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     2 Isabelle NEWS -- history of user-visible changes
     2 Isabelle NEWS -- history of user-visible changes
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     5 New in Isabelle???? (DATE ????)
     5 New in Isabelle98 (January 1998)
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     8 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
       
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    10 * changed lexical syntax of terms / types: dots made part of long
       
    11 identifiers, e.g. "%x.x" no longer possible, should be "%x. x";
       
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    13 * simpset (and claset) reference variable replaced by functions
       
    14 simpset / simpset_ref;
       
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    16 * no longer supports theory aliases (via merge) and non-trivial
       
    17 implicit merge of thms' signatures;
       
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    19 * most internal names of constants changed due to qualified names;
       
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    21 * changed Pure/Sequence interface (see Pure/seq.ML);
       
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     8 *** General Changes ***
    24 *** General Changes ***
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    10 * hierachically structured name spaces (for consts, types, axms, thms
    26 * hierachically structured name spaces (for consts, types, axms, thms
    11 etc.); new lexical class 'longid' (e.g. Foo.bar.x) may render much of
    27 etc.); new lexical class 'longid' (e.g. Foo.bar.x) may render much of