200
Commit:     Peter Bex <peter@more-magic.net>
CommitDate: Sun May 31 15:59:26 2015 +0200

    Update NEWS to mention full numeric tower support, and note the pitfall mentioned by John Cowan

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1140763e..3fde30a4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 5.0.0 (preliminary)
 
+- Runtime system
+  - Added support for the full numeric tower, including various new
+    procedures taken from the "numbers" egg.  All calculations will
+    now return exact numbers where possible, so code relying on flonums
+    being returned may need to be changed if rational numbers do not
+    provide the desired performance.
+
 - Compiler
   - Fixed an off by one allocation problem in generated C code for (list ...).