# HG changeset patch
# User berghofe
# Date 932397700 -7200
# Node ID d103b875ef1d9dc2b1471d182ad69ee74f551684
# Parent  9f755ff43cff17ceab2989b42e0f9399a1f588cb
Datatype package now handles arbitrarily branching datatypes.

diff -r 9f755ff43cff -r d103b875ef1d NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Mon Jul 19 17:08:05 1999 +0200
+++ b/NEWS	Mon Jul 19 17:21:40 1999 +0200
@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@
 temporal levels more uniformly; introduces INCOMPATIBILITIES due to
 changed syntax and (many) tactics;
 
+* HOL/datatype: Now also handles arbitrarily branching datatypes
+  (using function types) such as
+
+  datatype 'a tree = Atom 'a | Branch "nat => 'a tree"
+
 * HOL/typedef: fixed type inference for representing set; type
 arguments now have to occur explicitly on the rhs as type constraints;