tuned interpunctation

strip_abss: always strip abstractions as far as possible, without keeping alternatives (which appear to be redundant anyway, but cause significant slowdown since discrimination nets collapse abstractions);

close/all_assm_tac: finish all subgoals from left to right (cf. Proof.goal_tac a28d83e903ce) -- NB: ALLGOALS/THEN_ALL_NEW operate from right to left;

reverted abbreviations: improved performance via Item_Net.T;

export match_rew -- useful for implementing "procs" for rewrite_term;

tuned comment;

merged

document new additions to HOL/Library

clean up proofs

adapted to general Item_Net;

turned structure NetRules into general Item_Net, which is loaded earlier;

renamed Tactic.taglist/untaglist/orderlist to tag_list/untag_list/order_list (in library.ML);

goal_tac: finish marked assumptions from left to right -- corresponds better with the strategy of etac, with significant performance gains in some situations;

eq_assumption: slightly more efficient by checking (open) result of Logic.assum_problems directly; tuned;

tuned aeconv: test plain aconv before expensive eta_contract;

substantial speedup of assumption and elim-resolution: Logic.assum_problems refrains from eager application of parameters, discriminate via Term.could_unify before invoking full unification (assumes terms in beta-normal form, as do higher term net operations anyway);

refined is_norm_hhf: reject beta-redexes (rules based on term nets or could_unify assume normal form), also potentially faster by avoiding expensive Envir.beta_eta_contract;

provide Simplifier.norm_hhf(_protect) as regular simplifier operation;

method parser: pass proper context;

merged

simplified method setup;

updated generated file;

simplifief 'method_setup' command;

spelling;

export method parser;

adapted 'method_setup' command to Method.setup;

tuned signature;

have remote script interrupted like the other provers

simplified method setup;

export section, sections; tuned signature;

merged

updated NEWS

use goal instead of Proof State

split relevance-filter and writing of problem-files; perform relevance-filtering for only one subgoal; added additional explicit timeout to provers

show certain errors to the user

removed connection check; adapted times

merged

merged

reverted to old version of Set.thy -- strange effects have to be traced first

simplified attribute and method setup;

simplified attribute setup; replaced add_args by add parser;

simplified attribute setup;

updated generated files;

added 'attribute_setup' command;

added setup and attribute_setup -- expect plain parser instead of syntax function; aded add_del parser;

ML_Syntax.make_binding;

added make_binding;

removed obsolete no_base_names naming policy;

merged

merged

coherent binding policy with primitive target operations

moved some generic nonsense to arith_data.ML

tuned ML code

remove legacy ML bindings

simplified method setup;

simplified goal_spec: default to first goal;

eliminated type Args.T; pervasive types 'a parser and 'a context_parser;

added simplified setup; eliminated type Args.T; pervasive types 'a parser and 'a context_parser;

pervasive types 'a parser and 'a context_parser;

unified type Proof.method and pervasive METHOD combinators;