[isabelle-dev] Definite name for case combinator on products [was: NEWS]

[Dmitriy Traytel]

Sounds good to me.

Dmitriy

On 22.09.2015 16:20, Florian Haftmann wrote:
> So, the direction is going towards prod_case.
>
> If this is settled, the consequences are:
> * Abbreviation »uncurry« will disappear again.
> * Abbreviation »split« will disappear finally (using the distribution
> and AFP as indicator whether this is »now« or »later«).
> * Theorem names contain »prod_case« instead of »split«; the latter are
> retained as aliasses, but documentation etc. is updated to prefer the
> first version.
> * There is no way to have something like »curry (uncurry f) = f«
> printed; entering »curry (prod_case f) = f« prints as »curry (λ(x, y). f
> x y) = f« by default.
>
> Any headache with this?
>
> 	Florian
>
> Am 10.09.2015 um 12:19 schrieb Dmitriy Traytel:
>> Hi Florian,
>>
>> while I very much welcome the simplified printing rules and your effort
>> of unifying case_prod/split, I am not sure if adding a third alternative
>> name is the way to go. The situation reminds me of the one depicted in [1].
>>
>> Clearly, case_prod is the "right" name from the perspective of the
>> (co)datatype package.
>>
>> Dmitriy
>>
>> [1] https://xkcd.com/927/
>>
>> On 10.09.2015 12:02, Florian Haftmann wrote:
>>> * Combinator to represent case distinction on products is named
>>> "uncurry", with "split" and "prod_case" retained as input abbreviations.
>>>
>>> Partially applied occurences of "uncurry" with eta-contracted body
>>> terms are not printed with special syntax, to provide a compact
>>> notation and getting rid of a special-case print translation.
>>>
>>> Hence, the "uncurry"-expressions are printed the following way:
>>>
>>> a) fully applied "uncurry f p": explicit case-expression;
>>>
>>> b) partially applied with explicit double lambda abstraction in
>>> the body term "uncurry (%a b. t [a, b])": explicit paired abstraction;
>>>
>>> c) partially applied with eta-contracted body term "uncurry f":
>>> no special syntax, plain "uncurry" combinator.
>>> This aims for maximum readability in a given subterm.
>>> INCOMPATIBILITY.
>>>
>>> This refers to e6b1236f9b3d.
>>>
>>> This schema emerged after some experimentation and seems to be a
>>> convenient compromise. The longer perspective is to overcome the
>>> case_prod/split schism eventually and consolidate theorem names accordingly.
>>>
>>> The next step after this initial cleanup is to tackle the »let (a, b) =
>>> … in …« issue.
>>>
>>> 	Florian
>>>
>>>
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