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+GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+
+Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
+          Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
+If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug.
+
+This file is about changes in the Emacs "lexbind" branch.
+
+
+* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.1
+
+** New `function vector' type, including function currying
+The `function vector', or `funvec' type extends the old
+byte-compiled-function vector type to have other uses as well, and
+includes existing byte-compiled functions as a special case.  The kind
+of funvec is determined by the first element: a list is a byte-compiled
+function, and a non-nil atom is one of the new extended uses, currently
+`curry' for curried functions.  See the node `Funvec Type' in the Emacs
+Lisp Reference Manual for more information.
+
+*** New function curry allows constructing `curried functions'
+(see the node `Function Currying' in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual).
+
+*** New functions funvec and funvecp allow primitive access to funvecs
+
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
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+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
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+
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+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+
+Local variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[  ]*$"
+end:
+
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