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On 08/25/2010 07:57 AM, Thomas Sewell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">It's interesting that my innocent thread on hypothesis substitution has been hijacked into a discussion about context-aware coding guidelines.</pre>
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Sorry for that. ^^<br>
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<pre wrap="">I'm trying to steer clear of contexts - it would seem more elegant to me if there was a purely tactical solution to this problem.
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Well as you said<br>
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<pre wrap="">There's no truly safe way to delete an equality on a Free variable without inspecting the whole context.
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To answer Andreas' question about blast_hyp_subst_tac:
I made some attempts, but it seemed that making blast_hyp_subst_tac share behaviour or even code with the other versions led to incompatibilities I didn't really understand. The patch I sent keeps blast_hyp_subst_tac strictly in compatibility mode with previous behaviour.</pre>
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Ahh, ok.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I think you've outlined why there was a problem - blast is guessing incorrectly what the tactic will do. Perhaps in the future the Hypsubst ML structure could export its eq_var and triv_asm term inspection functions so blast would have a better idea what it would do (assuming blast can construct accurately what the subgoal passed would be).
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Blast has a different term structure with Skolems replacing
Goal-Parameters etc. In the current architecture<br>
there seems to be no easy way to get a subgoal of the search back as an
isabelle subgoal.<br>
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