Describe negative bit shift counts in NEWS.md (JuliaLang#18188)

mfasi · Sep 5, 2016 · 1dd9f3a · 1dd9f3a
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   * `map` on a dictionary now expects a function that expects and returns a `Pair`.
     The result is now another dictionary instead of an array ([#16622]).
 
+  * Bit shift operations (i.e. `<<`, `>>`, and `>>>`) now handle
+    negative shift counts differently: Negative counts are interpreted
+    as shifts in the opposite direction. For example, `4 >> -1 == 4 <<
+    +1 == 8`. Previously, negative counts would implicitly overflow to
+    large positive counts, always yielding either `0` or `-1`.
+
 Library improvements
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