[gawk-diffs] [SCM] gawk branch, feature/regex-type, updated. gawk-4.1.0-1409-g5603143

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commit 5603143c58035b91f91ee31ab548b9b996156760
Author: Arnold D. Robbins <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue May 12 14:52:43 2015 +0300

    Update NEWS for typed regexp constants and typeof.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 09b6030..aad3e57 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -48,9 +48,18 @@ Changes from 4.1.x to 4.2.0
 11. Gawk now supports retryable I/O via PROCINFO[input-file, "RETRY"]; see
     the manual.
 
-12. The API minor version has been increased to two; the get_file()
+12. The API minor version has been increased to 2; the get_file()
     API provides access to open redirections. Also see the manual.
 
+13. Gawk now supports strongly typed regexp constants. Such constants
+    look like @/.../.  You can assign them to variables, pass them to
+    functions, use them in ~, !~ and the case part of a switch statement.
+    More details are provided in the manual.
+
+14. The new typeof() function can be used to indicate if a variable or
+    array element is an array, regexp, string or number.  The isarray()
+    function is deprecated in favor of typeof().
+
 Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2
 ---------------------------
 

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 NEWS |   11 ++++++++++-
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