On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:37 PM, John Millikin <jmillikin@gmail.com> wrote:

What's new in text-0.9 ? All I see in darcs is a newtype'd param in
the Foreign module.

That is all that's new, but the PVP suggests that this requires a version bump, since it changes an existing interface.

The purpose of the newtype is to make it less likely that one could confuse indices into the Word16 array with a count of Unicode code points.