# HG changeset patch
# User Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
# Date 1124013795 0
# Node ID cef86e3d06aea2b4dbf95051441175a0991a4a10
# Parent  6e5405c790221158f0da40c7037fc23e6ce54671
(Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1, General Lisp changes):
Mention `expt' handling of negative exponent to return float.

diff -r 6e5405c79022 -r cef86e3d06ae etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Sun Aug 14 08:09:51 2005 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sun Aug 14 10:03:15 2005 +0000
@@ -3209,6 +3209,10 @@
 
 ** General Lisp changes:
 
+*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
+The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
+negative, is now a float.  For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
+
 +++
 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.