# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1647609478 14400
# Node ID 6661824a987afcc64f9bf4be7238d7f5beab4d39
# Parent  1a4a3ba925c81bba0bd57c8e5b78be906e778395
* NEWS.7.md: Note colon operator changes.

diff -r 1a4a3ba925c8 -r 6661824a987a etc/NEWS.7.md
--- a/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Mar 17 13:40:25 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.7.md	Fri Mar 18 09:17:58 2022 -0400
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
 same number of digits for each value such as
 `[0x00_00_01; 0x00_01_00; 0x01_00_00]`.
 
+- The colon operator now works for integer (int8, int16, ..., uint64)
+and single data types.  However, only double ranges use a
+memory-efficient storage scheme internally.  Other data types are
+stored as ordinary arrays.
+
 - The increment and decrement operators `++` and `--` must "hug" their
 corresponding variables.  In previous versions of Octave, whitespaces
 between these operators and the variable they affect were allowed.  That