File: extend_basic_congs.doc

package info (click to toggle)
hol-light 20120602-1
  • links: PTS, VCS
  • area: main
  • in suites: wheezy
  • size: 23,452 kB
  • sloc: ml: 348,797; cpp: 438; java: 279; makefile: 252; sh: 183; yacc: 108; perl: 78; ansic: 57; sed: 39
file content (44 lines) | stat: -rw-r--r-- 1,291 bytes parent folder | download | duplicates (4)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
\DOC extend_basic_congs

\TYPE {extend_basic_congs : thm list -> unit}

\SYNOPSIS
Extends the set of congruence rules used by the simplifier.

\DESCRIBE
The HOL Light simplifier (as invoked by {SIMP_TAC} etc.) uses congruence rules 
to determine how it uses context when descending through a term. These are 
essentially theorems showing how to decompose one equality to a series of other 
inequalities in context. A call to {extend_basic_congs thl} adds the congruence 
rules in {thl} to the defaults.

\FAILURE
Never fails.

\EXAMPLE
By default, the simplifier uses context {p} when simplifying {q} within an 
implication {p ==> q}. Some users would like the simplifier to do likewise for
a conjunction {p /\ q}, which is not done by default:
{
  # SIMP_CONV[] `x = 1 /\ x < 2`;; 
  val it : thm = |- x = 1 /\ x < 2 <=> x = 1 /\ x < 2
}
\noindent You can make it do so with
{
  # extend_basic_congs
     [TAUT `(p <=> p') ==> (p' ==> (q <=> q')) ==> (p /\ q <=> p' /\ q')`];;
  val it : unit = ()
}
\noindent as you can see:
{
  # SIMP_CONV[] `x = 1 /\ x < 2`;; 
  val it : thm = |- x = 1 /\ x < 2 <=> x = 1 /\ 1 < 2

  # SIMP_CONV[ARITH] `x = 1 /\ x < 2`;;   
  val it : thm = |- x = 1 /\ x < 2 <=> x = 1
}

\SEEALSO
basic_congs, set_basic_congs, SIMP_CONV, SIMP_RULE, SIMP_TAC.

\ENDDOC