- added skeleton implementation of color and clifford classes (don't bother

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 This file records noteworthy changes.
 
+0.8.0 (24 March 2001)
+* Complete revamp of indexed objects. Instead of multiple classes for
+  indexed things and their indices there is now only one "indexed" class
+  and two types of indices: "idx" for simple indices and "varidx" for
+  indices with variance. There are predefined delta, epsilon and metric
+  tensors, and a function simplify_indexed() that performs canonicalization
+  and dummy index summations. Matrix objects can be indexed for doing simple
+  linear algebra.
+* Added an option "expand_indexed" to expand() to perform expansion of
+  indexed objects like (a+b).i -> a.i + b.i
+* Renamed get_indices() to get_free_indices(), which no longer returns
+  dummy indices and checks the consistency of indices in sums.
+* sqrfree() factorization fixed and improved syntactically.
+* subs() works on matrices.
+* Matrices can be constructed from flat list of elements; diagonal matrices
+  can be constructed from list of diagonal elements with diag_matrix().
+* Fixed memory leak in expand().
+* Operator% for objects of class ncmul has gone.  Use operator* now for that
+  case too, which is much more natural.
+
+0.7.3 (28 February 2001)
+* Several bugfixes and minor performance tunings.
+* Added a section to the tutorial about adding new algebraic classes to GiNaC.
+* Closed many in-source documentation gaps.
+
 0.7.2 (17 February 2001)
 * Several bugfixes in power series expansion, one of them critical.