diff -r c0c93b9434ef -r 1eb364a68c54 doc-src/ZF/ZF.tex --- a/doc-src/ZF/ZF.tex Tue Jan 19 11:46:18 1999 +0100 +++ b/doc-src/ZF/ZF.tex Tue Jan 19 12:56:27 1999 +0100 @@ -1522,13 +1522,18 @@ for example $\texttt{Nil}\not=\texttt{Cons}(a,l)$, and they are injective, for example $\texttt{Cons}(a,l)=\texttt{Cons}(a',l') \bimp a=a' \conj l=l'$. Because the number of freeness is quadratic in the number of constructors, the -datatype package does not prove them, but instead provides several means of -proving them dynamically. For the \texttt{list} datatype, freeness reasoning -can be done in two ways: by simplifying with the theorems -\texttt{list.free_iffs} or by invoking the classical reasoner with -\texttt{list.free_SEs} as safe elimination rules. Occasionally this exposes -the underlying representation of some constructor, which can be rectified -using the command \hbox{\tt fold_tac list.con_defs}. +datatype package does not prove them. Instead, it ensures that simplification +will prove them dynamically: when the simplifier encounters a formula +asserting the equality of two datatype constructors, it performs freeness +reasoning. + +Freeness reasoning can also be done using the classical reasoner, but it is +more complicated. You have to add some safe elimination rules rules to the +claset. For the \texttt{list} datatype, they are called +\texttt{list.free_SEs}. Occasionally this exposes the underlying +representation of some constructor, which can be rectified using the command +\hbox{\tt fold_tac list.con_defs}. + \subsubsection{Structural induction} @@ -1631,8 +1636,7 @@ Most of the theorems about datatypes become part of the default simpset. You never need to see them again because the simplifier applies them -automatically. Add freeness properties (\texttt{free_iffs}) to the simpset -when you want them. Induction or exhaustion are usually invoked by hand, +automatically. Induction or exhaustion are usually invoked by hand, usually via these special-purpose tactics: \begin{ttdescription} \item[\ttindexbold{induct_tac} {\tt"}$x${\tt"} $i$] applies structural @@ -1718,13 +1722,10 @@ {\out ALL x r. Br(x, t2, r) ~= t2 |]} {\out ==> ALL x r. Br(x, Br(a, t1, t2), r) ~= Br(a, t1, t2)} \end{ttbox} -Both subgoals are proved using the simplifier. Tactic -\texttt{asm_full_simp_tac} is used, rewriting the assumptions. -This is because simplification using the freeness properties can unfold the -definition of constructor~\texttt{Br}, so we arrange that all occurrences are -unfolded. +Both subgoals are proved using \texttt{Auto_tac}, which performs the necessary +freeness reasoning. \begin{ttbox} -by (ALLGOALS (asm_full_simp_tac (simpset() addsimps bt.free_iffs))); +by Auto_tac; {\out Level 2} {\out l : bt(A) ==> ALL x r. Br(x, l, r) ~= l} {\out No subgoals!} @@ -1792,10 +1793,10 @@ essentially binary notation, so freeness properties can be proved fast. \begin{ttbox} Goal "C00 ~= C01"; -by (simp_tac (simpset() addsimps enum.free_iffs) 1); +by (Simp_tac 1); \end{ttbox} You need not derive such inequalities explicitly. The simplifier will dispose -of them automatically, given the theorem list \texttt{free_iffs}. +of them automatically. \index{*datatype|)}