doc-src/TutorialI/Misc/Tree2.thy

tuned;

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theory Tree2 imports Tree begin
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text{*\noindent In Exercise~\ref{ex:Tree} we defined a function
@{term"flatten"} from trees to lists. The straightforward version of
@{term"flatten"} is based on @{text"@"} and is thus, like @{term"rev"},
quadratic. A linear time version of @{term"flatten"} again reqires an extra
argument, the accumulator: *}

consts flatten2 :: "'a tree \<Rightarrow> 'a list \<Rightarrow> 'a list"
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primrec
"flatten2 Tip xs = xs"
"flatten2 (Node l x r) xs = flatten2 l (x#(flatten2 r xs))"
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text{*\noindent Define @{term"flatten2"} and prove
*}
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lemma [simp]: "!xs. flatten2 t xs = flatten t @ xs";
apply(induct_tac t);
by(auto);
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lemma "flatten2 t [] = flatten t";
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by(simp);

end
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