doc-src/TutorialI/Misc/fakenat.thy

gensym: slightly more obscure prefix descreases probability of name clash;

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theory fakenat imports Main begin;
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text{*\noindent
The type \tydx{nat} of natural
numbers is predefined to have the constructors \cdx{0} and~\cdx{Suc}.  It  behaves as if it were declared like this:
*}

datatype nat = 0 | Suc nat
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end
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