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NEWS;
     1 Isabelle NEWS -- history user-relevant changes
     2 ==============================================
     3 
     4 New in this Isabelle version
     5 ----------------------------
     6 
     7 *** Prover IDE -- Isabelle/Scala/jEdit ***
     8 
     9 * Auxiliary files ('ML_file' etc.) are managed by the Prover IDE.
    10 Open text buffers take precedence over copies within the file-system.
    11 
    12 
    13 *** HOL ***
    14 
    15 * Qualified constant names Wellfounded.acc, Wellfounded.accp.
    16 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    17 
    18 * Fact generalization and consolidation:
    19     neq_one_mod_two, mod_2_not_eq_zero_eq_one_int ~> not_mod_2_eq_0_eq_1
    20 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    21 
    22 * Purely algebraic definition of even.  Fact generalization and consolidation:
    23     nat_even_iff_2_dvd, int_even_iff_2_dvd ~> even_iff_2_dvd
    24     even_zero_(nat|int) ~> even_zero
    25 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    26 
    27 * Abolished neg_numeral.
    28   * Canonical representation for minus one is "- 1".
    29   * Canonical representation for other negative numbers is "- (numeral _)".
    30   * When devising rule sets for number calculation, consider the
    31     following cases: 0, 1, numeral _, - 1, - numeral _.
    32   * Syntax for negative numerals is mere input syntax.
    33 INCOMPATBILITY.
    34 
    35 * Elimination of fact duplicates:
    36     equals_zero_I ~> minus_unique
    37     diff_eq_0_iff_eq ~> right_minus_eq
    38 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    39 
    40 * Fact name consolidation:
    41     diff_def, diff_minus, ab_diff_minus ~> diff_conv_add_uminus
    42     minus_le_self_iff ~> neg_less_eq_nonneg
    43     le_minus_self_iff ~> less_eq_neg_nonpos
    44     neg_less_nonneg ~> neg_less_pos
    45     less_minus_self_iff ~> less_neg_neg [simp]
    46 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    47 
    48 * More simplification rules on unary and binary minus:
    49 add_diff_cancel, add_diff_cancel_left, add_le_same_cancel1,
    50 add_le_same_cancel2, add_less_same_cancel1, add_less_same_cancel2,
    51 add_minus_cancel, diff_add_cancel, le_add_same_cancel1,
    52 le_add_same_cancel2, less_add_same_cancel1, less_add_same_cancel2,
    53 minus_add_cancel, uminus_add_conv_diff.  These correspondingly
    54 have been taken away from fact collections algebra_simps and
    55 field_simps.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
    56 
    57 To restore proofs, the following patterns are helpful:
    58 
    59 a) Arbitrary failing proof not involving "diff_def":
    60 Consider simplification with algebra_simps or field_simps.
    61 
    62 b) Lifting rules from addition to subtraction:
    63 Try with "using <rule for addition> of [… "- _" …]" by simp".
    64 
    65 c) Simplification with "diff_def": just drop "diff_def".
    66 Consider simplification with algebra_simps or field_simps;
    67 or the brute way with
    68 "simp add: diff_conv_add_uminus del: add_uminus_conv_diff".
    69 
    70 * SUP and INF generalized to conditionally_complete_lattice
    71 
    72 * Theory Lubs moved HOL image to HOL-Library. It is replaced by
    73 Conditionally_Complete_Lattices.   INCOMPATIBILITY.
    74 
    75 * Introduce bdd_above and bdd_below in Conditionally_Complete_Lattices, use them
    76 instead of explicitly stating boundedness of sets.
    77 
    78 
    79 *** ML ***
    80 
    81 * Toplevel function "use" refers to raw ML bootstrap environment,
    82 without Isar context nor antiquotations.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
    83 Note that 'ML_file' is the canonical command to load ML files into the
    84 formal context.
    85 
    86 
    87 
    88 New in Isabelle2013-1 (November 2013)
    89 -------------------------------------
    90 
    91 *** General ***
    92 
    93 * Discontinued obsolete 'uses' within theory header.  Note that
    94 commands like 'ML_file' work without separate declaration of file
    95 dependencies.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
    96 
    97 * Discontinued redundant 'use' command, which was superseded by
    98 'ML_file' in Isabelle2013.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
    99 
   100 * Simplified subscripts within identifiers, using plain \<^sub>
   101 instead of the second copy \<^isub> and \<^isup>.  Superscripts are
   102 only for literal tokens within notation; explicit mixfix annotations
   103 for consts or fixed variables may be used as fall-back for unusual
   104 names.  Obsolete \<twosuperior> has been expanded to \<^sup>2 in
   105 Isabelle/HOL.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use "isabelle update_sub_sup" to
   106 standardize symbols as a starting point for further manual cleanup.
   107 The ML reference variable "legacy_isub_isup" may be set as temporary
   108 workaround, to make the prover accept a subset of the old identifier
   109 syntax.
   110 
   111 * Document antiquotations: term style "isub" has been renamed to
   112 "sub".  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   113 
   114 * Uniform management of "quick_and_dirty" as system option (see also
   115 "isabelle options"), configuration option within the context (see also
   116 Config.get in Isabelle/ML), and attribute in Isabelle/Isar.  Minor
   117 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to use more official Isabelle means to access
   118 quick_and_dirty, instead of historical poking into mutable reference.
   119 
   120 * Renamed command 'print_configs' to 'print_options'.  Minor
   121 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   122 
   123 * Proper diagnostic command 'print_state'.  Old 'pr' (with its
   124 implicit change of some global references) is retained for now as
   125 control command, e.g. for ProofGeneral 3.7.x.
   126 
   127 * Discontinued 'print_drafts' command with its old-fashioned PS output
   128 and Unix command-line print spooling.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY: use
   129 'display_drafts' instead and print via the regular document viewer.
   130 
   131 * Updated and extended "isar-ref" and "implementation" manual,
   132 eliminated old "ref" manual.
   133 
   134 
   135 *** Prover IDE -- Isabelle/Scala/jEdit ***
   136 
   137 * New manual "jedit" for Isabelle/jEdit, see isabelle doc or
   138 Documentation panel.
   139 
   140 * Dockable window "Documentation" provides access to Isabelle
   141 documentation.
   142 
   143 * Dockable window "Find" provides query operations for formal entities
   144 (GUI front-end to 'find_theorems' command).
   145 
   146 * Dockable window "Sledgehammer" manages asynchronous / parallel
   147 sledgehammer runs over existing document sources, independently of
   148 normal editing and checking process.
   149 
   150 * Dockable window "Timing" provides an overview of relevant command
   151 timing information, depending on option jedit_timing_threshold.  The
   152 same timing information is shown in the extended tooltip of the
   153 command keyword, when hovering the mouse over it while the CONTROL or
   154 COMMAND modifier is pressed.
   155 
   156 * Improved dockable window "Theories": Continuous checking of proof
   157 document (visible and required parts) may be controlled explicitly,
   158 using check box or shortcut "C+e ENTER".  Individual theory nodes may
   159 be marked explicitly as required and checked in full, using check box
   160 or shortcut "C+e SPACE".
   161 
   162 * Improved completion mechanism, which is now managed by the
   163 Isabelle/jEdit plugin instead of SideKick.  Refined table of Isabelle
   164 symbol abbreviations (see $ISABELLE_HOME/etc/symbols).
   165 
   166 * Standard jEdit keyboard shortcut C+b complete-word is remapped to
   167 isabelle.complete for explicit completion in Isabelle sources.
   168 INCOMPATIBILITY wrt. jEdit defaults, may have to invent new shortcuts
   169 to resolve conflict.
   170 
   171 * Improved support of various "minor modes" for Isabelle NEWS,
   172 options, session ROOT etc., with completion and SideKick tree view.
   173 
   174 * Strictly monotonic document update, without premature cancellation of
   175 running transactions that are still needed: avoid reset/restart of
   176 such command executions while editing.
   177 
   178 * Support for asynchronous print functions, as overlay to existing
   179 document content.
   180 
   181 * Support for automatic tools in HOL, which try to prove or disprove
   182 toplevel theorem statements.
   183 
   184 * Action isabelle.reset-font-size resets main text area font size
   185 according to Isabelle/Scala plugin option "jedit_font_reset_size" (see
   186 also "Plugin Options / Isabelle / General").  It can be bound to some
   187 keyboard shortcut by the user (e.g. C+0 and/or C+NUMPAD0).
   188 
   189 * File specifications in jEdit (e.g. file browser) may refer to
   190 $ISABELLE_HOME and $ISABELLE_HOME_USER on all platforms.  Discontinued
   191 obsolete $ISABELLE_HOME_WINDOWS variable.
   192 
   193 * Improved support for Linux look-and-feel "GTK+", see also "Utilities
   194 / Global Options / Appearance".
   195 
   196 * Improved support of native Mac OS X functionality via "MacOSX"
   197 plugin, which is now enabled by default.
   198 
   199 
   200 *** Pure ***
   201 
   202 * Commands 'interpretation' and 'sublocale' are now target-sensitive.
   203 In particular, 'interpretation' allows for non-persistent
   204 interpretation within "context ... begin ... end" blocks offering a
   205 light-weight alternative to 'sublocale'.  See "isar-ref" manual for
   206 details.
   207 
   208 * Improved locales diagnostic command 'print_dependencies'.
   209 
   210 * Discontinued obsolete 'axioms' command, which has been marked as
   211 legacy since Isabelle2009-2.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use 'axiomatization'
   212 instead, while observing its uniform scope for polymorphism.
   213 
   214 * Discontinued empty name bindings in 'axiomatization'.
   215 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   216 
   217 * System option "proofs" has been discontinued.  Instead the global
   218 state of Proofterm.proofs is persistently compiled into logic images
   219 as required, notably HOL-Proofs.  Users no longer need to change
   220 Proofterm.proofs dynamically.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   221 
   222 * Syntax translation functions (print_translation etc.) always depend
   223 on Proof.context.  Discontinued former "(advanced)" option -- this is
   224 now the default.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   225 
   226 * Former global reference trace_unify_fail is now available as
   227 configuration option "unify_trace_failure" (global context only).
   228 
   229 * SELECT_GOAL now retains the syntactic context of the overall goal
   230 state (schematic variables etc.).  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY in rare
   231 situations.
   232 
   233 
   234 *** HOL ***
   235 
   236 * Stronger precedence of syntax for big intersection and union on
   237 sets, in accordance with corresponding lattice operations.
   238 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   239 
   240 * Notation "{p:A. P}" now allows tuple patterns as well.
   241 
   242 * Nested case expressions are now translated in a separate check phase
   243 rather than during parsing. The data for case combinators is separated
   244 from the datatype package. The declaration attribute
   245 "case_translation" can be used to register new case combinators:
   246 
   247   declare [[case_translation case_combinator constructor1 ... constructorN]]
   248 
   249 * Code generator:
   250   - 'code_printing' unifies 'code_const' / 'code_type' / 'code_class' /
   251     'code_instance'.
   252   - 'code_identifier' declares name hints for arbitrary identifiers in
   253     generated code, subsuming 'code_modulename'.
   254 
   255 See the isar-ref manual for syntax diagrams, and the HOL theories for
   256 examples.
   257 
   258 * Attibute 'code': 'code' now declares concrete and abstract code
   259 equations uniformly.  Use explicit 'code equation' and 'code abstract'
   260 to distinguish both when desired.
   261 
   262 * Discontinued theories Code_Integer and Efficient_Nat by a more
   263 fine-grain stack of theories Code_Target_Int, Code_Binary_Nat,
   264 Code_Target_Nat and Code_Target_Numeral.  See the tutorial on code
   265 generation for details.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   266 
   267 * Numeric types are mapped by default to target language numerals:
   268 natural (replaces former code_numeral) and integer (replaces former
   269 code_int).  Conversions are available as integer_of_natural /
   270 natural_of_integer / integer_of_nat / nat_of_integer (in HOL) and
   271 Code_Numeral.integer_of_natural / Code_Numeral.natural_of_integer (in
   272 ML).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   273 
   274 * Function package: For mutually recursive functions f and g, separate
   275 cases rules f.cases and g.cases are generated instead of unusable
   276 f_g.cases which exposed internal sum types. Potential INCOMPATIBILITY,
   277 in the case that the unusable rule was used nevertheless.
   278 
   279 * Function package: For each function f, new rules f.elims are
   280 generated, which eliminate equalities of the form "f x = t".
   281 
   282 * New command 'fun_cases' derives ad-hoc elimination rules for
   283 function equations as simplified instances of f.elims, analogous to
   284 inductive_cases.  See ~~/src/HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy for some examples.
   285 
   286 * Lifting:
   287   - parametrized correspondence relations are now supported:
   288     + parametricity theorems for the raw term can be specified in
   289       the command lift_definition, which allow us to generate stronger
   290       transfer rules
   291     + setup_lifting generates stronger transfer rules if parametric
   292       correspondence relation can be generated
   293     + various new properties of the relator must be specified to support
   294       parametricity
   295     + parametricity theorem for the Quotient relation can be specified
   296   - setup_lifting generates domain rules for the Transfer package
   297   - stronger reflexivity prover of respectfulness theorems for type
   298     copies
   299   - ===> and --> are now local. The symbols can be introduced
   300     by interpreting the locale lifting_syntax (typically in an
   301     anonymous context)
   302   - Lifting/Transfer relevant parts of Library/Quotient_* are now in
   303     Main. Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
   304   - new commands for restoring and deleting Lifting/Transfer context:
   305     lifting_forget, lifting_update
   306   - the command print_quotmaps was renamed to print_quot_maps.
   307     INCOMPATIBILITY
   308 
   309 * Transfer:
   310   - better support for domains in Transfer: replace Domainp T
   311     by the actual invariant in a transferred goal
   312   - transfer rules can have as assumptions other transfer rules
   313   - Experimental support for transferring from the raw level to the
   314     abstract level: Transfer.transferred attribute
   315   - Attribute version of the transfer method: untransferred attribute
   316 
   317 * Reification and reflection:
   318   - Reification is now directly available in HOL-Main in structure
   319     "Reification".
   320   - Reflection now handles multiple lists with variables also.
   321   - The whole reflection stack has been decomposed into conversions.
   322 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   323 
   324 * Revised devices for recursive definitions over finite sets:
   325   - Only one fundamental fold combinator on finite set remains:
   326     Finite_Set.fold :: ('a => 'b => 'b) => 'b => 'a set => 'b
   327     This is now identity on infinite sets.
   328   - Locales ("mini packages") for fundamental definitions with
   329     Finite_Set.fold: folding, folding_idem.
   330   - Locales comm_monoid_set, semilattice_order_set and
   331     semilattice_neutr_order_set for big operators on sets.
   332     See theory Big_Operators for canonical examples.
   333     Note that foundational constants comm_monoid_set.F and
   334     semilattice_set.F correspond to former combinators fold_image
   335     and fold1 respectively.  These are now gone.  You may use
   336     those foundational constants as substitutes, but it is
   337     preferable to interpret the above locales accordingly.
   338   - Dropped class ab_semigroup_idem_mult (special case of lattice,
   339     no longer needed in connection with Finite_Set.fold etc.)
   340   - Fact renames:
   341       card.union_inter ~> card_Un_Int [symmetric]
   342       card.union_disjoint ~> card_Un_disjoint
   343 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   344 
   345 * Locale hierarchy for abstract orderings and (semi)lattices.
   346 
   347 * Complete_Partial_Order.admissible is defined outside the type class
   348 ccpo, but with mandatory prefix ccpo. Admissibility theorems lose the
   349 class predicate assumption or sort constraint when possible.
   350 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   351 
   352 * Introduce type class "conditionally_complete_lattice": Like a
   353 complete lattice but does not assume the existence of the top and
   354 bottom elements.  Allows to generalize some lemmas about reals and
   355 extended reals.  Removed SupInf and replaced it by the instantiation
   356 of conditionally_complete_lattice for real. Renamed lemmas about
   357 conditionally-complete lattice from Sup_... to cSup_... and from
   358 Inf_...  to cInf_... to avoid hidding of similar complete lattice
   359 lemmas.
   360 
   361 * Introduce type class linear_continuum as combination of
   362 conditionally-complete lattices and inner dense linorders which have
   363 more than one element.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   364 
   365 * Introduced type classes order_top and order_bot. The old classes top
   366 and bot only contain the syntax without assumptions.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
   367 Rename bot -> order_bot, top -> order_top
   368 
   369 * Introduce type classes "no_top" and "no_bot" for orderings without
   370 top and bottom elements.
   371 
   372 * Split dense_linorder into inner_dense_order and no_top, no_bot.
   373 
   374 * Complex_Main: Unify and move various concepts from
   375 HOL-Multivariate_Analysis to HOL-Complex_Main.
   376 
   377  - Introduce type class (lin)order_topology and
   378    linear_continuum_topology.  Allows to generalize theorems about
   379    limits and order.  Instances are reals and extended reals.
   380 
   381  - continuous and continuos_on from Multivariate_Analysis:
   382    "continuous" is the continuity of a function at a filter.  "isCont"
   383    is now an abbrevitation: "isCont x f == continuous (at _) f".
   384 
   385    Generalized continuity lemmas from isCont to continuous on an
   386    arbitrary filter.
   387 
   388  - compact from Multivariate_Analysis. Use Bolzano's lemma to prove
   389    compactness of closed intervals on reals. Continuous functions
   390    attain infimum and supremum on compact sets. The inverse of a
   391    continuous function is continuous, when the function is continuous
   392    on a compact set.
   393 
   394  - connected from Multivariate_Analysis. Use it to prove the
   395    intermediate value theorem. Show connectedness of intervals on
   396    linear_continuum_topology).
   397 
   398  - first_countable_topology from Multivariate_Analysis. Is used to
   399    show equivalence of properties on the neighbourhood filter of x and
   400    on all sequences converging to x.
   401 
   402  - FDERIV: Definition of has_derivative moved to Deriv.thy. Moved
   403    theorems from Library/FDERIV.thy to Deriv.thy and base the
   404    definition of DERIV on FDERIV. Add variants of DERIV and FDERIV
   405    which are restricted to sets, i.e. to represent derivatives from
   406    left or right.
   407 
   408  - Removed the within-filter. It is replaced by the principal filter:
   409 
   410      F within X = inf F (principal X)
   411 
   412  - Introduce "at x within U" as a single constant, "at x" is now an
   413    abbreviation for "at x within UNIV"
   414 
   415  - Introduce named theorem collections tendsto_intros,
   416    continuous_intros, continuous_on_intros and FDERIV_intros. Theorems
   417    in tendsto_intros (or FDERIV_intros) are also available as
   418    tendsto_eq_intros (or FDERIV_eq_intros) where the right-hand side
   419    is replaced by a congruence rule. This allows to apply them as
   420    intro rules and then proving equivalence by the simplifier.
   421 
   422  - Restructured theories in HOL-Complex_Main:
   423 
   424    + Moved RealDef and RComplete into Real
   425 
   426    + Introduced Topological_Spaces and moved theorems about
   427      topological spaces, filters, limits and continuity to it
   428 
   429    + Renamed RealVector to Real_Vector_Spaces
   430 
   431    + Split Lim, SEQ, Series into Topological_Spaces,
   432      Real_Vector_Spaces, and Limits
   433 
   434    + Moved Ln and Log to Transcendental
   435 
   436    + Moved theorems about continuity from Deriv to Topological_Spaces
   437 
   438  - Remove various auxiliary lemmas.
   439 
   440 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   441 
   442 * Nitpick:
   443   - Added option "spy"
   444   - Reduce incidence of "too high arity" errors
   445 
   446 * Sledgehammer:
   447   - Renamed option:
   448       isar_shrink ~> isar_compress
   449     INCOMPATIBILITY.
   450   - Added options "isar_try0", "spy"
   451   - Better support for "isar_proofs"
   452   - MaSh has been fined-tuned and now runs as a local server
   453 
   454 * Improved support for ad hoc overloading of constants (see also
   455 isar-ref manual and ~~/src/HOL/ex/Adhoc_Overloading_Examples.thy).
   456 
   457 * Library/Polynomial.thy:
   458   - Use lifting for primitive definitions.
   459   - Explicit conversions from and to lists of coefficients, used for
   460     generated code.
   461   - Replaced recursion operator poly_rec by fold_coeffs.
   462   - Prefer pre-existing gcd operation for gcd.
   463   - Fact renames:
   464     poly_eq_iff ~> poly_eq_poly_eq_iff
   465     poly_ext ~> poly_eqI
   466     expand_poly_eq ~> poly_eq_iff
   467 IMCOMPATIBILITY.
   468 
   469 * New Library/Simps_Case_Conv.thy: Provides commands simps_of_case and
   470 case_of_simps to convert function definitions between a list of
   471 equations with patterns on the lhs and a single equation with case
   472 expressions on the rhs. See also Ex/Simps_Case_Conv_Examples.thy.
   473 
   474 * New Library/FSet.thy: type of finite sets defined as a subtype of
   475 sets defined by Lifting/Transfer.
   476 
   477 * Discontinued theory src/HOL/Library/Eval_Witness.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   478 
   479 * Consolidation of library theories on product orders:
   480 
   481     Product_Lattice ~> Product_Order -- pointwise order on products
   482     Product_ord ~> Product_Lexorder -- lexicographic order on products
   483 
   484 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   485 
   486 * Imperative-HOL: The MREC combinator is considered legacy and no
   487 longer included by default. INCOMPATIBILITY, use partial_function
   488 instead, or import theory Legacy_Mrec as a fallback.
   489 
   490 * HOL-Algebra: Discontinued theories ~~/src/HOL/Algebra/abstract and
   491 ~~/src/HOL/Algebra/poly.  Existing theories should be based on
   492 ~~/src/HOL/Library/Polynomial instead.  The latter provides
   493 integration with HOL's type classes for rings.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   494 
   495 * HOL-BNF:
   496   - Various improvements to BNF-based (co)datatype package, including
   497     new commands "primrec_new", "primcorec", and
   498     "datatype_new_compat", as well as documentation. See
   499     "datatypes.pdf" for details.
   500   - New "coinduction" method to avoid some boilerplate (compared to
   501     coinduct).
   502   - Renamed keywords:
   503     data ~> datatype_new
   504     codata ~> codatatype
   505     bnf_def ~> bnf
   506   - Renamed many generated theorems, including
   507     discs ~> disc
   508     map_comp' ~> map_comp
   509     map_id' ~> map_id
   510     sels ~> sel
   511     set_map' ~> set_map
   512     sets ~> set
   513 IMCOMPATIBILITY.
   514 
   515 
   516 *** ML ***
   517 
   518 * Spec_Check is a Quickcheck tool for Isabelle/ML.  The ML function
   519 "check_property" allows to check specifications of the form "ALL x y
   520 z. prop x y z".  See also ~~/src/Tools/Spec_Check/ with its
   521 Examples.thy in particular.
   522 
   523 * Improved printing of exception trace in Poly/ML 5.5.1, with regular
   524 tracing output in the command transaction context instead of physical
   525 stdout.  See also Toplevel.debug, Toplevel.debugging and
   526 ML_Compiler.exn_trace.
   527 
   528 * ML type "theory" is now immutable, without any special treatment of
   529 drafts or linear updates (which could lead to "stale theory" errors in
   530 the past).  Discontinued obsolete operations like Theory.copy,
   531 Theory.checkpoint, and the auxiliary type theory_ref.  Minor
   532 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   533 
   534 * More uniform naming of goal functions for skipped proofs:
   535 
   536     Skip_Proof.prove  ~>  Goal.prove_sorry
   537     Skip_Proof.prove_global  ~>  Goal.prove_sorry_global
   538 
   539 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   540 
   541 * Simplifier tactics and tools use proper Proof.context instead of
   542 historic type simpset.  Old-style declarations like addsimps,
   543 addsimprocs etc. operate directly on Proof.context.  Raw type simpset
   544 retains its use as snapshot of the main Simplifier context, using
   545 simpset_of and put_simpset on Proof.context.  INCOMPATIBILITY -- port
   546 old tools by making them depend on (ctxt : Proof.context) instead of
   547 (ss : simpset), then turn (simpset_of ctxt) into ctxt.
   548 
   549 * Modifiers for classical wrappers (e.g. addWrapper, delWrapper)
   550 operate on Proof.context instead of claset, for uniformity with addIs,
   551 addEs, addDs etc. Note that claset_of and put_claset allow to manage
   552 clasets separately from the context.
   553 
   554 * Discontinued obsolete ML antiquotations @{claset} and @{simpset}.
   555 INCOMPATIBILITY, use @{context} instead.
   556 
   557 * Antiquotation @{theory_context A} is similar to @{theory A}, but
   558 presents the result as initial Proof.context.
   559 
   560 
   561 *** System ***
   562 
   563 * Discontinued obsolete isabelle usedir, mkdir, make -- superseded by
   564 "isabelle build" in Isabelle2013.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   565 
   566 * Discontinued obsolete isabelle-process options -f and -u (former
   567 administrative aliases of option -e).  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   568 
   569 * Discontinued obsolete isabelle print tool, and PRINT_COMMAND
   570 settings variable.
   571 
   572 * Discontinued ISABELLE_DOC_FORMAT settings variable and historic
   573 document formats: dvi.gz, ps, ps.gz -- the default document format is
   574 always pdf.
   575 
   576 * Isabelle settings variable ISABELLE_BUILD_JAVA_OPTIONS allows to
   577 specify global resources of the JVM process run by isabelle build.
   578 
   579 * Toplevel executable $ISABELLE_HOME/bin/isabelle_scala_script allows
   580 to run Isabelle/Scala source files as standalone programs.
   581 
   582 * Improved "isabelle keywords" tool (for old-style ProofGeneral
   583 keyword tables): use Isabelle/Scala operations, which inspect outer
   584 syntax without requiring to build sessions first.
   585 
   586 * Sessions may be organized via 'chapter' specifications in the ROOT
   587 file, which determines a two-level hierarchy of browser info.  The old
   588 tree-like organization via implicit sub-session relation (with its
   589 tendency towards erratic fluctuation of URLs) has been discontinued.
   590 The default chapter is called "Unsorted".  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
   591 for HTML presentation of theories.
   592 
   593 
   594 
   595 New in Isabelle2013 (February 2013)
   596 -----------------------------------
   597 
   598 *** General ***
   599 
   600 * Theorem status about oracles and unfinished/failed future proofs is
   601 no longer printed by default, since it is incompatible with
   602 incremental / parallel checking of the persistent document model.  ML
   603 function Thm.peek_status may be used to inspect a snapshot of the
   604 ongoing evaluation process.  Note that in batch mode --- notably
   605 isabelle build --- the system ensures that future proofs of all
   606 accessible theorems in the theory context are finished (as before).
   607 
   608 * Configuration option show_markup controls direct inlining of markup
   609 into the printed representation of formal entities --- notably type
   610 and sort constraints.  This enables Prover IDE users to retrieve that
   611 information via tooltips in the output window, for example.
   612 
   613 * Command 'ML_file' evaluates ML text from a file directly within the
   614 theory, without any predeclaration via 'uses' in the theory header.
   615 
   616 * Old command 'use' command and corresponding keyword 'uses' in the
   617 theory header are legacy features and will be discontinued soon.
   618 Tools that load their additional source files may imitate the
   619 'ML_file' implementation, such that the system can take care of
   620 dependencies properly.
   621 
   622 * Discontinued obsolete method fastsimp / tactic fast_simp_tac, which
   623 is called fastforce / fast_force_tac already since Isabelle2011-1.
   624 
   625 * Updated and extended "isar-ref" and "implementation" manual, reduced
   626 remaining material in old "ref" manual.
   627 
   628 * Improved support for auxiliary contexts that indicate block structure
   629 for specifications.  Nesting of "context fixes ... context assumes ..."
   630 and "class ... context ...".
   631 
   632 * Attribute "consumes" allows a negative value as well, which is
   633 interpreted relatively to the total number of premises of the rule in
   634 the target context.  This form of declaration is stable when exported
   635 from a nested 'context' with additional assumptions.  It is the
   636 preferred form for definitional packages, notably cases/rules produced
   637 in HOL/inductive and HOL/function.
   638 
   639 * More informative error messages for Isar proof commands involving
   640 lazy enumerations (method applications etc.).
   641 
   642 * Refined 'help' command to retrieve outer syntax commands according
   643 to name patterns (with clickable results).
   644 
   645 
   646 *** Prover IDE -- Isabelle/Scala/jEdit ***
   647 
   648 * Parallel terminal proofs ('by') are enabled by default, likewise
   649 proofs that are built into packages like 'datatype', 'function'.  This
   650 allows to "run ahead" checking the theory specifications on the
   651 surface, while the prover is still crunching on internal
   652 justifications.  Unfinished / cancelled proofs are restarted as
   653 required to complete full proof checking eventually.
   654 
   655 * Improved output panel with tooltips, hyperlinks etc. based on the
   656 same Rich_Text_Area as regular Isabelle/jEdit buffers.  Activation of
   657 tooltips leads to some window that supports the same recursively,
   658 which can lead to stacks of tooltips as the semantic document content
   659 is explored.  ESCAPE closes the whole stack, individual windows may be
   660 closed separately, or detached to become independent jEdit dockables.
   661 
   662 * Improved support for commands that produce graph output: the text
   663 message contains a clickable area to open a new instance of the graph
   664 browser on demand.
   665 
   666 * More robust incremental parsing of outer syntax (partial comments,
   667 malformed symbols).  Changing the balance of open/close quotes and
   668 comment delimiters works more conveniently with unfinished situations
   669 that frequently occur in user interaction.
   670 
   671 * More efficient painting and improved reactivity when editing large
   672 files.  More scalable management of formal document content.
   673 
   674 * Smarter handling of tracing messages: prover process pauses after
   675 certain number of messages per command transaction, with some user
   676 dialog to stop or continue.  This avoids swamping the front-end with
   677 potentially infinite message streams.
   678 
   679 * More plugin options and preferences, based on Isabelle/Scala.  The
   680 jEdit plugin option panel provides access to some Isabelle/Scala
   681 options, including tuning parameters for editor reactivity and color
   682 schemes.
   683 
   684 * Dockable window "Symbols" provides some editing support for Isabelle
   685 symbols.
   686 
   687 * Dockable window "Monitor" shows ML runtime statistics.  Note that
   688 continuous display of the chart slows down the system.
   689 
   690 * Improved editing support for control styles: subscript, superscript,
   691 bold, reset of style -- operating on single symbols or text
   692 selections.  Cf. keyboard shortcuts C+e DOWN/UP/RIGHT/LEFT.
   693 
   694 * Actions isabelle.increase-font-size and isabelle.decrease-font-size
   695 adjust the main text area font size, and its derivatives for output,
   696 tooltips etc.  Cf. keyboard shortcuts C-PLUS and C-MINUS, which often
   697 need to be adapted to local keyboard layouts.
   698 
   699 * More reactive completion popup by default: use \t (TAB) instead of
   700 \n (NEWLINE) to minimize intrusion into regular flow of editing.  See
   701 also "Plugin Options / SideKick / General / Code Completion Options".
   702 
   703 * Implicit check and build dialog of the specified logic session
   704 image.  For example, HOL, HOLCF, HOL-Nominal can be produced on
   705 demand, without bundling big platform-dependent heap images in the
   706 Isabelle distribution.
   707 
   708 * Uniform Java 7 platform on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows: recent updates
   709 from Oracle provide better multi-platform experience.  This version is
   710 now bundled exclusively with Isabelle.
   711 
   712 
   713 *** Pure ***
   714 
   715 * Code generation for Haskell: restrict unqualified imports from
   716 Haskell Prelude to a small set of fundamental operations.
   717 
   718 * Command 'export_code': relative file names are interpreted
   719 relatively to master directory of current theory rather than the
   720 rather arbitrary current working directory.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   721 
   722 * Discontinued obsolete attribute "COMP".  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY,
   723 use regular rule composition via "OF" / "THEN", or explicit proof
   724 structure instead.  Note that Isabelle/ML provides a variety of
   725 operators like COMP, INCR_COMP, COMP_INCR, which need to be applied
   726 with some care where this is really required.
   727 
   728 * Command 'typ' supports an additional variant with explicit sort
   729 constraint, to infer and check the most general type conforming to a
   730 given sort.  Example (in HOL):
   731 
   732   typ "_ * _ * bool * unit" :: finite
   733 
   734 * Command 'locale_deps' visualizes all locales and their relations as
   735 a Hasse diagram.
   736 
   737 
   738 *** HOL ***
   739 
   740 * Sledgehammer:
   741 
   742   - Added MaSh relevance filter based on machine-learning; see the
   743     Sledgehammer manual for details.
   744   - Polished Isar proofs generated with "isar_proofs" option.
   745   - Rationalized type encodings ("type_enc" option).
   746   - Renamed "kill_provers" subcommand to "kill_all".
   747   - Renamed options:
   748       isar_proof ~> isar_proofs
   749       isar_shrink_factor ~> isar_shrink
   750       max_relevant ~> max_facts
   751       relevance_thresholds ~> fact_thresholds
   752 
   753 * Quickcheck: added an optimisation for equality premises.  It is
   754 switched on by default, and can be switched off by setting the
   755 configuration quickcheck_optimise_equality to false.
   756 
   757 * Quotient: only one quotient can be defined by quotient_type
   758 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   759 
   760 * Lifting:
   761   - generation of an abstraction function equation in lift_definition
   762   - quot_del attribute
   763   - renamed no_abs_code -> no_code (INCOMPATIBILITY.)
   764 
   765 * Simproc "finite_Collect" rewrites set comprehensions into pointfree
   766 expressions.
   767 
   768 * Preprocessing of the code generator rewrites set comprehensions into
   769 pointfree expressions.
   770 
   771 * The SMT solver Z3 has now by default a restricted set of directly
   772 supported features. For the full set of features (div/mod, nonlinear
   773 arithmetic, datatypes/records) with potential proof reconstruction
   774 failures, enable the configuration option "z3_with_extensions".  Minor
   775 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   776 
   777 * Simplified 'typedef' specifications: historical options for implicit
   778 set definition and alternative name have been discontinued.  The
   779 former behavior of "typedef (open) t = A" is now the default, but
   780 written just "typedef t = A".  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt theories
   781 accordingly.
   782 
   783 * Removed constant "chars"; prefer "Enum.enum" on type "char"
   784 directly.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   785 
   786 * Moved operation product, sublists and n_lists from theory Enum to
   787 List.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   788 
   789 * Theorem UN_o generalized to SUP_comp.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   790 
   791 * Class "comm_monoid_diff" formalises properties of bounded
   792 subtraction, with natural numbers and multisets as typical instances.
   793 
   794 * Added combinator "Option.these" with type "'a option set => 'a set".
   795 
   796 * Theory "Transitive_Closure": renamed lemmas
   797 
   798   reflcl_tranclp -> reflclp_tranclp
   799   rtranclp_reflcl -> rtranclp_reflclp
   800 
   801 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   802 
   803 * Theory "Rings": renamed lemmas (in class semiring)
   804 
   805   left_distrib ~> distrib_right
   806   right_distrib ~> distrib_left
   807 
   808 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   809 
   810 * Generalized the definition of limits:
   811 
   812   - Introduced the predicate filterlim (LIM x F. f x :> G) which
   813     expresses that when the input values x converge to F then the
   814     output f x converges to G.
   815 
   816   - Added filters for convergence to positive (at_top) and negative
   817     infinity (at_bot).
   818 
   819   - Moved infinity in the norm (at_infinity) from
   820     Multivariate_Analysis to Complex_Main.
   821 
   822   - Removed real_tendsto_inf, it is superseded by "LIM x F. f x :>
   823     at_top".
   824 
   825 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   826 
   827 * Theory "Library/Option_ord" provides instantiation of option type to
   828 lattice type classes.
   829 
   830 * Theory "Library/Multiset": renamed
   831 
   832     constant fold_mset ~> Multiset.fold
   833     fact fold_mset_commute ~> fold_mset_comm
   834 
   835 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   836 
   837 * Renamed theory Library/List_Prefix to Library/Sublist, with related
   838 changes as follows.
   839 
   840   - Renamed constants (and related lemmas)
   841 
   842       prefix ~> prefixeq
   843       strict_prefix ~> prefix
   844 
   845   - Replaced constant "postfix" by "suffixeq" with swapped argument
   846     order (i.e., "postfix xs ys" is now "suffixeq ys xs") and dropped
   847     old infix syntax "xs >>= ys"; use "suffixeq ys xs" instead.
   848     Renamed lemmas accordingly.
   849 
   850   - Added constant "list_hembeq" for homeomorphic embedding on
   851     lists. Added abbreviation "sublisteq" for special case
   852     "list_hembeq (op =)".
   853 
   854   - Theory Library/Sublist no longer provides "order" and "bot" type
   855     class instances for the prefix order (merely corresponding locale
   856     interpretations). The type class instances are now in theory
   857     Library/Prefix_Order.
   858 
   859   - The sublist relation of theory Library/Sublist_Order is now based
   860     on "Sublist.sublisteq".  Renamed lemmas accordingly:
   861 
   862       le_list_append_le_same_iff ~> Sublist.sublisteq_append_le_same_iff
   863       le_list_append_mono ~> Sublist.list_hembeq_append_mono
   864       le_list_below_empty ~> Sublist.list_hembeq_Nil, Sublist.list_hembeq_Nil2
   865       le_list_Cons_EX ~> Sublist.list_hembeq_ConsD
   866       le_list_drop_Cons2 ~> Sublist.sublisteq_Cons2'
   867       le_list_drop_Cons_neq ~> Sublist.sublisteq_Cons2_neq
   868       le_list_drop_Cons ~> Sublist.sublisteq_Cons'
   869       le_list_drop_many ~> Sublist.sublisteq_drop_many
   870       le_list_filter_left ~> Sublist.sublisteq_filter_left
   871       le_list_rev_drop_many ~> Sublist.sublisteq_rev_drop_many
   872       le_list_rev_take_iff ~> Sublist.sublisteq_append
   873       le_list_same_length ~> Sublist.sublisteq_same_length
   874       le_list_take_many_iff ~> Sublist.sublisteq_append'
   875       less_eq_list.drop ~> less_eq_list_drop
   876       less_eq_list.induct ~> less_eq_list_induct
   877       not_le_list_length ~> Sublist.not_sublisteq_length
   878 
   879 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   880 
   881 * New theory Library/Countable_Set.
   882 
   883 * Theory Library/Debug and Library/Parallel provide debugging and
   884 parallel execution for code generated towards Isabelle/ML.
   885 
   886 * Theory Library/FuncSet: Extended support for Pi and extensional and
   887 introduce the extensional dependent function space "PiE". Replaced
   888 extensional_funcset by an abbreviation, and renamed lemmas from
   889 extensional_funcset to PiE as follows:
   890 
   891   extensional_empty  ~>  PiE_empty
   892   extensional_funcset_empty_domain  ~>  PiE_empty_domain
   893   extensional_funcset_empty_range  ~>  PiE_empty_range
   894   extensional_funcset_arb  ~>  PiE_arb
   895   extensional_funcset_mem  ~>  PiE_mem
   896   extensional_funcset_extend_domainI  ~>  PiE_fun_upd
   897   extensional_funcset_restrict_domain  ~>  fun_upd_in_PiE
   898   extensional_funcset_extend_domain_eq  ~>  PiE_insert_eq
   899   card_extensional_funcset  ~>  card_PiE
   900   finite_extensional_funcset  ~>  finite_PiE
   901 
   902 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   903 
   904 * Theory Library/FinFun: theory of almost everywhere constant
   905 functions (supersedes the AFP entry "Code Generation for Functions as
   906 Data").
   907 
   908 * Theory Library/Phantom: generic phantom type to make a type
   909 parameter appear in a constant's type.  This alternative to adding
   910 TYPE('a) as another parameter avoids unnecessary closures in generated
   911 code.
   912 
   913 * Theory Library/RBT_Impl: efficient construction of red-black trees
   914 from sorted associative lists. Merging two trees with rbt_union may
   915 return a structurally different tree than before.  Potential
   916 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   917 
   918 * Theory Library/IArray: immutable arrays with code generation.
   919 
   920 * Theory Library/Finite_Lattice: theory of finite lattices.
   921 
   922 * HOL/Multivariate_Analysis: replaced
   923 
   924   "basis :: 'a::euclidean_space => nat => real"
   925   "\<Chi>\<Chi> :: (nat => real) => 'a::euclidean_space"
   926 
   927 on euclidean spaces by using the inner product "_ \<bullet> _" with
   928 vectors from the Basis set: "\<Chi>\<Chi> i. f i" is superseded by
   929 "SUM i : Basis. f i * r i".
   930 
   931   With this change the following constants are also changed or removed:
   932 
   933     DIM('a) :: nat  ~>  card (Basis :: 'a set)   (is an abbreviation)
   934     a $$ i  ~>  inner a i  (where i : Basis)
   935     cart_base i  removed
   936     \<pi>, \<pi>'  removed
   937 
   938   Theorems about these constants where removed.
   939 
   940   Renamed lemmas:
   941 
   942     component_le_norm  ~>  Basis_le_norm
   943     euclidean_eq  ~>  euclidean_eq_iff
   944     differential_zero_maxmin_component  ~>  differential_zero_maxmin_cart
   945     euclidean_simps  ~>  inner_simps
   946     independent_basis  ~>  independent_Basis
   947     span_basis  ~>  span_Basis
   948     in_span_basis  ~>  in_span_Basis
   949     norm_bound_component_le  ~>  norm_boound_Basis_le
   950     norm_bound_component_lt  ~>  norm_boound_Basis_lt
   951     component_le_infnorm  ~>  Basis_le_infnorm
   952 
   953 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   954 
   955 * HOL/Probability:
   956 
   957   - Added simproc "measurable" to automatically prove measurability.
   958 
   959   - Added induction rules for sigma sets with disjoint union
   960     (sigma_sets_induct_disjoint) and for Borel-measurable functions
   961     (borel_measurable_induct).
   962 
   963   - Added the Daniell-Kolmogorov theorem (the existence the limit of a
   964     projective family).
   965 
   966 * HOL/Cardinals: Theories of ordinals and cardinals (supersedes the
   967 AFP entry "Ordinals_and_Cardinals").
   968 
   969 * HOL/BNF: New (co)datatype package based on bounded natural functors
   970 with support for mixed, nested recursion and interesting non-free
   971 datatypes.
   972 
   973 * HOL/Finite_Set and Relation: added new set and relation operations
   974 expressed by Finite_Set.fold.
   975 
   976 * New theory HOL/Library/RBT_Set: implementation of sets by red-black
   977 trees for the code generator.
   978 
   979 * HOL/Library/RBT and HOL/Library/Mapping have been converted to
   980 Lifting/Transfer.
   981 possible INCOMPATIBILITY.
   982 
   983 * HOL/Set: renamed Set.project -> Set.filter
   984 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   985 
   986 
   987 *** Document preparation ***
   988 
   989 * Dropped legacy antiquotations "term_style" and "thm_style", since
   990 styles may be given as arguments to "term" and "thm" already.
   991 Discontinued legacy styles "prem1" .. "prem19".
   992 
   993 * Default LaTeX rendering for \<euro> is now based on eurosym package,
   994 instead of slightly exotic babel/greek.
   995 
   996 * Document variant NAME may use different LaTeX entry point
   997 document/root_NAME.tex if that file exists, instead of the common
   998 document/root.tex.
   999 
  1000 * Simplified custom document/build script, instead of old-style
  1001 document/IsaMakefile.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1002 
  1003 
  1004 *** ML ***
  1005 
  1006 * The default limit for maximum number of worker threads is now 8,
  1007 instead of 4, in correspondence to capabilities of contemporary
  1008 hardware and Poly/ML runtime system.
  1009 
  1010 * Type Seq.results and related operations support embedded error
  1011 messages within lazy enumerations, and thus allow to provide
  1012 informative errors in the absence of any usable results.
  1013 
  1014 * Renamed Position.str_of to Position.here to emphasize that this is a
  1015 formal device to inline positions into message text, but not
  1016 necessarily printing visible text.
  1017 
  1018 
  1019 *** System ***
  1020 
  1021 * Advanced support for Isabelle sessions and build management, see
  1022 "system" manual for the chapter of that name, especially the "isabelle
  1023 build" tool and its examples.  The "isabelle mkroot" tool prepares
  1024 session root directories for use with "isabelle build", similar to
  1025 former "isabelle mkdir" for "isabelle usedir".  Note that this affects
  1026 document preparation as well.  INCOMPATIBILITY, isabelle usedir /
  1027 mkdir / make are rendered obsolete.
  1028 
  1029 * Discontinued obsolete Isabelle/build script, it is superseded by the
  1030 regular isabelle build tool.  For example:
  1031 
  1032   isabelle build -s -b HOL
  1033 
  1034 * Discontinued obsolete "isabelle makeall".
  1035 
  1036 * Discontinued obsolete IsaMakefile and ROOT.ML files from the
  1037 Isabelle distribution, except for rudimentary src/HOL/IsaMakefile that
  1038 provides some traditional targets that invoke "isabelle build".  Note
  1039 that this is inefficient!  Applications of Isabelle/HOL involving
  1040 "isabelle make" should be upgraded to use "isabelle build" directly.
  1041 
  1042 * The "isabelle options" tool prints Isabelle system options, as
  1043 required for "isabelle build", for example.
  1044 
  1045 * The "isabelle logo" tool produces EPS and PDF format simultaneously.
  1046 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY in command-line options.
  1047 
  1048 * The "isabelle install" tool has now a simpler command-line.  Minor
  1049 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1050 
  1051 * The "isabelle components" tool helps to resolve add-on components
  1052 that are not bundled, or referenced from a bare-bones repository
  1053 version of Isabelle.
  1054 
  1055 * Settings variable ISABELLE_PLATFORM_FAMILY refers to the general
  1056 platform family: "linux", "macos", "windows".
  1057 
  1058 * The ML system is configured as regular component, and no longer
  1059 picked up from some surrounding directory.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  1060 for home-made settings.
  1061 
  1062 * Improved ML runtime statistics (heap, threads, future tasks etc.).
  1063 
  1064 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.2.1, which was the last version
  1065 without exception positions and advanced ML compiler/toplevel
  1066 configuration.
  1067 
  1068 * Discontinued special treatment of Proof General -- no longer guess
  1069 PROOFGENERAL_HOME based on accidental file-system layout.  Minor
  1070 INCOMPATIBILITY: provide PROOFGENERAL_HOME and PROOFGENERAL_OPTIONS
  1071 settings manually, or use a Proof General version that has been
  1072 bundled as Isabelle component.
  1073 
  1074 
  1075 
  1076 New in Isabelle2012 (May 2012)
  1077 ------------------------------
  1078 
  1079 *** General ***
  1080 
  1081 * Prover IDE (PIDE) improvements:
  1082 
  1083   - more robust Sledgehammer integration (as before the sledgehammer
  1084     command-line needs to be typed into the source buffer)
  1085   - markup for bound variables
  1086   - markup for types of term variables (displayed as tooltips)
  1087   - support for user-defined Isar commands within the running session
  1088   - improved support for Unicode outside original 16bit range
  1089     e.g. glyph for \<A> (thanks to jEdit 4.5.1)
  1090 
  1091 * Forward declaration of outer syntax keywords within the theory
  1092 header -- minor INCOMPATIBILITY for user-defined commands.  Allow new
  1093 commands to be used in the same theory where defined.
  1094 
  1095 * Auxiliary contexts indicate block structure for specifications with
  1096 additional parameters and assumptions.  Such unnamed contexts may be
  1097 nested within other targets, like 'theory', 'locale', 'class',
  1098 'instantiation' etc.  Results from the local context are generalized
  1099 accordingly and applied to the enclosing target context.  Example:
  1100 
  1101   context
  1102     fixes x y z :: 'a
  1103     assumes xy: "x = y" and yz: "y = z"
  1104   begin
  1105 
  1106   lemma my_trans: "x = z" using xy yz by simp
  1107 
  1108   end
  1109 
  1110   thm my_trans
  1111 
  1112 The most basic application is to factor-out context elements of
  1113 several fixes/assumes/shows theorem statements, e.g. see
  1114 ~~/src/HOL/Isar_Examples/Group_Context.thy
  1115 
  1116 Any other local theory specification element works within the "context
  1117 ... begin ... end" block as well.
  1118 
  1119 * Bundled declarations associate attributed fact expressions with a
  1120 given name in the context.  These may be later included in other
  1121 contexts.  This allows to manage context extensions casually, without
  1122 the logical dependencies of locales and locale interpretation.  See
  1123 commands 'bundle', 'include', 'including' etc. in the isar-ref manual.
  1124 
  1125 * Commands 'lemmas' and 'theorems' allow local variables using 'for'
  1126 declaration, and results are standardized before being stored.  Thus
  1127 old-style "standard" after instantiation or composition of facts
  1128 becomes obsolete.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, due to potential change of
  1129 indices of schematic variables.
  1130 
  1131 * Rule attributes in local theory declarations (e.g. locale or class)
  1132 are now statically evaluated: the resulting theorem is stored instead
  1133 of the original expression.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, where
  1134 the historic accident of dynamic re-evaluation in interpretations
  1135 etc. was exploited.
  1136 
  1137 * New tutorial "Programming and Proving in Isabelle/HOL"
  1138 ("prog-prove").  It completely supersedes "A Tutorial Introduction to
  1139 Structured Isar Proofs" ("isar-overview"), which has been removed.  It
  1140 also supersedes "Isabelle/HOL, A Proof Assistant for Higher-Order
  1141 Logic" as the recommended beginners tutorial, but does not cover all
  1142 of the material of that old tutorial.
  1143 
  1144 * Updated and extended reference manuals: "isar-ref",
  1145 "implementation", "system"; reduced remaining material in old "ref"
  1146 manual.
  1147 
  1148 
  1149 *** Pure ***
  1150 
  1151 * Command 'definition' no longer exports the foundational "raw_def"
  1152 into the user context.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, may use the regular
  1153 "def" result with attribute "abs_def" to imitate the old version.
  1154 
  1155 * Attribute "abs_def" turns an equation of the form "f x y == t" into
  1156 "f == %x y. t", which ensures that "simp" or "unfold" steps always
  1157 expand it.  This also works for object-logic equality.  (Formerly
  1158 undocumented feature.)
  1159 
  1160 * Sort constraints are now propagated in simultaneous statements, just
  1161 like type constraints.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, where
  1162 distinct sorts used to be assigned accidentally.  For example:
  1163 
  1164   lemma "P (x::'a::foo)" and "Q (y::'a::bar)"  -- "now illegal"
  1165 
  1166   lemma "P (x::'a)" and "Q (y::'a::bar)"
  1167     -- "now uniform 'a::bar instead of default sort for first occurrence (!)"
  1168 
  1169 * Rule composition via attribute "OF" (or ML functions OF/MRS) is more
  1170 tolerant against multiple unifiers, as long as the final result is
  1171 unique.  (As before, rules are composed in canonical right-to-left
  1172 order to accommodate newly introduced premises.)
  1173 
  1174 * Renamed some inner syntax categories:
  1175 
  1176     num ~> num_token
  1177     xnum ~> xnum_token
  1178     xstr ~> str_token
  1179 
  1180 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.  Note that in practice "num_const" or
  1181 "num_position" etc. are mainly used instead (which also include
  1182 position information via constraints).
  1183 
  1184 * Simplified configuration options for syntax ambiguity: see
  1185 "syntax_ambiguity_warning" and "syntax_ambiguity_limit" in isar-ref
  1186 manual.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1187 
  1188 * Discontinued configuration option "syntax_positions": atomic terms
  1189 in parse trees are always annotated by position constraints.
  1190 
  1191 * Old code generator for SML and its commands 'code_module',
  1192 'code_library', 'consts_code', 'types_code' have been discontinued.
  1193 Use commands of the generic code generator instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1194 
  1195 * Redundant attribute "code_inline" has been discontinued. Use
  1196 "code_unfold" instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1197 
  1198 * Dropped attribute "code_unfold_post" in favor of the its dual
  1199 "code_abbrev", which yields a common pattern in definitions like
  1200 
  1201   definition [code_abbrev]: "f = t"
  1202 
  1203 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1204 
  1205 * Obsolete 'types' command has been discontinued.  Use 'type_synonym'
  1206 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1207 
  1208 * Discontinued old "prems" fact, which used to refer to the accidental
  1209 collection of foundational premises in the context (already marked as
  1210 legacy since Isabelle2011).
  1211 
  1212 
  1213 *** HOL ***
  1214 
  1215 * Type 'a set is now a proper type constructor (just as before
  1216 Isabelle2008).  Definitions mem_def and Collect_def have disappeared.
  1217 Non-trivial INCOMPATIBILITY.  For developments keeping predicates and
  1218 sets separate, it is often sufficient to rephrase some set S that has
  1219 been accidentally used as predicates by "%x. x : S", and some
  1220 predicate P that has been accidentally used as set by "{x. P x}".
  1221 Corresponding proofs in a first step should be pruned from any
  1222 tinkering with former theorems mem_def and Collect_def as far as
  1223 possible.
  1224 
  1225 For developments which deliberately mix predicates and sets, a
  1226 planning step is necessary to determine what should become a predicate
  1227 and what a set.  It can be helpful to carry out that step in
  1228 Isabelle2011-1 before jumping right into the current release.
  1229 
  1230 * Code generation by default implements sets as container type rather
  1231 than predicates.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1232 
  1233 * New type synonym 'a rel = ('a * 'a) set
  1234 
  1235 * The representation of numerals has changed.  Datatype "num"
  1236 represents strictly positive binary numerals, along with functions
  1237 "numeral :: num => 'a" and "neg_numeral :: num => 'a" to represent
  1238 positive and negated numeric literals, respectively.  See also
  1239 definitions in ~~/src/HOL/Num.thy.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, some
  1240 user theories may require adaptations as follows:
  1241 
  1242   - Theorems with number_ring or number_semiring constraints: These
  1243     classes are gone; use comm_ring_1 or comm_semiring_1 instead.
  1244 
  1245   - Theories defining numeric types: Remove number, number_semiring,
  1246     and number_ring instances. Defer all theorems about numerals until
  1247     after classes one and semigroup_add have been instantiated.
  1248 
  1249   - Numeral-only simp rules: Replace each rule having a "number_of v"
  1250     pattern with two copies, one for numeral and one for neg_numeral.
  1251 
  1252   - Theorems about subclasses of semiring_1 or ring_1: These classes
  1253     automatically support numerals now, so more simp rules and
  1254     simprocs may now apply within the proof.
  1255 
  1256   - Definitions and theorems using old constructors Pls/Min/Bit0/Bit1:
  1257     Redefine using other integer operations.
  1258 
  1259 * Transfer: New package intended to generalize the existing
  1260 "descending" method and related theorem attributes from the Quotient
  1261 package.  (Not all functionality is implemented yet, but future
  1262 development will focus on Transfer as an eventual replacement for the
  1263 corresponding parts of the Quotient package.)
  1264 
  1265   - transfer_rule attribute: Maintains a collection of transfer rules,
  1266     which relate constants at two different types. Transfer rules may
  1267     relate different type instances of the same polymorphic constant,
  1268     or they may relate an operation on a raw type to a corresponding
  1269     operation on an abstract type (quotient or subtype). For example:
  1270 
  1271     ((A ===> B) ===> list_all2 A ===> list_all2 B) map map
  1272     (cr_int ===> cr_int ===> cr_int) (%(x,y) (u,v). (x+u, y+v)) plus_int
  1273 
  1274   - transfer method: Replaces a subgoal on abstract types with an
  1275     equivalent subgoal on the corresponding raw types. Constants are
  1276     replaced with corresponding ones according to the transfer rules.
  1277     Goals are generalized over all free variables by default; this is
  1278     necessary for variables whose types change, but can be overridden
  1279     for specific variables with e.g. "transfer fixing: x y z".  The
  1280     variant transfer' method allows replacing a subgoal with one that
  1281     is logically stronger (rather than equivalent).
  1282 
  1283   - relator_eq attribute: Collects identity laws for relators of
  1284     various type constructors, e.g. "list_all2 (op =) = (op =)".  The
  1285     transfer method uses these lemmas to infer transfer rules for
  1286     non-polymorphic constants on the fly.
  1287 
  1288   - transfer_prover method: Assists with proving a transfer rule for a
  1289     new constant, provided the constant is defined in terms of other
  1290     constants that already have transfer rules. It should be applied
  1291     after unfolding the constant definitions.
  1292 
  1293   - HOL/ex/Transfer_Int_Nat.thy: Example theory demonstrating transfer
  1294     from type nat to type int.
  1295 
  1296 * Lifting: New package intended to generalize the quotient_definition
  1297 facility of the Quotient package; designed to work with Transfer.
  1298 
  1299   - lift_definition command: Defines operations on an abstract type in
  1300     terms of a corresponding operation on a representation
  1301     type.  Example syntax:
  1302 
  1303     lift_definition dlist_insert :: "'a => 'a dlist => 'a dlist"
  1304       is List.insert
  1305 
  1306     Users must discharge a respectfulness proof obligation when each
  1307     constant is defined. (For a type copy, i.e. a typedef with UNIV,
  1308     the proof is discharged automatically.) The obligation is
  1309     presented in a user-friendly, readable form; a respectfulness
  1310     theorem in the standard format and a transfer rule are generated
  1311     by the package.
  1312 
  1313   - Integration with code_abstype: For typedefs (e.g. subtypes
  1314     corresponding to a datatype invariant, such as dlist),
  1315     lift_definition generates a code certificate theorem and sets up
  1316     code generation for each constant.
  1317 
  1318   - setup_lifting command: Sets up the Lifting package to work with a
  1319     user-defined type. The user must provide either a quotient theorem
  1320     or a type_definition theorem.  The package configures transfer
  1321     rules for equality and quantifiers on the type, and sets up the
  1322     lift_definition command to work with the type.
  1323 
  1324   - Usage examples: See Quotient_Examples/Lift_DList.thy,
  1325     Quotient_Examples/Lift_RBT.thy, Quotient_Examples/Lift_FSet.thy,
  1326     Word/Word.thy and Library/Float.thy.
  1327 
  1328 * Quotient package:
  1329 
  1330   - The 'quotient_type' command now supports a 'morphisms' option with
  1331     rep and abs functions, similar to typedef.
  1332 
  1333   - 'quotient_type' sets up new types to work with the Lifting and
  1334     Transfer packages, as with 'setup_lifting'.
  1335 
  1336   - The 'quotient_definition' command now requires the user to prove a
  1337     respectfulness property at the point where the constant is
  1338     defined, similar to lift_definition; INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1339 
  1340   - Renamed predicate 'Quotient' to 'Quotient3', and renamed theorems
  1341     accordingly, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1342 
  1343 * New diagnostic command 'find_unused_assms' to find potentially
  1344 superfluous assumptions in theorems using Quickcheck.
  1345 
  1346 * Quickcheck:
  1347 
  1348   - Quickcheck returns variable assignments as counterexamples, which
  1349     allows to reveal the underspecification of functions under test.
  1350     For example, refuting "hd xs = x", it presents the variable
  1351     assignment xs = [] and x = a1 as a counterexample, assuming that
  1352     any property is false whenever "hd []" occurs in it.
  1353 
  1354     These counterexample are marked as potentially spurious, as
  1355     Quickcheck also returns "xs = []" as a counterexample to the
  1356     obvious theorem "hd xs = hd xs".
  1357 
  1358     After finding a potentially spurious counterexample, Quickcheck
  1359     continues searching for genuine ones.
  1360 
  1361     By default, Quickcheck shows potentially spurious and genuine
  1362     counterexamples. The option "genuine_only" sets quickcheck to only
  1363     show genuine counterexamples.
  1364 
  1365   - The command 'quickcheck_generator' creates random and exhaustive
  1366     value generators for a given type and operations.
  1367 
  1368     It generates values by using the operations as if they were
  1369     constructors of that type.
  1370 
  1371   - Support for multisets.
  1372 
  1373   - Added "use_subtype" options.
  1374 
  1375   - Added "quickcheck_locale" configuration to specify how to process
  1376     conjectures in a locale context.
  1377 
  1378 * Nitpick: Fixed infinite loop caused by the 'peephole_optim' option
  1379 and affecting 'rat' and 'real'.
  1380 
  1381 * Sledgehammer:
  1382   - Integrated more tightly with SPASS, as described in the ITP 2012
  1383     paper "More SPASS with Isabelle".
  1384   - Made it try "smt" as a fallback if "metis" fails or times out.
  1385   - Added support for the following provers: Alt-Ergo (via Why3 and
  1386     TFF1), iProver, iProver-Eq.
  1387   - Sped up the minimizer.
  1388   - Added "lam_trans", "uncurry_aliases", and "minimize" options.
  1389   - Renamed "slicing" ("no_slicing") option to "slice" ("dont_slice").
  1390   - Renamed "sound" option to "strict".
  1391 
  1392 * Metis: Added possibility to specify lambda translations scheme as a
  1393 parenthesized argument (e.g., "by (metis (lifting) ...)").
  1394 
  1395 * SMT: Renamed "smt_fixed" option to "smt_read_only_certificates".
  1396 
  1397 * Command 'try0': Renamed from 'try_methods'. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1398 
  1399 * New "case_product" attribute to generate a case rule doing multiple
  1400 case distinctions at the same time.  E.g.
  1401 
  1402   list.exhaust [case_product nat.exhaust]
  1403 
  1404 produces a rule which can be used to perform case distinction on both
  1405 a list and a nat.
  1406 
  1407 * New "eventually_elim" method as a generalized variant of the
  1408 eventually_elim* rules.  Supports structured proofs.
  1409 
  1410 * Typedef with implicit set definition is considered legacy.  Use
  1411 "typedef (open)" form instead, which will eventually become the
  1412 default.
  1413 
  1414 * Record: code generation can be switched off manually with
  1415 
  1416   declare [[record_coden = false]]  -- "default true"
  1417 
  1418 * Datatype: type parameters allow explicit sort constraints.
  1419 
  1420 * Concrete syntax for case expressions includes constraints for source
  1421 positions, and thus produces Prover IDE markup for its bindings.
  1422 INCOMPATIBILITY for old-style syntax translations that augment the
  1423 pattern notation; e.g. see src/HOL/HOLCF/One.thy for translations of
  1424 one_case.
  1425 
  1426 * Clarified attribute "mono_set": pure declaration without modifying
  1427 the result of the fact expression.
  1428 
  1429 * More default pred/set conversions on a couple of relation operations
  1430 and predicates.  Added powers of predicate relations.  Consolidation
  1431 of some relation theorems:
  1432 
  1433   converse_def ~> converse_unfold
  1434   rel_comp_def ~> relcomp_unfold
  1435   symp_def ~> (modified, use symp_def and sym_def instead)
  1436   transp_def ~> transp_trans
  1437   Domain_def ~> Domain_unfold
  1438   Range_def ~> Domain_converse [symmetric]
  1439 
  1440 Generalized theorems INF_INT_eq, INF_INT_eq2, SUP_UN_eq, SUP_UN_eq2.
  1441 
  1442 See theory "Relation" for examples for making use of pred/set
  1443 conversions by means of attributes "to_set" and "to_pred".
  1444 
  1445 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1446 
  1447 * Renamed facts about the power operation on relations, i.e., relpow
  1448 to match the constant's name:
  1449 
  1450   rel_pow_1 ~> relpow_1
  1451   rel_pow_0_I ~> relpow_0_I
  1452   rel_pow_Suc_I ~> relpow_Suc_I
  1453   rel_pow_Suc_I2 ~> relpow_Suc_I2
  1454   rel_pow_0_E ~> relpow_0_E
  1455   rel_pow_Suc_E ~> relpow_Suc_E
  1456   rel_pow_E ~> relpow_E
  1457   rel_pow_Suc_D2 ~> relpow_Suc_D2
  1458   rel_pow_Suc_E2 ~> relpow_Suc_E2
  1459   rel_pow_Suc_D2' ~> relpow_Suc_D2'
  1460   rel_pow_E2 ~> relpow_E2
  1461   rel_pow_add ~> relpow_add
  1462   rel_pow_commute ~> relpow
  1463   rel_pow_empty ~> relpow_empty:
  1464   rtrancl_imp_UN_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_imp_UN_relpow
  1465   rel_pow_imp_rtrancl ~> relpow_imp_rtrancl
  1466   rtrancl_is_UN_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_is_UN_relpow
  1467   rtrancl_imp_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_imp_relpow
  1468   rel_pow_fun_conv ~> relpow_fun_conv
  1469   rel_pow_finite_bounded1 ~> relpow_finite_bounded1
  1470   rel_pow_finite_bounded ~> relpow_finite_bounded
  1471   rtrancl_finite_eq_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_finite_eq_relpow
  1472   trancl_finite_eq_rel_pow ~> trancl_finite_eq_relpow
  1473   single_valued_rel_pow ~> single_valued_relpow
  1474 
  1475 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1476 
  1477 * Theory Relation: Consolidated constant name for relation composition
  1478 and corresponding theorem names:
  1479 
  1480   - Renamed constant rel_comp to relcomp.
  1481 
  1482   - Dropped abbreviation pred_comp. Use relcompp instead.
  1483 
  1484   - Renamed theorems:
  1485 
  1486     rel_compI ~> relcompI
  1487     rel_compEpair ~> relcompEpair
  1488     rel_compE ~> relcompE
  1489     pred_comp_rel_comp_eq ~> relcompp_relcomp_eq
  1490     rel_comp_empty1 ~> relcomp_empty1
  1491     rel_comp_mono ~> relcomp_mono
  1492     rel_comp_subset_Sigma ~> relcomp_subset_Sigma
  1493     rel_comp_distrib ~> relcomp_distrib
  1494     rel_comp_distrib2 ~> relcomp_distrib2
  1495     rel_comp_UNION_distrib ~> relcomp_UNION_distrib
  1496     rel_comp_UNION_distrib2 ~> relcomp_UNION_distrib2
  1497     single_valued_rel_comp ~> single_valued_relcomp
  1498     rel_comp_def ~> relcomp_unfold
  1499     converse_rel_comp ~> converse_relcomp
  1500     pred_compI ~> relcomppI
  1501     pred_compE ~> relcomppE
  1502     pred_comp_bot1 ~> relcompp_bot1
  1503     pred_comp_bot2 ~> relcompp_bot2
  1504     transp_pred_comp_less_eq ~> transp_relcompp_less_eq
  1505     pred_comp_mono ~> relcompp_mono
  1506     pred_comp_distrib ~> relcompp_distrib
  1507     pred_comp_distrib2 ~> relcompp_distrib2
  1508     converse_pred_comp ~> converse_relcompp
  1509 
  1510     finite_rel_comp ~> finite_relcomp
  1511 
  1512     set_rel_comp ~> set_relcomp
  1513 
  1514 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1515 
  1516 * Theory Divides: Discontinued redundant theorems about div and mod.
  1517 INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems instead.
  1518 
  1519   DIVISION_BY_ZERO ~> div_by_0, mod_by_0
  1520   zdiv_self ~> div_self
  1521   zmod_self ~> mod_self
  1522   zdiv_zero ~> div_0
  1523   zmod_zero ~> mod_0
  1524   zdiv_zmod_equality ~> div_mod_equality2
  1525   zdiv_zmod_equality2 ~> div_mod_equality
  1526   zmod_zdiv_trivial ~> mod_div_trivial
  1527   zdiv_zminus_zminus ~> div_minus_minus
  1528   zmod_zminus_zminus ~> mod_minus_minus
  1529   zdiv_zminus2 ~> div_minus_right
  1530   zmod_zminus2 ~> mod_minus_right
  1531   zdiv_minus1_right ~> div_minus1_right
  1532   zmod_minus1_right ~> mod_minus1_right
  1533   zdvd_mult_div_cancel ~> dvd_mult_div_cancel
  1534   zmod_zmult1_eq ~> mod_mult_right_eq
  1535   zpower_zmod ~> power_mod
  1536   zdvd_zmod ~> dvd_mod
  1537   zdvd_zmod_imp_zdvd ~> dvd_mod_imp_dvd
  1538   mod_mult_distrib ~> mult_mod_left
  1539   mod_mult_distrib2 ~> mult_mod_right
  1540 
  1541 * Removed redundant theorems nat_mult_2 and nat_mult_2_right; use
  1542 generic mult_2 and mult_2_right instead. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1543 
  1544 * Finite_Set.fold now qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1545 
  1546 * Consolidated theorem names concerning fold combinators:
  1547 
  1548   inf_INFI_fold_inf ~> inf_INF_fold_inf
  1549   sup_SUPR_fold_sup ~> sup_SUP_fold_sup
  1550   INFI_fold_inf ~> INF_fold_inf
  1551   SUPR_fold_sup ~> SUP_fold_sup
  1552   union_set ~> union_set_fold
  1553   minus_set ~> minus_set_fold
  1554   INFI_set_fold ~> INF_set_fold
  1555   SUPR_set_fold ~> SUP_set_fold
  1556   INF_code ~> INF_set_foldr
  1557   SUP_code ~> SUP_set_foldr
  1558   foldr.simps ~> foldr.simps (in point-free formulation)
  1559   foldr_fold_rev ~> foldr_conv_fold
  1560   foldl_fold ~> foldl_conv_fold
  1561   foldr_foldr ~> foldr_conv_foldl
  1562   foldl_foldr ~> foldl_conv_foldr
  1563   fold_set_remdups ~> fold_set_fold_remdups
  1564   fold_set ~> fold_set_fold
  1565   fold1_set ~> fold1_set_fold
  1566 
  1567 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1568 
  1569 * Dropped rarely useful theorems concerning fold combinators:
  1570 foldl_apply, foldl_fun_comm, foldl_rev, fold_weak_invariant,
  1571 rev_foldl_cons, fold_set_remdups, fold_set, fold_set1,
  1572 concat_conv_foldl, foldl_weak_invariant, foldl_invariant,
  1573 foldr_invariant, foldl_absorb0, foldl_foldr1_lemma, foldl_foldr1,
  1574 listsum_conv_fold, listsum_foldl, sort_foldl_insort, foldl_assoc,
  1575 foldr_conv_foldl, start_le_sum, elem_le_sum, sum_eq_0_conv.
  1576 INCOMPATIBILITY.  For the common phrases "%xs. List.foldr plus xs 0"
  1577 and "List.foldl plus 0", prefer "List.listsum".  Otherwise it can be
  1578 useful to boil down "List.foldr" and "List.foldl" to "List.fold" by
  1579 unfolding "foldr_conv_fold" and "foldl_conv_fold".
  1580 
  1581 * Dropped lemmas minus_set_foldr, union_set_foldr, union_coset_foldr,
  1582 inter_coset_foldr, Inf_fin_set_foldr, Sup_fin_set_foldr,
  1583 Min_fin_set_foldr, Max_fin_set_foldr, Inf_set_foldr, Sup_set_foldr,
  1584 INF_set_foldr, SUP_set_foldr.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Prefer corresponding
  1585 lemmas over fold rather than foldr, or make use of lemmas
  1586 fold_conv_foldr and fold_rev.
  1587 
  1588 * Congruence rules Option.map_cong and Option.bind_cong for recursion
  1589 through option types.
  1590 
  1591 * "Transitive_Closure.ntrancl": bounded transitive closure on
  1592 relations.
  1593 
  1594 * Constant "Set.not_member" now qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1595 
  1596 * Theory Int: Discontinued many legacy theorems specific to type int.
  1597 INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems instead.
  1598 
  1599   zminus_zminus ~> minus_minus
  1600   zminus_0 ~> minus_zero
  1601   zminus_zadd_distrib ~> minus_add_distrib
  1602   zadd_commute ~> add_commute
  1603   zadd_assoc ~> add_assoc
  1604   zadd_left_commute ~> add_left_commute
  1605   zadd_ac ~> add_ac
  1606   zmult_ac ~> mult_ac
  1607   zadd_0 ~> add_0_left
  1608   zadd_0_right ~> add_0_right
  1609   zadd_zminus_inverse2 ~> left_minus
  1610   zmult_zminus ~> mult_minus_left
  1611   zmult_commute ~> mult_commute
  1612   zmult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
  1613   zadd_zmult_distrib ~> left_distrib
  1614   zadd_zmult_distrib2 ~> right_distrib
  1615   zdiff_zmult_distrib ~> left_diff_distrib
  1616   zdiff_zmult_distrib2 ~> right_diff_distrib
  1617   zmult_1 ~> mult_1_left
  1618   zmult_1_right ~> mult_1_right
  1619   zle_refl ~> order_refl
  1620   zle_trans ~> order_trans
  1621   zle_antisym ~> order_antisym
  1622   zle_linear ~> linorder_linear
  1623   zless_linear ~> linorder_less_linear
  1624   zadd_left_mono ~> add_left_mono
  1625   zadd_strict_right_mono ~> add_strict_right_mono
  1626   zadd_zless_mono ~> add_less_le_mono
  1627   int_0_less_1 ~> zero_less_one
  1628   int_0_neq_1 ~> zero_neq_one
  1629   zless_le ~> less_le
  1630   zpower_zadd_distrib ~> power_add
  1631   zero_less_zpower_abs_iff ~> zero_less_power_abs_iff
  1632   zero_le_zpower_abs ~> zero_le_power_abs
  1633 
  1634 * Theory Deriv: Renamed
  1635 
  1636   DERIV_nonneg_imp_nonincreasing ~> DERIV_nonneg_imp_nondecreasing
  1637 
  1638 * Theory Library/Multiset: Improved code generation of multisets.
  1639 
  1640 * Theory HOL/Library/Set_Algebras: Addition and multiplication on sets
  1641 are expressed via type classes again. The special syntax
  1642 \<oplus>/\<otimes> has been replaced by plain +/*. Removed constant
  1643 setsum_set, which is now subsumed by Big_Operators.setsum.
  1644 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1645 
  1646 * Theory HOL/Library/Diagonalize has been removed. INCOMPATIBILITY,
  1647 use theory HOL/Library/Nat_Bijection instead.
  1648 
  1649 * Theory HOL/Library/RBT_Impl: Backing implementation of red-black
  1650 trees is now inside a type class context.  Names of affected
  1651 operations and lemmas have been prefixed by rbt_.  INCOMPATIBILITY for
  1652 theories working directly with raw red-black trees, adapt the names as
  1653 follows:
  1654 
  1655   Operations:
  1656   bulkload -> rbt_bulkload
  1657   del_from_left -> rbt_del_from_left
  1658   del_from_right -> rbt_del_from_right
  1659   del -> rbt_del
  1660   delete -> rbt_delete
  1661   ins -> rbt_ins
  1662   insert -> rbt_insert
  1663   insertw -> rbt_insert_with
  1664   insert_with_key -> rbt_insert_with_key
  1665   map_entry -> rbt_map_entry
  1666   lookup -> rbt_lookup
  1667   sorted -> rbt_sorted
  1668   tree_greater -> rbt_greater
  1669   tree_less -> rbt_less
  1670   tree_less_symbol -> rbt_less_symbol
  1671   union -> rbt_union
  1672   union_with -> rbt_union_with
  1673   union_with_key -> rbt_union_with_key
  1674 
  1675   Lemmas:
  1676   balance_left_sorted -> balance_left_rbt_sorted
  1677   balance_left_tree_greater -> balance_left_rbt_greater
  1678   balance_left_tree_less -> balance_left_rbt_less
  1679   balance_right_sorted -> balance_right_rbt_sorted
  1680   balance_right_tree_greater -> balance_right_rbt_greater
  1681   balance_right_tree_less -> balance_right_rbt_less
  1682   balance_sorted -> balance_rbt_sorted
  1683   balance_tree_greater -> balance_rbt_greater
  1684   balance_tree_less -> balance_rbt_less
  1685   bulkload_is_rbt -> rbt_bulkload_is_rbt
  1686   combine_sorted -> combine_rbt_sorted
  1687   combine_tree_greater -> combine_rbt_greater
  1688   combine_tree_less -> combine_rbt_less
  1689   delete_in_tree -> rbt_delete_in_tree
  1690   delete_is_rbt -> rbt_delete_is_rbt
  1691   del_from_left_tree_greater -> rbt_del_from_left_rbt_greater
  1692   del_from_left_tree_less -> rbt_del_from_left_rbt_less
  1693   del_from_right_tree_greater -> rbt_del_from_right_rbt_greater
  1694   del_from_right_tree_less -> rbt_del_from_right_rbt_less
  1695   del_in_tree -> rbt_del_in_tree
  1696   del_inv1_inv2 -> rbt_del_inv1_inv2
  1697   del_sorted -> rbt_del_rbt_sorted
  1698   del_tree_greater -> rbt_del_rbt_greater
  1699   del_tree_less -> rbt_del_rbt_less
  1700   dom_lookup_Branch -> dom_rbt_lookup_Branch
  1701   entries_lookup -> entries_rbt_lookup
  1702   finite_dom_lookup -> finite_dom_rbt_lookup
  1703   insert_sorted -> rbt_insert_rbt_sorted
  1704   insertw_is_rbt -> rbt_insertw_is_rbt
  1705   insertwk_is_rbt -> rbt_insertwk_is_rbt
  1706   insertwk_sorted -> rbt_insertwk_rbt_sorted
  1707   insertw_sorted -> rbt_insertw_rbt_sorted
  1708   ins_sorted -> ins_rbt_sorted
  1709   ins_tree_greater -> ins_rbt_greater
  1710   ins_tree_less -> ins_rbt_less
  1711   is_rbt_sorted -> is_rbt_rbt_sorted
  1712   lookup_balance -> rbt_lookup_balance
  1713   lookup_bulkload -> rbt_lookup_rbt_bulkload
  1714   lookup_delete -> rbt_lookup_rbt_delete
  1715   lookup_Empty -> rbt_lookup_Empty
  1716   lookup_from_in_tree -> rbt_lookup_from_in_tree
  1717   lookup_in_tree -> rbt_lookup_in_tree
  1718   lookup_ins -> rbt_lookup_ins
  1719   lookup_insert -> rbt_lookup_rbt_insert
  1720   lookup_insertw -> rbt_lookup_rbt_insertw
  1721   lookup_insertwk -> rbt_lookup_rbt_insertwk
  1722   lookup_keys -> rbt_lookup_keys
  1723   lookup_map -> rbt_lookup_map
  1724   lookup_map_entry -> rbt_lookup_rbt_map_entry
  1725   lookup_tree_greater -> rbt_lookup_rbt_greater
  1726   lookup_tree_less -> rbt_lookup_rbt_less
  1727   lookup_union -> rbt_lookup_rbt_union
  1728   map_entry_color_of -> rbt_map_entry_color_of
  1729   map_entry_inv1 -> rbt_map_entry_inv1
  1730   map_entry_inv2 -> rbt_map_entry_inv2
  1731   map_entry_is_rbt -> rbt_map_entry_is_rbt
  1732   map_entry_sorted -> rbt_map_entry_rbt_sorted
  1733   map_entry_tree_greater -> rbt_map_entry_rbt_greater
  1734   map_entry_tree_less -> rbt_map_entry_rbt_less
  1735   map_tree_greater -> map_rbt_greater
  1736   map_tree_less -> map_rbt_less
  1737   map_sorted -> map_rbt_sorted
  1738   paint_sorted -> paint_rbt_sorted
  1739   paint_lookup -> paint_rbt_lookup
  1740   paint_tree_greater -> paint_rbt_greater
  1741   paint_tree_less -> paint_rbt_less
  1742   sorted_entries -> rbt_sorted_entries
  1743   tree_greater_eq_trans -> rbt_greater_eq_trans
  1744   tree_greater_nit -> rbt_greater_nit
  1745   tree_greater_prop -> rbt_greater_prop
  1746   tree_greater_simps -> rbt_greater_simps
  1747   tree_greater_trans -> rbt_greater_trans
  1748   tree_less_eq_trans -> rbt_less_eq_trans
  1749   tree_less_nit -> rbt_less_nit
  1750   tree_less_prop -> rbt_less_prop
  1751   tree_less_simps -> rbt_less_simps
  1752   tree_less_trans -> rbt_less_trans
  1753   tree_ord_props -> rbt_ord_props
  1754   union_Branch -> rbt_union_Branch
  1755   union_is_rbt -> rbt_union_is_rbt
  1756   unionw_is_rbt -> rbt_unionw_is_rbt
  1757   unionwk_is_rbt -> rbt_unionwk_is_rbt
  1758   unionwk_sorted -> rbt_unionwk_rbt_sorted
  1759 
  1760 * Theory HOL/Library/Float: Floating point numbers are now defined as
  1761 a subset of the real numbers.  All operations are defined using the
  1762 lifing-framework and proofs use the transfer method.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1763 
  1764   Changed Operations:
  1765   float_abs -> abs
  1766   float_nprt -> nprt
  1767   float_pprt -> pprt
  1768   pow2 -> use powr
  1769   round_down -> float_round_down
  1770   round_up -> float_round_up
  1771   scale -> exponent
  1772 
  1773   Removed Operations:
  1774   ceiling_fl, lb_mult, lb_mod, ub_mult, ub_mod
  1775 
  1776   Renamed Lemmas:
  1777   abs_float_def -> Float.compute_float_abs
  1778   bitlen_ge0 -> bitlen_nonneg
  1779   bitlen.simps -> Float.compute_bitlen
  1780   float_components -> Float_mantissa_exponent
  1781   float_divl.simps -> Float.compute_float_divl
  1782   float_divr.simps -> Float.compute_float_divr
  1783   float_eq_odd -> mult_powr_eq_mult_powr_iff
  1784   float_power -> real_of_float_power
  1785   lapprox_posrat_def -> Float.compute_lapprox_posrat
  1786   lapprox_rat.simps -> Float.compute_lapprox_rat
  1787   le_float_def' -> Float.compute_float_le
  1788   le_float_def -> less_eq_float.rep_eq
  1789   less_float_def' -> Float.compute_float_less
  1790   less_float_def -> less_float.rep_eq
  1791   normfloat_def -> Float.compute_normfloat
  1792   normfloat_imp_odd_or_zero -> mantissa_not_dvd and mantissa_noteq_0
  1793   normfloat -> normfloat_def
  1794   normfloat_unique -> use normfloat_def
  1795   number_of_float_Float -> Float.compute_float_numeral, Float.compute_float_neg_numeral
  1796   one_float_def -> Float.compute_float_one
  1797   plus_float_def -> Float.compute_float_plus
  1798   rapprox_posrat_def -> Float.compute_rapprox_posrat
  1799   rapprox_rat.simps -> Float.compute_rapprox_rat
  1800   real_of_float_0 -> zero_float.rep_eq
  1801   real_of_float_1 -> one_float.rep_eq
  1802   real_of_float_abs -> abs_float.rep_eq
  1803   real_of_float_add -> plus_float.rep_eq
  1804   real_of_float_minus -> uminus_float.rep_eq
  1805   real_of_float_mult -> times_float.rep_eq
  1806   real_of_float_simp -> Float.rep_eq
  1807   real_of_float_sub -> minus_float.rep_eq
  1808   round_down.simps -> Float.compute_float_round_down
  1809   round_up.simps -> Float.compute_float_round_up
  1810   times_float_def -> Float.compute_float_times
  1811   uminus_float_def -> Float.compute_float_uminus
  1812   zero_float_def -> Float.compute_float_zero
  1813 
  1814   Lemmas not necessary anymore, use the transfer method:
  1815   bitlen_B0, bitlen_B1, bitlen_ge1, bitlen_Min, bitlen_Pls, float_divl,
  1816   float_divr, float_le_simp, float_less1_mantissa_bound,
  1817   float_less_simp, float_less_zero, float_le_zero,
  1818   float_pos_less1_e_neg, float_pos_m_pos, float_split, float_split2,
  1819   floor_pos_exp, lapprox_posrat, lapprox_posrat_bottom, lapprox_rat,
  1820   lapprox_rat_bottom, normalized_float, rapprox_posrat,
  1821   rapprox_posrat_le1, rapprox_rat, real_of_float_ge0_exp,
  1822   real_of_float_neg_exp, real_of_float_nge0_exp, round_down floor_fl,
  1823   round_up, zero_le_float, zero_less_float
  1824 
  1825 * New theory HOL/Library/DAList provides an abstract type for
  1826 association lists with distinct keys.
  1827 
  1828 * Session HOL/IMP: Added new theory of abstract interpretation of
  1829 annotated commands.
  1830 
  1831 * Session HOL-Import: Re-implementation from scratch is faster,
  1832 simpler, and more scalable.  Requires a proof bundle, which is
  1833 available as an external component.  Discontinued old (and mostly
  1834 dead) Importer for HOL4 and HOL Light.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1835 
  1836 * Session HOL-Word: Discontinued many redundant theorems specific to
  1837 type 'a word. INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems
  1838 instead.
  1839 
  1840   word_sub_alt ~> word_sub_wi
  1841   word_add_alt ~> word_add_def
  1842   word_mult_alt ~> word_mult_def
  1843   word_minus_alt ~> word_minus_def
  1844   word_0_alt ~> word_0_wi
  1845   word_1_alt ~> word_1_wi
  1846   word_add_0 ~> add_0_left
  1847   word_add_0_right ~> add_0_right
  1848   word_mult_1 ~> mult_1_left
  1849   word_mult_1_right ~> mult_1_right
  1850   word_add_commute ~> add_commute
  1851   word_add_assoc ~> add_assoc
  1852   word_add_left_commute ~> add_left_commute
  1853   word_mult_commute ~> mult_commute
  1854   word_mult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
  1855   word_mult_left_commute ~> mult_left_commute
  1856   word_left_distrib ~> left_distrib
  1857   word_right_distrib ~> right_distrib
  1858   word_left_minus ~> left_minus
  1859   word_diff_0_right ~> diff_0_right
  1860   word_diff_self ~> diff_self
  1861   word_sub_def ~> diff_minus
  1862   word_diff_minus ~> diff_minus
  1863   word_add_ac ~> add_ac
  1864   word_mult_ac ~> mult_ac
  1865   word_plus_ac0 ~> add_0_left add_0_right add_ac
  1866   word_times_ac1 ~> mult_1_left mult_1_right mult_ac
  1867   word_order_trans ~> order_trans
  1868   word_order_refl ~> order_refl
  1869   word_order_antisym ~> order_antisym
  1870   word_order_linear ~> linorder_linear
  1871   lenw1_zero_neq_one ~> zero_neq_one
  1872   word_number_of_eq ~> number_of_eq
  1873   word_of_int_add_hom ~> wi_hom_add
  1874   word_of_int_sub_hom ~> wi_hom_sub
  1875   word_of_int_mult_hom ~> wi_hom_mult
  1876   word_of_int_minus_hom ~> wi_hom_neg
  1877   word_of_int_succ_hom ~> wi_hom_succ
  1878   word_of_int_pred_hom ~> wi_hom_pred
  1879   word_of_int_0_hom ~> word_0_wi
  1880   word_of_int_1_hom ~> word_1_wi
  1881 
  1882 * Session HOL-Word: New proof method "word_bitwise" for splitting
  1883 machine word equalities and inequalities into logical circuits,
  1884 defined in HOL/Word/WordBitwise.thy.  Supports addition, subtraction,
  1885 multiplication, shifting by constants, bitwise operators and numeric
  1886 constants.  Requires fixed-length word types, not 'a word.  Solves
  1887 many standard word identities outright and converts more into first
  1888 order problems amenable to blast or similar.  See also examples in
  1889 HOL/Word/Examples/WordExamples.thy.
  1890 
  1891 * Session HOL-Probability: Introduced the type "'a measure" to
  1892 represent measures, this replaces the records 'a algebra and 'a
  1893 measure_space.  The locales based on subset_class now have two
  1894 locale-parameters the space \<Omega> and the set of measurable sets M.
  1895 The product of probability spaces uses now the same constant as the
  1896 finite product of sigma-finite measure spaces "PiM :: ('i => 'a)
  1897 measure".  Most constants are defined now outside of locales and gain
  1898 an additional parameter, like null_sets, almost_eventually or \<mu>'.
  1899 Measure space constructions for distributions and densities now got
  1900 their own constants distr and density.  Instead of using locales to
  1901 describe measure spaces with a finite space, the measure count_space
  1902 and point_measure is introduced.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1903 
  1904   Renamed constants:
  1905   measure -> emeasure
  1906   finite_measure.\<mu>' -> measure
  1907   product_algebra_generator -> prod_algebra
  1908   product_prob_space.emb -> prod_emb
  1909   product_prob_space.infprod_algebra -> PiM
  1910 
  1911   Removed locales:
  1912   completeable_measure_space
  1913   finite_measure_space
  1914   finite_prob_space
  1915   finite_product_finite_prob_space
  1916   finite_product_sigma_algebra
  1917   finite_sigma_algebra
  1918   measure_space
  1919   pair_finite_prob_space
  1920   pair_finite_sigma_algebra
  1921   pair_finite_space
  1922   pair_sigma_algebra
  1923   product_sigma_algebra
  1924 
  1925   Removed constants:
  1926   conditional_space
  1927   distribution -> use distr measure, or distributed predicate
  1928   image_space
  1929   joint_distribution -> use distr measure, or distributed predicate
  1930   pair_measure_generator
  1931   product_prob_space.infprod_algebra -> use PiM
  1932   subvimage
  1933 
  1934   Replacement theorems:
  1935   finite_additivity_sufficient -> ring_of_sets.countably_additiveI_finite
  1936   finite_measure.empty_measure -> measure_empty
  1937   finite_measure.finite_continuity_from_above -> finite_measure.finite_Lim_measure_decseq
  1938   finite_measure.finite_continuity_from_below -> finite_measure.finite_Lim_measure_incseq
  1939   finite_measure.finite_measure_countably_subadditive -> finite_measure.finite_measure_subadditive_countably
  1940   finite_measure.finite_measure_eq -> finite_measure.emeasure_eq_measure
  1941   finite_measure.finite_measure -> finite_measure.emeasure_finite
  1942   finite_measure.finite_measure_finite_singleton -> finite_measure.finite_measure_eq_setsum_singleton
  1943   finite_measure.positive_measure' -> measure_nonneg
  1944   finite_measure.real_measure -> finite_measure.emeasure_real
  1945   finite_product_prob_space.finite_measure_times -> finite_product_prob_space.finite_measure_PiM_emb
  1946   finite_product_sigma_algebra.in_P -> sets_PiM_I_finite
  1947   finite_product_sigma_algebra.P_empty -> space_PiM_empty, sets_PiM_empty
  1948   information_space.conditional_entropy_eq -> information_space.conditional_entropy_simple_distributed
  1949   information_space.conditional_entropy_positive -> information_space.conditional_entropy_nonneg_simple
  1950   information_space.conditional_mutual_information_eq_mutual_information -> information_space.conditional_mutual_information_eq_mutual_information_simple
  1951   information_space.conditional_mutual_information_generic_positive -> information_space.conditional_mutual_information_nonneg_simple
  1952   information_space.conditional_mutual_information_positive -> information_space.conditional_mutual_information_nonneg_simple
  1953   information_space.entropy_commute -> information_space.entropy_commute_simple
  1954   information_space.entropy_eq -> information_space.entropy_simple_distributed
  1955   information_space.entropy_generic_eq -> information_space.entropy_simple_distributed
  1956   information_space.entropy_positive -> information_space.entropy_nonneg_simple
  1957   information_space.entropy_uniform_max -> information_space.entropy_uniform
  1958   information_space.KL_eq_0_imp -> information_space.KL_eq_0_iff_eq
  1959   information_space.KL_eq_0 -> information_space.KL_same_eq_0
  1960   information_space.KL_ge_0 -> information_space.KL_nonneg
  1961   information_space.mutual_information_eq -> information_space.mutual_information_simple_distributed
  1962   information_space.mutual_information_positive -> information_space.mutual_information_nonneg_simple
  1963   Int_stable_cuboids -> Int_stable_atLeastAtMost
  1964   Int_stable_product_algebra_generator -> positive_integral
  1965   measure_preserving -> equality "distr M N f = N" "f : measurable M N"
  1966   measure_space.additive -> emeasure_additive
  1967   measure_space.AE_iff_null_set -> AE_iff_null
  1968   measure_space.almost_everywhere_def -> eventually_ae_filter
  1969   measure_space.almost_everywhere_vimage -> AE_distrD
  1970   measure_space.continuity_from_above -> INF_emeasure_decseq
  1971   measure_space.continuity_from_above_Lim -> Lim_emeasure_decseq
  1972   measure_space.continuity_from_below_Lim -> Lim_emeasure_incseq
  1973   measure_space.continuity_from_below -> SUP_emeasure_incseq
  1974   measure_space_density -> emeasure_density
  1975   measure_space.density_is_absolutely_continuous -> absolutely_continuousI_density
  1976   measure_space.integrable_vimage -> integrable_distr
  1977   measure_space.integral_translated_density -> integral_density
  1978   measure_space.integral_vimage -> integral_distr
  1979   measure_space.measure_additive -> plus_emeasure
  1980   measure_space.measure_compl -> emeasure_compl
  1981   measure_space.measure_countable_increasing -> emeasure_countable_increasing
  1982   measure_space.measure_countably_subadditive -> emeasure_subadditive_countably
  1983   measure_space.measure_decseq -> decseq_emeasure
  1984   measure_space.measure_Diff -> emeasure_Diff
  1985   measure_space.measure_Diff_null_set -> emeasure_Diff_null_set
  1986   measure_space.measure_eq_0 -> emeasure_eq_0
  1987   measure_space.measure_finitely_subadditive -> emeasure_subadditive_finite
  1988   measure_space.measure_finite_singleton -> emeasure_eq_setsum_singleton
  1989   measure_space.measure_incseq -> incseq_emeasure
  1990   measure_space.measure_insert -> emeasure_insert
  1991   measure_space.measure_mono -> emeasure_mono
  1992   measure_space.measure_not_negative -> emeasure_not_MInf
  1993   measure_space.measure_preserving_Int_stable -> measure_eqI_generator_eq
  1994   measure_space.measure_setsum -> setsum_emeasure
  1995   measure_space.measure_setsum_split -> setsum_emeasure_cover
  1996   measure_space.measure_space_vimage -> emeasure_distr
  1997   measure_space.measure_subadditive_finite -> emeasure_subadditive_finite
  1998   measure_space.measure_subadditive -> subadditive
  1999   measure_space.measure_top -> emeasure_space
  2000   measure_space.measure_UN_eq_0 -> emeasure_UN_eq_0
  2001   measure_space.measure_Un_null_set -> emeasure_Un_null_set
  2002   measure_space.positive_integral_translated_density -> positive_integral_density
  2003   measure_space.positive_integral_vimage -> positive_integral_distr
  2004   measure_space.real_continuity_from_above -> Lim_measure_decseq
  2005   measure_space.real_continuity_from_below -> Lim_measure_incseq
  2006   measure_space.real_measure_countably_subadditive -> measure_subadditive_countably
  2007   measure_space.real_measure_Diff -> measure_Diff
  2008   measure_space.real_measure_finite_Union -> measure_finite_Union
  2009   measure_space.real_measure_setsum_singleton -> measure_eq_setsum_singleton
  2010   measure_space.real_measure_subadditive -> measure_subadditive
  2011   measure_space.real_measure_Union -> measure_Union
  2012   measure_space.real_measure_UNION -> measure_UNION
  2013   measure_space.simple_function_vimage -> simple_function_comp
  2014   measure_space.simple_integral_vimage -> simple_integral_distr
  2015   measure_space.simple_integral_vimage -> simple_integral_distr
  2016   measure_unique_Int_stable -> measure_eqI_generator_eq
  2017   measure_unique_Int_stable_vimage -> measure_eqI_generator_eq
  2018   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_cut_fst -> sets_Pair1
  2019   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_cut_snd -> sets_Pair2
  2020   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_pair_image_fst -> measurable_Pair1
  2021   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_pair_image_snd -> measurable_Pair2
  2022   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_product_swap -> measurable_pair_swap_iff
  2023   pair_sigma_algebra.pair_sigma_algebra_measurable -> measurable_pair_swap
  2024   pair_sigma_algebra.pair_sigma_algebra_swap_measurable -> measurable_pair_swap'
  2025   pair_sigma_algebra.sets_swap -> sets_pair_swap
  2026   pair_sigma_finite.measure_cut_measurable_fst -> pair_sigma_finite.measurable_emeasure_Pair1
  2027   pair_sigma_finite.measure_cut_measurable_snd -> pair_sigma_finite.measurable_emeasure_Pair2
  2028   pair_sigma_finite.measure_preserving_swap -> pair_sigma_finite.distr_pair_swap
  2029   pair_sigma_finite.pair_measure_alt2 -> pair_sigma_finite.emeasure_pair_measure_alt2
  2030   pair_sigma_finite.pair_measure_alt -> pair_sigma_finite.emeasure_pair_measure_alt
  2031   pair_sigma_finite.pair_measure_times -> pair_sigma_finite.emeasure_pair_measure_Times
  2032   prob_space.indep_distribution_eq_measure -> prob_space.indep_vars_iff_distr_eq_PiM
  2033   prob_space.indep_var_distributionD -> prob_space.indep_var_distribution_eq
  2034   prob_space.measure_space_1 -> prob_space.emeasure_space_1
  2035   prob_space.prob_space_vimage -> prob_space_distr
  2036   prob_space.random_variable_restrict -> measurable_restrict
  2037   prob_space_unique_Int_stable -> measure_eqI_prob_space
  2038   product_algebraE -> prod_algebraE_all
  2039   product_algebra_generator_der -> prod_algebra_eq_finite
  2040   product_algebra_generator_into_space -> prod_algebra_sets_into_space
  2041   product_algebraI -> sets_PiM_I_finite
  2042   product_measure_exists -> product_sigma_finite.sigma_finite
  2043   product_prob_space.finite_index_eq_finite_product -> product_prob_space.sets_PiM_generator
  2044   product_prob_space.finite_measure_infprod_emb_Pi -> product_prob_space.measure_PiM_emb
  2045   product_prob_space.infprod_spec -> product_prob_space.emeasure_PiM_emb_not_empty
  2046   product_prob_space.measurable_component -> measurable_component_singleton
  2047   product_prob_space.measurable_emb -> measurable_prod_emb
  2048   product_prob_space.measurable_into_infprod_algebra -> measurable_PiM_single
  2049   product_prob_space.measurable_singleton_infprod -> measurable_component_singleton
  2050   product_prob_space.measure_emb -> emeasure_prod_emb
  2051   product_prob_space.measure_preserving_restrict -> product_prob_space.distr_restrict
  2052   product_sigma_algebra.product_algebra_into_space -> space_closed
  2053   product_sigma_finite.measure_fold -> product_sigma_finite.distr_merge
  2054   product_sigma_finite.measure_preserving_component_singelton -> product_sigma_finite.distr_singleton
  2055   product_sigma_finite.measure_preserving_merge -> product_sigma_finite.distr_merge
  2056   sequence_space.measure_infprod -> sequence_space.measure_PiM_countable
  2057   sets_product_algebra -> sets_PiM
  2058   sigma_algebra.measurable_sigma -> measurable_measure_of
  2059   sigma_finite_measure.disjoint_sigma_finite -> sigma_finite_disjoint
  2060   sigma_finite_measure.RN_deriv_vimage -> sigma_finite_measure.RN_deriv_distr
  2061   sigma_product_algebra_sigma_eq -> sigma_prod_algebra_sigma_eq
  2062   space_product_algebra -> space_PiM
  2063 
  2064 * Session HOL-TPTP: support to parse and import TPTP problems (all
  2065 languages) into Isabelle/HOL.
  2066 
  2067 
  2068 *** FOL ***
  2069 
  2070 * New "case_product" attribute (see HOL).
  2071 
  2072 
  2073 *** ZF ***
  2074 
  2075 * Greater support for structured proofs involving induction or case
  2076 analysis.
  2077 
  2078 * Much greater use of mathematical symbols.
  2079 
  2080 * Removal of many ML theorem bindings.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2081 
  2082 
  2083 *** ML ***
  2084 
  2085 * Antiquotation @{keyword "name"} produces a parser for outer syntax
  2086 from a minor keyword introduced via theory header declaration.
  2087 
  2088 * Antiquotation @{command_spec "name"} produces the
  2089 Outer_Syntax.command_spec from a major keyword introduced via theory
  2090 header declaration; it can be passed to Outer_Syntax.command etc.
  2091 
  2092 * Local_Theory.define no longer hard-wires default theorem name
  2093 "foo_def", but retains the binding as given.  If that is Binding.empty
  2094 / Attrib.empty_binding, the result is not registered as user-level
  2095 fact.  The Local_Theory.define_internal variant allows to specify a
  2096 non-empty name (used for the foundation in the background theory),
  2097 while omitting the fact binding in the user-context.  Potential
  2098 INCOMPATIBILITY for derived definitional packages: need to specify
  2099 naming policy for primitive definitions more explicitly.
  2100 
  2101 * Renamed Thm.capply to Thm.apply, and Thm.cabs to Thm.lambda in
  2102 conformance with similar operations in structure Term and Logic.
  2103 
  2104 * Antiquotation @{attributes [...]} embeds attribute source
  2105 representation into the ML text, which is particularly useful with
  2106 declarations like Local_Theory.note.
  2107 
  2108 * Structure Proof_Context follows standard naming scheme.  Old
  2109 ProofContext has been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2110 
  2111 * Refined Local_Theory.declaration {syntax, pervasive}, with subtle
  2112 change of semantics: update is applied to auxiliary local theory
  2113 context as well.
  2114 
  2115 * Modernized some old-style infix operations:
  2116 
  2117   addeqcongs    ~> Simplifier.add_eqcong
  2118   deleqcongs    ~> Simplifier.del_eqcong
  2119   addcongs      ~> Simplifier.add_cong
  2120   delcongs      ~> Simplifier.del_cong
  2121   setmksimps    ~> Simplifier.set_mksimps
  2122   setmkcong     ~> Simplifier.set_mkcong
  2123   setmksym      ~> Simplifier.set_mksym
  2124   setmkeqTrue   ~> Simplifier.set_mkeqTrue
  2125   settermless   ~> Simplifier.set_termless
  2126   setsubgoaler  ~> Simplifier.set_subgoaler
  2127   addsplits     ~> Splitter.add_split
  2128   delsplits     ~> Splitter.del_split
  2129 
  2130 
  2131 *** System ***
  2132 
  2133 * USER_HOME settings variable points to cross-platform user home
  2134 directory, which coincides with HOME on POSIX systems only.  Likewise,
  2135 the Isabelle path specification "~" now expands to $USER_HOME, instead
  2136 of former $HOME.  A different default for USER_HOME may be set
  2137 explicitly in shell environment, before Isabelle settings are
  2138 evaluated.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY: need to adapt Isabelle path where
  2139 the generic user home was intended.
  2140 
  2141 * ISABELLE_HOME_WINDOWS refers to ISABELLE_HOME in windows file name
  2142 notation, which is useful for the jEdit file browser, for example.
  2143 
  2144 * ISABELLE_JDK_HOME settings variable points to JDK with javac and jar
  2145 (not just JRE).
  2146 
  2147 
  2148 
  2149 New in Isabelle2011-1 (October 2011)
  2150 ------------------------------------
  2151 
  2152 *** General ***
  2153 
  2154 * Improved Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE (PIDE), which can be invoked as
  2155 "isabelle jedit" or "ISABELLE_HOME/Isabelle" on the command line.
  2156 
  2157   - Management of multiple theory files directly from the editor
  2158     buffer store -- bypassing the file-system (no requirement to save
  2159     files for checking).
  2160 
  2161   - Markup of formal entities within the text buffer, with semantic
  2162     highlighting, tooltips and hyperlinks to jump to defining source
  2163     positions.
  2164 
  2165   - Improved text rendering, with sub/superscripts in the source
  2166     buffer (including support for copy/paste wrt. output panel, HTML
  2167     theory output and other non-Isabelle text boxes).
  2168 
  2169   - Refined scheduling of proof checking and printing of results,
  2170     based on interactive editor view.  (Note: jEdit folding and
  2171     narrowing allows to restrict buffer perspectives explicitly.)
  2172 
  2173   - Reduced CPU performance requirements, usable on machines with few
  2174     cores.
  2175 
  2176   - Reduced memory requirements due to pruning of unused document
  2177     versions (garbage collection).
  2178 
  2179 See also ~~/src/Tools/jEdit/README.html for further information,
  2180 including some remaining limitations.
  2181 
  2182 * Theory loader: source files are exclusively located via the master
  2183 directory of each theory node (where the .thy file itself resides).
  2184 The global load path (such as src/HOL/Library) has been discontinued.
  2185 Note that the path element ~~ may be used to reference theories in the
  2186 Isabelle home folder -- for instance, "~~/src/HOL/Library/FuncSet".
  2187 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2188 
  2189 * Theory loader: source files are identified by content via SHA1
  2190 digests.  Discontinued former path/modtime identification and optional
  2191 ISABELLE_FILE_IDENT plugin scripts.
  2192 
  2193 * Parallelization of nested Isar proofs is subject to
  2194 Goal.parallel_proofs_threshold (default 100).  See also isabelle
  2195 usedir option -Q.
  2196 
  2197 * Name space: former unsynchronized references are now proper
  2198 configuration options, with more conventional names:
  2199 
  2200   long_names   ~> names_long
  2201   short_names  ~> names_short
  2202   unique_names ~> names_unique
  2203 
  2204 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, need to declare options in context like this:
  2205 
  2206   declare [[names_unique = false]]
  2207 
  2208 * Literal facts `prop` may contain dummy patterns, e.g. `_ = _`.  Note
  2209 that the result needs to be unique, which means fact specifications
  2210 may have to be refined after enriching a proof context.
  2211 
  2212 * Attribute "case_names" has been refined: the assumptions in each case
  2213 can be named now by following the case name with [name1 name2 ...].
  2214 
  2215 * Isabelle/Isar reference manual has been updated and extended:
  2216   - "Synopsis" provides a catalog of main Isar language concepts.
  2217   - Formal references in syntax diagrams, via @{rail} antiquotation.
  2218   - Updated material from classic "ref" manual, notably about
  2219     "Classical Reasoner".
  2220 
  2221 
  2222 *** HOL ***
  2223 
  2224 * Class bot and top require underlying partial order rather than
  2225 preorder: uniqueness of bot and top is guaranteed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2226 
  2227 * Class complete_lattice: generalized a couple of lemmas from sets;
  2228 generalized theorems INF_cong and SUP_cong.  New type classes for
  2229 complete boolean algebras and complete linear orders.  Lemmas
  2230 Inf_less_iff, less_Sup_iff, INF_less_iff, less_SUP_iff now reside in
  2231 class complete_linorder.
  2232 
  2233 Changed proposition of lemmas Inf_bool_def, Sup_bool_def, Inf_fun_def,
  2234 Sup_fun_def, Inf_apply, Sup_apply.
  2235 
  2236 Removed redundant lemmas (the right hand side gives hints how to
  2237 replace them for (metis ...), or (simp only: ...) proofs):
  2238 
  2239   Inf_singleton ~> Inf_insert [where A="{}", unfolded Inf_empty inf_top_right]
  2240   Sup_singleton ~> Sup_insert [where A="{}", unfolded Sup_empty sup_bot_right]
  2241   Inf_binary ~> Inf_insert, Inf_empty, and inf_top_right
  2242   Sup_binary ~> Sup_insert, Sup_empty, and sup_bot_right
  2243   Int_eq_Inter ~> Inf_insert, Inf_empty, and inf_top_right
  2244   Un_eq_Union ~> Sup_insert, Sup_empty, and sup_bot_right
  2245   Inter_def ~> INF_def, image_def
  2246   Union_def ~> SUP_def, image_def
  2247   INT_eq ~> INF_def, and image_def
  2248   UN_eq ~> SUP_def, and image_def
  2249   INF_subset ~> INF_superset_mono [OF _ order_refl]
  2250 
  2251 More consistent and comprehensive names:
  2252 
  2253   INTER_eq_Inter_image ~> INF_def
  2254   UNION_eq_Union_image ~> SUP_def
  2255   INFI_def ~> INF_def
  2256   SUPR_def ~> SUP_def
  2257   INF_leI ~> INF_lower
  2258   INF_leI2 ~> INF_lower2
  2259   le_INFI ~> INF_greatest
  2260   le_SUPI ~> SUP_upper
  2261   le_SUPI2 ~> SUP_upper2
  2262   SUP_leI ~> SUP_least
  2263   INFI_bool_eq ~> INF_bool_eq
  2264   SUPR_bool_eq ~> SUP_bool_eq
  2265   INFI_apply ~> INF_apply
  2266   SUPR_apply ~> SUP_apply
  2267   INTER_def ~> INTER_eq
  2268   UNION_def ~> UNION_eq
  2269 
  2270 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2271 
  2272 * Renamed theory Complete_Lattice to Complete_Lattices.
  2273 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2274 
  2275 * Theory Complete_Lattices: lemmas Inf_eq_top_iff, INF_eq_top_iff,
  2276 INF_image, Inf_insert, INF_top, Inf_top_conv, INF_top_conv, SUP_bot,
  2277 Sup_bot_conv, SUP_bot_conv, Sup_eq_top_iff, SUP_eq_top_iff, SUP_image,
  2278 Sup_insert are now declared as [simp].  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2279 
  2280 * Theory Lattice: lemmas compl_inf_bot, compl_le_comp_iff,
  2281 compl_sup_top, inf_idem, inf_left_idem, inf_sup_absorb, sup_idem,
  2282 sup_inf_absob, sup_left_idem are now declared as [simp].  Minor
  2283 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2284 
  2285 * Added syntactic classes "inf" and "sup" for the respective
  2286 constants.  INCOMPATIBILITY: Changes in the argument order of the
  2287 (mostly internal) locale predicates for some derived classes.
  2288 
  2289 * Theorem collections ball_simps and bex_simps do not contain theorems
  2290 referring to UNION any longer; these have been moved to collection
  2291 UN_ball_bex_simps.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2292 
  2293 * Theory Archimedean_Field: floor now is defined as parameter of a
  2294 separate type class floor_ceiling.
  2295 
  2296 * Theory Finite_Set: more coherent development of fold_set locales:
  2297 
  2298     locale fun_left_comm ~> locale comp_fun_commute
  2299     locale fun_left_comm_idem ~> locale comp_fun_idem
  2300 
  2301 Both use point-free characterization; interpretation proofs may need
  2302 adjustment.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2303 
  2304 * Theory Limits: Type "'a net" has been renamed to "'a filter", in
  2305 accordance with standard mathematical terminology. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2306 
  2307 * Theory Complex_Main: The locale interpretations for the
  2308 bounded_linear and bounded_bilinear locales have been removed, in
  2309 order to reduce the number of duplicate lemmas. Users must use the
  2310 original names for distributivity theorems, potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2311 
  2312   divide.add ~> add_divide_distrib
  2313   divide.diff ~> diff_divide_distrib
  2314   divide.setsum ~> setsum_divide_distrib
  2315   mult.add_right ~> right_distrib
  2316   mult.diff_right ~> right_diff_distrib
  2317   mult_right.setsum ~> setsum_right_distrib
  2318   mult_left.diff ~> left_diff_distrib
  2319 
  2320 * Theory Complex_Main: Several redundant theorems have been removed or
  2321 replaced by more general versions. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2322 
  2323   real_diff_def ~> minus_real_def
  2324   real_divide_def ~> divide_real_def
  2325   real_less_def ~> less_le
  2326   real_abs_def ~> abs_real_def
  2327   real_sgn_def ~> sgn_real_def
  2328   real_mult_commute ~> mult_commute
  2329   real_mult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
  2330   real_mult_1 ~> mult_1_left
  2331   real_add_mult_distrib ~> left_distrib
  2332   real_zero_not_eq_one ~> zero_neq_one
  2333   real_mult_inverse_left ~> left_inverse
  2334   INVERSE_ZERO ~> inverse_zero
  2335   real_le_refl ~> order_refl
  2336   real_le_antisym ~> order_antisym
  2337   real_le_trans ~> order_trans
  2338   real_le_linear ~> linear
  2339   real_le_eq_diff ~> le_iff_diff_le_0
  2340   real_add_left_mono ~> add_left_mono
  2341   real_mult_order ~> mult_pos_pos
  2342   real_mult_less_mono2 ~> mult_strict_left_mono
  2343   real_of_int_real_of_nat ~> real_of_int_of_nat_eq
  2344   real_0_le_divide_iff ~> zero_le_divide_iff
  2345   realpow_two_disj ~> power2_eq_iff
  2346   real_squared_diff_one_factored ~> square_diff_one_factored
  2347   realpow_two_diff ~> square_diff_square_factored
  2348   reals_complete2 ~> complete_real
  2349   real_sum_squared_expand ~> power2_sum
  2350   exp_ln_eq ~> ln_unique
  2351   expi_add ~> exp_add
  2352   expi_zero ~> exp_zero
  2353   lemma_DERIV_subst ~> DERIV_cong
  2354   LIMSEQ_Zfun_iff ~> tendsto_Zfun_iff
  2355   LIMSEQ_const ~> tendsto_const
  2356   LIMSEQ_norm ~> tendsto_norm
  2357   LIMSEQ_add ~> tendsto_add
  2358   LIMSEQ_minus ~> tendsto_minus
  2359   LIMSEQ_minus_cancel ~> tendsto_minus_cancel
  2360   LIMSEQ_diff ~> tendsto_diff
  2361   bounded_linear.LIMSEQ ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
  2362   bounded_bilinear.LIMSEQ ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto
  2363   LIMSEQ_mult ~> tendsto_mult
  2364   LIMSEQ_inverse ~> tendsto_inverse
  2365   LIMSEQ_divide ~> tendsto_divide
  2366   LIMSEQ_pow ~> tendsto_power
  2367   LIMSEQ_setsum ~> tendsto_setsum
  2368   LIMSEQ_setprod ~> tendsto_setprod
  2369   LIMSEQ_norm_zero ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff
  2370   LIMSEQ_rabs_zero ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_iff
  2371   LIMSEQ_imp_rabs ~> tendsto_rabs
  2372   LIMSEQ_add_minus ~> tendsto_add [OF _ tendsto_minus]
  2373   LIMSEQ_add_const ~> tendsto_add [OF _ tendsto_const]
  2374   LIMSEQ_diff_const ~> tendsto_diff [OF _ tendsto_const]
  2375   LIMSEQ_Complex ~> tendsto_Complex
  2376   LIM_ident ~> tendsto_ident_at
  2377   LIM_const ~> tendsto_const
  2378   LIM_add ~> tendsto_add
  2379   LIM_add_zero ~> tendsto_add_zero
  2380   LIM_minus ~> tendsto_minus
  2381   LIM_diff ~> tendsto_diff
  2382   LIM_norm ~> tendsto_norm
  2383   LIM_norm_zero ~> tendsto_norm_zero
  2384   LIM_norm_zero_cancel ~> tendsto_norm_zero_cancel
  2385   LIM_norm_zero_iff ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff
  2386   LIM_rabs ~> tendsto_rabs
  2387   LIM_rabs_zero ~> tendsto_rabs_zero
  2388   LIM_rabs_zero_cancel ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_cancel
  2389   LIM_rabs_zero_iff ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_iff
  2390   LIM_compose ~> tendsto_compose
  2391   LIM_mult ~> tendsto_mult
  2392   LIM_scaleR ~> tendsto_scaleR
  2393   LIM_of_real ~> tendsto_of_real
  2394   LIM_power ~> tendsto_power
  2395   LIM_inverse ~> tendsto_inverse
  2396   LIM_sgn ~> tendsto_sgn
  2397   isCont_LIM_compose ~> isCont_tendsto_compose
  2398   bounded_linear.LIM ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
  2399   bounded_linear.LIM_zero ~> bounded_linear.tendsto_zero
  2400   bounded_bilinear.LIM ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto
  2401   bounded_bilinear.LIM_prod_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_zero
  2402   bounded_bilinear.LIM_left_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_left_zero
  2403   bounded_bilinear.LIM_right_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_right_zero
  2404   LIM_inverse_fun ~> tendsto_inverse [OF tendsto_ident_at]
  2405 
  2406 * Theory Complex_Main: The definition of infinite series was
  2407 generalized.  Now it is defined on the type class {topological_space,
  2408 comm_monoid_add}.  Hence it is useable also for extended real numbers.
  2409 
  2410 * Theory Complex_Main: The complex exponential function "expi" is now
  2411 a type-constrained abbreviation for "exp :: complex => complex"; thus
  2412 several polymorphic lemmas about "exp" are now applicable to "expi".
  2413 
  2414 * Code generation:
  2415 
  2416   - Theory Library/Code_Char_ord provides native ordering of
  2417     characters in the target language.
  2418 
  2419   - Commands code_module and code_library are legacy, use export_code
  2420     instead.
  2421 
  2422   - Method "evaluation" is legacy, use method "eval" instead.
  2423 
  2424   - Legacy evaluator "SML" is deactivated by default.  May be
  2425     reactivated by the following theory command:
  2426 
  2427       setup {* Value.add_evaluator ("SML", Codegen.eval_term) *}
  2428 
  2429 * Declare ext [intro] by default.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2430 
  2431 * New proof method "induction" that gives induction hypotheses the
  2432 name "IH", thus distinguishing them from further hypotheses that come
  2433 from rule induction.  The latter are still called "hyps".  Method
  2434 "induction" is a thin wrapper around "induct" and follows the same
  2435 syntax.
  2436 
  2437 * Method "fastsimp" has been renamed to "fastforce", but "fastsimp" is
  2438 still available as a legacy feature for some time.
  2439 
  2440 * Nitpick:
  2441   - Added "need" and "total_consts" options.
  2442   - Reintroduced "show_skolems" option by popular demand.
  2443   - Renamed attribute: nitpick_def ~> nitpick_unfold.
  2444     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2445 
  2446 * Sledgehammer:
  2447   - Use quasi-sound (and efficient) translations by default.
  2448   - Added support for the following provers: E-ToFoF, LEO-II,
  2449     Satallax, SNARK, Waldmeister, and Z3 with TPTP syntax.
  2450   - Automatically preplay and minimize proofs before showing them if
  2451     this can be done within reasonable time.
  2452   - sledgehammer available_provers ~> sledgehammer supported_provers.
  2453     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2454   - Added "preplay_timeout", "slicing", "type_enc", "sound",
  2455     "max_mono_iters", and "max_new_mono_instances" options.
  2456   - Removed "explicit_apply" and "full_types" options as well as "Full
  2457     Types" Proof General menu item. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2458 
  2459 * Metis:
  2460   - Removed "metisF" -- use "metis" instead. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2461   - Obsoleted "metisFT" -- use "metis (full_types)" instead.
  2462     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2463 
  2464 * Command 'try':
  2465   - Renamed 'try_methods' and added "simp:", "intro:", "dest:", and
  2466     "elim:" options. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2467   - Introduced 'try' that not only runs 'try_methods' but also
  2468     'solve_direct', 'sledgehammer', 'quickcheck', and 'nitpick'.
  2469 
  2470 * Quickcheck:
  2471   - Added "eval" option to evaluate terms for the found counterexample
  2472     (currently only supported by the default (exhaustive) tester).
  2473   - Added post-processing of terms to obtain readable counterexamples
  2474     (currently only supported by the default (exhaustive) tester).
  2475   - New counterexample generator quickcheck[narrowing] enables
  2476     narrowing-based testing.  Requires the Glasgow Haskell compiler
  2477     with its installation location defined in the Isabelle settings
  2478     environment as ISABELLE_GHC.
  2479   - Removed quickcheck tester "SML" based on the SML code generator
  2480     (formly in HOL/Library).
  2481 
  2482 * Function package: discontinued option "tailrec".  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  2483 use 'partial_function' instead.
  2484 
  2485 * Theory Library/Extended_Reals replaces now the positive extended
  2486 reals found in probability theory. This file is extended by
  2487 Multivariate_Analysis/Extended_Real_Limits.
  2488 
  2489 * Theory Library/Old_Recdef: old 'recdef' package has been moved here,
  2490 from where it must be imported explicitly if it is really required.
  2491 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2492 
  2493 * Theory Library/Wfrec: well-founded recursion combinator "wfrec" has
  2494 been moved here.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2495 
  2496 * Theory Library/Saturated provides type of numbers with saturated
  2497 arithmetic.
  2498 
  2499 * Theory Library/Product_Lattice defines a pointwise ordering for the
  2500 product type 'a * 'b, and provides instance proofs for various order
  2501 and lattice type classes.
  2502 
  2503 * Theory Library/Countable now provides the "countable_datatype" proof
  2504 method for proving "countable" class instances for datatypes.
  2505 
  2506 * Theory Library/Cset_Monad allows do notation for computable sets
  2507 (cset) via the generic monad ad-hoc overloading facility.
  2508 
  2509 * Library: Theories of common data structures are split into theories
  2510 for implementation, an invariant-ensuring type, and connection to an
  2511 abstract type. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2512 
  2513   - RBT is split into RBT and RBT_Mapping.
  2514   - AssocList is split and renamed into AList and AList_Mapping.
  2515   - DList is split into DList_Impl, DList, and DList_Cset.
  2516   - Cset is split into Cset and List_Cset.
  2517 
  2518 * Theory Library/Nat_Infinity has been renamed to
  2519 Library/Extended_Nat, with name changes of the following types and
  2520 constants:
  2521 
  2522   type inat   ~> type enat
  2523   Fin         ~> enat
  2524   Infty       ~> infinity (overloaded)
  2525   iSuc        ~> eSuc
  2526   the_Fin     ~> the_enat
  2527 
  2528 Every theorem name containing "inat", "Fin", "Infty", or "iSuc" has
  2529 been renamed accordingly. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2530 
  2531 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: The euclidean_space type class now
  2532 fixes a constant "Basis :: 'a set" consisting of the standard
  2533 orthonormal basis for the type. Users now have the option of
  2534 quantifying over this set instead of using the "basis" function, e.g.
  2535 "ALL x:Basis. P x" vs "ALL i<DIM('a). P (basis i)".
  2536 
  2537 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: Type "('a, 'b) cart" has been renamed
  2538 to "('a, 'b) vec" (the syntax "'a ^ 'b" remains unaffected). Constants
  2539 "Cart_nth" and "Cart_lambda" have been respectively renamed to
  2540 "vec_nth" and "vec_lambda"; theorems mentioning those names have
  2541 changed to match. Definition theorems for overloaded constants now use
  2542 the standard "foo_vec_def" naming scheme. A few other theorems have
  2543 been renamed as follows (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  2544 
  2545   Cart_eq          ~> vec_eq_iff
  2546   dist_nth_le_cart ~> dist_vec_nth_le
  2547   tendsto_vector   ~> vec_tendstoI
  2548   Cauchy_vector    ~> vec_CauchyI
  2549 
  2550 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: Several duplicate theorems have been
  2551 removed, and other theorems have been renamed or replaced with more
  2552 general versions. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2553 
  2554   finite_choice ~> finite_set_choice
  2555   eventually_conjI ~> eventually_conj
  2556   eventually_and ~> eventually_conj_iff
  2557   eventually_false ~> eventually_False
  2558   setsum_norm ~> norm_setsum
  2559   Lim_sequentially ~> LIMSEQ_def
  2560   Lim_ident_at ~> LIM_ident
  2561   Lim_const ~> tendsto_const
  2562   Lim_cmul ~> tendsto_scaleR [OF tendsto_const]
  2563   Lim_neg ~> tendsto_minus
  2564   Lim_add ~> tendsto_add
  2565   Lim_sub ~> tendsto_diff
  2566   Lim_mul ~> tendsto_scaleR
  2567   Lim_vmul ~> tendsto_scaleR [OF _ tendsto_const]
  2568   Lim_null_norm ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff [symmetric]
  2569   Lim_linear ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
  2570   Lim_component ~> tendsto_euclidean_component
  2571   Lim_component_cart ~> tendsto_vec_nth
  2572   Lim_inner ~> tendsto_inner [OF tendsto_const]
  2573   dot_lsum ~> inner_setsum_left
  2574   dot_rsum ~> inner_setsum_right
  2575   continuous_cmul ~> continuous_scaleR [OF continuous_const]
  2576   continuous_neg ~> continuous_minus
  2577   continuous_sub ~> continuous_diff
  2578   continuous_vmul ~> continuous_scaleR [OF _ continuous_const]
  2579   continuous_mul ~> continuous_scaleR
  2580   continuous_inv ~> continuous_inverse
  2581   continuous_at_within_inv ~> continuous_at_within_inverse
  2582   continuous_at_inv ~> continuous_at_inverse
  2583   continuous_at_norm ~> continuous_norm [OF continuous_at_id]
  2584   continuous_at_infnorm ~> continuous_infnorm [OF continuous_at_id]
  2585   continuous_at_component ~> continuous_component [OF continuous_at_id]
  2586   continuous_on_neg ~> continuous_on_minus
  2587   continuous_on_sub ~> continuous_on_diff
  2588   continuous_on_cmul ~> continuous_on_scaleR [OF continuous_on_const]
  2589   continuous_on_vmul ~> continuous_on_scaleR [OF _ continuous_on_const]
  2590   continuous_on_mul ~> continuous_on_scaleR
  2591   continuous_on_mul_real ~> continuous_on_mult
  2592   continuous_on_inner ~> continuous_on_inner [OF continuous_on_const]
  2593   continuous_on_norm ~> continuous_on_norm [OF continuous_on_id]
  2594   continuous_on_inverse ~> continuous_on_inv
  2595   uniformly_continuous_on_neg ~> uniformly_continuous_on_minus
  2596   uniformly_continuous_on_sub ~> uniformly_continuous_on_diff
  2597   subset_interior ~> interior_mono
  2598   subset_closure ~> closure_mono
  2599   closure_univ ~> closure_UNIV
  2600   real_arch_lt ~> reals_Archimedean2
  2601   real_arch ~> reals_Archimedean3
  2602   real_abs_norm ~> abs_norm_cancel
  2603   real_abs_sub_norm ~> norm_triangle_ineq3
  2604   norm_cauchy_schwarz_abs ~> Cauchy_Schwarz_ineq2
  2605 
  2606 * Session HOL-Probability:
  2607   - Caratheodory's extension lemma is now proved for ring_of_sets.
  2608   - Infinite products of probability measures are now available.
  2609   - Sigma closure is independent, if the generator is independent
  2610   - Use extended reals instead of positive extended
  2611     reals. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2612 
  2613 * Session HOLCF: Discontinued legacy theorem names, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2614 
  2615   expand_fun_below ~> fun_below_iff
  2616   below_fun_ext ~> fun_belowI
  2617   expand_cfun_eq ~> cfun_eq_iff
  2618   ext_cfun ~> cfun_eqI
  2619   expand_cfun_below ~> cfun_below_iff
  2620   below_cfun_ext ~> cfun_belowI
  2621   monofun_fun_fun ~> fun_belowD
  2622   monofun_fun_arg ~> monofunE
  2623   monofun_lub_fun ~> adm_monofun [THEN admD]
  2624   cont_lub_fun ~> adm_cont [THEN admD]
  2625   cont2cont_Rep_CFun ~> cont2cont_APP
  2626   cont_Rep_CFun_app ~> cont_APP_app
  2627   cont_Rep_CFun_app_app ~> cont_APP_app_app
  2628   cont_cfun_fun ~> cont_Rep_cfun1 [THEN contE]
  2629   cont_cfun_arg ~> cont_Rep_cfun2 [THEN contE]
  2630   contlub_cfun ~> lub_APP [symmetric]
  2631   contlub_LAM ~> lub_LAM [symmetric]
  2632   thelubI ~> lub_eqI
  2633   UU_I ~> bottomI
  2634   lift_distinct1 ~> lift.distinct(1)
  2635   lift_distinct2 ~> lift.distinct(2)
  2636   Def_not_UU ~> lift.distinct(2)
  2637   Def_inject ~> lift.inject
  2638   below_UU_iff ~> below_bottom_iff
  2639   eq_UU_iff ~> eq_bottom_iff
  2640 
  2641 
  2642 *** Document preparation ***
  2643 
  2644 * Antiquotation @{rail} layouts railroad syntax diagrams, see also
  2645 isar-ref manual, both for description and actual application of the
  2646 same.
  2647 
  2648 * Antiquotation @{value} evaluates the given term and presents its
  2649 result.
  2650 
  2651 * Antiquotations: term style "isub" provides ad-hoc conversion of
  2652 variables x1, y23 into subscripted form x\<^isub>1,
  2653 y\<^isub>2\<^isub>3.
  2654 
  2655 * Predefined LaTeX macros for Isabelle symbols \<bind> and \<then>
  2656 (e.g. see ~~/src/HOL/Library/Monad_Syntax.thy).
  2657 
  2658 * Localized \isabellestyle switch can be used within blocks or groups
  2659 like this:
  2660 
  2661   \isabellestyle{it}  %preferred default
  2662   {\isabellestylett @{text "typewriter stuff"}}
  2663 
  2664 * Discontinued special treatment of hard tabulators.  Implicit
  2665 tab-width is now defined as 1.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY for visual
  2666 layouts.
  2667 
  2668 
  2669 *** ML ***
  2670 
  2671 * The inner syntax of sort/type/term/prop supports inlined YXML
  2672 representations within quoted string tokens.  By encoding logical
  2673 entities via Term_XML (in ML or Scala) concrete syntax can be
  2674 bypassed, which is particularly useful for producing bits of text
  2675 under external program control.
  2676 
  2677 * Antiquotations for ML and document preparation are managed as theory
  2678 data, which requires explicit setup.
  2679 
  2680 * Isabelle_Process.is_active allows tools to check if the official
  2681 process wrapper is running (Isabelle/Scala/jEdit) or the old TTY loop
  2682 (better known as Proof General).
  2683 
  2684 * Structure Proof_Context follows standard naming scheme.  Old
  2685 ProofContext is still available for some time as legacy alias.
  2686 
  2687 * Structure Timing provides various operations for timing; supersedes
  2688 former start_timing/end_timing etc.
  2689 
  2690 * Path.print is the official way to show file-system paths to users
  2691 (including quotes etc.).
  2692 
  2693 * Inner syntax: identifiers in parse trees of generic categories
  2694 "logic", "aprop", "idt" etc. carry position information (disguised as
  2695 type constraints).  Occasional INCOMPATIBILITY with non-compliant
  2696 translations that choke on unexpected type constraints.  Positions can
  2697 be stripped in ML translations via Syntax.strip_positions /
  2698 Syntax.strip_positions_ast, or via the syntax constant
  2699 "_strip_positions" within parse trees.  As last resort, positions can
  2700 be disabled via the configuration option Syntax.positions, which is
  2701 called "syntax_positions" in Isar attribute syntax.
  2702 
  2703 * Discontinued special status of various ML structures that contribute
  2704 to structure Syntax (Ast, Lexicon, Mixfix, Parser, Printer etc.): less
  2705 pervasive content, no inclusion in structure Syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  2706 refer directly to Ast.Constant, Lexicon.is_identifier,
  2707 Syntax_Trans.mk_binder_tr etc.
  2708 
  2709 * Typed print translation: discontinued show_sorts argument, which is
  2710 already available via context of "advanced" translation.
  2711 
  2712 * Refined PARALLEL_GOALS tactical: degrades gracefully for schematic
  2713 goal states; body tactic needs to address all subgoals uniformly.
  2714 
  2715 * Slightly more special eq_list/eq_set, with shortcut involving
  2716 pointer equality (assumes that eq relation is reflexive).
  2717 
  2718 * Classical tactics use proper Proof.context instead of historic types
  2719 claset/clasimpset.  Old-style declarations like addIs, addEs, addDs
  2720 operate directly on Proof.context.  Raw type claset retains its use as
  2721 snapshot of the classical context, which can be recovered via
  2722 (put_claset HOL_cs) etc.  Type clasimpset has been discontinued.
  2723 INCOMPATIBILITY, classical tactics and derived proof methods require
  2724 proper Proof.context.
  2725 
  2726 
  2727 *** System ***
  2728 
  2729 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.2, which was the last version
  2730 without proper multithreading and TimeLimit implementation.
  2731 
  2732 * Discontinued old lib/scripts/polyml-platform, which has been
  2733 obsolete since Isabelle2009-2.
  2734 
  2735 * Various optional external tools are referenced more robustly and
  2736 uniformly by explicit Isabelle settings as follows:
  2737 
  2738   ISABELLE_CSDP   (formerly CSDP_EXE)
  2739   ISABELLE_GHC    (formerly EXEC_GHC or GHC_PATH)
  2740   ISABELLE_OCAML  (formerly EXEC_OCAML)
  2741   ISABELLE_SWIPL  (formerly EXEC_SWIPL)
  2742   ISABELLE_YAP    (formerly EXEC_YAP)
  2743 
  2744 Note that automated detection from the file-system or search path has
  2745 been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2746 
  2747 * Scala layer provides JVM method invocation service for static
  2748 methods of type (String)String, see Invoke_Scala.method in ML.  For
  2749 example:
  2750 
  2751   Invoke_Scala.method "java.lang.System.getProperty" "java.home"
  2752 
  2753 Together with YXML.string_of_body/parse_body and XML.Encode/Decode
  2754 this allows to pass structured values between ML and Scala.
  2755 
  2756 * The IsabelleText fonts includes some further glyphs to support the
  2757 Prover IDE.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY: users who happen to have
  2758 installed a local copy (which is normally *not* required) need to
  2759 delete or update it from ~~/lib/fonts/.
  2760 
  2761 
  2762 
  2763 New in Isabelle2011 (January 2011)
  2764 ----------------------------------
  2765 
  2766 *** General ***
  2767 
  2768 * Experimental Prover IDE based on Isabelle/Scala and jEdit (see
  2769 src/Tools/jEdit).  This also serves as IDE for Isabelle/ML, with
  2770 useful tooltips and hyperlinks produced from its static analysis.  The
  2771 bundled component provides an executable Isabelle tool that can be run
  2772 like this:
  2773 
  2774   Isabelle2011/bin/isabelle jedit
  2775 
  2776 * Significantly improved Isabelle/Isar implementation manual.
  2777 
  2778 * System settings: ISABELLE_HOME_USER now includes ISABELLE_IDENTIFIER
  2779 (and thus refers to something like $HOME/.isabelle/Isabelle2011),
  2780 while the default heap location within that directory lacks that extra
  2781 suffix.  This isolates multiple Isabelle installations from each
  2782 other, avoiding problems with old settings in new versions.
  2783 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to copy/upgrade old user settings manually.
  2784 
  2785 * Source files are always encoded as UTF-8, instead of old-fashioned
  2786 ISO-Latin-1.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Isabelle LaTeX documents might require
  2787 the following package declarations:
  2788 
  2789   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  2790   \usepackage{textcomp}
  2791 
  2792 * Explicit treatment of UTF-8 sequences as Isabelle symbols, such that
  2793 a Unicode character is treated as a single symbol, not a sequence of
  2794 non-ASCII bytes as before.  Since Isabelle/ML string literals may
  2795 contain symbols without further backslash escapes, Unicode can now be
  2796 used here as well.  Recall that Symbol.explode in ML provides a
  2797 consistent view on symbols, while raw explode (or String.explode)
  2798 merely give a byte-oriented representation.
  2799 
  2800 * Theory loader: source files are primarily located via the master
  2801 directory of each theory node (where the .thy file itself resides).
  2802 The global load path is still partially available as legacy feature.
  2803 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY due to subtle change in file lookup: use
  2804 explicit paths, relatively to the theory.
  2805 
  2806 * Special treatment of ML file names has been discontinued.
  2807 Historically, optional extensions .ML or .sml were added on demand --
  2808 at the cost of clarity of file dependencies.  Recall that Isabelle/ML
  2809 files exclusively use the .ML extension.  Minor INCOMPATIBILTY.
  2810 
  2811 * Various options that affect pretty printing etc. are now properly
  2812 handled within the context via configuration options, instead of
  2813 unsynchronized references or print modes.  There are both ML Config.T
  2814 entities and Isar declaration attributes to access these.
  2815 
  2816   ML (Config.T)                 Isar (attribute)
  2817 
  2818   eta_contract                  eta_contract
  2819   show_brackets                 show_brackets
  2820   show_sorts                    show_sorts
  2821   show_types                    show_types
  2822   show_question_marks           show_question_marks
  2823   show_consts                   show_consts
  2824   show_abbrevs                  show_abbrevs
  2825 
  2826   Syntax.ast_trace              syntax_ast_trace
  2827   Syntax.ast_stat               syntax_ast_stat
  2828   Syntax.ambiguity_level        syntax_ambiguity_level
  2829 
  2830   Goal_Display.goals_limit      goals_limit
  2831   Goal_Display.show_main_goal   show_main_goal
  2832 
  2833   Method.rule_trace             rule_trace
  2834 
  2835   Thy_Output.display            thy_output_display
  2836   Thy_Output.quotes             thy_output_quotes
  2837   Thy_Output.indent             thy_output_indent
  2838   Thy_Output.source             thy_output_source
  2839   Thy_Output.break              thy_output_break
  2840 
  2841 Note that corresponding "..._default" references in ML may only be
  2842 changed globally at the ROOT session setup, but *not* within a theory.
  2843 The option "show_abbrevs" supersedes the former print mode
  2844 "no_abbrevs" with inverted meaning.
  2845 
  2846 * More systematic naming of some configuration options.
  2847 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2848 
  2849   trace_simp  ~>  simp_trace
  2850   debug_simp  ~>  simp_debug
  2851 
  2852 * Support for real valued configuration options, using simplistic
  2853 floating-point notation that coincides with the inner syntax for
  2854 float_token.
  2855 
  2856 * Support for real valued preferences (with approximative PGIP type):
  2857 front-ends need to accept "pgint" values in float notation.
  2858 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2859 
  2860 * The IsabelleText font now includes Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic from
  2861 DejaVu Sans.
  2862 
  2863 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.0 and 5.1 versions.
  2864 
  2865 
  2866 *** Pure ***
  2867 
  2868 * Command 'type_synonym' (with single argument) replaces somewhat
  2869 outdated 'types', which is still available as legacy feature for some
  2870 time.
  2871 
  2872 * Command 'nonterminal' (with 'and' separated list of arguments)
  2873 replaces somewhat outdated 'nonterminals'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2874 
  2875 * Command 'notepad' replaces former 'example_proof' for
  2876 experimentation in Isar without any result.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2877 
  2878 * Locale interpretation commands 'interpret' and 'sublocale' accept
  2879 lists of equations to map definitions in a locale to appropriate
  2880 entities in the context of the interpretation.  The 'interpretation'
  2881 command already provided this functionality.
  2882 
  2883 * Diagnostic command 'print_dependencies' prints the locale instances
  2884 that would be activated if the specified expression was interpreted in
  2885 the current context.  Variant "print_dependencies!" assumes a context
  2886 without interpretations.
  2887 
  2888 * Diagnostic command 'print_interps' prints interpretations in proofs
  2889 in addition to interpretations in theories.
  2890 
  2891 * Discontinued obsolete 'global' and 'local' commands to manipulate
  2892 the theory name space.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.  The ML functions
  2893 Sign.root_path and Sign.local_path may be applied directly where this
  2894 feature is still required for historical reasons.
  2895 
  2896 * Discontinued obsolete 'constdefs' command.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  2897 'definition' instead.
  2898 
  2899 * The "prems" fact, which refers to the accidental collection of
  2900 foundational premises in the context, is now explicitly marked as
  2901 legacy feature and will be discontinued soon.  Consider using "assms"
  2902 of the head statement or reference facts by explicit names.
  2903 
  2904 * Document antiquotations @{class} and @{type} print classes and type
  2905 constructors.
  2906 
  2907 * Document antiquotation @{file} checks file/directory entries within
  2908 the local file system.
  2909 
  2910 
  2911 *** HOL ***
  2912 
  2913 * Coercive subtyping: functions can be declared as coercions and type
  2914 inference will add them as necessary upon input of a term.  Theory
  2915 Complex_Main declares real :: nat => real and real :: int => real as
  2916 coercions. A coercion function f is declared like this:
  2917 
  2918   declare [[coercion f]]
  2919 
  2920 To lift coercions through type constructors (e.g. from nat => real to
  2921 nat list => real list), map functions can be declared, e.g.
  2922 
  2923   declare [[coercion_map map]]
  2924 
  2925 Currently coercion inference is activated only in theories including
  2926 real numbers, i.e. descendants of Complex_Main.  This is controlled by
  2927 the configuration option "coercion_enabled", e.g. it can be enabled in
  2928 other theories like this:
  2929 
  2930   declare [[coercion_enabled]]
  2931 
  2932 * Command 'partial_function' provides basic support for recursive
  2933 function definitions over complete partial orders.  Concrete instances
  2934 are provided for i) the option type, ii) tail recursion on arbitrary
  2935 types, and iii) the heap monad of Imperative_HOL.  See
  2936 src/HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy and src/HOL/Imperative_HOL/ex/Linked_Lists.thy
  2937 for examples.
  2938 
  2939 * Function package: f.psimps rules are no longer implicitly declared
  2940 as [simp].  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2941 
  2942 * Datatype package: theorems generated for executable equality (class
  2943 "eq") carry proper names and are treated as default code equations.
  2944 
  2945 * Inductive package: now offers command 'inductive_simps' to
  2946 automatically derive instantiated and simplified equations for
  2947 inductive predicates, similar to 'inductive_cases'.
  2948 
  2949 * Command 'enriched_type' allows to register properties of the
  2950 functorial structure of types.
  2951 
  2952 * Improved infrastructure for term evaluation using code generator
  2953 techniques, in particular static evaluation conversions.
  2954 
  2955 * Code generator: Scala (2.8 or higher) has been added to the target
  2956 languages.
  2957 
  2958 * Code generator: globbing constant expressions "*" and "Theory.*"
  2959 have been replaced by the more idiomatic "_" and "Theory._".
  2960 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2961 
  2962 * Code generator: export_code without explicit file declaration prints
  2963 to standard output.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2964 
  2965 * Code generator: do not print function definitions for case
  2966 combinators any longer.
  2967 
  2968 * Code generator: simplification with rules determined with
  2969 src/Tools/Code/code_simp.ML and method "code_simp".
  2970 
  2971 * Code generator for records: more idiomatic representation of record
  2972 types.  Warning: records are not covered by ancient SML code
  2973 generation any longer.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  In cases of need, a suitable
  2974 rep_datatype declaration helps to succeed then:
  2975 
  2976   record 'a foo = ...
  2977   ...
  2978   rep_datatype foo_ext ...
  2979 
  2980 * Records: logical foundation type for records does not carry a
  2981 '_type' suffix any longer (obsolete due to authentic syntax).
  2982 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2983 
  2984 * Quickcheck now by default uses exhaustive testing instead of random
  2985 testing.  Random testing can be invoked by "quickcheck [random]",
  2986 exhaustive testing by "quickcheck [exhaustive]".
  2987 
  2988 * Quickcheck instantiates polymorphic types with small finite
  2989 datatypes by default. This enables a simple execution mechanism to
  2990 handle quantifiers and function equality over the finite datatypes.
  2991 
  2992 * Quickcheck random generator has been renamed from "code" to
  2993 "random".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2994 
  2995 * Quickcheck now has a configurable time limit which is set to 30
  2996 seconds by default. This can be changed by adding [timeout = n] to the
  2997 quickcheck command. The time limit for Auto Quickcheck is still set
  2998 independently.
  2999 
  3000 * Quickcheck in locales considers interpretations of that locale for
  3001 counter example search.
  3002 
  3003 * Sledgehammer:
  3004   - Added "smt" and "remote_smt" provers based on the "smt" proof
  3005     method. See the Sledgehammer manual for details ("isabelle doc
  3006     sledgehammer").
  3007   - Renamed commands:
  3008     sledgehammer atp_info ~> sledgehammer running_provers
  3009     sledgehammer atp_kill ~> sledgehammer kill_provers
  3010     sledgehammer available_atps ~> sledgehammer available_provers
  3011     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3012   - Renamed options:
  3013     sledgehammer [atps = ...] ~> sledgehammer [provers = ...]
  3014     sledgehammer [atp = ...] ~> sledgehammer [prover = ...]
  3015     sledgehammer [timeout = 77 s] ~> sledgehammer [timeout = 77]
  3016     (and "ms" and "min" are no longer supported)
  3017     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3018 
  3019 * Nitpick:
  3020   - Renamed options:
  3021     nitpick [timeout = 77 s] ~> nitpick [timeout = 77]
  3022     nitpick [tac_timeout = 777 ms] ~> nitpick [tac_timeout = 0.777]
  3023     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3024   - Added support for partial quotient types.
  3025   - Added local versions of the "Nitpick.register_xxx" functions.
  3026   - Added "whack" option.
  3027   - Allow registration of quotient types as codatatypes.
  3028   - Improved "merge_type_vars" option to merge more types.
  3029   - Removed unsound "fast_descrs" option.
  3030   - Added custom symmetry breaking for datatypes, making it possible to reach
  3031     higher cardinalities.
  3032   - Prevent the expansion of too large definitions.
  3033 
  3034 * Proof methods "metis" and "meson" now have configuration options
  3035 "meson_trace", "metis_trace", and "metis_verbose" that can be enabled
  3036 to diagnose these tools. E.g.
  3037 
  3038     using [[metis_trace = true]]
  3039 
  3040 * Auto Solve: Renamed "Auto Solve Direct".  The tool is now available
  3041 manually as command 'solve_direct'.
  3042 
  3043 * The default SMT solver Z3 must be enabled explicitly (due to
  3044 licensing issues) by setting the environment variable
  3045 Z3_NON_COMMERCIAL in etc/settings of the component, for example.  For
  3046 commercial applications, the SMT solver CVC3 is provided as fall-back;
  3047 changing the SMT solver is done via the configuration option
  3048 "smt_solver".
  3049 
  3050 * Remote SMT solvers need to be referred to by the "remote_" prefix,
  3051 i.e. "remote_cvc3" and "remote_z3".
  3052 
  3053 * Added basic SMT support for datatypes, records, and typedefs using
  3054 the oracle mode (no proofs).  Direct support of pairs has been dropped
  3055 in exchange (pass theorems fst_conv snd_conv pair_collapse to the SMT
  3056 support for a similar behavior).  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3057 
  3058 * Changed SMT configuration options:
  3059   - Renamed:
  3060     z3_proofs ~> smt_oracle (with inverted meaning)
  3061     z3_trace_assms ~> smt_trace_used_facts
  3062     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3063   - Added:
  3064     smt_verbose
  3065     smt_random_seed
  3066     smt_datatypes
  3067     smt_infer_triggers
  3068     smt_monomorph_limit
  3069     cvc3_options
  3070     remote_cvc3_options
  3071     remote_z3_options
  3072     yices_options
  3073 
  3074 * Boogie output files (.b2i files) need to be declared in the theory
  3075 header.
  3076 
  3077 * Simplification procedure "list_to_set_comprehension" rewrites list
  3078 comprehensions applied to List.set to set comprehensions.  Occasional
  3079 INCOMPATIBILITY, may be deactivated like this:
  3080 
  3081   declare [[simproc del: list_to_set_comprehension]]
  3082 
  3083 * Removed old version of primrec package.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3084 
  3085 * Removed simplifier congruence rule of "prod_case", as has for long
  3086 been the case with "split".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3087 
  3088 * String.literal is a type, but not a datatype.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3089 
  3090 * Removed [split_format ... and ... and ...] version of
  3091 [split_format].  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3092 
  3093 * Predicate "sorted" now defined inductively, with nice induction
  3094 rules.  INCOMPATIBILITY: former sorted.simps now named sorted_simps.
  3095 
  3096 * Constant "contents" renamed to "the_elem", to free the generic name
  3097 contents for other uses.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3098 
  3099 * Renamed class eq and constant eq (for code generation) to class
  3100 equal and constant equal, plus renaming of related facts and various
  3101 tuning.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3102 
  3103 * Dropped type classes mult_mono and mult_mono1.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3104 
  3105 * Removed output syntax "'a ~=> 'b" for "'a => 'b option".
  3106 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3107 
  3108 * Renamed theory Fset to Cset, type Fset.fset to Cset.set, in order to
  3109 avoid confusion with finite sets.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3110 
  3111 * Abandoned locales equiv, congruent and congruent2 for equivalence
  3112 relations.  INCOMPATIBILITY: use equivI rather than equiv_intro (same
  3113 for congruent(2)).
  3114 
  3115 * Some previously unqualified names have been qualified:
  3116 
  3117   types
  3118     bool ~> HOL.bool
  3119     nat ~> Nat.nat
  3120 
  3121   constants
  3122     Trueprop ~> HOL.Trueprop
  3123     True ~> HOL.True
  3124     False ~> HOL.False
  3125     op & ~> HOL.conj
  3126     op | ~> HOL.disj
  3127     op --> ~> HOL.implies
  3128     op = ~> HOL.eq
  3129     Not ~> HOL.Not
  3130     The ~> HOL.The
  3131     All ~> HOL.All
  3132     Ex ~> HOL.Ex
  3133     Ex1 ~> HOL.Ex1
  3134     Let ~> HOL.Let
  3135     If ~> HOL.If
  3136     Ball ~> Set.Ball
  3137     Bex ~> Set.Bex
  3138     Suc ~> Nat.Suc
  3139     Pair ~> Product_Type.Pair
  3140     fst ~> Product_Type.fst
  3141     snd ~> Product_Type.snd
  3142     curry ~> Product_Type.curry
  3143     op : ~> Set.member
  3144     Collect ~> Set.Collect
  3145 
  3146 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3147 
  3148 * More canonical naming convention for some fundamental definitions:
  3149 
  3150     bot_bool_eq ~> bot_bool_def
  3151     top_bool_eq ~> top_bool_def
  3152     inf_bool_eq ~> inf_bool_def
  3153     sup_bool_eq ~> sup_bool_def
  3154     bot_fun_eq  ~> bot_fun_def
  3155     top_fun_eq  ~> top_fun_def
  3156     inf_fun_eq  ~> inf_fun_def
  3157     sup_fun_eq  ~> sup_fun_def
  3158 
  3159 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3160 
  3161 * More stylized fact names:
  3162 
  3163   expand_fun_eq ~> fun_eq_iff
  3164   expand_set_eq ~> set_eq_iff
  3165   set_ext       ~> set_eqI
  3166   nat_number    ~> eval_nat_numeral
  3167 
  3168 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3169 
  3170 * Refactoring of code-generation specific operations in theory List:
  3171 
  3172   constants
  3173     null ~> List.null
  3174 
  3175   facts
  3176     mem_iff ~> member_def
  3177     null_empty ~> null_def
  3178 
  3179 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Note that these were not supposed to be used
  3180 regularly unless for striking reasons; their main purpose was code
  3181 generation.
  3182 
  3183 Various operations from the Haskell prelude are used for generating
  3184 Haskell code.
  3185 
  3186 * Term "bij f" is now an abbreviation of "bij_betw f UNIV UNIV".  Term
  3187 "surj f" is now an abbreviation of "range f = UNIV".  The theorems
  3188 bij_def and surj_def are unchanged.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3189 
  3190 * Abolished some non-alphabetic type names: "prod" and "sum" replace
  3191 "*" and "+" respectively.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3192 
  3193 * Name "Plus" of disjoint sum operator "<+>" is now hidden.  Write
  3194 "Sum_Type.Plus" instead.
  3195 
  3196 * Constant "split" has been merged with constant "prod_case"; names of
  3197 ML functions, facts etc. involving split have been retained so far,
  3198 though.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3199 
  3200 * Dropped old infix syntax "_ mem _" for List.member; use "_ : set _"
  3201 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3202 
  3203 * Removed lemma "Option.is_none_none" which duplicates "is_none_def".
  3204 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3205 
  3206 * Former theory Library/Enum is now part of the HOL-Main image.
  3207 INCOMPATIBILITY: all constants of the Enum theory now have to be
  3208 referred to by its qualified name.
  3209 
  3210   enum    ~>  Enum.enum
  3211   nlists  ~>  Enum.nlists
  3212   product ~>  Enum.product
  3213 
  3214 * Theory Library/Monad_Syntax provides do-syntax for monad types.
  3215 Syntax in Library/State_Monad has been changed to avoid ambiguities.
  3216 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3217 
  3218 * Theory Library/SetsAndFunctions has been split into
  3219 Library/Function_Algebras and Library/Set_Algebras; canonical names
  3220 for instance definitions for functions; various improvements.
  3221 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3222 
  3223 * Theory Library/Multiset provides stable quicksort implementation of
  3224 sort_key.
  3225 
  3226 * Theory Library/Multiset: renamed empty_idemp ~> empty_neutral.
  3227 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3228 
  3229 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: introduced a type class for euclidean
  3230 space.  Most theorems are now stated in terms of euclidean spaces
  3231 instead of finite cartesian products.
  3232 
  3233   types
  3234     real ^ 'n ~>  'a::real_vector
  3235               ~>  'a::euclidean_space
  3236               ~>  'a::ordered_euclidean_space
  3237         (depends on your needs)
  3238 
  3239   constants
  3240      _ $ _        ~> _ $$ _
  3241      \<chi> x. _  ~> \<chi>\<chi> x. _
  3242      CARD('n)     ~> DIM('a)
  3243 
  3244 Also note that the indices are now natural numbers and not from some
  3245 finite type. Finite cartesian products of euclidean spaces, products
  3246 of euclidean spaces the real and complex numbers are instantiated to
  3247 be euclidean_spaces.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3248 
  3249 * Session Probability: introduced pextreal as positive extended real
  3250 numbers.  Use pextreal as value for measures.  Introduce the
  3251 Radon-Nikodym derivative, product spaces and Fubini's theorem for
  3252 arbitrary sigma finite measures.  Introduces Lebesgue measure based on
  3253 the integral in Multivariate Analysis.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3254 
  3255 * Session Imperative_HOL: revamped, corrected dozens of inadequacies.
  3256 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3257 
  3258 * Session SPARK (with image HOL-SPARK) provides commands to load and
  3259 prove verification conditions generated by the SPARK Ada program
  3260 verifier.  See also src/HOL/SPARK and src/HOL/SPARK/Examples.
  3261 
  3262 
  3263 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  3264 
  3265 * Theorems for additive ring operations (locale abelian_monoid and
  3266 descendants) are generated by interpretation from their multiplicative
  3267 counterparts.  Names (in particular theorem names) have the mandatory
  3268 qualifier 'add'.  Previous theorem names are redeclared for
  3269 compatibility.
  3270 
  3271 * Structure "int_ring" is now an abbreviation (previously a
  3272 definition).  This fits more natural with advanced interpretations.
  3273 
  3274 
  3275 *** HOLCF ***
  3276 
  3277 * The domain package now runs in definitional mode by default: The
  3278 former command 'new_domain' is now called 'domain'.  To use the domain
  3279 package in its original axiomatic mode, use 'domain (unsafe)'.
  3280 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3281 
  3282 * The new class "domain" is now the default sort.  Class "predomain"
  3283 is an unpointed version of "domain". Theories can be updated by
  3284 replacing sort annotations as shown below.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3285 
  3286   'a::type ~> 'a::countable
  3287   'a::cpo  ~> 'a::predomain
  3288   'a::pcpo ~> 'a::domain
  3289 
  3290 * The old type class "rep" has been superseded by class "domain".
  3291 Accordingly, users of the definitional package must remove any
  3292 "default_sort rep" declarations.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3293 
  3294 * The domain package (definitional mode) now supports unpointed
  3295 predomain argument types, as long as they are marked 'lazy'. (Strict
  3296 arguments must be in class "domain".) For example, the following
  3297 domain definition now works:
  3298 
  3299   domain natlist = nil | cons (lazy "nat discr") (lazy "natlist")
  3300 
  3301 * Theory HOLCF/Library/HOL_Cpo provides cpo and predomain class
  3302 instances for types from main HOL: bool, nat, int, char, 'a + 'b,
  3303 'a option, and 'a list.  Additionally, it configures fixrec and the
  3304 domain package to work with these types.  For example:
  3305 
  3306   fixrec isInl :: "('a + 'b) u -> tr"
  3307     where "isInl$(up$(Inl x)) = TT" | "isInl$(up$(Inr y)) = FF"
  3308 
  3309   domain V = VFun (lazy "V -> V") | VCon (lazy "nat") (lazy "V list")
  3310 
  3311 * The "(permissive)" option of fixrec has been replaced with a
  3312 per-equation "(unchecked)" option. See
  3313 src/HOL/HOLCF/Tutorial/Fixrec_ex.thy for examples. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3314 
  3315 * The "bifinite" class no longer fixes a constant "approx"; the class
  3316 now just asserts that such a function exists.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3317 
  3318 * Former type "alg_defl" has been renamed to "defl".  HOLCF no longer
  3319 defines an embedding of type 'a defl into udom by default; instances
  3320 of "bifinite" and "domain" classes are available in
  3321 src/HOL/HOLCF/Library/Defl_Bifinite.thy.
  3322 
  3323 * The syntax "REP('a)" has been replaced with "DEFL('a)".
  3324 
  3325 * The predicate "directed" has been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3326 
  3327 * The type class "finite_po" has been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3328 
  3329 * The function "cprod_map" has been renamed to "prod_map".
  3330 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3331 
  3332 * The monadic bind operator on each powerdomain has new binder syntax
  3333 similar to sets, e.g. "\<Union>\<sharp>x\<in>xs. t" represents
  3334 "upper_bind\<cdot>xs\<cdot>(\<Lambda> x. t)".
  3335 
  3336 * The infix syntax for binary union on each powerdomain has changed
  3337 from e.g. "+\<sharp>" to "\<union>\<sharp>", for consistency with set
  3338 syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3339 
  3340 * The constant "UU" has been renamed to "bottom".  The syntax "UU" is
  3341 still supported as an input translation.
  3342 
  3343 * Renamed some theorems (the original names are also still available).
  3344 
  3345   expand_fun_below   ~> fun_below_iff
  3346   below_fun_ext      ~> fun_belowI
  3347   expand_cfun_eq     ~> cfun_eq_iff
  3348   ext_cfun           ~> cfun_eqI
  3349   expand_cfun_below  ~> cfun_below_iff
  3350   below_cfun_ext     ~> cfun_belowI
  3351   cont2cont_Rep_CFun ~> cont2cont_APP
  3352 
  3353 * The Abs and Rep functions for various types have changed names.
  3354 Related theorem names have also changed to match. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3355 
  3356   Rep_CFun  ~> Rep_cfun
  3357   Abs_CFun  ~> Abs_cfun
  3358   Rep_Sprod ~> Rep_sprod
  3359   Abs_Sprod ~> Abs_sprod
  3360   Rep_Ssum  ~> Rep_ssum
  3361   Abs_Ssum  ~> Abs_ssum
  3362 
  3363 * Lemmas with names of the form *_defined_iff or *_strict_iff have
  3364 been renamed to *_bottom_iff.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3365 
  3366 * Various changes to bisimulation/coinduction with domain package:
  3367 
  3368   - Definitions of "bisim" constants no longer mention definedness.
  3369   - With mutual recursion, "bisim" predicate is now curried.
  3370   - With mutual recursion, each type gets a separate coind theorem.
  3371   - Variable names in bisim_def and coinduct rules have changed.
  3372 
  3373 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3374 
  3375 * Case combinators generated by the domain package for type "foo" are
  3376 now named "foo_case" instead of "foo_when".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3377 
  3378 * Several theorems have been renamed to more accurately reflect the
  3379 names of constants and types involved.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3380 
  3381   thelub_const    ~> lub_const
  3382   lub_const       ~> is_lub_const
  3383   thelubI         ~> lub_eqI
  3384   is_lub_lub      ~> is_lubD2
  3385   lubI            ~> is_lub_lub
  3386   unique_lub      ~> is_lub_unique
  3387   is_ub_lub       ~> is_lub_rangeD1
  3388   lub_bin_chain   ~> is_lub_bin_chain
  3389   lub_fun         ~> is_lub_fun
  3390   thelub_fun      ~> lub_fun
  3391   thelub_cfun     ~> lub_cfun
  3392   thelub_Pair     ~> lub_Pair
  3393   lub_cprod       ~> is_lub_prod
  3394   thelub_cprod    ~> lub_prod
  3395   minimal_cprod   ~> minimal_prod
  3396   inst_cprod_pcpo ~> inst_prod_pcpo
  3397   UU_I            ~> bottomI
  3398   compact_UU      ~> compact_bottom
  3399   deflation_UU    ~> deflation_bottom
  3400   finite_deflation_UU ~> finite_deflation_bottom
  3401 
  3402 * Many legacy theorem names have been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3403 
  3404   sq_ord_less_eq_trans ~> below_eq_trans
  3405   sq_ord_eq_less_trans ~> eq_below_trans
  3406   refl_less            ~> below_refl
  3407   trans_less           ~> below_trans
  3408   antisym_less         ~> below_antisym
  3409   antisym_less_inverse ~> po_eq_conv [THEN iffD1]
  3410   box_less             ~> box_below
  3411   rev_trans_less       ~> rev_below_trans
  3412   not_less2not_eq      ~> not_below2not_eq
  3413   less_UU_iff          ~> below_UU_iff
  3414   flat_less_iff        ~> flat_below_iff
  3415   adm_less             ~> adm_below
  3416   adm_not_less         ~> adm_not_below
  3417   adm_compact_not_less ~> adm_compact_not_below
  3418   less_fun_def         ~> below_fun_def
  3419   expand_fun_less      ~> fun_below_iff
  3420   less_fun_ext         ~> fun_belowI
  3421   less_discr_def       ~> below_discr_def
  3422   discr_less_eq        ~> discr_below_eq
  3423   less_unit_def        ~> below_unit_def
  3424   less_cprod_def       ~> below_prod_def
  3425   prod_lessI           ~> prod_belowI
  3426   Pair_less_iff        ~> Pair_below_iff
  3427   fst_less_iff         ~> fst_below_iff
  3428   snd_less_iff         ~> snd_below_iff
  3429   expand_cfun_less     ~> cfun_below_iff
  3430   less_cfun_ext        ~> cfun_belowI
  3431   injection_less       ~> injection_below
  3432   less_up_def          ~> below_up_def
  3433   not_Iup_less         ~> not_Iup_below
  3434   Iup_less             ~> Iup_below
  3435   up_less              ~> up_below
  3436   Def_inject_less_eq   ~> Def_below_Def
  3437   Def_less_is_eq       ~> Def_below_iff
  3438   spair_less_iff       ~> spair_below_iff
  3439   less_sprod           ~> below_sprod
  3440   spair_less           ~> spair_below
  3441   sfst_less_iff        ~> sfst_below_iff
  3442   ssnd_less_iff        ~> ssnd_below_iff
  3443   fix_least_less       ~> fix_least_below
  3444   dist_less_one        ~> dist_below_one
  3445   less_ONE             ~> below_ONE
  3446   ONE_less_iff         ~> ONE_below_iff
  3447   less_sinlD           ~> below_sinlD
  3448   less_sinrD           ~> below_sinrD
  3449 
  3450 
  3451 *** FOL and ZF ***
  3452 
  3453 * All constant names are now qualified internally and use proper
  3454 identifiers, e.g. "IFOL.eq" instead of "op =".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3455 
  3456 
  3457 *** ML ***
  3458 
  3459 * Antiquotation @{assert} inlines a function bool -> unit that raises
  3460 Fail if the argument is false.  Due to inlining the source position of
  3461 failed assertions is included in the error output.
  3462 
  3463 * Discontinued antiquotation @{theory_ref}, which is obsolete since ML
  3464 text is in practice always evaluated with a stable theory checkpoint.
  3465 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, use (Theory.check_thy @{theory}) instead.
  3466 
  3467 * Antiquotation @{theory A} refers to theory A from the ancestry of
  3468 the current context, not any accidental theory loader state as before.
  3469 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, subtle change in semantics.
  3470 
  3471 * Syntax.pretty_priority (default 0) configures the required priority
  3472 of pretty-printed output and thus affects insertion of parentheses.
  3473 
  3474 * Syntax.default_root (default "any") configures the inner syntax
  3475 category (nonterminal symbol) for parsing of terms.
  3476 
  3477 * Former exception Library.UnequalLengths now coincides with
  3478 ListPair.UnequalLengths.
  3479 
  3480 * Renamed structure MetaSimplifier to Raw_Simplifier.  Note that the
  3481 main functionality is provided by structure Simplifier.
  3482 
  3483 * Renamed raw "explode" function to "raw_explode" to emphasize its
  3484 meaning.  Note that internally to Isabelle, Symbol.explode is used in
  3485 almost all situations.
  3486 
  3487 * Discontinued obsolete function sys_error and exception SYS_ERROR.
  3488 See implementation manual for further details on exceptions in
  3489 Isabelle/ML.
  3490 
  3491 * Renamed setmp_noncritical to Unsynchronized.setmp to emphasize its
  3492 meaning.
  3493 
  3494 * Renamed structure PureThy to Pure_Thy and moved most of its
  3495 operations to structure Global_Theory, to emphasize that this is
  3496 rarely-used global-only stuff.
  3497 
  3498 * Discontinued Output.debug.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, use plain writeln
  3499 instead (or tracing for high-volume output).
  3500 
  3501 * Configuration option show_question_marks only affects regular pretty
  3502 printing of types and terms, not raw Term.string_of_vname.
  3503 
  3504 * ML_Context.thm and ML_Context.thms are no longer pervasive.  Rare
  3505 INCOMPATIBILITY, superseded by static antiquotations @{thm} and
  3506 @{thms} for most purposes.
  3507 
  3508 * ML structure Unsynchronized is never opened, not even in Isar
  3509 interaction mode as before.  Old Unsynchronized.set etc. have been
  3510 discontinued -- use plain := instead.  This should be *rare* anyway,
  3511 since modern tools always work via official context data, notably
  3512 configuration options.
  3513 
  3514 * Parallel and asynchronous execution requires special care concerning
  3515 interrupts.  Structure Exn provides some convenience functions that
  3516 avoid working directly with raw Interrupt.  User code must not absorb
  3517 interrupts -- intermediate handling (for cleanup etc.) needs to be
  3518 followed by re-raising of the original exception.  Another common
  3519 source of mistakes are "handle _" patterns, which make the meaning of
  3520 the program subject to physical effects of the environment.
  3521 
  3522 
  3523 
  3524 New in Isabelle2009-2 (June 2010)
  3525 ---------------------------------
  3526 
  3527 *** General ***
  3528 
  3529 * Authentic syntax for *all* logical entities (type classes, type
  3530 constructors, term constants): provides simple and robust
  3531 correspondence between formal entities and concrete syntax.  Within
  3532 the parse tree / AST representations, "constants" are decorated by
  3533 their category (class, type, const) and spelled out explicitly with
  3534 their full internal name.
  3535 
  3536 Substantial INCOMPATIBILITY concerning low-level syntax declarations
  3537 and translations (translation rules and translation functions in ML).
  3538 Some hints on upgrading:
  3539 
  3540   - Many existing uses of 'syntax' and 'translations' can be replaced
  3541     by more modern 'type_notation', 'notation' and 'abbreviation',
  3542     which are independent of this issue.
  3543 
  3544   - 'translations' require markup within the AST; the term syntax
  3545     provides the following special forms:
  3546 
  3547       CONST c   -- produces syntax version of constant c from context
  3548       XCONST c  -- literally c, checked as constant from context
  3549       c         -- literally c, if declared by 'syntax'
  3550 
  3551     Plain identifiers are treated as AST variables -- occasionally the
  3552     system indicates accidental variables via the error "rhs contains
  3553     extra variables".
  3554 
  3555     Type classes and type constructors are marked according to their
  3556     concrete syntax.  Some old translations rules need to be written
  3557     for the "type" category, using type constructor application
  3558     instead of pseudo-term application of the default category
  3559     "logic".
  3560 
  3561   - 'parse_translation' etc. in ML may use the following
  3562     antiquotations:
  3563 
  3564       @{class_syntax c}   -- type class c within parse tree / AST
  3565       @{term_syntax c}    -- type constructor c within parse tree / AST
  3566       @{const_syntax c}   -- ML version of "CONST c" above
  3567       @{syntax_const c}   -- literally c (checked wrt. 'syntax' declarations)
  3568 
  3569   - Literal types within 'typed_print_translations', i.e. those *not*
  3570     represented as pseudo-terms are represented verbatim.  Use @{class
  3571     c} or @{type_name c} here instead of the above syntax
  3572     antiquotations.
  3573 
  3574 Note that old non-authentic syntax was based on unqualified base
  3575 names, so all of the above "constant" names would coincide.  Recall
  3576 that 'print_syntax' and ML_command "set Syntax.trace_ast" help to
  3577 diagnose syntax problems.
  3578 
  3579 * Type constructors admit general mixfix syntax, not just infix.
  3580 
  3581 * Concrete syntax may be attached to local entities without a proof
  3582 body, too.  This works via regular mixfix annotations for 'fix',
  3583 'def', 'obtain' etc. or via the explicit 'write' command, which is
  3584 similar to the 'notation' command in theory specifications.
  3585 
  3586 * Discontinued unnamed infix syntax (legacy feature for many years) --
  3587 need to specify constant name and syntax separately.  Internal ML
  3588 datatype constructors have been renamed from InfixName to Infix etc.
  3589 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3590 
  3591 * Schematic theorem statements need to be explicitly markup as such,
  3592 via commands 'schematic_lemma', 'schematic_theorem',
  3593 'schematic_corollary'.  Thus the relevance of the proof is made
  3594 syntactically clear, which impacts performance in a parallel or
  3595 asynchronous interactive environment.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3596 
  3597 * Use of cumulative prems via "!" in some proof methods has been
  3598 discontinued (old legacy feature).
  3599 
  3600 * References 'trace_simp' and 'debug_simp' have been replaced by
  3601 configuration options stored in the context. Enabling tracing (the
  3602 case of debugging is similar) in proofs works via
  3603 
  3604   using [[trace_simp = true]]
  3605 
  3606 Tracing is then active for all invocations of the simplifier in
  3607 subsequent goal refinement steps. Tracing may also still be enabled or
  3608 disabled via the ProofGeneral settings menu.
  3609 
  3610 * Separate commands 'hide_class', 'hide_type', 'hide_const',
  3611 'hide_fact' replace the former 'hide' KIND command.  Minor
  3612 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3613 
  3614 * Improved parallelism of proof term normalization: usedir -p2 -q0 is
  3615 more efficient than combinations with -q1 or -q2.
  3616 
  3617 
  3618 *** Pure ***
  3619 
  3620 * Proofterms record type-class reasoning explicitly, using the
  3621 "unconstrain" operation internally.  This eliminates all sort
  3622 constraints from a theorem and proof, introducing explicit
  3623 OFCLASS-premises.  On the proof term level, this operation is
  3624 automatically applied at theorem boundaries, such that closed proofs
  3625 are always free of sort constraints.  INCOMPATIBILITY for tools that
  3626 inspect proof terms.
  3627 
  3628 * Local theory specifications may depend on extra type variables that
  3629 are not present in the result type -- arguments TYPE('a) :: 'a itself
  3630 are added internally.  For example:
  3631 
  3632   definition unitary :: bool where "unitary = (ALL (x::'a) y. x = y)"
  3633 
  3634 * Predicates of locales introduced by classes carry a mandatory
  3635 "class" prefix.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3636 
  3637 * Vacuous class specifications observe default sort.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3638 
  3639 * Old 'axclass' command has been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  3640 'class' instead.
  3641 
  3642 * Command 'code_reflect' allows to incorporate generated ML code into
  3643 runtime environment; replaces immature code_datatype antiquotation.
  3644 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3645 
  3646 * Code generator: simple concept for abstract datatypes obeying
  3647 invariants.
  3648 
  3649 * Code generator: details of internal data cache have no impact on the
  3650 user space functionality any longer.
  3651 
  3652 * Methods "unfold_locales" and "intro_locales" ignore non-locale
  3653 subgoals.  This is more appropriate for interpretations with 'where'.
  3654 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3655 
  3656 * Command 'example_proof' opens an empty proof body.  This allows to
  3657 experiment with Isar, without producing any persistent result.
  3658 
  3659 * Commands 'type_notation' and 'no_type_notation' declare type syntax
  3660 within a local theory context, with explicit checking of the
  3661 constructors involved (in contrast to the raw 'syntax' versions).
  3662 
  3663 * Commands 'types' and 'typedecl' now work within a local theory
  3664 context -- without introducing dependencies on parameters or
  3665 assumptions, which is not possible in Isabelle/Pure.
  3666 
  3667 * Command 'defaultsort' has been renamed to 'default_sort', it works
  3668 within a local theory context.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3669 
  3670 
  3671 *** HOL ***
  3672 
  3673 * Command 'typedef' now works within a local theory context -- without
  3674 introducing dependencies on parameters or assumptions, which is not
  3675 possible in Isabelle/Pure/HOL.  Note that the logical environment may
  3676 contain multiple interpretations of local typedefs (with different
  3677 non-emptiness proofs), even in a global theory context.
  3678 
  3679 * New package for quotient types.  Commands 'quotient_type' and
  3680 'quotient_definition' may be used for defining types and constants by
  3681 quotient constructions.  An example is the type of integers created by
  3682 quotienting pairs of natural numbers:
  3683 
  3684   fun
  3685     intrel :: "(nat * nat) => (nat * nat) => bool"
  3686   where
  3687     "intrel (x, y) (u, v) = (x + v = u + y)"
  3688 
  3689   quotient_type int = "nat * nat" / intrel
  3690     by (auto simp add: equivp_def expand_fun_eq)
  3691 
  3692   quotient_definition
  3693     "0::int" is "(0::nat, 0::nat)"
  3694 
  3695 The method "lifting" can be used to lift of theorems from the
  3696 underlying "raw" type to the quotient type.  The example
  3697 src/HOL/Quotient_Examples/FSet.thy includes such a quotient
  3698 construction and provides a reasoning infrastructure for finite sets.
  3699 
  3700 * Renamed Library/Quotient.thy to Library/Quotient_Type.thy to avoid
  3701 clash with new theory Quotient in Main HOL.
  3702 
  3703 * Moved the SMT binding into the main HOL session, eliminating
  3704 separate HOL-SMT session.
  3705 
  3706 * List membership infix mem operation is only an input abbreviation.
  3707 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3708 
  3709 * Theory Library/Word.thy has been removed.  Use library Word/Word.thy
  3710 for future developements; former Library/Word.thy is still present in
  3711 the AFP entry RSAPPS.
  3712 
  3713 * Theorem Int.int_induct renamed to Int.int_of_nat_induct and is no
  3714 longer shadowed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3715 
  3716 * Dropped theorem duplicate comp_arith; use semiring_norm instead.
  3717 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3718 
  3719 * Dropped theorem RealPow.real_sq_order; use power2_le_imp_le instead.
  3720 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3721 
  3722 * Dropped normalizing_semiring etc; use the facts in semiring classes
  3723 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3724 
  3725 * Dropped several real-specific versions of lemmas about floor and
  3726 ceiling; use the generic lemmas from theory "Archimedean_Field"
  3727 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3728 
  3729   floor_number_of_eq         ~> floor_number_of
  3730   le_floor_eq_number_of      ~> number_of_le_floor
  3731   le_floor_eq_zero           ~> zero_le_floor
  3732   le_floor_eq_one            ~> one_le_floor
  3733   floor_less_eq_number_of    ~> floor_less_number_of
  3734   floor_less_eq_zero         ~> floor_less_zero
  3735   floor_less_eq_one          ~> floor_less_one
  3736   less_floor_eq_number_of    ~> number_of_less_floor
  3737   less_floor_eq_zero         ~> zero_less_floor
  3738   less_floor_eq_one          ~> one_less_floor
  3739   floor_le_eq_number_of      ~> floor_le_number_of
  3740   floor_le_eq_zero           ~> floor_le_zero
  3741   floor_le_eq_one            ~> floor_le_one
  3742   floor_subtract_number_of   ~> floor_diff_number_of
  3743   floor_subtract_one         ~> floor_diff_one
  3744   ceiling_number_of_eq       ~> ceiling_number_of
  3745   ceiling_le_eq_number_of    ~> ceiling_le_number_of
  3746   ceiling_le_zero_eq         ~> ceiling_le_zero
  3747   ceiling_le_eq_one          ~> ceiling_le_one
  3748   less_ceiling_eq_number_of  ~> number_of_less_ceiling
  3749   less_ceiling_eq_zero       ~> zero_less_ceiling
  3750   less_ceiling_eq_one        ~> one_less_ceiling
  3751   ceiling_less_eq_number_of  ~> ceiling_less_number_of
  3752   ceiling_less_eq_zero       ~> ceiling_less_zero
  3753   ceiling_less_eq_one        ~> ceiling_less_one
  3754   le_ceiling_eq_number_of    ~> number_of_le_ceiling
  3755   le_ceiling_eq_zero         ~> zero_le_ceiling
  3756   le_ceiling_eq_one          ~> one_le_ceiling
  3757   ceiling_subtract_number_of ~> ceiling_diff_number_of
  3758   ceiling_subtract_one       ~> ceiling_diff_one
  3759 
  3760 * Theory "Finite_Set": various folding_XXX locales facilitate the
  3761 application of the various fold combinators on finite sets.
  3762 
  3763 * Library theory "RBT" renamed to "RBT_Impl"; new library theory "RBT"
  3764 provides abstract red-black tree type which is backed by "RBT_Impl" as
  3765 implementation.  INCOMPATIBILTY.
  3766 
  3767 * Theory Library/Coinductive_List has been removed -- superseded by
  3768 AFP/thys/Coinductive.
  3769 
  3770 * Theory PReal, including the type "preal" and related operations, has
  3771 been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3772 
  3773 * Real: new development using Cauchy Sequences.
  3774 
  3775 * Split off theory "Big_Operators" containing setsum, setprod,
  3776 Inf_fin, Sup_fin, Min, Max from theory Finite_Set.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3777 
  3778 * Theory "Rational" renamed to "Rat", for consistency with "Nat",
  3779 "Int" etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3780 
  3781 * Constant Rat.normalize needs to be qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3782 
  3783 * New set of rules "ac_simps" provides combined assoc / commute
  3784 rewrites for all interpretations of the appropriate generic locales.
  3785 
  3786 * Renamed theory "OrderedGroup" to "Groups" and split theory
  3787 "Ring_and_Field" into theories "Rings" and "Fields"; for more
  3788 appropriate and more consistent names suitable for name prefixes
  3789 within the HOL theories.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3790 
  3791 * Some generic constants have been put to appropriate theories:
  3792   - less_eq, less: Orderings
  3793   - zero, one, plus, minus, uminus, times, abs, sgn: Groups
  3794   - inverse, divide: Rings
  3795 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3796 
  3797 * More consistent naming of type classes involving orderings (and
  3798 lattices):
  3799 
  3800     lower_semilattice                   ~> semilattice_inf
  3801     upper_semilattice                   ~> semilattice_sup
  3802 
  3803     dense_linear_order                  ~> dense_linorder
  3804 
  3805     pordered_ab_group_add               ~> ordered_ab_group_add
  3806     pordered_ab_group_add_abs           ~> ordered_ab_group_add_abs
  3807     pordered_ab_semigroup_add           ~> ordered_ab_semigroup_add
  3808     pordered_ab_semigroup_add_imp_le    ~> ordered_ab_semigroup_add_imp_le
  3809     pordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add    ~> ordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add
  3810     pordered_cancel_comm_semiring       ~> ordered_cancel_comm_semiring
  3811     pordered_cancel_semiring            ~> ordered_cancel_semiring
  3812     pordered_comm_monoid_add            ~> ordered_comm_monoid_add
  3813     pordered_comm_ring                  ~> ordered_comm_ring
  3814     pordered_comm_semiring              ~> ordered_comm_semiring
  3815     pordered_ring                       ~> ordered_ring
  3816     pordered_ring_abs                   ~> ordered_ring_abs
  3817     pordered_semiring                   ~> ordered_semiring
  3818 
  3819     ordered_ab_group_add                ~> linordered_ab_group_add
  3820     ordered_ab_semigroup_add            ~> linordered_ab_semigroup_add
  3821     ordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add     ~> linordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add
  3822     ordered_comm_semiring_strict        ~> linordered_comm_semiring_strict
  3823     ordered_field                       ~> linordered_field
  3824     ordered_field_no_lb                 ~> linordered_field_no_lb
  3825     ordered_field_no_ub                 ~> linordered_field_no_ub
  3826     ordered_field_dense_linear_order    ~> dense_linordered_field
  3827     ordered_idom                        ~> linordered_idom
  3828     ordered_ring                        ~> linordered_ring
  3829     ordered_ring_le_cancel_factor       ~> linordered_ring_le_cancel_factor
  3830     ordered_ring_less_cancel_factor     ~> linordered_ring_less_cancel_factor
  3831     ordered_ring_strict                 ~> linordered_ring_strict
  3832     ordered_semidom                     ~> linordered_semidom
  3833     ordered_semiring                    ~> linordered_semiring
  3834     ordered_semiring_1                  ~> linordered_semiring_1
  3835     ordered_semiring_1_strict           ~> linordered_semiring_1_strict
  3836     ordered_semiring_strict             ~> linordered_semiring_strict
  3837 
  3838   The following slightly odd type classes have been moved to a
  3839   separate theory Library/Lattice_Algebras:
  3840 
  3841     lordered_ab_group_add               ~> lattice_ab_group_add
  3842     lordered_ab_group_add_abs           ~> lattice_ab_group_add_abs
  3843     lordered_ab_group_add_meet          ~> semilattice_inf_ab_group_add
  3844     lordered_ab_group_add_join          ~> semilattice_sup_ab_group_add
  3845     lordered_ring                       ~> lattice_ring
  3846 
  3847 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3848 
  3849 * Refined field classes:
  3850   - classes division_ring_inverse_zero, field_inverse_zero,
  3851     linordered_field_inverse_zero include rule inverse 0 = 0 --
  3852     subsumes former division_by_zero class;
  3853   - numerous lemmas have been ported from field to division_ring.
  3854 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3855 
  3856 * Refined algebra theorem collections:
  3857   - dropped theorem group group_simps, use algebra_simps instead;
  3858   - dropped theorem group ring_simps, use field_simps instead;
  3859   - proper theorem collection field_simps subsumes former theorem
  3860     groups field_eq_simps and field_simps;
  3861   - dropped lemma eq_minus_self_iff which is a duplicate for
  3862     equal_neg_zero.
  3863 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3864 
  3865 * Theory Finite_Set and List: some lemmas have been generalized from
  3866 sets to lattices:
  3867 
  3868   fun_left_comm_idem_inter      ~> fun_left_comm_idem_inf
  3869   fun_left_comm_idem_union      ~> fun_left_comm_idem_sup
  3870   inter_Inter_fold_inter        ~> inf_Inf_fold_inf
  3871   union_Union_fold_union        ~> sup_Sup_fold_sup
  3872   Inter_fold_inter              ~> Inf_fold_inf
  3873   Union_fold_union              ~> Sup_fold_sup
  3874   inter_INTER_fold_inter        ~> inf_INFI_fold_inf
  3875   union_UNION_fold_union        ~> sup_SUPR_fold_sup
  3876   INTER_fold_inter              ~> INFI_fold_inf
  3877   UNION_fold_union              ~> SUPR_fold_sup
  3878 
  3879 * Theory "Complete_Lattice": lemmas top_def and bot_def have been
  3880 replaced by the more convenient lemmas Inf_empty and Sup_empty.
  3881 Dropped lemmas Inf_insert_simp and Sup_insert_simp, which are subsumed
  3882 by Inf_insert and Sup_insert.  Lemmas Inf_UNIV and Sup_UNIV replace
  3883 former Inf_Univ and Sup_Univ.  Lemmas inf_top_right and sup_bot_right
  3884 subsume inf_top and sup_bot respectively.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3885 
  3886 * Reorganized theory Multiset: swapped notation of pointwise and
  3887 multiset order:
  3888 
  3889   - pointwise ordering is instance of class order with standard syntax
  3890     <= and <;
  3891   - multiset ordering has syntax <=# and <#; partial order properties
  3892     are provided by means of interpretation with prefix
  3893     multiset_order;
  3894   - less duplication, less historical organization of sections,
  3895     conversion from associations lists to multisets, rudimentary code
  3896     generation;
  3897   - use insert_DiffM2 [symmetric] instead of elem_imp_eq_diff_union,
  3898     if needed.
  3899 
  3900 Renamed:
  3901 
  3902   multiset_eq_conv_count_eq  ~>  multiset_ext_iff
  3903   multi_count_ext  ~>  multiset_ext
  3904   diff_union_inverse2  ~>  diff_union_cancelR
  3905 
  3906 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3907 
  3908 * Theory Permutation: replaced local "remove" by List.remove1.
  3909 
  3910 * Code generation: ML and OCaml code is decorated with signatures.
  3911 
  3912 * Theory List: added transpose.
  3913 
  3914 * Library/Nat_Bijection.thy is a collection of bijective functions
  3915 between nat and other types, which supersedes the older libraries
  3916 Library/Nat_Int_Bij.thy and HOLCF/NatIso.thy.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3917 
  3918   Constants:
  3919   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat         ~> prod_encode
  3920   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2         ~> prod_decode
  3921   Nat_Int_Bij.int_to_nat_bij      ~> int_encode
  3922   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_int_bij      ~> int_decode
  3923   Countable.pair_encode           ~> prod_encode
  3924   NatIso.prod2nat                 ~> prod_encode
  3925   NatIso.nat2prod                 ~> prod_decode
  3926   NatIso.sum2nat                  ~> sum_encode
  3927   NatIso.nat2sum                  ~> sum_decode
  3928   NatIso.list2nat                 ~> list_encode
  3929   NatIso.nat2list                 ~> list_decode
  3930   NatIso.set2nat                  ~> set_encode
  3931   NatIso.nat2set                  ~> set_decode
  3932 
  3933   Lemmas:
  3934   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_nat_to_int_bij  ~> bij_int_decode
  3935   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat_inj     ~> inj_prod_encode
  3936   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat_surj    ~> surj_prod_encode
  3937   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2_inj     ~> inj_prod_decode
  3938   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2_surj    ~> surj_prod_decode
  3939   Nat_Int_Bij.i2n_n2i_id          ~> int_encode_inverse
  3940   Nat_Int_Bij.n2i_i2n_id          ~> int_decode_inverse
  3941   Nat_Int_Bij.surj_nat_to_int_bij ~> surj_int_encode
  3942   Nat_Int_Bij.surj_int_to_nat_bij ~> surj_int_decode
  3943   Nat_Int_Bij.inj_nat_to_int_bij  ~> inj_int_encode
  3944   Nat_Int_Bij.inj_int_to_nat_bij  ~> inj_int_decode
  3945   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_nat_to_int_bij  ~> bij_int_encode
  3946   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_int_to_nat_bij  ~> bij_int_decode
  3947 
  3948 * Sledgehammer:
  3949   - Renamed ATP commands:
  3950     atp_info     ~> sledgehammer running_atps
  3951     atp_kill     ~> sledgehammer kill_atps
  3952     atp_messages ~> sledgehammer messages
  3953     atp_minimize ~> sledgehammer minimize
  3954     print_atps   ~> sledgehammer available_atps
  3955     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3956   - Added user's manual ("isabelle doc sledgehammer").
  3957   - Added option syntax and "sledgehammer_params" to customize
  3958     Sledgehammer's behavior.  See the manual for details.
  3959   - Modified the Isar proof reconstruction code so that it produces
  3960     direct proofs rather than proofs by contradiction.  (This feature
  3961     is still experimental.)
  3962   - Made Isar proof reconstruction work for SPASS, remote ATPs, and in
  3963     full-typed mode.
  3964   - Added support for TPTP syntax for SPASS via the "spass_tptp" ATP.
  3965 
  3966 * Nitpick:
  3967   - Added and implemented "binary_ints" and "bits" options.
  3968   - Added "std" option and implemented support for nonstandard models.
  3969   - Added and implemented "finitize" option to improve the precision
  3970     of infinite datatypes based on a monotonicity analysis.
  3971   - Added support for quotient types.
  3972   - Added support for "specification" and "ax_specification"
  3973     constructs.
  3974   - Added support for local definitions (for "function" and
  3975     "termination" proofs).
  3976   - Added support for term postprocessors.
  3977   - Optimized "Multiset.multiset" and "FinFun.finfun".
  3978   - Improved efficiency of "destroy_constrs" optimization.
  3979   - Fixed soundness bugs related to "destroy_constrs" optimization and
  3980     record getters.
  3981   - Fixed soundness bug related to higher-order constructors.
  3982   - Fixed soundness bug when "full_descrs" is enabled.
  3983   - Improved precision of set constructs.
  3984   - Added "atoms" option.
  3985   - Added cache to speed up repeated Kodkod invocations on the same
  3986     problems.
  3987   - Renamed "MiniSatJNI", "zChaffJNI", "BerkMinAlloy", and
  3988     "SAT4JLight" to "MiniSat_JNI", "zChaff_JNI", "BerkMin_Alloy", and
  3989     "SAT4J_Light".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3990   - Removed "skolemize", "uncurry", "sym_break", "flatten_prop",
  3991     "sharing_depth", and "show_skolems" options.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3992   - Removed "nitpick_intro" attribute.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3993 
  3994 * Method "induct" now takes instantiations of the form t, where t is not
  3995   a variable, as a shorthand for "x == t", where x is a fresh variable.
  3996   If this is not intended, t has to be enclosed in parentheses.
  3997   By default, the equalities generated by definitional instantiations
  3998   are pre-simplified, which may cause parameters of inductive cases
  3999   to disappear, or may even delete some of the inductive cases.
  4000   Use "induct (no_simp)" instead of "induct" to restore the old
  4001   behaviour. The (no_simp) option is also understood by the "cases"
  4002   and "nominal_induct" methods, which now perform pre-simplification, too.
  4003   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4004 
  4005 
  4006 *** HOLCF ***
  4007 
  4008 * Variable names in lemmas generated by the domain package have
  4009 changed; the naming scheme is now consistent with the HOL datatype
  4010 package.  Some proof scripts may be affected, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4011 
  4012 * The domain package no longer defines the function "foo_copy" for
  4013 recursive domain "foo".  The reach lemma is now stated directly in
  4014 terms of "foo_take".  Lemmas and proofs that mention "foo_copy" must
  4015 be reformulated in terms of "foo_take", INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4016 
  4017 * Most definedness lemmas generated by the domain package (previously
  4018 of the form "x ~= UU ==> foo$x ~= UU") now have an if-and-only-if form
  4019 like "foo$x = UU <-> x = UU", which works better as a simp rule.
  4020 Proofs that used definedness lemmas as intro rules may break,
  4021 potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4022 
  4023 * Induction and casedist rules generated by the domain package now
  4024 declare proper case_names (one called "bottom", and one named for each
  4025 constructor).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4026 
  4027 * For mutually-recursive domains, separate "reach" and "take_lemma"
  4028 rules are generated for each domain, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4029 
  4030   foo_bar.reach       ~> foo.reach  bar.reach
  4031   foo_bar.take_lemmas ~> foo.take_lemma  bar.take_lemma
  4032 
  4033 * Some lemmas generated by the domain package have been renamed for
  4034 consistency with the datatype package, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4035 
  4036   foo.ind        ~> foo.induct
  4037   foo.finite_ind ~> foo.finite_induct
  4038   foo.coind      ~> foo.coinduct
  4039   foo.casedist   ~> foo.exhaust
  4040   foo.exhaust    ~> foo.nchotomy
  4041 
  4042 * For consistency with other definition packages, the fixrec package
  4043 now generates qualified theorem names, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4044 
  4045   foo_simps  ~> foo.simps
  4046   foo_unfold ~> foo.unfold
  4047   foo_induct ~> foo.induct
  4048 
  4049 * The "fixrec_simp" attribute has been removed.  The "fixrec_simp"
  4050 method and internal fixrec proofs now use the default simpset instead.
  4051 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4052 
  4053 * The "contlub" predicate has been removed.  Proof scripts should use
  4054 lemma contI2 in place of monocontlub2cont, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4055 
  4056 * The "admw" predicate has been removed, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4057 
  4058 * The constants cpair, cfst, and csnd have been removed in favor of
  4059 Pair, fst, and snd from Isabelle/HOL, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4060 
  4061 
  4062 *** ML ***
  4063 
  4064 * Antiquotations for basic formal entities:
  4065 
  4066     @{class NAME}         -- type class
  4067     @{class_syntax NAME}  -- syntax representation of the above
  4068 
  4069     @{type_name NAME}     -- logical type
  4070     @{type_abbrev NAME}   -- type abbreviation
  4071     @{nonterminal NAME}   -- type of concrete syntactic category
  4072     @{type_syntax NAME}   -- syntax representation of any of the above
  4073 
  4074     @{const_name NAME}    -- logical constant (INCOMPATIBILITY)
  4075     @{const_abbrev NAME}  -- abbreviated constant
  4076     @{const_syntax NAME}  -- syntax representation of any of the above
  4077 
  4078 * Antiquotation @{syntax_const NAME} ensures that NAME refers to a raw
  4079 syntax constant (cf. 'syntax' command).
  4080 
  4081 * Antiquotation @{make_string} inlines a function to print arbitrary
  4082 values similar to the ML toplevel.  The result is compiler dependent
  4083 and may fall back on "?" in certain situations.
  4084 
  4085 * Diagnostic commands 'ML_val' and 'ML_command' may refer to
  4086 antiquotations @{Isar.state} and @{Isar.goal}.  This replaces impure
  4087 Isar.state() and Isar.goal(), which belong to the old TTY loop and do
  4088 not work with the asynchronous Isar document model.
  4089 
  4090 * Configuration options now admit dynamic default values, depending on
  4091 the context or even global references.
  4092 
  4093 * SHA1.digest digests strings according to SHA-1 (see RFC 3174).  It
  4094 uses an efficient external library if available (for Poly/ML).
  4095 
  4096 * Renamed some important ML structures, while keeping the old names
  4097 for some time as aliases within the structure Legacy:
  4098 
  4099   OuterKeyword  ~>  Keyword
  4100   OuterLex      ~>  Token
  4101   OuterParse    ~>  Parse
  4102   OuterSyntax   ~>  Outer_Syntax
  4103   PrintMode     ~>  Print_Mode
  4104   SpecParse     ~>  Parse_Spec
  4105   ThyInfo       ~>  Thy_Info
  4106   ThyLoad       ~>  Thy_Load
  4107   ThyOutput     ~>  Thy_Output
  4108   TypeInfer     ~>  Type_Infer
  4109 
  4110 Note that "open Legacy" simplifies porting of sources, but forgetting
  4111 to remove it again will complicate porting again in the future.
  4112 
  4113 * Most operations that refer to a global context are named
  4114 accordingly, e.g. Simplifier.global_context or
  4115 ProofContext.init_global.  There are some situations where a global
  4116 context actually works, but under normal circumstances one needs to
  4117 pass the proper local context through the code!
  4118 
  4119 * Discontinued old TheoryDataFun with its copy/init operation -- data
  4120 needs to be pure.  Functor Theory_Data_PP retains the traditional
  4121 Pretty.pp argument to merge, which is absent in the standard
  4122 Theory_Data version.
  4123 
  4124 * Sorts.certify_sort and derived "cert" operations for types and terms
  4125 no longer minimize sorts.  Thus certification at the boundary of the
  4126 inference kernel becomes invariant under addition of class relations,
  4127 which is an important monotonicity principle.  Sorts are now minimized
  4128 in the syntax layer only, at the boundary between the end-user and the
  4129 system.  Subtle INCOMPATIBILITY, may have to use Sign.minimize_sort
  4130 explicitly in rare situations.
  4131 
  4132 * Renamed old-style Drule.standard to Drule.export_without_context, to
  4133 emphasize that this is in no way a standard operation.
  4134 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4135 
  4136 * Subgoal.FOCUS (and variants): resulting goal state is normalized as
  4137 usual for resolution.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4138 
  4139 * Renamed varify/unvarify operations to varify_global/unvarify_global
  4140 to emphasize that these only work in a global situation (which is
  4141 quite rare).
  4142 
  4143 * Curried take and drop in library.ML; negative length is interpreted
  4144 as infinity (as in chop).  Subtle INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4145 
  4146 * Proof terms: type substitutions on proof constants now use canonical
  4147 order of type variables.  INCOMPATIBILITY for tools working with proof
  4148 terms.
  4149 
  4150 * Raw axioms/defs may no longer carry sort constraints, and raw defs
  4151 may no longer carry premises.  User-level specifications are
  4152 transformed accordingly by Thm.add_axiom/add_def.
  4153 
  4154 
  4155 *** System ***
  4156 
  4157 * Discontinued special HOL_USEDIR_OPTIONS for the main HOL image;
  4158 ISABELLE_USEDIR_OPTIONS applies uniformly to all sessions.  Note that
  4159 proof terms are enabled unconditionally in the new HOL-Proofs image.
  4160 
  4161 * Discontinued old ISABELLE and ISATOOL environment settings (legacy
  4162 feature since Isabelle2009).  Use ISABELLE_PROCESS and ISABELLE_TOOL,
  4163 respectively.
  4164 
  4165 * Old lib/scripts/polyml-platform is superseded by the
  4166 ISABELLE_PLATFORM setting variable, which defaults to the 32 bit
  4167 variant, even on a 64 bit machine.  The following example setting
  4168 prefers 64 bit if available:
  4169 
  4170   ML_PLATFORM="${ISABELLE_PLATFORM64:-$ISABELLE_PLATFORM}"
  4171 
  4172 * The preliminary Isabelle/jEdit application demonstrates the emerging
  4173 Isabelle/Scala layer for advanced prover interaction and integration.
  4174 See src/Tools/jEdit or "isabelle jedit" provided by the properly built
  4175 component.
  4176 
  4177 * "IsabelleText" is a Unicode font derived from Bitstream Vera Mono
  4178 and Bluesky TeX fonts.  It provides the usual Isabelle symbols,
  4179 similar to the default assignment of the document preparation system
  4180 (cf. isabellesym.sty).  The Isabelle/Scala class Isabelle_System
  4181 provides some operations for direct access to the font without asking
  4182 the user for manual installation.
  4183 
  4184 
  4185 
  4186 New in Isabelle2009-1 (December 2009)
  4187 -------------------------------------
  4188 
  4189 *** General ***
  4190 
  4191 * Discontinued old form of "escaped symbols" such as \\<forall>.  Only
  4192 one backslash should be used, even in ML sources.
  4193 
  4194 
  4195 *** Pure ***
  4196 
  4197 * Locale interpretation propagates mixins along the locale hierarchy.
  4198 The currently only available mixins are the equations used to map
  4199 local definitions to terms of the target domain of an interpretation.
  4200 
  4201 * Reactivated diagnostic command 'print_interps'.  Use "print_interps
  4202 loc" to print all interpretations of locale "loc" in the theory.
  4203 Interpretations in proofs are not shown.
  4204 
  4205 * Thoroughly revised locales tutorial.  New section on conditional
  4206 interpretation.
  4207 
  4208 * On instantiation of classes, remaining undefined class parameters
  4209 are formally declared.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4210 
  4211 
  4212 *** Document preparation ***
  4213 
  4214 * New generalized style concept for printing terms: @{foo (style) ...}
  4215 instead of @{foo_style style ...}  (old form is still retained for
  4216 backward compatibility).  Styles can be also applied for
  4217 antiquotations prop, term_type and typeof.
  4218 
  4219 
  4220 *** HOL ***
  4221 
  4222 * New proof method "smt" for a combination of first-order logic with
  4223 equality, linear and nonlinear (natural/integer/real) arithmetic, and
  4224 fixed-size bitvectors; there is also basic support for higher-order
  4225 features (esp. lambda abstractions).  It is an incomplete decision
  4226 procedure based on external SMT solvers using the oracle mechanism;
  4227 for the SMT solver Z3, this method is proof-producing.  Certificates
  4228 are provided to avoid calling the external solvers solely for
  4229 re-checking proofs.  Due to a remote SMT service there is no need for
  4230 installing SMT solvers locally.  See src/HOL/SMT.
  4231 
  4232 * New commands to load and prove verification conditions generated by
  4233 the Boogie program verifier or derived systems (e.g. the Verifying C
  4234 Compiler (VCC) or Spec#).  See src/HOL/Boogie.
  4235 
  4236 * New counterexample generator tool 'nitpick' based on the Kodkod
  4237 relational model finder.  See src/HOL/Tools/Nitpick and
  4238 src/HOL/Nitpick_Examples.
  4239 
  4240 * New commands 'code_pred' and 'values' to invoke the predicate
  4241 compiler and to enumerate values of inductive predicates.
  4242 
  4243 * A tabled implementation of the reflexive transitive closure.
  4244 
  4245 * New implementation of quickcheck uses generic code generator;
  4246 default generators are provided for all suitable HOL types, records
  4247 and datatypes.  Old quickcheck can be re-activated importing theory
  4248 Library/SML_Quickcheck.
  4249 
  4250 * New testing tool Mirabelle for automated proof tools.  Applies
  4251 several tools and tactics like sledgehammer, metis, or quickcheck, to
  4252 every proof step in a theory.  To be used in batch mode via the
  4253 "mirabelle" utility.
  4254 
  4255 * New proof method "sos" (sum of squares) for nonlinear real
  4256 arithmetic (originally due to John Harison). It requires theory
  4257 Library/Sum_Of_Squares.  It is not a complete decision procedure but
  4258 works well in practice on quantifier-free real arithmetic with +, -,
  4259 *, ^, =, <= and <, i.e. boolean combinations of equalities and
  4260 inequalities between polynomials.  It makes use of external
  4261 semidefinite programming solvers.  Method "sos" generates a
  4262 certificate that can be pasted into the proof thus avoiding the need
  4263 to call an external tool every time the proof is checked.  See
  4264 src/HOL/Library/Sum_Of_Squares.
  4265 
  4266 * New method "linarith" invokes existing linear arithmetic decision
  4267 procedure only.
  4268 
  4269 * New command 'atp_minimal' reduces result produced by Sledgehammer.
  4270 
  4271 * New Sledgehammer option "Full Types" in Proof General settings menu.
  4272 Causes full type information to be output to the ATPs.  This slows
  4273 ATPs down considerably but eliminates a source of unsound "proofs"
  4274 that fail later.
  4275 
  4276 * New method "metisFT": A version of metis that uses full type
  4277 information in order to avoid failures of proof reconstruction.
  4278 
  4279 * New evaluator "approximate" approximates an real valued term using
  4280 the same method as the approximation method.
  4281 
  4282 * Method "approximate" now supports arithmetic expressions as
  4283 boundaries of intervals and implements interval splitting and Taylor
  4284 series expansion.
  4285 
  4286 * ML antiquotation @{code_datatype} inserts definition of a datatype
  4287 generated by the code generator; e.g. see src/HOL/Predicate.thy.
  4288 
  4289 * New theory SupInf of the supremum and infimum operators for sets of
  4290 reals.
  4291 
  4292 * New theory Probability, which contains a development of measure
  4293 theory, eventually leading to Lebesgue integration and probability.
  4294 
  4295 * Extended Multivariate Analysis to include derivation and Brouwer's
  4296 fixpoint theorem.
  4297 
  4298 * Reorganization of number theory, INCOMPATIBILITY:
  4299   - new number theory development for nat and int, in theories Divides
  4300     and GCD as well as in new session Number_Theory
  4301   - some constants and facts now suffixed with _nat and _int
  4302     accordingly
  4303   - former session NumberTheory now named Old_Number_Theory, including
  4304     theories Legacy_GCD and Primes (prefer Number_Theory if possible)
  4305   - moved theory Pocklington from src/HOL/Library to
  4306     src/HOL/Old_Number_Theory
  4307 
  4308 * Theory GCD includes functions Gcd/GCD and Lcm/LCM for the gcd and
  4309 lcm of finite and infinite sets. It is shown that they form a complete
  4310 lattice.
  4311 
  4312 * Class semiring_div requires superclass no_zero_divisors and proof of
  4313 div_mult_mult1; theorems div_mult_mult1, div_mult_mult2,
  4314 div_mult_mult1_if, div_mult_mult1 and div_mult_mult2 have been
  4315 generalized to class semiring_div, subsuming former theorems
  4316 zdiv_zmult_zmult1, zdiv_zmult_zmult1_if, zdiv_zmult_zmult1 and
  4317 zdiv_zmult_zmult2.  div_mult_mult1 is now [simp] by default.
  4318 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4319 
  4320 * Refinements to lattice classes and sets:
  4321   - less default intro/elim rules in locale variant, more default
  4322     intro/elim rules in class variant: more uniformity
  4323   - lemma ge_sup_conv renamed to le_sup_iff, in accordance with
  4324     le_inf_iff
  4325   - dropped lemma alias inf_ACI for inf_aci (same for sup_ACI and
  4326     sup_aci)
  4327   - renamed ACI to inf_sup_aci
  4328   - new class "boolean_algebra"
  4329   - class "complete_lattice" moved to separate theory
  4330     "Complete_Lattice"; corresponding constants (and abbreviations)
  4331     renamed and with authentic syntax:
  4332     Set.Inf ~>    Complete_Lattice.Inf
  4333     Set.Sup ~>    Complete_Lattice.Sup
  4334     Set.INFI ~>   Complete_Lattice.INFI
  4335     Set.SUPR ~>   Complete_Lattice.SUPR
  4336     Set.Inter ~>  Complete_Lattice.Inter
  4337     Set.Union ~>  Complete_Lattice.Union
  4338     Set.INTER ~>  Complete_Lattice.INTER
  4339     Set.UNION ~>  Complete_Lattice.UNION
  4340   - authentic syntax for
  4341     Set.Pow
  4342     Set.image
  4343   - mere abbreviations:
  4344     Set.empty               (for bot)
  4345     Set.UNIV                (for top)
  4346     Set.inter               (for inf, formerly Set.Int)
  4347     Set.union               (for sup, formerly Set.Un)
  4348     Complete_Lattice.Inter  (for Inf)
  4349     Complete_Lattice.Union  (for Sup)
  4350     Complete_Lattice.INTER  (for INFI)
  4351     Complete_Lattice.UNION  (for SUPR)
  4352   - object-logic definitions as far as appropriate
  4353 
  4354 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Care is required when theorems Int_subset_iff or
  4355 Un_subset_iff are explicitly deleted as default simp rules; then also
  4356 their lattice counterparts le_inf_iff and le_sup_iff have to be
  4357 deleted to achieve the desired effect.
  4358 
  4359 * Rules inf_absorb1, inf_absorb2, sup_absorb1, sup_absorb2 are no simp
  4360 rules by default any longer; the same applies to min_max.inf_absorb1
  4361 etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4362 
  4363 * Rules sup_Int_eq and sup_Un_eq are no longer declared as
  4364 pred_set_conv by default.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4365 
  4366 * Power operations on relations and functions are now one dedicated
  4367 constant "compow" with infix syntax "^^".  Power operation on
  4368 multiplicative monoids retains syntax "^" and is now defined generic
  4369 in class power.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4370 
  4371 * Relation composition "R O S" now has a more standard argument order:
  4372 "R O S = {(x, z). EX y. (x, y) : R & (y, z) : S}".  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  4373 rewrite propositions with "S O R" --> "R O S". Proofs may occasionally
  4374 break, since the O_assoc rule was not rewritten like this.  Fix using
  4375 O_assoc[symmetric].  The same applies to the curried version "R OO S".
  4376 
  4377 * Function "Inv" is renamed to "inv_into" and function "inv" is now an
  4378 abbreviation for "inv_into UNIV".  Lemmas are renamed accordingly.
  4379 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4380 
  4381 * Most rules produced by inductive and datatype package have mandatory
  4382 prefixes.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4383 
  4384 * Changed "DERIV_intros" to a dynamic fact, which can be augmented by
  4385 the attribute of the same name.  Each of the theorems in the list
  4386 DERIV_intros assumes composition with an additional function and
  4387 matches a variable to the derivative, which has to be solved by the
  4388 Simplifier.  Hence (auto intro!: DERIV_intros) computes the derivative
  4389 of most elementary terms.  Former Maclauren.DERIV_tac and
  4390 Maclauren.deriv_tac should be replaced by (auto intro!: DERIV_intros).
  4391 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4392 
  4393 * Code generator attributes follow the usual underscore convention:
  4394     code_unfold     replaces    code unfold
  4395     code_post       replaces    code post
  4396     etc.
  4397   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4398 
  4399 * Renamed methods:
  4400     sizechange -> size_change
  4401     induct_scheme -> induction_schema
  4402   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4403 
  4404 * Discontinued abbreviation "arbitrary" of constant "undefined".
  4405 INCOMPATIBILITY, use "undefined" directly.
  4406 
  4407 * Renamed theorems:
  4408     Suc_eq_add_numeral_1 -> Suc_eq_plus1
  4409     Suc_eq_add_numeral_1_left -> Suc_eq_plus1_left
  4410     Suc_plus1 -> Suc_eq_plus1
  4411     *anti_sym -> *antisym*
  4412     vector_less_eq_def -> vector_le_def
  4413   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4414 
  4415 * Added theorem List.map_map as [simp].  Removed List.map_compose.
  4416 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4417 
  4418 * Removed predicate "M hassize n" (<--> card M = n & finite M).
  4419 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4420 
  4421 
  4422 *** HOLCF ***
  4423 
  4424 * Theory Representable defines a class "rep" of domains that are
  4425 representable (via an ep-pair) in the universal domain type "udom".
  4426 Instances are provided for all type constructors defined in HOLCF.
  4427 
  4428 * The 'new_domain' command is a purely definitional version of the
  4429 domain package, for representable domains.  Syntax is identical to the
  4430 old domain package.  The 'new_domain' package also supports indirect
  4431 recursion using previously-defined type constructors.  See
  4432 src/HOLCF/ex/New_Domain.thy for examples.
  4433 
  4434 * Method "fixrec_simp" unfolds one step of a fixrec-defined constant
  4435 on the left-hand side of an equation, and then performs
  4436 simplification.  Rewriting is done using rules declared with the
  4437 "fixrec_simp" attribute.  The "fixrec_simp" method is intended as a
  4438 replacement for "fixpat"; see src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for examples.
  4439 
  4440 * The pattern-match compiler in 'fixrec' can now handle constructors
  4441 with HOL function types.  Pattern-match combinators for the Pair
  4442 constructor are pre-configured.
  4443 
  4444 * The 'fixrec' package now produces better fixed-point induction rules
  4445 for mutually-recursive definitions:  Induction rules have conclusions
  4446 of the form "P foo bar" instead of "P <foo, bar>".
  4447 
  4448 * The constant "sq_le" (with infix syntax "<<" or "\<sqsubseteq>") has
  4449 been renamed to "below".  The name "below" now replaces "less" in many
  4450 theorem names.  (Legacy theorem names using "less" are still supported
  4451 as well.)
  4452 
  4453 * The 'fixrec' package now supports "bottom patterns".  Bottom
  4454 patterns can be used to generate strictness rules, or to make
  4455 functions more strict (much like the bang-patterns supported by the
  4456 Glasgow Haskell Compiler).  See src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  4457 examples.
  4458 
  4459 
  4460 *** ML ***
  4461 
  4462 * Support for Poly/ML 5.3.0, with improved reporting of compiler
  4463 errors and run-time exceptions, including detailed source positions.
  4464 
  4465 * Structure Name_Space (formerly NameSpace) now manages uniquely
  4466 identified entries, with some additional information such as source
  4467 position, logical grouping etc.
  4468 
  4469 * Theory and context data is now introduced by the simplified and
  4470 modernized functors Theory_Data, Proof_Data, Generic_Data.  Data needs
  4471 to be pure, but the old TheoryDataFun for mutable data (with explicit
  4472 copy operation) is still available for some time.
  4473 
  4474 * Structure Synchronized (cf. src/Pure/Concurrent/synchronized.ML)
  4475 provides a high-level programming interface to synchronized state
  4476 variables with atomic update.  This works via pure function
  4477 application within a critical section -- its runtime should be as
  4478 short as possible; beware of deadlocks if critical code is nested,
  4479 either directly or indirectly via other synchronized variables!
  4480 
  4481 * Structure Unsynchronized (cf. src/Pure/ML-Systems/unsynchronized.ML)
  4482 wraps raw ML references, explicitly indicating their non-thread-safe
  4483 behaviour.  The Isar toplevel keeps this structure open, to
  4484 accommodate Proof General as well as quick and dirty interactive
  4485 experiments with references.
  4486 
  4487 * PARALLEL_CHOICE and PARALLEL_GOALS provide basic support for
  4488 parallel tactical reasoning.
  4489 
  4490 * Tacticals Subgoal.FOCUS, Subgoal.FOCUS_PREMS, Subgoal.FOCUS_PARAMS
  4491 are similar to SUBPROOF, but are slightly more flexible: only the
  4492 specified parts of the subgoal are imported into the context, and the
  4493 body tactic may introduce new subgoals and schematic variables.
  4494 
  4495 * Old tactical METAHYPS, which does not observe the proof context, has
  4496 been renamed to Old_Goals.METAHYPS and awaits deletion.  Use SUBPROOF
  4497 or Subgoal.FOCUS etc.
  4498 
  4499 * Renamed functor TableFun to Table, and GraphFun to Graph.  (Since
  4500 functors have their own ML name space there is no point to mark them
  4501 separately.)  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4502 
  4503 * Renamed NamedThmsFun to Named_Thms.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4504 
  4505 * Renamed several structures FooBar to Foo_Bar.  Occasional,
  4506 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4507 
  4508 * Operations of structure Skip_Proof no longer require quick_and_dirty
  4509 mode, which avoids critical setmp.
  4510 
  4511 * Eliminated old Attrib.add_attributes, Method.add_methods and related
  4512 combinators for "args".  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to use simplified
  4513 Attrib/Method.setup introduced in Isabelle2009.
  4514 
  4515 * Proper context for simpset_of, claset_of, clasimpset_of.  May fall
  4516 back on global_simpset_of, global_claset_of, global_clasimpset_of as
  4517 last resort.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4518 
  4519 * Display.pretty_thm now requires a proper context (cf. former
  4520 ProofContext.pretty_thm).  May fall back on Display.pretty_thm_global
  4521 or even Display.pretty_thm_without_context as last resort.
  4522 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4523 
  4524 * Discontinued Display.pretty_ctyp/cterm etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  4525 Syntax.pretty_typ/term directly, preferably with proper context
  4526 instead of global theory.
  4527 
  4528 
  4529 *** System ***
  4530 
  4531 * Further fine tuning of parallel proof checking, scales up to 8 cores
  4532 (max. speedup factor 5.0).  See also Goal.parallel_proofs in ML and
  4533 usedir option -q.
  4534 
  4535 * Support for additional "Isabelle components" via etc/components, see
  4536 also the system manual.
  4537 
  4538 * The isabelle makeall tool now operates on all components with
  4539 IsaMakefile, not just hardwired "logics".
  4540 
  4541 * Removed "compress" option from isabelle-process and isabelle usedir;
  4542 this is always enabled.
  4543 
  4544 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 4.x versions.
  4545 
  4546 * Isabelle tool "wwwfind" provides web interface for 'find_theorems'
  4547 on a given logic image.  This requires the lighttpd webserver and is
  4548 currently supported on Linux only.
  4549 
  4550 
  4551 
  4552 New in Isabelle2009 (April 2009)
  4553 --------------------------------
  4554 
  4555 *** General ***
  4556 
  4557 * Simplified main Isabelle executables, with less surprises on
  4558 case-insensitive file-systems (such as Mac OS).
  4559 
  4560   - The main Isabelle tool wrapper is now called "isabelle" instead of
  4561     "isatool."
  4562 
  4563   - The former "isabelle" alias for "isabelle-process" has been
  4564     removed (should rarely occur to regular users).
  4565 
  4566   - The former "isabelle-interface" and its alias "Isabelle" have been
  4567     removed (interfaces are now regular Isabelle tools).
  4568 
  4569 Within scripts and make files, the Isabelle environment variables
  4570 ISABELLE_TOOL and ISABELLE_PROCESS replace old ISATOOL and ISABELLE,
  4571 respectively.  (The latter are still available as legacy feature.)
  4572 
  4573 The old isabelle-interface wrapper could react in confusing ways if
  4574 the interface was uninstalled or changed otherwise.  Individual
  4575 interface tool configuration is now more explicit, see also the
  4576 Isabelle system manual.  In particular, Proof General is now available
  4577 via "isabelle emacs".
  4578 
  4579 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt derivative scripts.  Users may need to
  4580 purge installed copies of Isabelle executables and re-run "isabelle
  4581 install -p ...", or use symlinks.
  4582 
  4583 * The default for ISABELLE_HOME_USER is now ~/.isabelle instead of the
  4584 old ~/isabelle, which was slightly non-standard and apt to cause
  4585 surprises on case-insensitive file-systems (such as Mac OS).
  4586 
  4587 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to move existing ~/isabelle/etc,
  4588 ~/isabelle/heaps, ~/isabelle/browser_info to the new place.  Special
  4589 care is required when using older releases of Isabelle.  Note that
  4590 ISABELLE_HOME_USER can be changed in Isabelle/etc/settings of any
  4591 Isabelle distribution, in order to use the new ~/.isabelle uniformly.
  4592 
  4593 * Proofs of fully specified statements are run in parallel on
  4594 multi-core systems.  A speedup factor of 2.5 to 3.2 can be expected on
  4595 a regular 4-core machine, if the initial heap space is made reasonably
  4596 large (cf. Poly/ML option -H).  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.)
  4597 
  4598 * The main reference manuals ("isar-ref", "implementation", and
  4599 "system") have been updated and extended.  Formally checked references
  4600 as hyperlinks are now available uniformly.
  4601 
  4602 
  4603 *** Pure ***
  4604 
  4605 * Complete re-implementation of locales.  INCOMPATIBILITY in several
  4606 respects.  The most important changes are listed below.  See the
  4607 Tutorial on Locales ("locales" manual) for details.
  4608 
  4609 - In locale expressions, instantiation replaces renaming.  Parameters
  4610 must be declared in a for clause.  To aid compatibility with previous
  4611 parameter inheritance, in locale declarations, parameters that are not
  4612 'touched' (instantiation position "_" or omitted) are implicitly added
  4613 with their syntax at the beginning of the for clause.
  4614 
  4615 - Syntax from abbreviations and definitions in locales is available in
  4616 locale expressions and context elements.  The latter is particularly
  4617 useful in locale declarations.
  4618 
  4619 - More flexible mechanisms to qualify names generated by locale
  4620 expressions.  Qualifiers (prefixes) may be specified in locale
  4621 expressions, and can be marked as mandatory (syntax: "name!:") or
  4622 optional (syntax "name?:").  The default depends for plain "name:"
  4623 depends on the situation where a locale expression is used: in
  4624 commands 'locale' and 'sublocale' prefixes are optional, in
  4625 'interpretation' and 'interpret' prefixes are mandatory.  The old
  4626 implicit qualifiers derived from the parameter names of a locale are
  4627 no longer generated.
  4628 
  4629 - Command "sublocale l < e" replaces "interpretation l < e".  The
  4630 instantiation clause in "interpretation" and "interpret" (square
  4631 brackets) is no longer available.  Use locale expressions.
  4632 
  4633 - When converting proof scripts, mandatory qualifiers in
  4634 'interpretation' and 'interpret' should be retained by default, even
  4635 if this is an INCOMPATIBILITY compared to former behavior.  In the
  4636 worst case, use the "name?:" form for non-mandatory ones.  Qualifiers
  4637 in locale expressions range over a single locale instance only.
  4638 
  4639 - Dropped locale element "includes".  This is a major INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4640 In existing theorem specifications replace the includes element by the
  4641 respective context elements of the included locale, omitting those
  4642 that are already present in the theorem specification.  Multiple
  4643 assume elements of a locale should be replaced by a single one
  4644 involving the locale predicate.  In the proof body, declarations (most
  4645 notably theorems) may be regained by interpreting the respective
  4646 locales in the proof context as required (command "interpret").
  4647 
  4648 If using "includes" in replacement of a target solely because the
  4649 parameter types in the theorem are not as general as in the target,
  4650 consider declaring a new locale with additional type constraints on
  4651 the parameters (context element "constrains").
  4652 
  4653 - Discontinued "locale (open)".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4654 
  4655 - Locale interpretation commands no longer attempt to simplify goal.
  4656 INCOMPATIBILITY: in rare situations the generated goal differs.  Use
  4657 methods intro_locales and unfold_locales to clarify.
  4658 
  4659 - Locale interpretation commands no longer accept interpretation
  4660 attributes.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4661 
  4662 * Class declaration: so-called "base sort" must not be given in import
  4663 list any longer, but is inferred from the specification.  Particularly
  4664 in HOL, write
  4665 
  4666     class foo = ...
  4667 
  4668 instead of
  4669 
  4670     class foo = type + ...
  4671 
  4672 * Class target: global versions of theorems stemming do not carry a
  4673 parameter prefix any longer.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4674 
  4675 * Class 'instance' command no longer accepts attached definitions.
  4676 INCOMPATIBILITY, use proper 'instantiation' target instead.
  4677 
  4678 * Recovered hiding of consts, which was accidentally broken in
  4679 Isabelle2007.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, ``hide const c'' really
  4680 makes c inaccessible; consider using ``hide (open) const c'' instead.
  4681 
  4682 * Slightly more coherent Pure syntax, with updated documentation in
  4683 isar-ref manual.  Removed locales meta_term_syntax and
  4684 meta_conjunction_syntax: TERM and &&& (formerly &&) are now permanent,
  4685 INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations.  Note that &&& should not be used
  4686 directly in regular applications.
  4687 
  4688 * There is a new syntactic category "float_const" for signed decimal
  4689 fractions (e.g. 123.45 or -123.45).
  4690 
  4691 * Removed exotic 'token_translation' command.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use ML
  4692 interface with 'setup' command instead.
  4693 
  4694 * Command 'local_setup' is similar to 'setup', but operates on a local
  4695 theory context.
  4696 
  4697 * The 'axiomatization' command now only works within a global theory
  4698 context.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4699 
  4700 * Goal-directed proof now enforces strict proof irrelevance wrt. sort
  4701 hypotheses.  Sorts required in the course of reasoning need to be
  4702 covered by the constraints in the initial statement, completed by the
  4703 type instance information of the background theory.  Non-trivial sort
  4704 hypotheses, which rarely occur in practice, may be specified via
  4705 vacuous propositions of the form SORT_CONSTRAINT('a::c).  For example:
  4706 
  4707   lemma assumes "SORT_CONSTRAINT('a::empty)" shows False ...
  4708 
  4709 The result contains an implicit sort hypotheses as before --
  4710 SORT_CONSTRAINT premises are eliminated as part of the canonical rule
  4711 normalization.
  4712 
  4713 * Generalized Isar history, with support for linear undo, direct state
  4714 addressing etc.
  4715 
  4716 * Changed defaults for unify configuration options:
  4717 
  4718   unify_trace_bound = 50 (formerly 25)
  4719   unify_search_bound = 60 (formerly 30)
  4720 
  4721 * Different bookkeeping for code equations (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  4722 
  4723   a) On theory merge, the last set of code equations for a particular
  4724      constant is taken (in accordance with the policy applied by other
  4725      parts of the code generator framework).
  4726 
  4727   b) Code equations stemming from explicit declarations (e.g. code
  4728      attribute) gain priority over default code equations stemming
  4729      from definition, primrec, fun etc.
  4730 
  4731 * Keyword 'code_exception' now named 'code_abort'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4732 
  4733 * Unified theorem tables for both code generators.  Thus [code
  4734 func] has disappeared and only [code] remains.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4735 
  4736 * Command 'find_consts' searches for constants based on type and name
  4737 patterns, e.g.
  4738 
  4739     find_consts "_ => bool"
  4740 
  4741 By default, matching is against subtypes, but it may be restricted to
  4742 the whole type.  Searching by name is possible.  Multiple queries are
  4743 conjunctive and queries may be negated by prefixing them with a
  4744 hyphen:
  4745 
  4746     find_consts strict: "_ => bool" name: "Int" -"int => int"
  4747 
  4748 * New 'find_theorems' criterion "solves" matches theorems that
  4749 directly solve the current goal (modulo higher-order unification).
  4750 
  4751 * Auto solve feature for main theorem statements: whenever a new goal
  4752 is stated, "find_theorems solves" is called; any theorems that could
  4753 solve the lemma directly are listed as part of the goal state.
  4754 Cf. associated options in Proof General Isabelle settings menu,
  4755 enabled by default, with reasonable timeout for pathological cases of
  4756 higher-order unification.
  4757 
  4758 
  4759 *** Document preparation ***
  4760 
  4761 * Antiquotation @{lemma} now imitates a regular terminal proof,
  4762 demanding keyword 'by' and supporting the full method expression
  4763 syntax just like the Isar command 'by'.
  4764 
  4765 
  4766 *** HOL ***
  4767 
  4768 * Integrated main parts of former image HOL-Complex with HOL.  Entry
  4769 points Main and Complex_Main remain as before.
  4770 
  4771 * Logic image HOL-Plain provides a minimal HOL with the most important
  4772 tools available (inductive, datatype, primrec, ...).  This facilitates
  4773 experimentation and tool development.  Note that user applications
  4774 (and library theories) should never refer to anything below theory
  4775 Main, as before.
  4776 
  4777 * Logic image HOL-Main stops at theory Main, and thus facilitates
  4778 experimentation due to shorter build times.
  4779 
  4780 * Logic image HOL-NSA contains theories of nonstandard analysis which
  4781 were previously part of former HOL-Complex.  Entry point Hyperreal
  4782 remains valid, but theories formerly using Complex_Main should now use
  4783 new entry point Hypercomplex.
  4784 
  4785 * Generic ATP manager for Sledgehammer, based on ML threads instead of
  4786 Posix processes.  Avoids potentially expensive forking of the ML
  4787 process.  New thread-based implementation also works on non-Unix
  4788 platforms (Cygwin).  Provers are no longer hardwired, but defined
  4789 within the theory via plain ML wrapper functions.  Basic Sledgehammer
  4790 commands are covered in the isar-ref manual.
  4791 
  4792 * Wrapper scripts for remote SystemOnTPTP service allows to use
  4793 sledgehammer without local ATP installation (Vampire etc.). Other
  4794 provers may be included via suitable ML wrappers, see also
  4795 src/HOL/ATP_Linkup.thy.
  4796 
  4797 * ATP selection (E/Vampire/Spass) is now via Proof General's settings
  4798 menu.
  4799 
  4800 * The metis method no longer fails because the theorem is too trivial
  4801 (contains the empty clause).
  4802 
  4803 * The metis method now fails in the usual manner, rather than raising
  4804 an exception, if it determines that it cannot prove the theorem.
  4805 
  4806 * Method "coherent" implements a prover for coherent logic (see also
  4807 src/Tools/coherent.ML).
  4808 
  4809 * Constants "undefined" and "default" replace "arbitrary".  Usually
  4810 "undefined" is the right choice to replace "arbitrary", though
  4811 logically there is no difference.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4812 
  4813 * Command "value" now integrates different evaluation mechanisms.  The
  4814 result of the first successful evaluation mechanism is printed.  In
  4815 square brackets a particular named evaluation mechanisms may be
  4816 specified (currently, [SML], [code] or [nbe]).  See further
  4817 src/HOL/ex/Eval_Examples.thy.
  4818 
  4819 * Normalization by evaluation now allows non-leftlinear equations.
  4820 Declare with attribute [code nbe].
  4821 
  4822 * Methods "case_tac" and "induct_tac" now refer to the very same rules
  4823 as the structured Isar versions "cases" and "induct", cf. the
  4824 corresponding "cases" and "induct" attributes.  Mutual induction rules
  4825 are now presented as a list of individual projections
  4826 (e.g. foo_bar.inducts for types foo and bar); the old format with
  4827 explicit HOL conjunction is no longer supported.  INCOMPATIBILITY, in
  4828 rare situations a different rule is selected --- notably nested tuple
  4829 elimination instead of former prod.exhaust: use explicit (case_tac t
  4830 rule: prod.exhaust) here.
  4831 
  4832 * Attributes "cases", "induct", "coinduct" support "del" option.
  4833 
  4834 * Removed fact "case_split_thm", which duplicates "case_split".
  4835 
  4836 * The option datatype has been moved to a new theory Option.  Renamed
  4837 option_map to Option.map, and o2s to Option.set, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4838 
  4839 * New predicate "strict_mono" classifies strict functions on partial
  4840 orders.  With strict functions on linear orders, reasoning about
  4841 (in)equalities is facilitated by theorems "strict_mono_eq",
  4842 "strict_mono_less_eq" and "strict_mono_less".
  4843 
  4844 * Some set operations are now proper qualified constants with
  4845 authentic syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
  4846 
  4847     op Int ~>   Set.Int
  4848     op Un ~>    Set.Un
  4849     INTER ~>    Set.INTER
  4850     UNION ~>    Set.UNION
  4851     Inter ~>    Set.Inter
  4852     Union ~>    Set.Union
  4853     {} ~>       Set.empty
  4854     UNIV ~>     Set.UNIV
  4855 
  4856 * Class complete_lattice with operations Inf, Sup, INFI, SUPR now in
  4857 theory Set.
  4858 
  4859 * Auxiliary class "itself" has disappeared -- classes without any
  4860 parameter are treated as expected by the 'class' command.
  4861 
  4862 * Leibnitz's Series for Pi and the arcus tangens and logarithm series.
  4863 
  4864 * Common decision procedures (Cooper, MIR, Ferrack, Approximation,
  4865 Dense_Linear_Order) are now in directory HOL/Decision_Procs.
  4866 
  4867 * Theory src/HOL/Decision_Procs/Approximation provides the new proof
  4868 method "approximation".  It proves formulas on real values by using
  4869 interval arithmetic.  In the formulas are also the transcendental
  4870 functions sin, cos, tan, atan, ln, exp and the constant pi are
  4871 allowed. For examples see
  4872 src/HOL/Descision_Procs/ex/Approximation_Ex.thy.
  4873 
  4874 * Theory "Reflection" now resides in HOL/Library.
  4875 
  4876 * Entry point to Word library now simply named "Word".
  4877 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4878 
  4879 * Made source layout more coherent with logical distribution
  4880 structure:
  4881 
  4882     src/HOL/Library/RType.thy ~> src/HOL/Typerep.thy
  4883     src/HOL/Library/Code_Message.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4884     src/HOL/Library/GCD.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4885     src/HOL/Library/Order_Relation.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4886     src/HOL/Library/Parity.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4887     src/HOL/Library/Univ_Poly.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4888     src/HOL/Real/ContNotDenum.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4889     src/HOL/Real/Lubs.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4890     src/HOL/Real/PReal.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4891     src/HOL/Real/Rational.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4892     src/HOL/Real/RComplete.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4893     src/HOL/Real/RealDef.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4894     src/HOL/Real/RealPow.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4895     src/HOL/Real/Real.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4896     src/HOL/Complex/Complex_Main.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4897     src/HOL/Complex/Complex.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4898     src/HOL/Complex/FrechetDeriv.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4899     src/HOL/Complex/Fundamental_Theorem_Algebra.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4900     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Deriv.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4901     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Fact.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4902     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Integration.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4903     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Lim.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4904     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Ln.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4905     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Log.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4906     src/HOL/Hyperreal/MacLaurin.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4907     src/HOL/Hyperreal/NthRoot.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4908     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Series.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4909     src/HOL/Hyperreal/SEQ.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4910     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Taylor.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4911     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Transcendental.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4912     src/HOL/Real/Float ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4913     src/HOL/Real/HahnBanach ~> src/HOL/HahnBanach
  4914     src/HOL/Real/RealVector.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4915 
  4916     src/HOL/arith_data.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4917     src/HOL/hologic.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4918     src/HOL/simpdata.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4919     src/HOL/int_arith1.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools/int_arith.ML
  4920     src/HOL/int_factor_simprocs.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4921     src/HOL/nat_simprocs.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4922     src/HOL/Real/float_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4923     src/HOL/Real/float_syntax.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4924     src/HOL/Real/rat_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4925     src/HOL/Real/real_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4926 
  4927     src/HOL/Library/Array.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4928     src/HOL/Library/Heap_Monad.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4929     src/HOL/Library/Heap.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4930     src/HOL/Library/Imperative_HOL.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4931     src/HOL/Library/Ref.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4932     src/HOL/Library/Relational.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4933 
  4934 * If methods "eval" and "evaluation" encounter a structured proof
  4935 state with !!/==>, only the conclusion is evaluated to True (if
  4936 possible), avoiding strange error messages.
  4937 
  4938 * Method "sizechange" automates termination proofs using (a
  4939 modification of) the size-change principle.  Requires SAT solver.  See
  4940 src/HOL/ex/Termination.thy for examples.
  4941 
  4942 * Simplifier: simproc for let expressions now unfolds if bound
  4943 variable occurs at most once in let expression body.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4944 
  4945 * Method "arith": Linear arithmetic now ignores all inequalities when
  4946 fast_arith_neq_limit is exceeded, instead of giving up entirely.
  4947 
  4948 * New attribute "arith" for facts that should always be used
  4949 automatically by arithmetic. It is intended to be used locally in
  4950 proofs, e.g.
  4951 
  4952   assumes [arith]: "x > 0"
  4953 
  4954 Global usage is discouraged because of possible performance impact.
  4955 
  4956 * New classes "top" and "bot" with corresponding operations "top" and
  4957 "bot" in theory Orderings; instantiation of class "complete_lattice"
  4958 requires instantiation of classes "top" and "bot".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4959 
  4960 * Changed definition lemma "less_fun_def" in order to provide an
  4961 instance for preorders on functions; use lemma "less_le" instead.
  4962 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4963 
  4964 * Theory Orderings: class "wellorder" moved here, with explicit
  4965 induction rule "less_induct" as assumption.  For instantiation of
  4966 "wellorder" by means of predicate "wf", use rule wf_wellorderI.
  4967 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4968 
  4969 * Theory Orderings: added class "preorder" as superclass of "order".
  4970 INCOMPATIBILITY: Instantiation proofs for order, linorder
  4971 etc. slightly changed.  Some theorems named order_class.* now named
  4972 preorder_class.*.
  4973 
  4974 * Theory Relation: renamed "refl" to "refl_on", "reflexive" to "refl,
  4975 "diag" to "Id_on".
  4976 
  4977 * Theory Finite_Set: added a new fold combinator of type
  4978 
  4979   ('a => 'b => 'b) => 'b => 'a set => 'b
  4980 
  4981 Occasionally this is more convenient than the old fold combinator
  4982 which is now defined in terms of the new one and renamed to
  4983 fold_image.
  4984 
  4985 * Theories Ring_and_Field and OrderedGroup: The lemmas "group_simps"
  4986 and "ring_simps" have been replaced by "algebra_simps" (which can be
  4987 extended with further lemmas!).  At the moment both still exist but
  4988 the former will disappear at some point.
  4989 
  4990 * Theory Power: Lemma power_Suc is now declared as a simp rule in
  4991 class recpower.  Type-specific simp rules for various recpower types
  4992 have been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY, rename old lemmas as follows:
  4993 
  4994 rat_power_0    -> power_0
  4995 rat_power_Suc  -> power_Suc
  4996 realpow_0      -> power_0
  4997 realpow_Suc    -> power_Suc
  4998 complexpow_0   -> power_0
  4999 complexpow_Suc -> power_Suc
  5000 power_poly_0   -> power_0
  5001 power_poly_Suc -> power_Suc
  5002 
  5003 * Theories Ring_and_Field and Divides: Definition of "op dvd" has been
  5004 moved to separate class dvd in Ring_and_Field; a couple of lemmas on
  5005 dvd has been generalized to class comm_semiring_1.  Likewise a bunch
  5006 of lemmas from Divides has been generalized from nat to class
  5007 semiring_div.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  This involves the following theorem
  5008 renames resulting from duplicate elimination:
  5009 
  5010     dvd_def_mod ~>          dvd_eq_mod_eq_0
  5011     zero_dvd_iff ~>         dvd_0_left_iff
  5012     dvd_0 ~>                dvd_0_right
  5013     DIVISION_BY_ZERO_DIV ~> div_by_0
  5014     DIVISION_BY_ZERO_MOD ~> mod_by_0
  5015     mult_div ~>             div_mult_self2_is_id
  5016     mult_mod ~>             mod_mult_self2_is_0
  5017 
  5018 * Theory IntDiv: removed many lemmas that are instances of class-based
  5019 generalizations (from Divides and Ring_and_Field).  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  5020 rename old lemmas as follows:
  5021 
  5022 dvd_diff               -> nat_dvd_diff
  5023 dvd_zminus_iff         -> dvd_minus_iff
  5024 mod_add1_eq            -> mod_add_eq
  5025 mod_mult1_eq           -> mod_mult_right_eq
  5026 mod_mult1_eq'          -> mod_mult_left_eq
  5027 mod_mult_distrib_mod   -> mod_mult_eq
  5028 nat_mod_add_left_eq    -> mod_add_left_eq
  5029 nat_mod_add_right_eq   -> mod_add_right_eq
  5030 nat_mod_div_trivial    -> mod_div_trivial
  5031 nat_mod_mod_trivial    -> mod_mod_trivial
  5032 zdiv_zadd_self1        -> div_add_self1
  5033 zdiv_zadd_self2        -> div_add_self2
  5034 zdiv_zmult_self1       -> div_mult_self2_is_id
  5035 zdiv_zmult_self2       -> div_mult_self1_is_id
  5036 zdvd_triv_left         -> dvd_triv_left
  5037 zdvd_triv_right        -> dvd_triv_right
  5038 zdvd_zmult_cancel_disj -> dvd_mult_cancel_left
  5039 zmod_eq0_zdvd_iff      -> dvd_eq_mod_eq_0[symmetric]
  5040 zmod_zadd_left_eq      -> mod_add_left_eq
  5041 zmod_zadd_right_eq     -> mod_add_right_eq
  5042 zmod_zadd_self1        -> mod_add_self1
  5043 zmod_zadd_self2        -> mod_add_self2
  5044 zmod_zadd1_eq          -> mod_add_eq
  5045 zmod_zdiff1_eq         -> mod_diff_eq
  5046 zmod_zdvd_zmod         -> mod_mod_cancel
  5047 zmod_zmod_cancel       -> mod_mod_cancel
  5048 zmod_zmult_self1       -> mod_mult_self2_is_0
  5049 zmod_zmult_self2       -> mod_mult_self1_is_0
  5050 zmod_1                 -> mod_by_1
  5051 zdiv_1                 -> div_by_1
  5052 zdvd_abs1              -> abs_dvd_iff
  5053 zdvd_abs2              -> dvd_abs_iff
  5054 zdvd_refl              -> dvd_refl
  5055 zdvd_trans             -> dvd_trans
  5056 zdvd_zadd              -> dvd_add
  5057 zdvd_zdiff             -> dvd_diff
  5058 zdvd_zminus_iff        -> dvd_minus_iff
  5059 zdvd_zminus2_iff       -> minus_dvd_iff
  5060 zdvd_zmultD            -> dvd_mult_right
  5061 zdvd_zmultD2           -> dvd_mult_left
  5062 zdvd_zmult_mono        -> mult_dvd_mono
  5063 zdvd_0_right           -> dvd_0_right
  5064 zdvd_0_left            -> dvd_0_left_iff
  5065 zdvd_1_left            -> one_dvd
  5066 zminus_dvd_iff         -> minus_dvd_iff
  5067 
  5068 * Theory Rational: 'Fract k 0' now equals '0'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5069 
  5070 * The real numbers offer decimal input syntax: 12.34 is translated
  5071 into 1234/10^2. This translation is not reversed upon output.
  5072 
  5073 * Theory Library/Polynomial defines an abstract type 'a poly of
  5074 univariate polynomials with coefficients of type 'a.  In addition to
  5075 the standard ring operations, it also supports div and mod.  Code
  5076 generation is also supported, using list-style constructors.
  5077 
  5078 * Theory Library/Inner_Product defines a class of real_inner for real
  5079 inner product spaces, with an overloaded operation inner :: 'a => 'a
  5080 => real.  Class real_inner is a subclass of real_normed_vector from
  5081 theory RealVector.
  5082 
  5083 * Theory Library/Product_Vector provides instances for the product
  5084 type 'a * 'b of several classes from RealVector and Inner_Product.
  5085 Definitions of addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication, norms,
  5086 and inner products are included.
  5087 
  5088 * Theory Library/Bit defines the field "bit" of integers modulo 2.  In
  5089 addition to the field operations, numerals and case syntax are also
  5090 supported.
  5091 
  5092 * Theory Library/Diagonalize provides constructive version of Cantor's
  5093 first diagonalization argument.
  5094 
  5095 * Theory Library/GCD: Curried operations gcd, lcm (for nat) and zgcd,
  5096 zlcm (for int); carried together from various gcd/lcm developements in
  5097 the HOL Distribution.  Constants zgcd and zlcm replace former igcd and
  5098 ilcm; corresponding theorems renamed accordingly.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  5099 may recover tupled syntax as follows:
  5100 
  5101     hide (open) const gcd
  5102     abbreviation gcd where
  5103       "gcd == (%(a, b). GCD.gcd a b)"
  5104     notation (output)
  5105       GCD.gcd ("gcd '(_, _')")
  5106 
  5107 The same works for lcm, zgcd, zlcm.
  5108 
  5109 * Theory Library/Nat_Infinity: added addition, numeral syntax and more
  5110 instantiations for algebraic structures.  Removed some duplicate
  5111 theorems.  Changes in simp rules.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5112 
  5113 * ML antiquotation @{code} takes a constant as argument and generates
  5114 corresponding code in background and inserts name of the corresponding
  5115 resulting ML value/function/datatype constructor binding in place.
  5116 All occurrences of @{code} with a single ML block are generated
  5117 simultaneously.  Provides a generic and safe interface for
  5118 instrumentalizing code generation.  See
  5119 src/HOL/Decision_Procs/Ferrack.thy for a more ambitious application.
  5120 In future you ought to refrain from ad-hoc compiling generated SML
  5121 code on the ML toplevel.  Note that (for technical reasons) @{code}
  5122 cannot refer to constants for which user-defined serializations are
  5123 set.  Refer to the corresponding ML counterpart directly in that
  5124 cases.
  5125 
  5126 * Command 'rep_datatype': instead of theorem names the command now
  5127 takes a list of terms denoting the constructors of the type to be
  5128 represented as datatype.  The characteristic theorems have to be
  5129 proven.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Also observe that the following theorems
  5130 have disappeared in favour of existing ones:
  5131 
  5132     unit_induct                 ~> unit.induct
  5133     prod_induct                 ~> prod.induct
  5134     sum_induct                  ~> sum.induct
  5135     Suc_Suc_eq                  ~> nat.inject
  5136     Suc_not_Zero Zero_not_Suc   ~> nat.distinct
  5137 
  5138 
  5139 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  5140 
  5141 * New locales for orders and lattices where the equivalence relation
  5142 is not restricted to equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY: all order and lattice
  5143 locales use a record structure with field eq for the equivalence.
  5144 
  5145 * New theory of factorial domains.
  5146 
  5147 * Units_l_inv and Units_r_inv are now simp rules by default.
  5148 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Simplifier proof that require deletion of l_inv
  5149 and/or r_inv will now also require deletion of these lemmas.
  5150 
  5151 * Renamed the following theorems, INCOMPATIBILITY:
  5152 
  5153 UpperD ~> Upper_memD
  5154 LowerD ~> Lower_memD
  5155 least_carrier ~> least_closed
  5156 greatest_carrier ~> greatest_closed
  5157 greatest_Lower_above ~> greatest_Lower_below
  5158 one_zero ~> carrier_one_zero
  5159 one_not_zero ~> carrier_one_not_zero  (collision with assumption)
  5160 
  5161 
  5162 *** HOL-Nominal ***
  5163 
  5164 * Nominal datatypes can now contain type-variables.
  5165 
  5166 * Commands 'nominal_inductive' and 'equivariance' work with local
  5167 theory targets.
  5168 
  5169 * Nominal primrec can now works with local theory targets and its
  5170 specification syntax now conforms to the general format as seen in
  5171 'inductive' etc.
  5172 
  5173 * Method "perm_simp" honours the standard simplifier attributes
  5174 (no_asm), (no_asm_use) etc.
  5175 
  5176 * The new predicate #* is defined like freshness, except that on the
  5177 left hand side can be a set or list of atoms.
  5178 
  5179 * Experimental command 'nominal_inductive2' derives strong induction
  5180 principles for inductive definitions.  In contrast to
  5181 'nominal_inductive', which can only deal with a fixed number of
  5182 binders, it can deal with arbitrary expressions standing for sets of
  5183 atoms to be avoided.  The only inductive definition we have at the
  5184 moment that needs this generalisation is the typing rule for Lets in
  5185 the algorithm W:
  5186 
  5187  Gamma |- t1 : T1   (x,close Gamma T1)::Gamma |- t2 : T2   x#Gamma
  5188  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  5189          Gamma |- Let x be t1 in t2 : T2
  5190 
  5191 In this rule one wants to avoid all the binders that are introduced by
  5192 "close Gamma T1".  We are looking for other examples where this
  5193 feature might be useful.  Please let us know.
  5194 
  5195 
  5196 *** HOLCF ***
  5197 
  5198 * Reimplemented the simplification procedure for proving continuity
  5199 subgoals.  The new simproc is extensible; users can declare additional
  5200 continuity introduction rules with the attribute [cont2cont].
  5201 
  5202 * The continuity simproc now uses a different introduction rule for
  5203 solving continuity subgoals on terms with lambda abstractions.  In
  5204 some rare cases the new simproc may fail to solve subgoals that the
  5205 old one could solve, and "simp add: cont2cont_LAM" may be necessary.
  5206 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5207 
  5208 * Command 'fixrec': specification syntax now conforms to the general
  5209 format as seen in 'inductive' etc.  See src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  5210 examples.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5211 
  5212 
  5213 *** ZF ***
  5214 
  5215 * Proof of Zorn's Lemma for partial orders.
  5216 
  5217 
  5218 *** ML ***
  5219 
  5220 * Multithreading for Poly/ML 5.1/5.2 is no longer supported, only for
  5221 Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.  Important note: the TimeLimit facility
  5222 depends on multithreading, so timouts will not work before Poly/ML
  5223 5.2.1!
  5224 
  5225 * High-level support for concurrent ML programming, see
  5226 src/Pure/Cuncurrent.  The data-oriented model of "future values" is
  5227 particularly convenient to organize independent functional
  5228 computations.  The concept of "synchronized variables" provides a
  5229 higher-order interface for components with shared state, avoiding the
  5230 delicate details of mutexes and condition variables.  (Requires
  5231 Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.)
  5232 
  5233 * ML bindings produced via Isar commands are stored within the Isar
  5234 context (theory or proof).  Consequently, commands like 'use' and 'ML'
  5235 become thread-safe and work with undo as expected (concerning
  5236 top-level bindings, not side-effects on global references).
  5237 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to provide proper Isar context when invoking the
  5238 compiler at runtime; really global bindings need to be given outside a
  5239 theory.  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2 or later.)
  5240 
  5241 * Command 'ML_prf' is analogous to 'ML' but works within a proof
  5242 context.  Top-level ML bindings are stored within the proof context in
  5243 a purely sequential fashion, disregarding the nested proof structure.
  5244 ML bindings introduced by 'ML_prf' are discarded at the end of the
  5245 proof.  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2 or later.)
  5246 
  5247 * Simplified ML attribute and method setup, cf. functions Attrib.setup
  5248 and Method.setup, as well as Isar commands 'attribute_setup' and
  5249 'method_setup'.  INCOMPATIBILITY for 'method_setup', need to simplify
  5250 existing code accordingly, or use plain 'setup' together with old
  5251 Method.add_method.
  5252 
  5253 * Simplified ML oracle interface Thm.add_oracle promotes 'a -> cterm
  5254 to 'a -> thm, while results are always tagged with an authentic oracle
  5255 name.  The Isar command 'oracle' is now polymorphic, no argument type
  5256 is specified.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to simplify existing oracle code
  5257 accordingly.  Note that extra performance may be gained by producing
  5258 the cterm carefully, avoiding slow Thm.cterm_of.
  5259 
  5260 * Simplified interface for defining document antiquotations via
  5261 ThyOutput.antiquotation, ThyOutput.output, and optionally
  5262 ThyOutput.maybe_pretty_source.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to simplify user
  5263 antiquotations accordingly, see src/Pure/Thy/thy_output.ML for common
  5264 examples.
  5265 
  5266 * More systematic treatment of long names, abstract name bindings, and
  5267 name space operations.  Basic operations on qualified names have been
  5268 move from structure NameSpace to Long_Name, e.g. Long_Name.base_name,
  5269 Long_Name.append.  Old type bstring has been mostly replaced by
  5270 abstract type binding (see structure Binding), which supports precise
  5271 qualification by packages and local theory targets, as well as proper
  5272 tracking of source positions.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to wrap old
  5273 bstring values into Binding.name, or better pass through abstract
  5274 bindings everywhere.  See further src/Pure/General/long_name.ML,
  5275 src/Pure/General/binding.ML and src/Pure/General/name_space.ML
  5276 
  5277 * Result facts (from PureThy.note_thms, ProofContext.note_thms,
  5278 LocalTheory.note etc.) now refer to the *full* internal name, not the
  5279 bstring as before.  INCOMPATIBILITY, not detected by ML type-checking!
  5280 
  5281 * Disposed old type and term read functions (Sign.read_def_typ,
  5282 Sign.read_typ, Sign.read_def_terms, Sign.read_term,
  5283 Thm.read_def_cterms, Thm.read_cterm etc.).  INCOMPATIBILITY, should
  5284 use regular Syntax.read_typ, Syntax.read_term, Syntax.read_typ_global,
  5285 Syntax.read_term_global etc.; see also OldGoals.read_term as last
  5286 resort for legacy applications.
  5287 
  5288 * Disposed old declarations, tactics, tactic combinators that refer to
  5289 the simpset or claset of an implicit theory (such as Addsimps,
  5290 Simp_tac, SIMPSET).  INCOMPATIBILITY, should use @{simpset} etc. in
  5291 embedded ML text, or local_simpset_of with a proper context passed as
  5292 explicit runtime argument.
  5293 
  5294 * Rules and tactics that read instantiations (read_instantiate,
  5295 res_inst_tac, thin_tac, subgoal_tac etc.) now demand a proper proof
  5296 context, which is required for parsing and type-checking.  Moreover,
  5297 the variables are specified as plain indexnames, not string encodings
  5298 thereof.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5299 
  5300 * Generic Toplevel.add_hook interface allows to analyze the result of
  5301 transactions.  E.g. see src/Pure/ProofGeneral/proof_general_pgip.ML
  5302 for theorem dependency output of transactions resulting in a new
  5303 theory state.
  5304 
  5305 * ML antiquotations: block-structured compilation context indicated by
  5306 \<lbrace> ... \<rbrace>; additional antiquotation forms:
  5307 
  5308   @{binding name}                         - basic name binding
  5309   @{let ?pat = term}                      - term abbreviation (HO matching)
  5310   @{note name = fact}                     - fact abbreviation
  5311   @{thm fact}                             - singleton fact (with attributes)
  5312   @{thms fact}                            - general fact (with attributes)
  5313   @{lemma prop by method}                 - singleton goal
  5314   @{lemma prop by meth1 meth2}            - singleton goal
  5315   @{lemma prop1 ... propN by method}      - general goal
  5316   @{lemma prop1 ... propN by meth1 meth2} - general goal
  5317   @{lemma (open) ...}                     - open derivation
  5318 
  5319 
  5320 *** System ***
  5321 
  5322 * The Isabelle "emacs" tool provides a specific interface to invoke
  5323 Proof General / Emacs, with more explicit failure if that is not
  5324 installed (the old isabelle-interface script silently falls back on
  5325 isabelle-process).  The PROOFGENERAL_HOME setting determines the
  5326 installation location of the Proof General distribution.
  5327 
  5328 * Isabelle/lib/classes/Pure.jar provides basic support to integrate
  5329 the Isabelle process into a JVM/Scala application.  See
  5330 Isabelle/lib/jedit/plugin for a minimal example.  (The obsolete Java
  5331 process wrapper has been discontinued.)
  5332 
  5333 * Added homegrown Isabelle font with unicode layout, see lib/fonts.
  5334 
  5335 * Various status messages (with exact source position information) are
  5336 emitted, if proper markup print mode is enabled.  This allows
  5337 user-interface components to provide detailed feedback on internal
  5338 prover operations.
  5339 
  5340 
  5341 
  5342 New in Isabelle2008 (June 2008)
  5343 -------------------------------
  5344 
  5345 *** General ***
  5346 
  5347 * The Isabelle/Isar Reference Manual (isar-ref) has been reorganized
  5348 and updated, with formally checked references as hyperlinks.
  5349 
  5350 * Theory loader: use_thy (and similar operations) no longer set the
  5351 implicit ML context, which was occasionally hard to predict and in
  5352 conflict with concurrency.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use ML within Isar which
  5353 provides a proper context already.
  5354 
  5355 * Theory loader: old-style ML proof scripts being *attached* to a thy
  5356 file are no longer supported.  INCOMPATIBILITY, regular 'uses' and
  5357 'use' within a theory file will do the job.
  5358 
  5359 * Name space merge now observes canonical order, i.e. the second space
  5360 is inserted into the first one, while existing entries in the first
  5361 space take precedence.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, may try to
  5362 swap theory imports.
  5363 
  5364 * Syntax: symbol \<chi> is now considered a letter.  Potential
  5365 INCOMPATIBILITY in identifier syntax etc.
  5366 
  5367 * Outer syntax: string tokens no longer admit escaped white space,
  5368 which was an accidental (undocumented) feature.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  5369 white space without escapes.
  5370 
  5371 * Outer syntax: string tokens may contain arbitrary character codes
  5372 specified via 3 decimal digits (as in SML).  E.g. "foo\095bar" for
  5373 "foo_bar".
  5374 
  5375 
  5376 *** Pure ***
  5377 
  5378 * Context-dependent token translations.  Default setup reverts locally
  5379 fixed variables, and adds hilite markup for undeclared frees.
  5380 
  5381 * Unused theorems can be found using the new command 'unused_thms'.
  5382 There are three ways of invoking it:
  5383 
  5384 (1) unused_thms
  5385      Only finds unused theorems in the current theory.
  5386 
  5387 (2) unused_thms thy_1 ... thy_n -
  5388      Finds unused theorems in the current theory and all of its ancestors,
  5389      excluding the theories thy_1 ... thy_n and all of their ancestors.
  5390 
  5391 (3) unused_thms thy_1 ... thy_n - thy'_1 ... thy'_m
  5392      Finds unused theorems in the theories thy'_1 ... thy'_m and all of
  5393      their ancestors, excluding the theories thy_1 ... thy_n and all of
  5394      their ancestors.
  5395 
  5396 In order to increase the readability of the list produced by
  5397 unused_thms, theorems that have been created by a particular instance
  5398 of a theory command such as 'inductive' or 'function' are considered
  5399 to belong to the same "group", meaning that if at least one theorem in
  5400 this group is used, the other theorems in the same group are no longer
  5401 reported as unused.  Moreover, if all theorems in the group are
  5402 unused, only one theorem in the group is displayed.
  5403 
  5404 Note that proof objects have to be switched on in order for
  5405 unused_thms to work properly (i.e. !proofs must be >= 1, which is
  5406 usually the case when using Proof General with the default settings).
  5407 
  5408 * Authentic naming of facts disallows ad-hoc overwriting of previous
  5409 theorems within the same name space.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to remove
  5410 duplicate fact bindings, or even accidental fact duplications.  Note
  5411 that tools may maintain dynamically scoped facts systematically, using
  5412 PureThy.add_thms_dynamic.
  5413 
  5414 * Command 'hide' now allows to hide from "fact" name space as well.
  5415 
  5416 * Eliminated destructive theorem database, simpset, claset, and
  5417 clasimpset.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, really need to observe linear
  5418 update of theories within ML code.
  5419 
  5420 * Eliminated theory ProtoPure and CPure, leaving just one Pure theory.
  5421 INCOMPATIBILITY, object-logics depending on former Pure require
  5422 additional setup PureThy.old_appl_syntax_setup; object-logics
  5423 depending on former CPure need to refer to Pure.
  5424 
  5425 * Commands 'use' and 'ML' are now purely functional, operating on
  5426 theory/local_theory.  Removed former 'ML_setup' (on theory), use 'ML'
  5427 instead.  Added 'ML_val' as mere diagnostic replacement for 'ML'.
  5428 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5429 
  5430 * Command 'setup': discontinued implicit version with ML reference.
  5431 
  5432 * Instantiation target allows for simultaneous specification of class
  5433 instance operations together with an instantiation proof.
  5434 Type-checking phase allows to refer to class operations uniformly.
  5435 See src/HOL/Complex/Complex.thy for an Isar example and
  5436 src/HOL/Library/Eval.thy for an ML example.
  5437 
  5438 * Indexing of literal facts: be more serious about including only
  5439 facts from the visible specification/proof context, but not the
  5440 background context (locale etc.).  Affects `prop` notation and method
  5441 "fact".  INCOMPATIBILITY: need to name facts explicitly in rare
  5442 situations.
  5443 
  5444 * Method "cases", "induct", "coinduct": removed obsolete/undocumented
  5445 "(open)" option, which used to expose internal bound variables to the
  5446 proof text.
  5447 
  5448 * Isar statements: removed obsolete case "rule_context".
  5449 INCOMPATIBILITY, better use explicit fixes/assumes.
  5450 
  5451 * Locale proofs: default proof step now includes 'unfold_locales';
  5452 hence 'proof' without argument may be used to unfold locale
  5453 predicates.
  5454 
  5455 
  5456 *** Document preparation ***
  5457 
  5458 * Simplified pdfsetup.sty: color/hyperref is used unconditionally for
  5459 both pdf and dvi (hyperlinks usually work in xdvi as well); removed
  5460 obsolete thumbpdf setup (contemporary PDF viewers do this on the
  5461 spot); renamed link color from "darkblue" to "linkcolor" (default
  5462 value unchanged, can be redefined via \definecolor); no longer sets
  5463 "a4paper" option (unnecessary or even intrusive).
  5464 
  5465 * Antiquotation @{lemma A method} proves proposition A by the given
  5466 method (either a method name or a method name plus (optional) method
  5467 arguments in parentheses) and prints A just like @{prop A}.
  5468 
  5469 
  5470 *** HOL ***
  5471 
  5472 * New primrec package.  Specification syntax conforms in style to
  5473 definition/function/....  No separate induction rule is provided.  The
  5474 "primrec" command distinguishes old-style and new-style specifications
  5475 by syntax.  The former primrec package is now named OldPrimrecPackage.
  5476 When adjusting theories, beware: constants stemming from new-style
  5477 primrec specifications have authentic syntax.
  5478 
  5479 * Metis prover is now an order of magnitude faster, and also works
  5480 with multithreading.
  5481 
  5482 * Metis: the maximum number of clauses that can be produced from a
  5483 theorem is now given by the attribute max_clauses.  Theorems that
  5484 exceed this number are ignored, with a warning printed.
  5485 
  5486 * Sledgehammer no longer produces structured proofs by default. To
  5487 enable, declare [[sledgehammer_full = true]].  Attributes
  5488 reconstruction_modulus, reconstruction_sorts renamed
  5489 sledgehammer_modulus, sledgehammer_sorts.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5490 
  5491 * Method "induct_scheme" derives user-specified induction rules
  5492 from well-founded induction and completeness of patterns. This factors
  5493 out some operations that are done internally by the function package
  5494 and makes them available separately.  See
  5495 src/HOL/ex/Induction_Scheme.thy for examples.
  5496 
  5497 * More flexible generation of measure functions for termination
  5498 proofs: Measure functions can be declared by proving a rule of the
  5499 form "is_measure f" and giving it the [measure_function] attribute.
  5500 The "is_measure" predicate is logically meaningless (always true), and
  5501 just guides the heuristic.  To find suitable measure functions, the
  5502 termination prover sets up the goal "is_measure ?f" of the appropriate
  5503 type and generates all solutions by prolog-style backwards proof using
  5504 the declared rules.
  5505 
  5506 This setup also deals with rules like 
  5507 
  5508   "is_measure f ==> is_measure (list_size f)"
  5509 
  5510 which accommodates nested datatypes that recurse through lists.
  5511 Similar rules are predeclared for products and option types.
  5512 
  5513 * Turned the type of sets "'a set" into an abbreviation for "'a => bool"
  5514 
  5515   INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  5516 
  5517   - Definitions of overloaded constants on sets have to be replaced by
  5518     definitions on => and bool.
  5519 
  5520   - Some definitions of overloaded operators on sets can now be proved
  5521     using the definitions of the operators on => and bool.  Therefore,
  5522     the following theorems have been renamed:
  5523 
  5524       subset_def   -> subset_eq
  5525       psubset_def  -> psubset_eq
  5526       set_diff_def -> set_diff_eq
  5527       Compl_def    -> Compl_eq
  5528       Sup_set_def  -> Sup_set_eq
  5529       Inf_set_def  -> Inf_set_eq
  5530       sup_set_def  -> sup_set_eq
  5531       inf_set_def  -> inf_set_eq
  5532 
  5533   - Due to the incompleteness of the HO unification algorithm, some
  5534     rules such as subst may require manual instantiation, if some of
  5535     the unknowns in the rule is a set.
  5536 
  5537   - Higher order unification and forward proofs:
  5538     The proof pattern
  5539 
  5540       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  5541       then have "EX S. P S" ..
  5542 
  5543     no longer works (due to the incompleteness of the HO unification
  5544     algorithm) and must be replaced by the pattern
  5545 
  5546       have "EX S. P S"
  5547       proof
  5548         show "P S" <...>
  5549       qed
  5550 
  5551   - Calculational reasoning with subst (or similar rules):
  5552     The proof pattern
  5553 
  5554       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  5555       also have "S = T" <...>
  5556       finally have "P T" .
  5557 
  5558     no longer works (for similar reasons as the previous example) and
  5559     must be replaced by something like
  5560 
  5561       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  5562       moreover have "S = T" <...>
  5563       ultimately have "P T" by simp
  5564 
  5565   - Tactics or packages written in ML code:
  5566     Code performing pattern matching on types via
  5567 
  5568       Type ("set", [T]) => ...
  5569 
  5570     must be rewritten. Moreover, functions like strip_type or
  5571     binder_types no longer return the right value when applied to a
  5572     type of the form
  5573 
  5574       T1 => ... => Tn => U => bool
  5575 
  5576     rather than
  5577 
  5578       T1 => ... => Tn => U set
  5579 
  5580 * Merged theories Wellfounded_Recursion, Accessible_Part and
  5581 Wellfounded_Relations to theory Wellfounded.
  5582 
  5583 * Explicit class "eq" for executable equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5584 
  5585 * Class finite no longer treats UNIV as class parameter.  Use class
  5586 enum from theory Library/Enum instead to achieve a similar effect.
  5587 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5588 
  5589 * Theory List: rule list_induct2 now has explicitly named cases "Nil"
  5590 and "Cons".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5591 
  5592 * HOL (and FOL): renamed variables in rules imp_elim and swap.
  5593 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5594 
  5595 * Theory Product_Type: duplicated lemmas split_Pair_apply and
  5596 injective_fst_snd removed, use split_eta and prod_eqI instead.
  5597 Renamed upd_fst to apfst and upd_snd to apsnd.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5598 
  5599 * Theory Nat: removed redundant lemmas that merely duplicate lemmas of
  5600 the same name in theory Orderings:
  5601 
  5602   less_trans
  5603   less_linear
  5604   le_imp_less_or_eq
  5605   le_less_trans
  5606   less_le_trans
  5607   less_not_sym
  5608   less_asym
  5609 
  5610 Renamed less_imp_le to less_imp_le_nat, and less_irrefl to
  5611 less_irrefl_nat.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY due to more general types
  5612 and different variable names.
  5613 
  5614 * Library/Option_ord.thy: Canonical order on option type.
  5615 
  5616 * Library/RBT.thy: Red-black trees, an efficient implementation of
  5617 finite maps.
  5618 
  5619 * Library/Countable.thy: Type class for countable types.
  5620 
  5621 * Theory Int: The representation of numerals has changed.  The infix
  5622 operator BIT and the bit datatype with constructors B0 and B1 have
  5623 disappeared.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use "Int.Bit0 x" and "Int.Bit1 y" in
  5624 place of "x BIT bit.B0" and "y BIT bit.B1", respectively.  Theorems
  5625 involving BIT, B0, or B1 have been renamed with "Bit0" or "Bit1"
  5626 accordingly.
  5627 
  5628 * Theory Nat: definition of <= and < on natural numbers no longer
  5629 depend on well-founded relations.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Definitions
  5630 le_def and less_def have disappeared.  Consider lemmas not_less
  5631 [symmetric, where ?'a = nat] and less_eq [symmetric] instead.
  5632 
  5633 * Theory Finite_Set: locales ACf, ACe, ACIf, ACIfSL and ACIfSLlin
  5634 (whose purpose mainly is for various fold_set functionals) have been
  5635 abandoned in favor of the existing algebraic classes
  5636 ab_semigroup_mult, comm_monoid_mult, ab_semigroup_idem_mult,
  5637 lower_semilattice (resp. upper_semilattice) and linorder.
  5638 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5639 
  5640 * Theory Transitive_Closure: induct and cases rules now declare proper
  5641 case_names ("base" and "step").  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5642 
  5643 * Theorem Inductive.lfp_ordinal_induct generalized to complete
  5644 lattices.  The form set-specific version is available as
  5645 Inductive.lfp_ordinal_induct_set.
  5646 
  5647 * Renamed theorems "power.simps" to "power_int.simps".
  5648 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5649 
  5650 * Class semiring_div provides basic abstract properties of semirings
  5651 with division and modulo operations.  Subsumes former class dvd_mod.
  5652 
  5653 * Merged theories IntDef, Numeral and IntArith into unified theory
  5654 Int.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5655 
  5656 * Theory Library/Code_Index: type "index" now represents natural
  5657 numbers rather than integers.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5658 
  5659 * New class "uminus" with operation "uminus" (split of from class
  5660 "minus" which now only has operation "minus", binary).
  5661 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5662 
  5663 * Constants "card", "internal_split", "option_map" now with authentic
  5664 syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5665 
  5666 * Definitions subset_def, psubset_def, set_diff_def, Compl_def,
  5667 le_bool_def, less_bool_def, le_fun_def, less_fun_def, inf_bool_def,
  5668 sup_bool_def, Inf_bool_def, Sup_bool_def, inf_fun_def, sup_fun_def,
  5669 Inf_fun_def, Sup_fun_def, inf_set_def, sup_set_def, Inf_set_def,
  5670 Sup_set_def, le_def, less_def, option_map_def now with object
  5671 equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5672 
  5673 * Records. Removed K_record, and replaced it by pure lambda term
  5674 %x. c. The simplifier setup is now more robust against eta expansion.
  5675 INCOMPATIBILITY: in cases explicitly referring to K_record.
  5676 
  5677 * Library/Multiset: {#a, b, c#} abbreviates {#a#} + {#b#} + {#c#}.
  5678 
  5679 * Library/ListVector: new theory of arithmetic vector operations.
  5680 
  5681 * Library/Order_Relation: new theory of various orderings as sets of
  5682 pairs.  Defines preorders, partial orders, linear orders and
  5683 well-orders on sets and on types.
  5684 
  5685 
  5686 *** ZF ***
  5687 
  5688 * Renamed some theories to allow to loading both ZF and HOL in the
  5689 same session:
  5690 
  5691   Datatype  -> Datatype_ZF
  5692   Inductive -> Inductive_ZF
  5693   Int       -> Int_ZF
  5694   IntDiv    -> IntDiv_ZF
  5695   Nat       -> Nat_ZF
  5696   List      -> List_ZF
  5697   Main      -> Main_ZF
  5698 
  5699 INCOMPATIBILITY: ZF theories that import individual theories below
  5700 Main might need to be adapted.  Regular theory Main is still
  5701 available, as trivial extension of Main_ZF.
  5702 
  5703 
  5704 *** ML ***
  5705 
  5706 * ML within Isar: antiquotation @{const name} or @{const
  5707 name(typargs)} produces statically-checked Const term.
  5708 
  5709 * Functor NamedThmsFun: data is available to the user as dynamic fact
  5710 (of the same name).  Removed obsolete print command.
  5711 
  5712 * Removed obsolete "use_legacy_bindings" function.
  5713 
  5714 * The ``print mode'' is now a thread-local value derived from a global
  5715 template (the former print_mode reference), thus access becomes
  5716 non-critical.  The global print_mode reference is for session
  5717 management only; user-code should use print_mode_value,
  5718 print_mode_active, PrintMode.setmp etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5719 
  5720 * Functions system/system_out provide a robust way to invoke external
  5721 shell commands, with propagation of interrupts (requires Poly/ML
  5722 5.2.1).  Do not use OS.Process.system etc. from the basis library!
  5723 
  5724 
  5725 *** System ***
  5726 
  5727 * Default settings: PROOFGENERAL_OPTIONS no longer impose xemacs ---
  5728 in accordance with Proof General 3.7, which prefers GNU emacs.
  5729 
  5730 * isatool tty runs Isabelle process with plain tty interaction;
  5731 optional line editor may be specified via ISABELLE_LINE_EDITOR
  5732 setting, the default settings attempt to locate "ledit" and "rlwrap".
  5733 
  5734 * isatool browser now works with Cygwin as well, using general
  5735 "javapath" function defined in Isabelle process environment.
  5736 
  5737 * YXML notation provides a simple and efficient alternative to
  5738 standard XML transfer syntax.  See src/Pure/General/yxml.ML and
  5739 isatool yxml as described in the Isabelle system manual.
  5740 
  5741 * JVM class isabelle.IsabelleProcess (located in Isabelle/lib/classes)
  5742 provides general wrapper for managing an Isabelle process in a robust
  5743 fashion, with ``cooked'' output from stdin/stderr.
  5744 
  5745 * Rudimentary Isabelle plugin for jEdit (see Isabelle/lib/jedit),
  5746 based on Isabelle/JVM process wrapper (see Isabelle/lib/classes).
  5747 
  5748 * Removed obsolete THIS_IS_ISABELLE_BUILD feature.  NB: the documented
  5749 way of changing the user's settings is via
  5750 ISABELLE_HOME_USER/etc/settings, which is a fully featured bash
  5751 script.
  5752 
  5753 * Multithreading.max_threads := 0 refers to the number of actual CPU
  5754 cores of the underlying machine, which is a good starting point for
  5755 optimal performance tuning.  The corresponding usedir option -M allows
  5756 "max" as an alias for "0".  WARNING: does not work on certain versions
  5757 of Mac OS (with Poly/ML 5.1).
  5758 
  5759 * isabelle-process: non-ML sessions are run with "nice", to reduce the
  5760 adverse effect of Isabelle flooding interactive front-ends (notably
  5761 ProofGeneral / XEmacs).
  5762 
  5763 
  5764 
  5765 New in Isabelle2007 (November 2007)
  5766 -----------------------------------
  5767 
  5768 *** General ***
  5769 
  5770 * More uniform information about legacy features, notably a
  5771 warning/error of "Legacy feature: ...", depending on the state of the
  5772 tolerate_legacy_features flag (default true). FUTURE INCOMPATIBILITY:
  5773 legacy features will disappear eventually.
  5774 
  5775 * Theory syntax: the header format ``theory A = B + C:'' has been
  5776 discontinued in favour of ``theory A imports B C begin''.  Use isatool
  5777 fixheaders to convert existing theory files.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5778 
  5779 * Theory syntax: the old non-Isar theory file format has been
  5780 discontinued altogether.  Note that ML proof scripts may still be used
  5781 with Isar theories; migration is usually quite simple with the ML
  5782 function use_legacy_bindings.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5783 
  5784 * Theory syntax: some popular names (e.g. 'class', 'declaration',
  5785 'fun', 'help', 'if') are now keywords.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use double
  5786 quotes.
  5787 
  5788 * Theory loader: be more serious about observing the static theory
  5789 header specifications (including optional directories), but not the
  5790 accidental file locations of previously successful loads.  The strict
  5791 update policy of former update_thy is now already performed by
  5792 use_thy, so the former has been removed; use_thys updates several
  5793 theories simultaneously, just as 'imports' within a theory header
  5794 specification, but without merging the results.  Potential
  5795 INCOMPATIBILITY: may need to refine theory headers and commands
  5796 ROOT.ML which depend on load order.
  5797 
  5798 * Theory loader: optional support for content-based file
  5799 identification, instead of the traditional scheme of full physical
  5800 path plus date stamp; configured by the ISABELLE_FILE_IDENT setting
  5801 (cf. the system manual).  The new scheme allows to work with
  5802 non-finished theories in persistent session images, such that source
  5803 files may be moved later on without requiring reloads.
  5804 
  5805 * Theory loader: old-style ML proof scripts being *attached* to a thy
  5806 file (with the same base name as the theory) are considered a legacy
  5807 feature, which will disappear eventually. Even now, the theory loader
  5808 no longer maintains dependencies on such files.
  5809 
  5810 * Syntax: the scope for resolving ambiguities via type-inference is
  5811 now limited to individual terms, instead of whole simultaneous
  5812 specifications as before. This greatly reduces the complexity of the
  5813 syntax module and improves flexibility by separating parsing and
  5814 type-checking. INCOMPATIBILITY: additional type-constraints (explicit
  5815 'fixes' etc.) are required in rare situations.
  5816 
  5817 * Syntax: constants introduced by new-style packages ('definition',
  5818 'abbreviation' etc.) are passed through the syntax module in
  5819 ``authentic mode''. This means that associated mixfix annotations
  5820 really stick to such constants, independently of potential name space
  5821 ambiguities introduced later on. INCOMPATIBILITY: constants in parse
  5822 trees are represented slightly differently, may need to adapt syntax
  5823 translations accordingly. Use CONST marker in 'translations' and
  5824 @{const_syntax} antiquotation in 'parse_translation' etc.
  5825 
  5826 * Legacy goal package: reduced interface to the bare minimum required
  5827 to keep existing proof scripts running.  Most other user-level
  5828 functions are now part of the OldGoals structure, which is *not* open
  5829 by default (consider isatool expandshort before open OldGoals).
  5830 Removed top_sg, prin, printyp, pprint_term/typ altogether, because
  5831 these tend to cause confusion about the actual goal (!) context being
  5832 used here, which is not necessarily the same as the_context().
  5833 
  5834 * Command 'find_theorems': supports "*" wild-card in "name:"
  5835 criterion; "with_dups" option.  Certain ProofGeneral versions might
  5836 support a specific search form (see ProofGeneral/CHANGES).
  5837 
  5838 * The ``prems limit'' option (cf. ProofContext.prems_limit) is now -1
  5839 by default, which means that "prems" (and also "fixed variables") are
  5840 suppressed from proof state output.  Note that the ProofGeneral
  5841 settings mechanism allows to change and save options persistently, but
  5842 older versions of Isabelle will fail to start up if a negative prems
  5843 limit is imposed.
  5844 
  5845 * Local theory targets may be specified by non-nested blocks of
  5846 ``context/locale/class ... begin'' followed by ``end''.  The body may
  5847 contain definitions, theorems etc., including any derived mechanism
  5848 that has been implemented on top of these primitives.  This concept
  5849 generalizes the existing ``theorem (in ...)'' towards more versatility
  5850 and scalability.
  5851 
  5852 * Proof General interface: proper undo of final 'end' command;
  5853 discontinued Isabelle/classic mode (ML proof scripts).
  5854 
  5855 
  5856 *** Document preparation ***
  5857 
  5858 * Added antiquotation @{theory name} which prints the given name,
  5859 after checking that it refers to a valid ancestor theory in the
  5860 current context.
  5861 
  5862 * Added antiquotations @{ML_type text} and @{ML_struct text} which
  5863 check the given source text as ML type/structure, printing verbatim.
  5864 
  5865 * Added antiquotation @{abbrev "c args"} which prints the abbreviation
  5866 "c args == rhs" given in the current context.  (Any number of
  5867 arguments may be given on the LHS.)
  5868 
  5869 
  5870 *** Pure ***
  5871 
  5872 * The 'class' package offers a combination of axclass and locale to
  5873 achieve Haskell-like type classes in Isabelle.  Definitions and
  5874 theorems within a class context produce both relative results (with
  5875 implicit parameters according to the locale context), and polymorphic
  5876 constants with qualified polymorphism (according to the class
  5877 context).  Within the body context of a 'class' target, a separate
  5878 syntax layer ("user space type system") takes care of converting
  5879 between global polymorphic consts and internal locale representation.
  5880 See src/HOL/ex/Classpackage.thy for examples (as well as main HOL).
  5881 "isatool doc classes" provides a tutorial.
  5882 
  5883 * Generic code generator framework allows to generate executable
  5884 code for ML and Haskell (including Isabelle classes).  A short usage
  5885 sketch:
  5886 
  5887     internal compilation:
  5888         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in SML
  5889     writing SML code to a file:
  5890         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in SML <filename>
  5891     writing OCaml code to a file:
  5892         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in OCaml <filename>
  5893     writing Haskell code to a bunch of files:
  5894         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in Haskell <filename>
  5895 
  5896     evaluating closed propositions to True/False using code generation:
  5897         method ``eval''
  5898 
  5899 Reasonable default setup of framework in HOL.
  5900 
  5901 Theorem attributs for selecting and transforming function equations theorems:
  5902 
  5903     [code fun]:        select a theorem as function equation for a specific constant
  5904     [code fun del]:    deselect a theorem as function equation for a specific constant
  5905     [code inline]:     select an equation theorem for unfolding (inlining) in place
  5906     [code inline del]: deselect an equation theorem for unfolding (inlining) in place
  5907 
  5908 User-defined serializations (target in {SML, OCaml, Haskell}):
  5909 
  5910     code_const <and-list of constants (term syntax)>
  5911       {(target) <and-list of const target syntax>}+
  5912 
  5913     code_type <and-list of type constructors>
  5914       {(target) <and-list of type target syntax>}+
  5915 
  5916     code_instance <and-list of instances>
  5917       {(target)}+
  5918         where instance ::= <type constructor> :: <class>
  5919 
  5920     code_class <and_list of classes>
  5921       {(target) <and-list of class target syntax>}+
  5922         where class target syntax ::= <class name> {where {<classop> == <target syntax>}+}?
  5923 
  5924 code_instance and code_class only are effective to target Haskell.
  5925 
  5926 For example usage see src/HOL/ex/Codegenerator.thy and
  5927 src/HOL/ex/Codegenerator_Pretty.thy.  A separate tutorial on code
  5928 generation from Isabelle/HOL theories is available via "isatool doc
  5929 codegen".
  5930 
  5931 * Code generator: consts in 'consts_code' Isar commands are now
  5932 referred to by usual term syntax (including optional type
  5933 annotations).
  5934 
  5935 * Command 'no_translations' removes translation rules from theory
  5936 syntax.
  5937 
  5938 * Overloaded definitions are now actually checked for acyclic
  5939 dependencies.  The overloading scheme is slightly more general than
  5940 that of Haskell98, although Isabelle does not demand an exact
  5941 correspondence to type class and instance declarations.
  5942 INCOMPATIBILITY, use ``defs (unchecked overloaded)'' to admit more
  5943 exotic versions of overloading -- at the discretion of the user!
  5944 
  5945 Polymorphic constants are represented via type arguments, i.e. the
  5946 instantiation that matches an instance against the most general
  5947 declaration given in the signature.  For example, with the declaration
  5948 c :: 'a => 'a => 'a, an instance c :: nat => nat => nat is represented
  5949 as c(nat).  Overloading is essentially simultaneous structural
  5950 recursion over such type arguments.  Incomplete specification patterns
  5951 impose global constraints on all occurrences, e.g. c('a * 'a) on the
  5952 LHS means that more general c('a * 'b) will be disallowed on any RHS.
  5953 Command 'print_theory' outputs the normalized system of recursive
  5954 equations, see section "definitions".
  5955 
  5956 * Configuration options are maintained within the theory or proof
  5957 context (with name and type bool/int/string), providing a very simple
  5958 interface to a poor-man's version of general context data.  Tools may
  5959 declare options in ML (e.g. using Attrib.config_int) and then refer to
  5960 these values using Config.get etc.  Users may change options via an
  5961 associated attribute of the same name.  This form of context
  5962 declaration works particularly well with commands 'declare' or
  5963 'using', for example ``declare [[foo = 42]]''.  Thus it has become
  5964 very easy to avoid global references, which would not observe Isar
  5965 toplevel undo/redo and fail to work with multithreading.
  5966 
  5967 Various global ML references of Pure and HOL have been turned into
  5968 configuration options:
  5969 
  5970   Unify.search_bound		unify_search_bound
  5971   Unify.trace_bound		unify_trace_bound
  5972   Unify.trace_simp		unify_trace_simp
  5973   Unify.trace_types		unify_trace_types
  5974   Simplifier.simp_depth_limit	simp_depth_limit
  5975   Blast.depth_limit		blast_depth_limit
  5976   DatatypeProp.dtK		datatype_distinctness_limit
  5977   fast_arith_neq_limit  	fast_arith_neq_limit
  5978   fast_arith_split_limit	fast_arith_split_limit
  5979 
  5980 * Named collections of theorems may be easily installed as context
  5981 data using the functor NamedThmsFun (see also
  5982 src/Pure/Tools/named_thms.ML).  The user may add or delete facts via
  5983 attributes; there is also a toplevel print command.  This facility is
  5984 just a common case of general context data, which is the preferred way
  5985 for anything more complex than just a list of facts in canonical
  5986 order.
  5987 
  5988 * Isar: command 'declaration' augments a local theory by generic
  5989 declaration functions written in ML.  This enables arbitrary content
  5990 being added to the context, depending on a morphism that tells the
  5991 difference of the original declaration context wrt. the application
  5992 context encountered later on.
  5993 
  5994 * Isar: proper interfaces for simplification procedures.  Command
  5995 'simproc_setup' declares named simprocs (with match patterns, and body
  5996 text in ML).  Attribute "simproc" adds/deletes simprocs in the current
  5997 context.  ML antiquotation @{simproc name} retrieves named simprocs.
  5998 
  5999 * Isar: an extra pair of brackets around attribute declarations
  6000 abbreviates a theorem reference involving an internal dummy fact,
  6001 which will be ignored later --- only the effect of the attribute on
  6002 the background context will persist.  This form of in-place
  6003 declarations is particularly useful with commands like 'declare' and
  6004 'using', for example ``have A using [[simproc a]] by simp''.
  6005 
  6006 * Isar: method "assumption" (and implicit closing of subproofs) now
  6007 takes simple non-atomic goal assumptions into account: after applying
  6008 an assumption as a rule the resulting subgoals are solved by atomic
  6009 assumption steps.  This is particularly useful to finish 'obtain'
  6010 goals, such as "!!x. (!!x. P x ==> thesis) ==> P x ==> thesis",
  6011 without referring to the original premise "!!x. P x ==> thesis" in the
  6012 Isar proof context.  POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: method "assumption" is
  6013 more permissive.
  6014 
  6015 * Isar: implicit use of prems from the Isar proof context is
  6016 considered a legacy feature.  Common applications like ``have A .''
  6017 may be replaced by ``have A by fact'' or ``note `A`''.  In general,
  6018 referencing facts explicitly here improves readability and
  6019 maintainability of proof texts.
  6020 
  6021 * Isar: improper proof element 'guess' is like 'obtain', but derives
  6022 the obtained context from the course of reasoning!  For example:
  6023 
  6024   assume "EX x y. A x & B y"   -- "any previous fact"
  6025   then guess x and y by clarify
  6026 
  6027 This technique is potentially adventurous, depending on the facts and
  6028 proof tools being involved here.
  6029 
  6030 * Isar: known facts from the proof context may be specified as literal
  6031 propositions, using ASCII back-quote syntax.  This works wherever
  6032 named facts used to be allowed so far, in proof commands, proof
  6033 methods, attributes etc.  Literal facts are retrieved from the context
  6034 according to unification of type and term parameters.  For example,
  6035 provided that "A" and "A ==> B" and "!!x. P x ==> Q x" are known
  6036 theorems in the current context, then these are valid literal facts:
  6037 `A` and `A ==> B` and `!!x. P x ==> Q x" as well as `P a ==> Q a` etc.
  6038 
  6039 There is also a proof method "fact" which does the same composition
  6040 for explicit goal states, e.g. the following proof texts coincide with
  6041 certain special cases of literal facts:
  6042 
  6043   have "A" by fact                 ==  note `A`
  6044   have "A ==> B" by fact           ==  note `A ==> B`
  6045   have "!!x. P x ==> Q x" by fact  ==  note `!!x. P x ==> Q x`
  6046   have "P a ==> Q a" by fact       ==  note `P a ==> Q a`
  6047 
  6048 * Isar: ":" (colon) is no longer a symbolic identifier character in
  6049 outer syntax.  Thus symbolic identifiers may be used without
  6050 additional white space in declarations like this: ``assume *: A''.
  6051 
  6052 * Isar: 'print_facts' prints all local facts of the current context,
  6053 both named and unnamed ones.
  6054 
  6055 * Isar: 'def' now admits simultaneous definitions, e.g.:
  6056 
  6057   def x == "t" and y == "u"
  6058 
  6059 * Isar: added command 'unfolding', which is structurally similar to
  6060 'using', but affects both the goal state and facts by unfolding given
  6061 rewrite rules.  Thus many occurrences of the 'unfold' method or
  6062 'unfolded' attribute may be replaced by first-class proof text.
  6063 
  6064 * Isar: methods 'unfold' / 'fold', attributes 'unfolded' / 'folded',
  6065 and command 'unfolding' now all support object-level equalities
  6066 (potentially conditional).  The underlying notion of rewrite rule is
  6067 analogous to the 'rule_format' attribute, but *not* that of the
  6068 Simplifier (which is usually more generous).
  6069 
  6070 * Isar: the new attribute [rotated n] (default n = 1) rotates the
  6071 premises of a theorem by n. Useful in conjunction with drule.
  6072 
  6073 * Isar: the goal restriction operator [N] (default N = 1) evaluates a
  6074 method expression within a sandbox consisting of the first N
  6075 sub-goals, which need to exist.  For example, ``simp_all [3]''
  6076 simplifies the first three sub-goals, while (rule foo, simp_all)[]
  6077 simplifies all new goals that emerge from applying rule foo to the
  6078 originally first one.
  6079 
  6080 * Isar: schematic goals are no longer restricted to higher-order
  6081 patterns; e.g. ``lemma "?P(?x)" by (rule TrueI)'' now works as
  6082 expected.
  6083 
  6084 * Isar: the conclusion of a long theorem statement is now either
  6085 'shows' (a simultaneous conjunction, as before), or 'obtains'
  6086 (essentially a disjunction of cases with local parameters and
  6087 assumptions).  The latter allows to express general elimination rules
  6088 adequately; in this notation common elimination rules look like this:
  6089 
  6090   lemma exE:    -- "EX x. P x ==> (!!x. P x ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6091     assumes "EX x. P x"
  6092     obtains x where "P x"
  6093 
  6094   lemma conjE:  -- "A & B ==> (A ==> B ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6095     assumes "A & B"
  6096     obtains A and B
  6097 
  6098   lemma disjE:  -- "A | B ==> (A ==> thesis) ==> (B ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6099     assumes "A | B"
  6100     obtains
  6101       A
  6102     | B
  6103 
  6104 The subsequent classical rules even refer to the formal "thesis"
  6105 explicitly:
  6106 
  6107   lemma classical:     -- "(~ thesis ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6108     obtains "~ thesis"
  6109 
  6110   lemma Peirce's_Law:  -- "((thesis ==> something) ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6111     obtains "thesis ==> something"
  6112 
  6113 The actual proof of an 'obtains' statement is analogous to that of the
  6114 Isar proof element 'obtain', only that there may be several cases.
  6115 Optional case names may be specified in parentheses; these will be
  6116 available both in the present proof and as annotations in the
  6117 resulting rule, for later use with the 'cases' method (cf. attribute
  6118 case_names).
  6119 
  6120 * Isar: the assumptions of a long theorem statement are available as
  6121 "assms" fact in the proof context.  This is more appropriate than the
  6122 (historical) "prems", which refers to all assumptions of the current
  6123 context, including those from the target locale, proof body etc.
  6124 
  6125 * Isar: 'print_statement' prints theorems from the current theory or
  6126 proof context in long statement form, according to the syntax of a
  6127 top-level lemma.
  6128 
  6129 * Isar: 'obtain' takes an optional case name for the local context
  6130 introduction rule (default "that").
  6131 
  6132 * Isar: removed obsolete 'concl is' patterns.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  6133 explicit (is "_ ==> ?foo") in the rare cases where this still happens
  6134 to occur.
  6135 
  6136 * Pure: syntax "CONST name" produces a fully internalized constant
  6137 according to the current context.  This is particularly useful for
  6138 syntax translations that should refer to internal constant
  6139 representations independently of name spaces.
  6140 
  6141 * Pure: syntax constant for foo (binder "FOO ") is called "foo_binder"
  6142 instead of "FOO ". This allows multiple binder declarations to coexist
  6143 in the same context.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6144 
  6145 * Isar/locales: 'notation' provides a robust interface to the 'syntax'
  6146 primitive that also works in a locale context (both for constants and
  6147 fixed variables). Type declaration and internal syntactic representation
  6148 of given constants retrieved from the context. Likewise, the
  6149 'no_notation' command allows to remove given syntax annotations from the
  6150 current context.
  6151 
  6152 * Isar/locales: new derived specification elements 'axiomatization',
  6153 'definition', 'abbreviation', which support type-inference, admit
  6154 object-level specifications (equality, equivalence).  See also the
  6155 isar-ref manual.  Examples:
  6156 
  6157   axiomatization
  6158     eq  (infix "===" 50) where
  6159     eq_refl: "x === x" and eq_subst: "x === y ==> P x ==> P y"
  6160 
  6161   definition "f x y = x + y + 1"
  6162   definition g where "g x = f x x"
  6163 
  6164   abbreviation
  6165     neq  (infix "=!=" 50) where
  6166     "x =!= y == ~ (x === y)"
  6167 
  6168 These specifications may be also used in a locale context.  Then the
  6169 constants being introduced depend on certain fixed parameters, and the
  6170 constant name is qualified by the locale base name.  An internal
  6171 abbreviation takes care for convenient input and output, making the
  6172 parameters implicit and using the original short name.  See also
  6173 src/HOL/ex/Abstract_NAT.thy for an example of deriving polymorphic
  6174 entities from a monomorphic theory.
  6175 
  6176 Presently, abbreviations are only available 'in' a target locale, but
  6177 not inherited by general import expressions.  Also note that
  6178 'abbreviation' may be used as a type-safe replacement for 'syntax' +
  6179 'translations' in common applications.  The "no_abbrevs" print mode
  6180 prevents folding of abbreviations in term output.
  6181 
  6182 Concrete syntax is attached to specified constants in internal form,
  6183 independently of name spaces.  The parse tree representation is
  6184 slightly different -- use 'notation' instead of raw 'syntax', and
  6185 'translations' with explicit "CONST" markup to accommodate this.
  6186 
  6187 * Pure/Isar: unified syntax for new-style specification mechanisms
  6188 (e.g.  'definition', 'abbreviation', or 'inductive' in HOL) admits
  6189 full type inference and dummy patterns ("_").  For example:
  6190 
  6191   definition "K x _ = x"
  6192 
  6193   inductive conj for A B
  6194   where "A ==> B ==> conj A B"
  6195 
  6196 * Pure: command 'print_abbrevs' prints all constant abbreviations of
  6197 the current context.  Print mode "no_abbrevs" prevents inversion of
  6198 abbreviations on output.
  6199 
  6200 * Isar/locales: improved parameter handling: use of locales "var" and
  6201 "struct" no longer necessary; - parameter renamings are no longer
  6202 required to be injective.  For example, this allows to define
  6203 endomorphisms as locale endom = homom mult mult h.
  6204 
  6205 * Isar/locales: changed the way locales with predicates are defined.
  6206 Instead of accumulating the specification, the imported expression is
  6207 now an interpretation.  INCOMPATIBILITY: different normal form of
  6208 locale expressions.  In particular, in interpretations of locales with
  6209 predicates, goals repesenting already interpreted fragments are not
  6210 removed automatically.  Use methods `intro_locales' and
  6211 `unfold_locales'; see below.
  6212 
  6213 * Isar/locales: new methods `intro_locales' and `unfold_locales'
  6214 provide backward reasoning on locales predicates.  The methods are
  6215 aware of interpretations and discharge corresponding goals.
  6216 `intro_locales' is less aggressive then `unfold_locales' and does not
  6217 unfold predicates to assumptions.
  6218 
  6219 * Isar/locales: the order in which locale fragments are accumulated
  6220 has changed.  This enables to override declarations from fragments due
  6221 to interpretations -- for example, unwanted simp rules.
  6222 
  6223 * Isar/locales: interpretation in theories and proof contexts has been
  6224 extended.  One may now specify (and prove) equations, which are
  6225 unfolded in interpreted theorems.  This is useful for replacing
  6226 defined concepts (constants depending on locale parameters) by
  6227 concepts already existing in the target context.  Example:
  6228 
  6229   interpretation partial_order ["op <= :: [int, int] => bool"]
  6230     where "partial_order.less (op <=) (x::int) y = (x < y)"
  6231 
  6232 Typically, the constant `partial_order.less' is created by a
  6233 definition specification element in the context of locale
  6234 partial_order.
  6235 
  6236 * Method "induct": improved internal context management to support
  6237 local fixes and defines on-the-fly. Thus explicit meta-level
  6238 connectives !!  and ==> are rarely required anymore in inductive goals
  6239 (using object-logic connectives for this purpose has been long
  6240 obsolete anyway). Common proof patterns are explained in
  6241 src/HOL/Induct/Common_Patterns.thy, see also
  6242 src/HOL/Isar_examples/Puzzle.thy and src/HOL/Lambda for realistic
  6243 examples.
  6244 
  6245 * Method "induct": improved handling of simultaneous goals. Instead of
  6246 introducing object-level conjunction, the statement is now split into
  6247 several conclusions, while the corresponding symbolic cases are nested
  6248 accordingly. INCOMPATIBILITY, proofs need to be structured explicitly,
  6249 see src/HOL/Induct/Common_Patterns.thy, for example.
  6250 
  6251 * Method "induct": mutual induction rules are now specified as a list
  6252 of rule sharing the same induction cases. HOL packages usually provide
  6253 foo_bar.inducts for mutually defined items foo and bar (e.g. inductive
  6254 predicates/sets or datatypes). INCOMPATIBILITY, users need to specify
  6255 mutual induction rules differently, i.e. like this:
  6256 
  6257   (induct rule: foo_bar.inducts)
  6258   (induct set: foo bar)
  6259   (induct pred: foo bar)
  6260   (induct type: foo bar)
  6261 
  6262 The ML function ProjectRule.projections turns old-style rules into the
  6263 new format.
  6264 
  6265 * Method "coinduct": dual of induction, see
  6266 src/HOL/Library/Coinductive_List.thy for various examples.
  6267 
  6268 * Method "cases", "induct", "coinduct": the ``(open)'' option is
  6269 considered a legacy feature.
  6270 
  6271 * Attribute "symmetric" produces result with standardized schematic
  6272 variables (index 0).  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6273 
  6274 * Simplifier: by default the simplifier trace only shows top level
  6275 rewrites now. That is, trace_simp_depth_limit is set to 1 by
  6276 default. Thus there is less danger of being flooded by the trace. The
  6277 trace indicates where parts have been suppressed.
  6278   
  6279 * Provers/classical: removed obsolete classical version of elim_format
  6280 attribute; classical elim/dest rules are now treated uniformly when
  6281 manipulating the claset.
  6282 
  6283 * Provers/classical: stricter checks to ensure that supplied intro,
  6284 dest and elim rules are well-formed; dest and elim rules must have at
  6285 least one premise.
  6286 
  6287 * Provers/classical: attributes dest/elim/intro take an optional
  6288 weight argument for the rule (just as the Pure versions).  Weights are
  6289 ignored by automated tools, but determine the search order of single
  6290 rule steps.
  6291 
  6292 * Syntax: input syntax now supports dummy variable binding "%_. b",
  6293 where the body does not mention the bound variable.  Note that dummy
  6294 patterns implicitly depend on their context of bounds, which makes
  6295 "{_. _}" match any set comprehension as expected.  Potential
  6296 INCOMPATIBILITY -- parse translations need to cope with syntactic
  6297 constant "_idtdummy" in the binding position.
  6298 
  6299 * Syntax: removed obsolete syntactic constant "_K" and its associated
  6300 parse translation.  INCOMPATIBILITY -- use dummy abstraction instead,
  6301 for example "A -> B" => "Pi A (%_. B)".
  6302 
  6303 * Pure: 'class_deps' command visualizes the subclass relation, using
  6304 the graph browser tool.
  6305 
  6306 * Pure: 'print_theory' now suppresses certain internal declarations by
  6307 default; use '!' option for full details.
  6308 
  6309 
  6310 *** HOL ***
  6311 
  6312 * Method "metis" proves goals by applying the Metis general-purpose
  6313 resolution prover (see also http://gilith.com/software/metis/).
  6314 Examples are in the directory MetisExamples.  WARNING: the
  6315 Isabelle/HOL-Metis integration does not yet work properly with
  6316 multi-threading.
  6317   
  6318 * Command 'sledgehammer' invokes external automatic theorem provers as
  6319 background processes.  It generates calls to the "metis" method if
  6320 successful. These can be pasted into the proof.  Users do not have to
  6321 wait for the automatic provers to return.  WARNING: does not really
  6322 work with multi-threading.
  6323 
  6324 * New "auto_quickcheck" feature tests outermost goal statements for
  6325 potential counter-examples.  Controlled by ML references
  6326 auto_quickcheck (default true) and auto_quickcheck_time_limit (default
  6327 5000 milliseconds).  Fails silently if statements is outside of
  6328 executable fragment, or any other codgenerator problem occurs.
  6329 
  6330 * New constant "undefined" with axiom "undefined x = undefined".
  6331 
  6332 * Added class "HOL.eq", allowing for code generation with polymorphic
  6333 equality.
  6334 
  6335 * Some renaming of class constants due to canonical name prefixing in
  6336 the new 'class' package:
  6337 
  6338     HOL.abs ~> HOL.abs_class.abs
  6339     HOL.divide ~> HOL.divide_class.divide
  6340     0 ~> HOL.zero_class.zero
  6341     1 ~> HOL.one_class.one
  6342     op + ~> HOL.plus_class.plus
  6343     op - ~> HOL.minus_class.minus
  6344     uminus ~> HOL.minus_class.uminus
  6345     op * ~> HOL.times_class.times
  6346     op < ~> HOL.ord_class.less
  6347     op <= > HOL.ord_class.less_eq
  6348     Nat.power ~> Power.power_class.power
  6349     Nat.size ~> Nat.size_class.size
  6350     Numeral.number_of ~> Numeral.number_class.number_of
  6351     FixedPoint.Inf ~> Lattices.complete_lattice_class.Inf
  6352     FixedPoint.Sup ~> Lattices.complete_lattice_class.Sup
  6353     Orderings.min ~> Orderings.ord_class.min
  6354     Orderings.max ~> Orderings.ord_class.max
  6355     Divides.op div ~> Divides.div_class.div
  6356     Divides.op mod ~> Divides.div_class.mod
  6357     Divides.op dvd ~> Divides.div_class.dvd
  6358 
  6359 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Adaptions may be required in the following cases:
  6360 
  6361 a) User-defined constants using any of the names "plus", "minus",
  6362 "times", "less" or "less_eq". The standard syntax translations for
  6363 "+", "-" and "*" may go wrong.  INCOMPATIBILITY: use more specific
  6364 names.
  6365 
  6366 b) Variables named "plus", "minus", "times", "less", "less_eq"
  6367 INCOMPATIBILITY: use more specific names.
  6368 
  6369 c) Permutative equations (e.g. "a + b = b + a")
  6370 Since the change of names also changes the order of terms, permutative
  6371 rewrite rules may get applied in a different order. Experience shows
  6372 that this is rarely the case (only two adaptions in the whole Isabelle
  6373 distribution).  INCOMPATIBILITY: rewrite proofs
  6374 
  6375 d) ML code directly refering to constant names
  6376 This in general only affects hand-written proof tactics, simprocs and
  6377 so on.  INCOMPATIBILITY: grep your sourcecode and replace names.
  6378 Consider using @{const_name} antiquotation.
  6379 
  6380 * New class "default" with associated constant "default".
  6381 
  6382 * Function "sgn" is now overloaded and available on int, real, complex
  6383 (and other numeric types), using class "sgn".  Two possible defs of
  6384 sgn are given as equational assumptions in the classes sgn_if and
  6385 sgn_div_norm; ordered_idom now also inherits from sgn_if.
  6386 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6387 
  6388 * Locale "partial_order" now unified with class "order" (cf. theory
  6389 Orderings), added parameter "less".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6390 
  6391 * Renamings in classes "order" and "linorder": facts "refl", "trans" and
  6392 "cases" to "order_refl", "order_trans" and "linorder_cases", to avoid
  6393 clashes with HOL "refl" and "trans".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6394 
  6395 * Classes "order" and "linorder": potential INCOMPATIBILITY due to
  6396 changed order of proof goals in instance proofs.
  6397 
  6398 * The transitivity reasoner for partial and linear orders is set up
  6399 for classes "order" and "linorder".  Instances of the reasoner are available
  6400 in all contexts importing or interpreting the corresponding locales.
  6401 Method "order" invokes the reasoner separately; the reasoner
  6402 is also integrated with the Simplifier as a solver.  Diagnostic
  6403 command 'print_orders' shows the available instances of the reasoner
  6404 in the current context.
  6405 
  6406 * Localized monotonicity predicate in theory "Orderings"; integrated
  6407 lemmas max_of_mono and min_of_mono with this predicate.
  6408 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6409 
  6410 * Formulation of theorem "dense" changed slightly due to integration
  6411 with new class dense_linear_order.
  6412 
  6413 * Uniform lattice theory development in HOL.
  6414 
  6415     constants "meet" and "join" now named "inf" and "sup"
  6416     constant "Meet" now named "Inf"
  6417 
  6418     classes "meet_semilorder" and "join_semilorder" now named
  6419       "lower_semilattice" and "upper_semilattice"
  6420     class "lorder" now named "lattice"
  6421     class "comp_lat" now named "complete_lattice"
  6422 
  6423     Instantiation of lattice classes allows explicit definitions
  6424     for "inf" and "sup" operations (or "Inf" and "Sup" for complete lattices).
  6425 
  6426   INCOMPATIBILITY.  Theorem renames:
  6427 
  6428     meet_left_le            ~> inf_le1
  6429     meet_right_le           ~> inf_le2
  6430     join_left_le            ~> sup_ge1
  6431     join_right_le           ~> sup_ge2
  6432     meet_join_le            ~> inf_sup_ord
  6433     le_meetI                ~> le_infI
  6434     join_leI                ~> le_supI
  6435     le_meet                 ~> le_inf_iff
  6436     le_join                 ~> ge_sup_conv
  6437     meet_idempotent         ~> inf_idem
  6438     join_idempotent         ~> sup_idem
  6439     meet_comm               ~> inf_commute
  6440     join_comm               ~> sup_commute
  6441     meet_leI1               ~> le_infI1
  6442     meet_leI2               ~> le_infI2
  6443     le_joinI1               ~> le_supI1
  6444     le_joinI2               ~> le_supI2
  6445     meet_assoc              ~> inf_assoc
  6446     join_assoc              ~> sup_assoc
  6447     meet_left_comm          ~> inf_left_commute
  6448     meet_left_idempotent    ~> inf_left_idem
  6449     join_left_comm          ~> sup_left_commute
  6450     join_left_idempotent    ~> sup_left_idem
  6451     meet_aci                ~> inf_aci
  6452     join_aci                ~> sup_aci
  6453     le_def_meet             ~> le_iff_inf
  6454     le_def_join             ~> le_iff_sup
  6455     join_absorp2            ~> sup_absorb2
  6456     join_absorp1            ~> sup_absorb1
  6457     meet_absorp1            ~> inf_absorb1
  6458     meet_absorp2            ~> inf_absorb2
  6459     meet_join_absorp        ~> inf_sup_absorb
  6460     join_meet_absorp        ~> sup_inf_absorb
  6461     distrib_join_le         ~> distrib_sup_le
  6462     distrib_meet_le         ~> distrib_inf_le
  6463 
  6464     add_meet_distrib_left   ~> add_inf_distrib_left
  6465     add_join_distrib_left   ~> add_sup_distrib_left
  6466     is_join_neg_meet        ~> is_join_neg_inf
  6467     is_meet_neg_join        ~> is_meet_neg_sup
  6468     add_meet_distrib_right  ~> add_inf_distrib_right
  6469     add_join_distrib_right  ~> add_sup_distrib_right
  6470     add_meet_join_distribs  ~> add_sup_inf_distribs
  6471     join_eq_neg_meet        ~> sup_eq_neg_inf
  6472     meet_eq_neg_join        ~> inf_eq_neg_sup
  6473     add_eq_meet_join        ~> add_eq_inf_sup
  6474     meet_0_imp_0            ~> inf_0_imp_0
  6475     join_0_imp_0            ~> sup_0_imp_0
  6476     meet_0_eq_0             ~> inf_0_eq_0
  6477     join_0_eq_0             ~> sup_0_eq_0
  6478     neg_meet_eq_join        ~> neg_inf_eq_sup
  6479     neg_join_eq_meet        ~> neg_sup_eq_inf
  6480     join_eq_if              ~> sup_eq_if
  6481 
  6482     mono_meet               ~> mono_inf
  6483     mono_join               ~> mono_sup
  6484     meet_bool_eq            ~> inf_bool_eq
  6485     join_bool_eq            ~> sup_bool_eq
  6486     meet_fun_eq             ~> inf_fun_eq
  6487     join_fun_eq             ~> sup_fun_eq
  6488     meet_set_eq             ~> inf_set_eq
  6489     join_set_eq             ~> sup_set_eq
  6490     meet1_iff               ~> inf1_iff
  6491     meet2_iff               ~> inf2_iff
  6492     meet1I                  ~> inf1I
  6493     meet2I                  ~> inf2I
  6494     meet1D1                 ~> inf1D1
  6495     meet2D1                 ~> inf2D1
  6496     meet1D2                 ~> inf1D2
  6497     meet2D2                 ~> inf2D2
  6498     meet1E                  ~> inf1E
  6499     meet2E                  ~> inf2E
  6500     join1_iff               ~> sup1_iff
  6501     join2_iff               ~> sup2_iff
  6502     join1I1                 ~> sup1I1
  6503     join2I1                 ~> sup2I1
  6504     join1I1                 ~> sup1I1
  6505     join2I2                 ~> sup1I2
  6506     join1CI                 ~> sup1CI
  6507     join2CI                 ~> sup2CI
  6508     join1E                  ~> sup1E
  6509     join2E                  ~> sup2E
  6510 
  6511     is_meet_Meet            ~> is_meet_Inf
  6512     Meet_bool_def           ~> Inf_bool_def
  6513     Meet_fun_def            ~> Inf_fun_def
  6514     Meet_greatest           ~> Inf_greatest
  6515     Meet_lower              ~> Inf_lower
  6516     Meet_set_def            ~> Inf_set_def
  6517 
  6518     Sup_def                 ~> Sup_Inf
  6519     Sup_bool_eq             ~> Sup_bool_def
  6520     Sup_fun_eq              ~> Sup_fun_def
  6521     Sup_set_eq              ~> Sup_set_def
  6522 
  6523     listsp_meetI            ~> listsp_infI
  6524     listsp_meet_eq          ~> listsp_inf_eq
  6525 
  6526     meet_min                ~> inf_min
  6527     join_max                ~> sup_max
  6528 
  6529 * Added syntactic class "size"; overloaded constant "size" now has
  6530 type "'a::size ==> bool"
  6531 
  6532 * Internal reorganisation of `size' of datatypes: size theorems
  6533 "foo.size" are no longer subsumed by "foo.simps" (but are still
  6534 simplification rules by default!); theorems "prod.size" now named
  6535 "*.size".
  6536 
  6537 * Class "div" now inherits from class "times" rather than "type".
  6538 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6539 
  6540 * HOL/Finite_Set: "name-space" locales Lattice, Distrib_lattice,
  6541 Linorder etc.  have disappeared; operations defined in terms of
  6542 fold_set now are named Inf_fin, Sup_fin.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6543 
  6544 * HOL/Nat: neq0_conv no longer declared as iff.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6545 
  6546 * HOL-Word: New extensive library and type for generic, fixed size
  6547 machine words, with arithmetic, bit-wise, shifting and rotating
  6548 operations, reflection into int, nat, and bool lists, automation for
  6549 linear arithmetic (by automatic reflection into nat or int), including
  6550 lemmas on overflow and monotonicity.  Instantiated to all appropriate
  6551 arithmetic type classes, supporting automatic simplification of
  6552 numerals on all operations.
  6553 
  6554 * Library/Boolean_Algebra: locales for abstract boolean algebras.
  6555 
  6556 * Library/Numeral_Type: numbers as types, e.g. TYPE(32).
  6557 
  6558 * Code generator library theories:
  6559   - Code_Integer represents HOL integers by big integer literals in target
  6560     languages.
  6561   - Code_Char represents HOL characters by character literals in target
  6562     languages.
  6563   - Code_Char_chr like Code_Char, but also offers treatment of character
  6564     codes; includes Code_Integer.
  6565   - Executable_Set allows to generate code for finite sets using lists.
  6566   - Executable_Rat implements rational numbers as triples (sign, enumerator,
  6567     denominator).
  6568   - Executable_Real implements a subset of real numbers, namly those
  6569     representable by rational numbers.
  6570   - Efficient_Nat implements natural numbers by integers, which in general will
  6571     result in higher efficency; pattern matching with 0/Suc is eliminated;
  6572     includes Code_Integer.
  6573   - Code_Index provides an additional datatype index which is mapped to
  6574     target-language built-in integers.
  6575   - Code_Message provides an additional datatype message_string which is isomorphic to
  6576     strings; messages are mapped to target-language strings.
  6577 
  6578 * New package for inductive predicates
  6579 
  6580   An n-ary predicate p with m parameters z_1, ..., z_m can now be defined via
  6581 
  6582     inductive
  6583       p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  6584       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  6585     where
  6586       rule_1: "... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_1_1 ... t_1_n"
  6587     | ...
  6588 
  6589   with full support for type-inference, rather than
  6590 
  6591     consts s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  6592 
  6593     abbreviation p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  6594     where "p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n == (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6595 
  6596     inductive "s z_1 ... z_m"
  6597     intros
  6598       rule_1: "... ==> (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6599       ...
  6600 
  6601   For backward compatibility, there is a wrapper allowing inductive
  6602   sets to be defined with the new package via
  6603 
  6604     inductive_set
  6605       s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  6606       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  6607     where
  6608       rule_1: "... ==> (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6609     | ...
  6610 
  6611   or
  6612 
  6613     inductive_set
  6614       s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  6615       and p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  6616       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  6617     where
  6618       "p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n == (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6619     | rule_1: "... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_1_1 ... t_1_n"
  6620     | ...
  6621 
  6622   if the additional syntax "p ..." is required.
  6623 
  6624   Numerous examples can be found in the subdirectories src/HOL/Auth,
  6625   src/HOL/Bali, src/HOL/Induct, and src/HOL/MicroJava.
  6626 
  6627   INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  6628 
  6629   - Since declaration and definition of inductive sets or predicates
  6630     is no longer separated, abbreviations involving the newly
  6631     introduced sets or predicates must be specified together with the
  6632     introduction rules after the 'where' keyword (see above), rather
  6633     than before the actual inductive definition.
  6634 
  6635   - The variables in induction and elimination rules are now
  6636     quantified in the order of their occurrence in the introduction
  6637     rules, rather than in alphabetical order. Since this may break
  6638     some proofs, these proofs either have to be repaired, e.g. by
  6639     reordering the variables a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i} in Isar 'case'
  6640     statements of the form
  6641 
  6642       case (rule_i a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i})
  6643 
  6644     or the old order of quantification has to be restored by explicitly adding
  6645     meta-level quantifiers in the introduction rules, i.e.
  6646 
  6647       | rule_i: "!!a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i}. ... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_i_1 ... t_i_n"
  6648 
  6649   - The format of the elimination rules is now
  6650 
  6651       p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n ==>
  6652         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x_1 = t_1_1 ==> ... ==> x_n = t_1_n ==> ... ==> P)
  6653         ==> ... ==> P
  6654 
  6655     for predicates and
  6656 
  6657       (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m ==>
  6658         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x_1 = t_1_1 ==> ... ==> x_n = t_1_n ==> ... ==> P)
  6659         ==> ... ==> P
  6660 
  6661     for sets rather than
  6662 
  6663       x : s z_1 ... z_m ==>
  6664         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x = (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) ==> ... ==> P)
  6665         ==> ... ==> P
  6666 
  6667     This may require terms in goals to be expanded to n-tuples
  6668     (e.g. using case_tac or simplification with the split_paired_all
  6669     rule) before the above elimination rule is applicable.
  6670 
  6671   - The elimination or case analysis rules for (mutually) inductive
  6672     sets or predicates are now called "p_1.cases" ... "p_k.cases". The
  6673     list of rules "p_1_..._p_k.elims" is no longer available.
  6674 
  6675 * New package "function"/"fun" for general recursive functions,
  6676 supporting mutual and nested recursion, definitions in local contexts,
  6677 more general pattern matching and partiality. See HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy
  6678 for small examples, and the separate tutorial on the function
  6679 package. The old recdef "package" is still available as before, but
  6680 users are encouraged to use the new package.
  6681 
  6682 * Method "lexicographic_order" automatically synthesizes termination
  6683 relations as lexicographic combinations of size measures. 
  6684 
  6685 * Case-expressions allow arbitrary constructor-patterns (including
  6686 "_") and take their order into account, like in functional
  6687 programming.  Internally, this is translated into nested
  6688 case-expressions; missing cases are added and mapped to the predefined
  6689 constant "undefined". In complicated cases printing may no longer show
  6690 the original input but the internal form. Lambda-abstractions allow
  6691 the same form of pattern matching: "% pat1 => e1 | ..." is an
  6692 abbreviation for "%x. case x of pat1 => e1 | ..." where x is a new
  6693 variable.
  6694 
  6695 * IntDef: The constant "int :: nat => int" has been removed; now "int"
  6696 is an abbreviation for "of_nat :: nat => int". The simplification
  6697 rules for "of_nat" have been changed to work like "int" did
  6698 previously.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY:
  6699   - "of_nat (Suc m)" simplifies to "1 + of_nat m" instead of "of_nat m + 1"
  6700   - of_nat_diff and of_nat_mult are no longer default simp rules
  6701 
  6702 * Method "algebra" solves polynomial equations over (semi)rings using
  6703 Groebner bases. The (semi)ring structure is defined by locales and the
  6704 tool setup depends on that generic context. Installing the method for
  6705 a specific type involves instantiating the locale and possibly adding
  6706 declarations for computation on the coefficients.  The method is
  6707 already instantiated for natural numbers and for the axiomatic class
  6708 of idoms with numerals.  See also the paper by Chaieb and Wenzel at
  6709 CALCULEMUS 2007 for the general principles underlying this
  6710 architecture of context-aware proof-tools.
  6711 
  6712 * Method "ferrack" implements quantifier elimination over
  6713 special-purpose dense linear orders using locales (analogous to
  6714 "algebra"). The method is already installed for class
  6715 {ordered_field,recpower,number_ring} which subsumes real, hyperreal,
  6716 rat, etc.
  6717 
  6718 * Former constant "List.op @" now named "List.append".  Use ML
  6719 antiquotations @{const_name List.append} or @{term " ... @ ... "} to
  6720 circumvent possible incompatibilities when working on ML level.
  6721 
  6722 * primrec: missing cases mapped to "undefined" instead of "arbitrary".
  6723 
  6724 * New function listsum :: 'a list => 'a for arbitrary monoids.
  6725 Special syntax: "SUM x <- xs. f x" (and latex variants)
  6726 
  6727 * New syntax for Haskell-like list comprehension (input only), eg.
  6728 [(x,y). x <- xs, y <- ys, x ~= y], see also src/HOL/List.thy.
  6729 
  6730 * The special syntax for function "filter" has changed from [x :
  6731 xs. P] to [x <- xs. P] to avoid an ambiguity caused by list
  6732 comprehension syntax, and for uniformity.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6733 
  6734 * [a..b] is now defined for arbitrary linear orders.  It used to be
  6735 defined on nat only, as an abbreviation for [a..<Suc b]
  6736 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6737 
  6738 * Renamed lemma "set_take_whileD"  to "set_takeWhileD".
  6739 
  6740 * New functions "sorted" and "sort" in src/HOL/List.thy.
  6741 
  6742 * New lemma collection field_simps (an extension of ring_simps) for
  6743 manipulating (in)equations involving division. Multiplies with all
  6744 denominators that can be proved to be non-zero (in equations) or
  6745 positive/negative (in inequations).
  6746 
  6747 * Lemma collections ring_eq_simps, group_eq_simps and ring_distrib
  6748 have been improved and renamed to ring_simps, group_simps and
  6749 ring_distribs.  Removed lemmas field_xyz in theory Ring_and_Field
  6750 because they were subsumed by lemmas xyz.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6751 
  6752 * Theory Library/Commutative_Ring: switched from recdef to function
  6753 package; constants add, mul, pow now curried.  Infix syntax for
  6754 algebraic operations.
  6755 
  6756 * Dropped redundant lemma def_imp_eq in favor of meta_eq_to_obj_eq.
  6757 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6758 
  6759 * Dropped redundant lemma if_def2 in favor of if_bool_eq_conj.
  6760 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6761 
  6762 * HOL/records: generalised field-update to take a function on the
  6763 field rather than the new value: r(|A := x|) is translated to A_update
  6764 (K x) r The K-combinator that is internally used is called K_record.
  6765 INCOMPATIBILITY: Usage of the plain update functions has to be
  6766 adapted.
  6767  
  6768 * Class "semiring_0" now contains annihilation axioms x * 0 = 0 and 0
  6769 * x = 0, which are required for a semiring.  Richer structures do not
  6770 inherit from semiring_0 anymore, because this property is a theorem
  6771 there, not an axiom.  INCOMPATIBILITY: In instances of semiring_0,
  6772 there is more to prove, but this is mostly trivial.
  6773 
  6774 * Class "recpower" is generalized to arbitrary monoids, not just
  6775 commutative semirings.  INCOMPATIBILITY: may need to incorporate
  6776 commutativity or semiring properties additionally.
  6777 
  6778 * Constant "List.list_all2" in List.thy now uses authentic syntax.
  6779 INCOMPATIBILITY: translations containing list_all2 may go wrong,
  6780 better use 'abbreviation'.
  6781 
  6782 * Renamed constant "List.op mem" to "List.member".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6783 
  6784 * Numeral syntax: type 'bin' which was a mere type copy of 'int' has
  6785 been abandoned in favour of plain 'int'.  INCOMPATIBILITY --
  6786 significant changes for setting up numeral syntax for types:
  6787   - New constants Numeral.pred and Numeral.succ instead
  6788       of former Numeral.bin_pred and Numeral.bin_succ.
  6789   - Use integer operations instead of bin_add, bin_mult and so on.
  6790   - Numeral simplification theorems named Numeral.numeral_simps instead of Bin_simps.
  6791   - ML structure Bin_Simprocs now named Int_Numeral_Base_Simprocs.
  6792 
  6793 See src/HOL/Integ/IntArith.thy for an example setup.
  6794 
  6795 * Command 'normal_form' computes the normal form of a term that may
  6796 contain free variables.  For example ``normal_form "rev [a, b, c]"''
  6797 produces ``[b, c, a]'' (without proof).  This command is suitable for
  6798 heavy-duty computations because the functions are compiled to ML
  6799 first.  Correspondingly, a method "normalization" is provided.  See
  6800 further src/HOL/ex/NormalForm.thy and src/Tools/nbe.ML.
  6801 
  6802 * Alternative iff syntax "A <-> B" for equality on bool (with priority
  6803 25 like -->); output depends on the "iff" print_mode, the default is
  6804 "A = B" (with priority 50).
  6805 
  6806 * Relations less (<) and less_eq (<=) are also available on type bool.
  6807 Modified syntax to disallow nesting without explicit parentheses,
  6808 e.g. "(x < y) < z" or "x < (y < z)", but NOT "x < y < z".  Potential
  6809 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6810 
  6811 * "LEAST x:A. P" expands to "LEAST x. x:A & P" (input only).
  6812 
  6813 * Relation composition operator "op O" now has precedence 75 and binds
  6814 stronger than union and intersection. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6815 
  6816 * The old set interval syntax "{m..n(}" (and relatives) has been
  6817 removed.  Use "{m..<n}" (and relatives) instead.
  6818 
  6819 * In the context of the assumption "~(s = t)" the Simplifier rewrites
  6820 "t = s" to False (by simproc "neq").  INCOMPATIBILITY, consider using
  6821 ``declare [[simproc del: neq]]''.
  6822 
  6823 * Simplifier: "m dvd n" where m and n are numbers is evaluated to
  6824 True/False.
  6825 
  6826 * Theorem Cons_eq_map_conv no longer declared as "simp".
  6827 
  6828 * Theorem setsum_mult renamed to setsum_right_distrib.
  6829 
  6830 * Prefer ex1I over ex_ex1I in single-step reasoning, e.g. by the
  6831 ``rule'' method.
  6832 
  6833 * Reimplemented methods "sat" and "satx", with several improvements:
  6834 goals no longer need to be stated as "<prems> ==> False", equivalences
  6835 (i.e. "=" on type bool) are handled, variable names of the form
  6836 "lit_<n>" are no longer reserved, significant speedup.
  6837 
  6838 * Methods "sat" and "satx" can now replay MiniSat proof traces.
  6839 zChaff is still supported as well.
  6840 
  6841 * 'inductive' and 'datatype': provide projections of mutual rules,
  6842 bundled as foo_bar.inducts;
  6843 
  6844 * Library: moved theories Parity, GCD, Binomial, Infinite_Set to
  6845 Library.
  6846 
  6847 * Library: moved theory Accessible_Part to main HOL.
  6848 
  6849 * Library: added theory Coinductive_List of potentially infinite lists
  6850 as greatest fixed-point.
  6851 
  6852 * Library: added theory AssocList which implements (finite) maps as
  6853 association lists.
  6854 
  6855 * Method "evaluation" solves goals (i.e. a boolean expression)
  6856 efficiently by compiling it to ML.  The goal is "proved" (via an
  6857 oracle) if it evaluates to True.
  6858 
  6859 * Linear arithmetic now splits certain operators (e.g. min, max, abs)
  6860 also when invoked by the simplifier.  This results in the Simplifier
  6861 being more powerful on arithmetic goals.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6862 Configuration option fast_arith_split_limit=0 recovers the old
  6863 behavior.
  6864 
  6865 * Support for hex (0x20) and binary (0b1001) numerals.
  6866 
  6867 * New method: reify eqs (t), where eqs are equations for an
  6868 interpretation I :: 'a list => 'b => 'c and t::'c is an optional
  6869 parameter, computes a term s::'b and a list xs::'a list and proves the
  6870 theorem I xs s = t. This is also known as reification or quoting. The
  6871 resulting theorem is applied to the subgoal to substitute t with I xs
  6872 s.  If t is omitted, the subgoal itself is reified.
  6873 
  6874 * New method: reflection corr_thm eqs (t). The parameters eqs and (t)
  6875 are as explained above. corr_thm is a theorem for I vs (f t) = I vs t,
  6876 where f is supposed to be a computable function (in the sense of code
  6877 generattion). The method uses reify to compute s and xs as above then
  6878 applies corr_thm and uses normalization by evaluation to "prove" f s =
  6879 r and finally gets the theorem t = r, which is again applied to the
  6880 subgoal. An Example is available in src/HOL/ex/ReflectionEx.thy.
  6881 
  6882 * Reflection: Automatic reification now handels binding, an example is
  6883 available in src/HOL/ex/ReflectionEx.thy
  6884 
  6885 * HOL-Statespace: ``State Spaces: The Locale Way'' introduces a
  6886 command 'statespace' that is similar to 'record', but introduces an
  6887 abstract specification based on the locale infrastructure instead of
  6888 HOL types.  This leads to extra flexibility in composing state spaces,
  6889 in particular multiple inheritance and renaming of components.
  6890 
  6891 
  6892 *** HOL-Complex ***
  6893 
  6894 * Hyperreal: Functions root and sqrt are now defined on negative real
  6895 inputs so that root n (- x) = - root n x and sqrt (- x) = - sqrt x.
  6896 Nonnegativity side conditions have been removed from many lemmas, so
  6897 that more subgoals may now be solved by simplification; potential
  6898 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6899 
  6900 * Real: new type classes formalize real normed vector spaces and
  6901 algebras, using new overloaded constants scaleR :: real => 'a => 'a
  6902 and norm :: 'a => real.
  6903 
  6904 * Real: constant of_real :: real => 'a::real_algebra_1 injects from
  6905 reals into other types. The overloaded constant Reals :: 'a set is now
  6906 defined as range of_real; potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6907 
  6908 * Real: proper support for ML code generation, including 'quickcheck'.
  6909 Reals are implemented as arbitrary precision rationals.
  6910 
  6911 * Hyperreal: Several constants that previously worked only for the
  6912 reals have been generalized, so they now work over arbitrary vector
  6913 spaces. Type annotations may need to be added in some cases; potential
  6914 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6915 
  6916   Infinitesimal  :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  6917   HFinite        :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  6918   HInfinite      :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  6919   approx         :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star => bool
  6920   monad          :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star set
  6921   galaxy         :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star set
  6922   (NS)LIMSEQ     :: [nat => 'a::real_normed_vector, 'a] => bool
  6923   (NS)convergent :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  6924   (NS)Bseq       :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  6925   (NS)Cauchy     :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  6926   (NS)LIM        :: ['a::real_normed_vector => 'b::real_normed_vector, 'a, 'b] => bool
  6927   is(NS)Cont     :: ['a::real_normed_vector => 'b::real_normed_vector, 'a] => bool
  6928   deriv          :: ['a::real_normed_field => 'a, 'a, 'a] => bool
  6929   sgn            :: 'a::real_normed_vector => 'a
  6930   exp            :: 'a::{recpower,real_normed_field,banach} => 'a
  6931 
  6932 * Complex: Some complex-specific constants are now abbreviations for
  6933 overloaded ones: complex_of_real = of_real, cmod = norm, hcmod =
  6934 hnorm.  Other constants have been entirely removed in favor of the
  6935 polymorphic versions (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  6936 
  6937   approx        <-- capprox
  6938   HFinite       <-- CFinite
  6939   HInfinite     <-- CInfinite
  6940   Infinitesimal <-- CInfinitesimal
  6941   monad         <-- cmonad
  6942   galaxy        <-- cgalaxy
  6943   (NS)LIM       <-- (NS)CLIM, (NS)CRLIM
  6944   is(NS)Cont    <-- is(NS)Contc, is(NS)contCR
  6945   (ns)deriv     <-- (ns)cderiv
  6946 
  6947 
  6948 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  6949 
  6950 * Formalisation of ideals and the quotient construction over rings.
  6951 
  6952 * Order and lattice theory no longer based on records.
  6953 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6954 
  6955 * Renamed lemmas least_carrier -> least_closed and greatest_carrier ->
  6956 greatest_closed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6957 
  6958 * Method algebra is now set up via an attribute.  For examples see
  6959 Ring.thy.  INCOMPATIBILITY: the method is now weaker on combinations
  6960 of algebraic structures.
  6961 
  6962 * Renamed theory CRing to Ring.
  6963 
  6964 
  6965 *** HOL-Nominal ***
  6966 
  6967 * Substantial, yet incomplete support for nominal datatypes (binding
  6968 structures) based on HOL-Nominal logic.  See src/HOL/Nominal and
  6969 src/HOL/Nominal/Examples.  Prospective users should consult
  6970 http://isabelle.in.tum.de/nominal/
  6971 
  6972 
  6973 *** ML ***
  6974 
  6975 * ML basics: just one true type int, which coincides with IntInf.int
  6976 (even on SML/NJ).
  6977 
  6978 * ML within Isar: antiquotations allow to embed statically-checked
  6979 formal entities in the source, referring to the context available at
  6980 compile-time.  For example:
  6981 
  6982 ML {* @{sort "{zero,one}"} *}
  6983 ML {* @{typ "'a => 'b"} *}
  6984 ML {* @{term "%x. x"} *}
  6985 ML {* @{prop "x == y"} *}
  6986 ML {* @{ctyp "'a => 'b"} *}
  6987 ML {* @{cterm "%x. x"} *}
  6988 ML {* @{cprop "x == y"} *}
  6989 ML {* @{thm asm_rl} *}
  6990 ML {* @{thms asm_rl} *}
  6991 ML {* @{type_name c} *}
  6992 ML {* @{type_syntax c} *}
  6993 ML {* @{const_name c} *}
  6994 ML {* @{const_syntax c} *}
  6995 ML {* @{context} *}
  6996 ML {* @{theory} *}
  6997 ML {* @{theory Pure} *}
  6998 ML {* @{theory_ref} *}
  6999 ML {* @{theory_ref Pure} *}
  7000 ML {* @{simpset} *}
  7001 ML {* @{claset} *}
  7002 ML {* @{clasimpset} *}
  7003 
  7004 The same works for sources being ``used'' within an Isar context.
  7005 
  7006 * ML in Isar: improved error reporting; extra verbosity with
  7007 ML_Context.trace enabled.
  7008 
  7009 * Pure/General/table.ML: the join operations now works via exceptions
  7010 DUP/SAME instead of type option. This is simpler in simple cases, and
  7011 admits slightly more efficient complex applications.
  7012 
  7013 * Pure: 'advanced' translation functions (parse_translation etc.) now
  7014 use Context.generic instead of just theory.
  7015 
  7016 * Pure: datatype Context.generic joins theory/Proof.context and
  7017 provides some facilities for code that works in either kind of
  7018 context, notably GenericDataFun for uniform theory and proof data.
  7019 
  7020 * Pure: simplified internal attribute type, which is now always
  7021 Context.generic * thm -> Context.generic * thm. Global (theory) vs.
  7022 local (Proof.context) attributes have been discontinued, while
  7023 minimizing code duplication. Thm.rule_attribute and
  7024 Thm.declaration_attribute build canonical attributes; see also structure
  7025 Context for further operations on Context.generic, notably
  7026 GenericDataFun. INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt attribute type
  7027 declarations and definitions.
  7028 
  7029 * Context data interfaces (Theory/Proof/GenericDataFun): removed
  7030 name/print, uninitialized data defaults to ad-hoc copy of empty value,
  7031 init only required for impure data. INCOMPATIBILITY: empty really need
  7032 to be empty (no dependencies on theory content!)
  7033 
  7034 * Pure/kernel: consts certification ignores sort constraints given in
  7035 signature declarations. (This information is not relevant to the
  7036 logic, but only for type inference.) SIGNIFICANT INTERNAL CHANGE,
  7037 potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7038 
  7039 * Pure: axiomatic type classes are now purely definitional, with
  7040 explicit proofs of class axioms and super class relations performed
  7041 internally. See Pure/axclass.ML for the main internal interfaces --
  7042 notably AxClass.define_class supercedes AxClass.add_axclass, and
  7043 AxClass.axiomatize_class/classrel/arity supersede
  7044 Sign.add_classes/classrel/arities.
  7045 
  7046 * Pure/Isar: Args/Attrib parsers operate on Context.generic --
  7047 global/local versions on theory vs. Proof.context have been
  7048 discontinued; Attrib.syntax and Method.syntax have been adapted
  7049 accordingly.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt parser expressions for
  7050 attributes, methods, etc.
  7051 
  7052 * Pure: several functions of signature "... -> theory -> theory * ..."
  7053 have been reoriented to "... -> theory -> ... * theory" in order to
  7054 allow natural usage in combination with the ||>, ||>>, |-> and
  7055 fold_map combinators.
  7056 
  7057 * Pure: official theorem names (closed derivations) and additional
  7058 comments (tags) are now strictly separate.  Name hints -- which are
  7059 maintained as tags -- may be attached any time without affecting the
  7060 derivation.
  7061 
  7062 * Pure: primitive rule lift_rule now takes goal cterm instead of an
  7063 actual goal state (thm).  Use Thm.lift_rule (Thm.cprem_of st i) to
  7064 achieve the old behaviour.
  7065 
  7066 * Pure: the "Goal" constant is now called "prop", supporting a
  7067 slightly more general idea of ``protecting'' meta-level rule
  7068 statements.
  7069 
  7070 * Pure: Logic.(un)varify only works in a global context, which is now
  7071 enforced instead of silently assumed.  INCOMPATIBILITY, may use
  7072 Logic.legacy_(un)varify as temporary workaround.
  7073 
  7074 * Pure: structure Name provides scalable operations for generating
  7075 internal variable names, notably Name.variants etc.  This replaces
  7076 some popular functions from term.ML:
  7077 
  7078   Term.variant		->  Name.variant
  7079   Term.variantlist	->  Name.variant_list
  7080   Term.invent_names	->  Name.invent_list
  7081 
  7082 Note that low-level renaming rarely occurs in new code -- operations
  7083 from structure Variable are used instead (see below).
  7084 
  7085 * Pure: structure Variable provides fundamental operations for proper
  7086 treatment of fixed/schematic variables in a context.  For example,
  7087 Variable.import introduces fixes for schematics of given facts and
  7088 Variable.export reverses the effect (up to renaming) -- this replaces
  7089 various freeze_thaw operations.
  7090 
  7091 * Pure: structure Goal provides simple interfaces for
  7092 init/conclude/finish and tactical prove operations (replacing former
  7093 Tactic.prove).  Goal.prove is the canonical way to prove results
  7094 within a given context; Goal.prove_global is a degraded version for
  7095 theory level goals, including a global Drule.standard.  Note that
  7096 OldGoals.prove_goalw_cterm has long been obsolete, since it is
  7097 ill-behaved in a local proof context (e.g. with local fixes/assumes or
  7098 in a locale context).
  7099 
  7100 * Pure/Syntax: generic interfaces for parsing (Syntax.parse_term etc.)
  7101 and type checking (Syntax.check_term etc.), with common combinations
  7102 (Syntax.read_term etc.). These supersede former Sign.read_term etc.
  7103 which are considered legacy and await removal.
  7104 
  7105 * Pure/Syntax: generic interfaces for type unchecking
  7106 (Syntax.uncheck_terms etc.) and unparsing (Syntax.unparse_term etc.),
  7107 with common combinations (Syntax.pretty_term, Syntax.string_of_term
  7108 etc.).  Former Sign.pretty_term, Sign.string_of_term etc. are still
  7109 available for convenience, but refer to the very same operations using
  7110 a mere theory instead of a full context.
  7111 
  7112 * Isar: simplified treatment of user-level errors, using exception
  7113 ERROR of string uniformly.  Function error now merely raises ERROR,
  7114 without any side effect on output channels.  The Isar toplevel takes
  7115 care of proper display of ERROR exceptions.  ML code may use plain
  7116 handle/can/try; cat_error may be used to concatenate errors like this:
  7117 
  7118   ... handle ERROR msg => cat_error msg "..."
  7119 
  7120 Toplevel ML code (run directly or through the Isar toplevel) may be
  7121 embedded into the Isar toplevel with exception display/debug like
  7122 this:
  7123 
  7124   Isar.toplevel (fn () => ...)
  7125 
  7126 INCOMPATIBILITY, removed special transform_error facilities, removed
  7127 obsolete variants of user-level exceptions (ERROR_MESSAGE,
  7128 Context.PROOF, ProofContext.CONTEXT, Proof.STATE, ProofHistory.FAIL)
  7129 -- use plain ERROR instead.
  7130 
  7131 * Isar: theory setup now has type (theory -> theory), instead of a
  7132 list.  INCOMPATIBILITY, may use #> to compose setup functions.
  7133 
  7134 * Isar: ML toplevel pretty printer for type Proof.context, subject to
  7135 ProofContext.debug/verbose flags.
  7136 
  7137 * Isar: Toplevel.theory_to_proof admits transactions that modify the
  7138 theory before entering a proof state.  Transactions now always see a
  7139 quasi-functional intermediate checkpoint, both in interactive and
  7140 batch mode.
  7141 
  7142 * Isar: simplified interfaces for outer syntax.  Renamed
  7143 OuterSyntax.add_keywords to OuterSyntax.keywords.  Removed
  7144 OuterSyntax.add_parsers -- this functionality is now included in
  7145 OuterSyntax.command etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7146 
  7147 * Simplifier: the simpset of a running simplification process now
  7148 contains a proof context (cf. Simplifier.the_context), which is the
  7149 very context that the initial simpset has been retrieved from (by
  7150 simpset_of/local_simpset_of).  Consequently, all plug-in components
  7151 (solver, looper etc.) may depend on arbitrary proof data.
  7152 
  7153 * Simplifier.inherit_context inherits the proof context (plus the
  7154 local bounds) of the current simplification process; any simproc
  7155 etc. that calls the Simplifier recursively should do this!  Removed
  7156 former Simplifier.inherit_bounds, which is already included here --
  7157 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Tools based on low-level rewriting may even have to
  7158 specify an explicit context using Simplifier.context/theory_context.
  7159 
  7160 * Simplifier/Classical Reasoner: more abstract interfaces
  7161 change_simpset/claset for modifying the simpset/claset reference of a
  7162 theory; raw versions simpset/claset_ref etc. have been discontinued --
  7163 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7164 
  7165 * Provers: more generic wrt. syntax of object-logics, avoid hardwired
  7166 "Trueprop" etc.
  7167 
  7168 
  7169 *** System ***
  7170 
  7171 * settings: the default heap location within ISABELLE_HOME_USER now
  7172 includes ISABELLE_IDENTIFIER.  This simplifies use of multiple
  7173 Isabelle installations.
  7174 
  7175 * isabelle-process: option -S (secure mode) disables some critical
  7176 operations, notably runtime compilation and evaluation of ML source
  7177 code.
  7178 
  7179 * Basic Isabelle mode for jEdit, see Isabelle/lib/jedit/.
  7180 
  7181 * Support for parallel execution, using native multicore support of
  7182 Poly/ML 5.1.  The theory loader exploits parallelism when processing
  7183 independent theories, according to the given theory header
  7184 specifications. The maximum number of worker threads is specified via
  7185 usedir option -M or the "max-threads" setting in Proof General. A
  7186 speedup factor of 1.5--3.5 can be expected on a 4-core machine, and up
  7187 to 6 on a 8-core machine.  User-code needs to observe certain
  7188 guidelines for thread-safe programming, see appendix A in the Isar
  7189 Implementation manual.
  7190 
  7191 
  7192 
  7193 New in Isabelle2005 (October 2005)
  7194 ----------------------------------
  7195 
  7196 *** General ***
  7197 
  7198 * Theory headers: the new header syntax for Isar theories is
  7199 
  7200   theory <name>
  7201   imports <theory1> ... <theoryN>
  7202   uses <file1> ... <fileM>
  7203   begin
  7204 
  7205 where the 'uses' part is optional.  The previous syntax
  7206 
  7207   theory <name> = <theory1> + ... + <theoryN>:
  7208 
  7209 will disappear in the next release.  Use isatool fixheaders to convert
  7210 existing theory files.  Note that there is no change in ancient
  7211 non-Isar theories now, but these will disappear soon.
  7212 
  7213 * Theory loader: parent theories can now also be referred to via
  7214 relative and absolute paths.
  7215 
  7216 * Command 'find_theorems' searches for a list of criteria instead of a
  7217 list of constants. Known criteria are: intro, elim, dest, name:string,
  7218 simp:term, and any term. Criteria can be preceded by '-' to select
  7219 theorems that do not match. Intro, elim, dest select theorems that
  7220 match the current goal, name:s selects theorems whose fully qualified
  7221 name contain s, and simp:term selects all simplification rules whose
  7222 lhs match term.  Any other term is interpreted as pattern and selects
  7223 all theorems matching the pattern. Available in ProofGeneral under
  7224 'ProofGeneral -> Find Theorems' or C-c C-f.  Example:
  7225 
  7226   C-c C-f (100) "(_::nat) + _ + _" intro -name: "HOL."
  7227 
  7228 prints the last 100 theorems matching the pattern "(_::nat) + _ + _",
  7229 matching the current goal as introduction rule and not having "HOL."
  7230 in their name (i.e. not being defined in theory HOL).
  7231 
  7232 * Command 'thms_containing' has been discontinued in favour of
  7233 'find_theorems'; INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7234 
  7235 * Communication with Proof General is now 8bit clean, which means that
  7236 Unicode text in UTF-8 encoding may be used within theory texts (both
  7237 formal and informal parts).  Cf. option -U of the Isabelle Proof
  7238 General interface.  Here are some simple examples (cf. src/HOL/ex):
  7239 
  7240   http://isabelle.in.tum.de/library/HOL/ex/Hebrew.html
  7241   http://isabelle.in.tum.de/library/HOL/ex/Chinese.html
  7242 
  7243 * Improved efficiency of the Simplifier and, to a lesser degree, the
  7244 Classical Reasoner.  Typical big applications run around 2 times
  7245 faster.
  7246 
  7247 
  7248 *** Document preparation ***
  7249 
  7250 * Commands 'display_drafts' and 'print_drafts' perform simple output
  7251 of raw sources.  Only those symbols that do not require additional
  7252 LaTeX packages (depending on comments in isabellesym.sty) are
  7253 displayed properly, everything else is left verbatim.  isatool display
  7254 and isatool print are used as front ends (these are subject to the
  7255 DVI/PDF_VIEWER and PRINT_COMMAND settings, respectively).
  7256 
  7257 * Command tags control specific markup of certain regions of text,
  7258 notably folding and hiding.  Predefined tags include "theory" (for
  7259 theory begin and end), "proof" for proof commands, and "ML" for
  7260 commands involving ML code; the additional tags "visible" and
  7261 "invisible" are unused by default.  Users may give explicit tag
  7262 specifications in the text, e.g. ''by %invisible (auto)''.  The
  7263 interpretation of tags is determined by the LaTeX job during document
  7264 preparation: see option -V of isatool usedir, or options -n and -t of
  7265 isatool document, or even the LaTeX macros \isakeeptag, \isafoldtag,
  7266 \isadroptag.
  7267 
  7268 Several document versions may be produced at the same time via isatool
  7269 usedir (the generated index.html will link all of them).  Typical
  7270 specifications include ''-V document=theory,proof,ML'' to present
  7271 theory/proof/ML parts faithfully, ''-V outline=/proof,/ML'' to fold
  7272 proof and ML commands, and ''-V mutilated=-theory,-proof,-ML'' to omit
  7273 these parts without any formal replacement text.  The Isabelle site
  7274 default settings produce ''document'' and ''outline'' versions as
  7275 specified above.
  7276 
  7277 * Several new antiquotations:
  7278 
  7279   @{term_type term} prints a term with its type annotated;
  7280 
  7281   @{typeof term} prints the type of a term;
  7282 
  7283   @{const const} is the same as @{term const}, but checks that the
  7284   argument is a known logical constant;
  7285 
  7286   @{term_style style term} and @{thm_style style thm} print a term or
  7287   theorem applying a "style" to it
  7288 
  7289   @{ML text}
  7290 
  7291 Predefined styles are 'lhs' and 'rhs' printing the lhs/rhs of
  7292 definitions, equations, inequations etc., 'concl' printing only the
  7293 conclusion of a meta-logical statement theorem, and 'prem1' .. 'prem19'
  7294 to print the specified premise.  TermStyle.add_style provides an ML
  7295 interface for introducing further styles.  See also the "LaTeX Sugar"
  7296 document practical applications.  The ML antiquotation prints
  7297 type-checked ML expressions verbatim.
  7298 
  7299 * Markup commands 'chapter', 'section', 'subsection', 'subsubsection',
  7300 and 'text' support optional locale specification '(in loc)', which
  7301 specifies the default context for interpreting antiquotations.  For
  7302 example: 'text (in lattice) {* @{thm inf_assoc}*}'.
  7303 
  7304 * Option 'locale=NAME' of antiquotations specifies an alternative
  7305 context interpreting the subsequent argument.  For example: @{thm
  7306 [locale=lattice] inf_assoc}.
  7307 
  7308 * Proper output of proof terms (@{prf ...} and @{full_prf ...}) within
  7309 a proof context.
  7310 
  7311 * Proper output of antiquotations for theory commands involving a
  7312 proof context (such as 'locale' or 'theorem (in loc) ...').
  7313 
  7314 * Delimiters of outer tokens (string etc.) now produce separate LaTeX
  7315 macros (\isachardoublequoteopen, isachardoublequoteclose etc.).
  7316 
  7317 * isatool usedir: new option -C (default true) controls whether option
  7318 -D should include a copy of the original document directory; -C false
  7319 prevents unwanted effects such as copying of administrative CVS data.
  7320 
  7321 
  7322 *** Pure ***
  7323 
  7324 * Considerably improved version of 'constdefs' command.  Now performs
  7325 automatic type-inference of declared constants; additional support for
  7326 local structure declarations (cf. locales and HOL records), see also
  7327 isar-ref manual.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY: need to observe strictly
  7328 sequential dependencies of definitions within a single 'constdefs'
  7329 section; moreover, the declared name needs to be an identifier.  If
  7330 all fails, consider to fall back on 'consts' and 'defs' separately.
  7331 
  7332 * Improved indexed syntax and implicit structures.  First of all,
  7333 indexed syntax provides a notational device for subscripted
  7334 application, using the new syntax \<^bsub>term\<^esub> for arbitrary
  7335 expressions.  Secondly, in a local context with structure
  7336 declarations, number indexes \<^sub>n or the empty index (default
  7337 number 1) refer to a certain fixed variable implicitly; option
  7338 show_structs controls printing of implicit structures.  Typical
  7339 applications of these concepts involve record types and locales.
  7340 
  7341 * New command 'no_syntax' removes grammar declarations (and
  7342 translations) resulting from the given syntax specification, which is
  7343 interpreted in the same manner as for the 'syntax' command.
  7344 
  7345 * 'Advanced' translation functions (parse_translation etc.) may depend
  7346 on the signature of the theory context being presently used for
  7347 parsing/printing, see also isar-ref manual.
  7348 
  7349 * Improved 'oracle' command provides a type-safe interface to turn an
  7350 ML expression of type theory -> T -> term into a primitive rule of
  7351 type theory -> T -> thm (i.e. the functionality of Thm.invoke_oracle
  7352 is already included here); see also FOL/ex/IffExample.thy;
  7353 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7354 
  7355 * axclass: name space prefix for class "c" is now "c_class" (was "c"
  7356 before); "cI" is no longer bound, use "c.intro" instead.
  7357 INCOMPATIBILITY.  This change avoids clashes of fact bindings for
  7358 axclasses vs. locales.
  7359 
  7360 * Improved internal renaming of symbolic identifiers -- attach primes
  7361 instead of base 26 numbers.
  7362 
  7363 * New flag show_question_marks controls printing of leading question
  7364 marks in schematic variable names.
  7365 
  7366 * In schematic variable names, *any* symbol following \<^isub> or
  7367 \<^isup> is now treated as part of the base name.  For example, the
  7368 following works without printing of awkward ".0" indexes:
  7369 
  7370   lemma "x\<^isub>1 = x\<^isub>2 ==> x\<^isub>2 = x\<^isub>1"
  7371     by simp
  7372 
  7373 * Inner syntax includes (*(*nested*) comments*).
  7374 
  7375 * Pretty printer now supports unbreakable blocks, specified in mixfix
  7376 annotations as "(00...)".
  7377 
  7378 * Clear separation of logical types and nonterminals, where the latter
  7379 may only occur in 'syntax' specifications or type abbreviations.
  7380 Before that distinction was only partially implemented via type class
  7381 "logic" vs. "{}".  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY in rare cases of improper
  7382 use of 'types'/'consts' instead of 'nonterminals'/'syntax'.  Some very
  7383 exotic syntax specifications may require further adaption
  7384 (e.g. Cube/Cube.thy).
  7385 
  7386 * Removed obsolete type class "logic", use the top sort {} instead.
  7387 Note that non-logical types should be declared as 'nonterminals'
  7388 rather than 'types'.  INCOMPATIBILITY for new object-logic
  7389 specifications.
  7390 
  7391 * Attributes 'induct' and 'cases': type or set names may now be
  7392 locally fixed variables as well.
  7393 
  7394 * Simplifier: can now control the depth to which conditional rewriting
  7395 is traced via the PG menu Isabelle -> Settings -> Trace Simp Depth
  7396 Limit.
  7397 
  7398 * Simplifier: simplification procedures may now take the current
  7399 simpset into account (cf. Simplifier.simproc(_i) / mk_simproc
  7400 interface), which is very useful for calling the Simplifier
  7401 recursively.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY: the 'prems' argument of simprocs
  7402 is gone -- use prems_of_ss on the simpset instead.  Moreover, the
  7403 low-level mk_simproc no longer applies Logic.varify internally, to
  7404 allow for use in a context of fixed variables.
  7405 
  7406 * thin_tac now works even if the assumption being deleted contains !!
  7407 or ==>.  More generally, erule now works even if the major premise of
  7408 the elimination rule contains !! or ==>.
  7409 
  7410 * Method 'rules' has been renamed to 'iprover'. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7411 
  7412 * Reorganized bootstrapping of the Pure theories; CPure is now derived
  7413 from Pure, which contains all common declarations already.  Both
  7414 theories are defined via plain Isabelle/Isar .thy files.
  7415 INCOMPATIBILITY: elements of CPure (such as the CPure.intro /
  7416 CPure.elim / CPure.dest attributes) now appear in the Pure name space;
  7417 use isatool fixcpure to adapt your theory and ML sources.
  7418 
  7419 * New syntax 'name(i-j, i-, i, ...)' for referring to specific
  7420 selections of theorems in named facts via index ranges.
  7421 
  7422 * 'print_theorems': in theory mode, really print the difference
  7423 wrt. the last state (works for interactive theory development only),
  7424 in proof mode print all local facts (cf. 'print_facts');
  7425 
  7426 * 'hide': option '(open)' hides only base names.
  7427 
  7428 * More efficient treatment of intermediate checkpoints in interactive
  7429 theory development.
  7430 
  7431 * Code generator is now invoked via code_module (incremental code
  7432 generation) and code_library (modular code generation, ML structures
  7433 for each theory).  INCOMPATIBILITY: new keywords 'file' and 'contains'
  7434 must be quoted when used as identifiers.
  7435 
  7436 * New 'value' command for reading, evaluating and printing terms using
  7437 the code generator.  INCOMPATIBILITY: command keyword 'value' must be
  7438 quoted when used as identifier.
  7439 
  7440 
  7441 *** Locales ***
  7442 
  7443 * New commands for the interpretation of locale expressions in
  7444 theories (1), locales (2) and proof contexts (3).  These generate
  7445 proof obligations from the expression specification.  After the
  7446 obligations have been discharged, theorems of the expression are added
  7447 to the theory, target locale or proof context.  The synopsis of the
  7448 commands is a follows:
  7449 
  7450   (1) interpretation expr inst
  7451   (2) interpretation target < expr
  7452   (3) interpret expr inst
  7453 
  7454 Interpretation in theories and proof contexts require a parameter
  7455 instantiation of terms from the current context.  This is applied to
  7456 specifications and theorems of the interpreted expression.
  7457 Interpretation in locales only permits parameter renaming through the
  7458 locale expression.  Interpretation is smart in that interpretations
  7459 that are active already do not occur in proof obligations, neither are
  7460 instantiated theorems stored in duplicate.  Use 'print_interps' to
  7461 inspect active interpretations of a particular locale.  For details,
  7462 see the Isar Reference manual.  Examples can be found in
  7463 HOL/Finite_Set.thy and HOL/Algebra/UnivPoly.thy.
  7464 
  7465 INCOMPATIBILITY: former 'instantiate' has been withdrawn, use
  7466 'interpret' instead.
  7467 
  7468 * New context element 'constrains' for adding type constraints to
  7469 parameters.
  7470 
  7471 * Context expressions: renaming of parameters with syntax
  7472 redeclaration.
  7473 
  7474 * Locale declaration: 'includes' disallowed.
  7475 
  7476 * Proper static binding of attribute syntax -- i.e. types / terms /
  7477 facts mentioned as arguments are always those of the locale definition
  7478 context, independently of the context of later invocations.  Moreover,
  7479 locale operations (renaming and type / term instantiation) are applied
  7480 to attribute arguments as expected.
  7481 
  7482 INCOMPATIBILITY of the ML interface: always pass Attrib.src instead of
  7483 actual attributes; rare situations may require Attrib.attribute to
  7484 embed those attributes into Attrib.src that lack concrete syntax.
  7485 Attribute implementations need to cooperate properly with the static
  7486 binding mechanism.  Basic parsers Args.XXX_typ/term/prop and
  7487 Attrib.XXX_thm etc. already do the right thing without further
  7488 intervention.  Only unusual applications -- such as "where" or "of"
  7489 (cf. src/Pure/Isar/attrib.ML), which process arguments depending both
  7490 on the context and the facts involved -- may have to assign parsed
  7491 values to argument tokens explicitly.
  7492 
  7493 * Changed parameter management in theorem generation for long goal
  7494 statements with 'includes'.  INCOMPATIBILITY: produces a different
  7495 theorem statement in rare situations.
  7496 
  7497 * Locale inspection command 'print_locale' omits notes elements.  Use
  7498 'print_locale!' to have them included in the output.
  7499 
  7500 
  7501 *** Provers ***
  7502 
  7503 * Provers/hypsubst.ML: improved version of the subst method, for
  7504 single-step rewriting: it now works in bound variable contexts. New is
  7505 'subst (asm)', for rewriting an assumption.  INCOMPATIBILITY: may
  7506 rewrite a different subterm than the original subst method, which is
  7507 still available as 'simplesubst'.
  7508 
  7509 * Provers/quasi.ML: new transitivity reasoners for transitivity only
  7510 and quasi orders.
  7511 
  7512 * Provers/trancl.ML: new transitivity reasoner for transitive and
  7513 reflexive-transitive closure of relations.
  7514 
  7515 * Provers/blast.ML: new reference depth_limit to make blast's depth
  7516 limit (previously hard-coded with a value of 20) user-definable.
  7517 
  7518 * Provers/simplifier.ML has been moved to Pure, where Simplifier.setup
  7519 is peformed already.  Object-logics merely need to finish their
  7520 initial simpset configuration as before.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7521 
  7522 
  7523 *** HOL ***
  7524 
  7525 * Symbolic syntax of Hilbert Choice Operator is now as follows:
  7526 
  7527   syntax (epsilon)
  7528     "_Eps" :: "[pttrn, bool] => 'a"    ("(3\<some>_./ _)" [0, 10] 10)
  7529 
  7530 The symbol \<some> is displayed as the alternative epsilon of LaTeX
  7531 and x-symbol; use option '-m epsilon' to get it actually printed.
  7532 Moreover, the mathematically important symbolic identifier \<epsilon>
  7533 becomes available as variable, constant etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  7534 
  7535 * "x > y" abbreviates "y < x" and "x >= y" abbreviates "y <= x".
  7536 Similarly for all quantifiers: "ALL x > y" etc.  The x-symbol for >=
  7537 is \<ge>. New transitivity rules have been added to HOL/Orderings.thy to
  7538 support corresponding Isar calculations.
  7539 
  7540 * "{x:A. P}" abbreviates "{x. x:A & P}", and similarly for "\<in>"
  7541 instead of ":".
  7542 
  7543 * theory SetInterval: changed the syntax for open intervals:
  7544 
  7545   Old       New
  7546   {..n(}    {..<n}
  7547   {)n..}    {n<..}
  7548   {m..n(}   {m..<n}
  7549   {)m..n}   {m<..n}
  7550   {)m..n(}  {m<..<n}
  7551 
  7552 The old syntax is still supported but will disappear in the next
  7553 release.  For conversion use the following Emacs search and replace
  7554 patterns (these are not perfect but work quite well):
  7555 
  7556   {)\([^\.]*\)\.\.  ->  {\1<\.\.}
  7557   \.\.\([^(}]*\)(}  ->  \.\.<\1}
  7558 
  7559 * Theory Commutative_Ring (in Library): method comm_ring for proving
  7560 equalities in commutative rings; method 'algebra' provides a generic
  7561 interface.
  7562 
  7563 * Theory Finite_Set: changed the syntax for 'setsum', summation over
  7564 finite sets: "setsum (%x. e) A", which used to be "\<Sum>x:A. e", is
  7565 now either "SUM x:A. e" or "\<Sum>x \<in> A. e". The bound variable can
  7566 be a tuple pattern.
  7567 
  7568 Some new syntax forms are available:
  7569 
  7570   "\<Sum>x | P. e"      for     "setsum (%x. e) {x. P}"
  7571   "\<Sum>x = a..b. e"   for     "setsum (%x. e) {a..b}"
  7572   "\<Sum>x = a..<b. e"  for     "setsum (%x. e) {a..<b}"
  7573   "\<Sum>x < k. e"      for     "setsum (%x. e) {..<k}"
  7574 
  7575 The latter form "\<Sum>x < k. e" used to be based on a separate
  7576 function "Summation", which has been discontinued.
  7577 
  7578 * theory Finite_Set: in structured induction proofs, the insert case
  7579 is now 'case (insert x F)' instead of the old counterintuitive 'case
  7580 (insert F x)'.
  7581 
  7582 * The 'refute' command has been extended to support a much larger
  7583 fragment of HOL, including axiomatic type classes, constdefs and
  7584 typedefs, inductive datatypes and recursion.
  7585 
  7586 * New tactics 'sat' and 'satx' to prove propositional tautologies.
  7587 Requires zChaff with proof generation to be installed.  See
  7588 HOL/ex/SAT_Examples.thy for examples.
  7589 
  7590 * Datatype induction via method 'induct' now preserves the name of the
  7591 induction variable. For example, when proving P(xs::'a list) by
  7592 induction on xs, the induction step is now P(xs) ==> P(a#xs) rather
  7593 than P(list) ==> P(a#list) as previously.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  7594 in unstructured proof scripts.
  7595 
  7596 * Reworked implementation of records.  Improved scalability for
  7597 records with many fields, avoiding performance problems for type
  7598 inference. Records are no longer composed of nested field types, but
  7599 of nested extension types. Therefore the record type only grows linear
  7600 in the number of extensions and not in the number of fields.  The
  7601 top-level (users) view on records is preserved.  Potential
  7602 INCOMPATIBILITY only in strange cases, where the theory depends on the
  7603 old record representation. The type generated for a record is called
  7604 <record_name>_ext_type.
  7605 
  7606 Flag record_quick_and_dirty_sensitive can be enabled to skip the
  7607 proofs triggered by a record definition or a simproc (if
  7608 quick_and_dirty is enabled).  Definitions of large records can take
  7609 quite long.
  7610 
  7611 New simproc record_upd_simproc for simplification of multiple record
  7612 updates enabled by default.  Moreover, trivial updates are also
  7613 removed: r(|x := x r|) = r.  INCOMPATIBILITY: old proofs break
  7614 occasionally, since simplification is more powerful by default.
  7615 
  7616 * typedef: proper support for polymorphic sets, which contain extra
  7617 type-variables in the term.
  7618 
  7619 * Simplifier: automatically reasons about transitivity chains
  7620 involving "trancl" (r^+) and "rtrancl" (r^*) by setting up tactics
  7621 provided by Provers/trancl.ML as additional solvers.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
  7622 old proofs break occasionally as simplification may now solve more
  7623 goals than previously.
  7624 
  7625 * Simplifier: converts x <= y into x = y if assumption y <= x is
  7626 present.  Works for all partial orders (class "order"), in particular
  7627 numbers and sets.  For linear orders (e.g. numbers) it treats ~ x < y
  7628 just like y <= x.
  7629 
  7630 * Simplifier: new simproc for "let x = a in f x".  If a is a free or
  7631 bound variable or a constant then the let is unfolded.  Otherwise
  7632 first a is simplified to b, and then f b is simplified to g. If
  7633 possible we abstract b from g arriving at "let x = b in h x",
  7634 otherwise we unfold the let and arrive at g.  The simproc can be
  7635 enabled/disabled by the reference use_let_simproc.  Potential
  7636 INCOMPATIBILITY since simplification is more powerful by default.
  7637 
  7638 * Classical reasoning: the meson method now accepts theorems as arguments.
  7639 
  7640 * Prover support: pre-release of the Isabelle-ATP linkup, which runs background
  7641 jobs to provide advice on the provability of subgoals.
  7642 
  7643 * Theory OrderedGroup and Ring_and_Field: various additions and
  7644 improvements to faciliate calculations involving equalities and
  7645 inequalities.
  7646 
  7647 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  7648 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7649 
  7650   abs_eq             now named abs_of_nonneg
  7651   abs_of_ge_0        now named abs_of_nonneg
  7652   abs_minus_eq       now named abs_of_nonpos
  7653   imp_abs_id         now named abs_of_nonneg
  7654   imp_abs_neg_id     now named abs_of_nonpos
  7655   mult_pos           now named mult_pos_pos
  7656   mult_pos_le        now named mult_nonneg_nonneg
  7657   mult_pos_neg_le    now named mult_nonneg_nonpos
  7658   mult_pos_neg2_le   now named mult_nonneg_nonpos2
  7659   mult_neg           now named mult_neg_neg
  7660   mult_neg_le        now named mult_nonpos_nonpos
  7661 
  7662 * The following lemmas in Ring_and_Field have been added to the simplifier:
  7663      
  7664      zero_le_square
  7665      not_square_less_zero 
  7666 
  7667   The following lemmas have been deleted from Real/RealPow:
  7668   
  7669      realpow_zero_zero
  7670      realpow_two
  7671      realpow_less
  7672      zero_le_power
  7673      realpow_two_le
  7674      abs_realpow_two
  7675      realpow_two_abs     
  7676 
  7677 * Theory Parity: added rules for simplifying exponents.
  7678 
  7679 * Theory List:
  7680 
  7681 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  7682 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7683 
  7684   list_all_Nil       now named list_all.simps(1)
  7685   list_all_Cons      now named list_all.simps(2)
  7686   list_all_conv      now named list_all_iff
  7687   set_mem_eq         now named mem_iff
  7688 
  7689 * Theories SetsAndFunctions and BigO (see HOL/Library) support
  7690 asymptotic "big O" calculations.  See the notes in BigO.thy.
  7691 
  7692 
  7693 *** HOL-Complex ***
  7694 
  7695 * Theory RealDef: better support for embedding natural numbers and
  7696 integers in the reals.
  7697 
  7698 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  7699 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7700 
  7701   exp_ge_add_one_self  now requires no hypotheses
  7702   real_of_int_add      reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7703   real_of_int_minus    reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7704   real_of_int_diff     reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7705   real_of_int_mult     reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7706 
  7707 * Theory RComplete: expanded support for floor and ceiling functions.
  7708 
  7709 * Theory Ln is new, with properties of the natural logarithm
  7710 
  7711 * Hyperreal: There is a new type constructor "star" for making
  7712 nonstandard types.  The old type names are now type synonyms:
  7713 
  7714   hypreal = real star
  7715   hypnat = nat star
  7716   hcomplex = complex star
  7717 
  7718 * Hyperreal: Many groups of similarly-defined constants have been
  7719 replaced by polymorphic versions (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7720 
  7721   star_of <-- hypreal_of_real, hypnat_of_nat, hcomplex_of_complex
  7722 
  7723   starset      <-- starsetNat, starsetC
  7724   *s*          <-- *sNat*, *sc*
  7725   starset_n    <-- starsetNat_n, starsetC_n
  7726   *sn*         <-- *sNatn*, *scn*
  7727   InternalSets <-- InternalNatSets, InternalCSets
  7728 
  7729   starfun      <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  7730   *f*          <-- *fNat*, *fNat2*, *fc*, *fRc*, *fcR*
  7731   starfun_n    <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_n
  7732   *fn*         <-- *fNatn*, *fNat2n*, *fcn*, *fRcn*, *fcRn*
  7733   InternalFuns <-- InternalNatFuns, InternalNatFuns2, Internal{C,RC,CR}Funs
  7734 
  7735 * Hyperreal: Many type-specific theorems have been removed in favor of
  7736 theorems specific to various axiomatic type classes (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7737 
  7738   add_commute <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_commute
  7739   add_assoc   <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_assocs
  7740   OrderedGroup.add_0 <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_zero_left
  7741   OrderedGroup.add_0_right <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_add_zero_right
  7742   right_minus <-- hypreal_add_minus
  7743   left_minus <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_add_minus_left
  7744   mult_commute <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_mult_commute
  7745   mult_assoc <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_mult_assoc
  7746   mult_1_left <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_mult_1, hcomplex_mult_one_left
  7747   mult_1_right <-- hcomplex_mult_one_right
  7748   mult_zero_left <-- hcomplex_mult_zero_left
  7749   left_distrib <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_mult_distrib
  7750   right_distrib <-- hypnat_add_mult_distrib2
  7751   zero_neq_one <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_zero_not_eq_one
  7752   right_inverse <-- hypreal_mult_inverse
  7753   left_inverse <-- hypreal_mult_inverse_left, hcomplex_mult_inv_left
  7754   order_refl <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_refl
  7755   order_trans <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_trans
  7756   order_antisym <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_anti_sym
  7757   order_less_le <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_less_le
  7758   linorder_linear <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_linear
  7759   add_left_mono <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_add_left_mono
  7760   mult_strict_left_mono <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_mult_less_mono2
  7761   add_nonneg_nonneg <-- hypreal_le_add_order
  7762 
  7763 * Hyperreal: Separate theorems having to do with type-specific
  7764 versions of constants have been merged into theorems that apply to the
  7765 new polymorphic constants (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7766 
  7767   STAR_UNIV_set <-- {STAR_real,NatStar_real,STARC_complex}_set
  7768   STAR_empty_set <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_empty_set
  7769   STAR_Un <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Un
  7770   STAR_Int <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Int
  7771   STAR_Compl <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Compl
  7772   STAR_subset <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_subset
  7773   STAR_mem <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_mem
  7774   STAR_mem_Compl <-- {STAR,STARC}_mem_Compl
  7775   STAR_diff <-- {STAR,STARC}_diff
  7776   STAR_star_of_image_subset <-- {STAR_hypreal_of_real, NatStar_hypreal_of_real,
  7777     STARC_hcomplex_of_complex}_image_subset
  7778   starset_n_Un <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Un
  7779   starset_n_Int <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Int
  7780   starset_n_Compl <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Compl
  7781   starset_n_diff <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_diff
  7782   InternalSets_Un <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Un
  7783   InternalSets_Int <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Int
  7784   InternalSets_Compl <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Compl
  7785   InternalSets_diff <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_diff
  7786   InternalSets_UNIV_diff <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_UNIV_diff
  7787   InternalSets_starset_n <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_starset{Nat,C}_n
  7788   starset_starset_n_eq <-- starset{Nat,C}_starset{Nat,C}_n_eq
  7789   starset_n_starset <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_starset{Nat,C}
  7790   starfun_n_starfun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_n_starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  7791   starfun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  7792   starfun_mult <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_mult
  7793   starfun_add <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_add
  7794   starfun_minus <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_minus
  7795   starfun_diff <-- starfun{C,RC,CR}_diff
  7796   starfun_o <-- starfun{NatNat2,Nat2,_stafunNat,C,C_starfunRC,_starfunCR}_o
  7797   starfun_o2 <-- starfun{NatNat2,_stafunNat,C,C_starfunRC,_starfunCR}_o2
  7798   starfun_const_fun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_const_fun
  7799   starfun_inverse <-- starfun{Nat,C,RC,CR}_inverse
  7800   starfun_eq <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_eq
  7801   starfun_eq_iff <-- starfun{C,RC,CR}_eq_iff
  7802   starfun_Id <-- starfunC_Id
  7803   starfun_approx <-- starfun{Nat,CR}_approx
  7804   starfun_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_capprox
  7805   starfun_abs <-- starfunNat_rabs
  7806   starfun_lambda_cancel <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_lambda_cancel
  7807   starfun_lambda_cancel2 <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_lambda_cancel2
  7808   starfun_mult_HFinite_approx <-- starfunCR_mult_HFinite_capprox
  7809   starfun_mult_CFinite_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_mult_CFinite_capprox
  7810   starfun_add_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_add_capprox
  7811   starfun_add_approx <-- starfunCR_add_approx
  7812   starfun_inverse_inverse <-- starfunC_inverse_inverse
  7813   starfun_divide <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_divide
  7814   starfun_n <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n
  7815   starfun_n_mult <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_mult
  7816   starfun_n_add <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_add
  7817   starfun_n_add_minus <-- starfunNat_n_add_minus
  7818   starfun_n_const_fun <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_const_fun
  7819   starfun_n_minus <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_minus
  7820   starfun_n_eq <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_eq
  7821 
  7822   star_n_add <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add
  7823   star_n_minus <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_minus
  7824   star_n_diff <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_diff
  7825   star_n_mult <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_mult
  7826   star_n_inverse <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_inverse
  7827   star_n_le <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le
  7828   star_n_less <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_less
  7829   star_n_zero_num <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_zero_num
  7830   star_n_one_num <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_one_num
  7831   star_n_abs <-- hypreal_hrabs
  7832   star_n_divide <-- hcomplex_divide
  7833 
  7834   star_of_add <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_add
  7835   star_of_minus <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_minus
  7836   star_of_diff <-- hypreal_of_real_diff
  7837   star_of_mult <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_mult
  7838   star_of_one <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_one
  7839   star_of_zero <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_zero
  7840   star_of_le <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat}_le_iff
  7841   star_of_less <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat}_less_iff
  7842   star_of_eq <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_eq_iff
  7843   star_of_inverse <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_inverse
  7844   star_of_divide <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_divide
  7845   star_of_of_nat <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_of_nat
  7846   star_of_of_int <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_of_int
  7847   star_of_number_of <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_number_of
  7848   star_of_number_less <-- number_of_less_hypreal_of_real_iff
  7849   star_of_number_le <-- number_of_le_hypreal_of_real_iff
  7850   star_of_eq_number <-- hypreal_of_real_eq_number_of_iff
  7851   star_of_less_number <-- hypreal_of_real_less_number_of_iff
  7852   star_of_le_number <-- hypreal_of_real_le_number_of_iff
  7853   star_of_power <-- hypreal_of_real_power
  7854   star_of_eq_0 <-- hcomplex_of_complex_zero_iff
  7855 
  7856 * Hyperreal: new method "transfer" that implements the transfer
  7857 principle of nonstandard analysis. With a subgoal that mentions
  7858 nonstandard types like "'a star", the command "apply transfer"
  7859 replaces it with an equivalent one that mentions only standard types.
  7860 To be successful, all free variables must have standard types; non-
  7861 standard variables must have explicit universal quantifiers.
  7862 
  7863 * Hyperreal: A theory of Taylor series.
  7864 
  7865 
  7866 *** HOLCF ***
  7867 
  7868 * Discontinued special version of 'constdefs' (which used to support
  7869 continuous functions) in favor of the general Pure one with full
  7870 type-inference.
  7871 
  7872 * New simplification procedure for solving continuity conditions; it
  7873 is much faster on terms with many nested lambda abstractions (cubic
  7874 instead of exponential time).
  7875 
  7876 * New syntax for domain package: selector names are now optional.
  7877 Parentheses should be omitted unless argument is lazy, for example:
  7878 
  7879   domain 'a stream = cons "'a" (lazy "'a stream")
  7880 
  7881 * New command 'fixrec' for defining recursive functions with pattern
  7882 matching; defining multiple functions with mutual recursion is also
  7883 supported.  Patterns may include the constants cpair, spair, up, sinl,
  7884 sinr, or any data constructor defined by the domain package. The given
  7885 equations are proven as rewrite rules. See HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  7886 syntax and examples.
  7887 
  7888 * New commands 'cpodef' and 'pcpodef' for defining predicate subtypes
  7889 of cpo and pcpo types. Syntax is exactly like the 'typedef' command,
  7890 but the proof obligation additionally includes an admissibility
  7891 requirement. The packages generate instances of class cpo or pcpo,
  7892 with continuity and strictness theorems for Rep and Abs.
  7893 
  7894 * HOLCF: Many theorems have been renamed according to a more standard naming
  7895 scheme (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7896 
  7897   foo_inject:  "foo$x = foo$y ==> x = y"
  7898   foo_eq:      "(foo$x = foo$y) = (x = y)"
  7899   foo_less:    "(foo$x << foo$y) = (x << y)"
  7900   foo_strict:  "foo$UU = UU"
  7901   foo_defined: "... ==> foo$x ~= UU"
  7902   foo_defined_iff: "(foo$x = UU) = (x = UU)"
  7903 
  7904 
  7905 *** ZF ***
  7906 
  7907 * ZF/ex: theories Group and Ring provide examples in abstract algebra,
  7908 including the First Isomorphism Theorem (on quotienting by the kernel
  7909 of a homomorphism).
  7910 
  7911 * ZF/Simplifier: install second copy of type solver that actually
  7912 makes use of TC rules declared to Isar proof contexts (or locales);
  7913 the old version is still required for ML proof scripts.
  7914 
  7915 
  7916 *** Cube ***
  7917 
  7918 * Converted to Isar theory format; use locales instead of axiomatic
  7919 theories.
  7920 
  7921 
  7922 *** ML ***
  7923 
  7924 * Pure/library.ML: added ##>, ##>>, #>> -- higher-order counterparts
  7925 for ||>, ||>>, |>>,
  7926 
  7927 * Pure/library.ML no longer defines its own option datatype, but uses
  7928 that of the SML basis, which has constructors NONE and SOME instead of
  7929 None and Some, as well as exception Option.Option instead of OPTION.
  7930 The functions the, if_none, is_some, is_none have been adapted
  7931 accordingly, while Option.map replaces apsome.
  7932 
  7933 * Pure/library.ML: the exception LIST has been given up in favour of
  7934 the standard exceptions Empty and Subscript, as well as
  7935 Library.UnequalLengths.  Function like Library.hd and Library.tl are
  7936 superceded by the standard hd and tl functions etc.
  7937 
  7938 A number of basic list functions are no longer exported to the ML
  7939 toplevel, as they are variants of predefined functions.  The following
  7940 suggests how one can translate existing code:
  7941 
  7942     rev_append xs ys = List.revAppend (xs, ys)
  7943     nth_elem (i, xs) = List.nth (xs, i)
  7944     last_elem xs = List.last xs
  7945     flat xss = List.concat xss
  7946     seq fs = List.app fs
  7947     partition P xs = List.partition P xs
  7948     mapfilter f xs = List.mapPartial f xs
  7949 
  7950 * Pure/library.ML: several combinators for linear functional
  7951 transformations, notably reverse application and composition:
  7952 
  7953   x |> f                f #> g
  7954   (x, y) |-> f          f #-> g
  7955 
  7956 * Pure/library.ML: introduced/changed precedence of infix operators:
  7957 
  7958   infix 1 |> |-> ||> ||>> |>> |>>> #> #->;
  7959   infix 2 ?;
  7960   infix 3 o oo ooo oooo;
  7961   infix 4 ~~ upto downto;
  7962 
  7963 Maybe INCOMPATIBILITY when any of those is used in conjunction with other
  7964 infix operators.
  7965 
  7966 * Pure/library.ML: natural list combinators fold, fold_rev, and
  7967 fold_map support linear functional transformations and nesting.  For
  7968 example:
  7969 
  7970   fold f [x1, ..., xN] y =
  7971     y |> f x1 |> ... |> f xN
  7972 
  7973   (fold o fold) f [xs1, ..., xsN] y =
  7974     y |> fold f xs1 |> ... |> fold f xsN
  7975 
  7976   fold f [x1, ..., xN] =
  7977     f x1 #> ... #> f xN
  7978 
  7979   (fold o fold) f [xs1, ..., xsN] =
  7980     fold f xs1 #> ... #> fold f xsN
  7981 
  7982 * Pure/library.ML: the following selectors on type 'a option are
  7983 available:
  7984 
  7985   the:               'a option -> 'a  (*partial*)
  7986   these:             'a option -> 'a  where 'a = 'b list
  7987   the_default: 'a -> 'a option -> 'a
  7988   the_list:          'a option -> 'a list
  7989 
  7990 * Pure/General: structure AList (cf. Pure/General/alist.ML) provides
  7991 basic operations for association lists, following natural argument
  7992 order; moreover the explicit equality predicate passed here avoids
  7993 potentially expensive polymorphic runtime equality checks.
  7994 The old functions may be expressed as follows:
  7995 
  7996   assoc = uncurry (AList.lookup (op =))
  7997   assocs = these oo AList.lookup (op =)
  7998   overwrite = uncurry (AList.update (op =)) o swap
  7999 
  8000 * Pure/General: structure AList (cf. Pure/General/alist.ML) provides
  8001 
  8002   val make: ('a -> 'b) -> 'a list -> ('a * 'b) list
  8003   val find: ('a * 'b -> bool) -> ('c * 'b) list -> 'a -> 'c list
  8004 
  8005 replacing make_keylist and keyfilter (occassionally used)
  8006 Naive rewrites:
  8007 
  8008   make_keylist = AList.make
  8009   keyfilter = AList.find (op =)
  8010 
  8011 * eq_fst and eq_snd now take explicit equality parameter, thus
  8012   avoiding eqtypes. Naive rewrites:
  8013 
  8014     eq_fst = eq_fst (op =)
  8015     eq_snd = eq_snd (op =)
  8016 
  8017 * Removed deprecated apl and apr (rarely used).
  8018   Naive rewrites:
  8019 
  8020     apl (n, op) =>>= curry op n
  8021     apr (op, m) =>>= fn n => op (n, m)
  8022 
  8023 * Pure/General: structure OrdList (cf. Pure/General/ord_list.ML)
  8024 provides a reasonably efficient light-weight implementation of sets as
  8025 lists.
  8026 
  8027 * Pure/General: generic tables (cf. Pure/General/table.ML) provide a
  8028 few new operations; existing lookup and update are now curried to
  8029 follow natural argument order (for use with fold etc.);
  8030 INCOMPATIBILITY, use (uncurry Symtab.lookup) etc. as last resort.
  8031 
  8032 * Pure/General: output via the Isabelle channels of
  8033 writeln/warning/error etc. is now passed through Output.output, with a
  8034 hook for arbitrary transformations depending on the print_mode
  8035 (cf. Output.add_mode -- the first active mode that provides a output
  8036 function wins).  Already formatted output may be embedded into further
  8037 text via Output.raw; the result of Pretty.string_of/str_of and derived
  8038 functions (string_of_term/cterm/thm etc.) is already marked raw to
  8039 accommodate easy composition of diagnostic messages etc.  Programmers
  8040 rarely need to care about Output.output or Output.raw at all, with
  8041 some notable exceptions: Output.output is required when bypassing the
  8042 standard channels (writeln etc.), or in token translations to produce
  8043 properly formatted results; Output.raw is required when capturing
  8044 already output material that will eventually be presented to the user
  8045 a second time.  For the default print mode, both Output.output and
  8046 Output.raw have no effect.
  8047 
  8048 * Pure/General: Output.time_accumulator NAME creates an operator ('a
  8049 -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b to measure runtime and count invocations; the
  8050 cumulative results are displayed at the end of a batch session.
  8051 
  8052 * Pure/General: File.sysify_path and File.quote_sysify path have been
  8053 replaced by File.platform_path and File.shell_path (with appropriate
  8054 hooks).  This provides a clean interface for unusual systems where the
  8055 internal and external process view of file names are different.
  8056 
  8057 * Pure: more efficient orders for basic syntactic entities: added
  8058 fast_string_ord, fast_indexname_ord, fast_term_ord; changed sort_ord
  8059 and typ_ord to use fast_string_ord and fast_indexname_ord (term_ord is
  8060 NOT affected); structures Symtab, Vartab, Typtab, Termtab use the fast
  8061 orders now -- potential INCOMPATIBILITY for code that depends on a
  8062 particular order for Symtab.keys, Symtab.dest, etc. (consider using
  8063 Library.sort_strings on result).
  8064 
  8065 * Pure/term.ML: combinators fold_atyps, fold_aterms, fold_term_types,
  8066 fold_types traverse types/terms from left to right, observing natural
  8067 argument order.  Supercedes previous foldl_XXX versions, add_frees,
  8068 add_vars etc. have been adapted as well: INCOMPATIBILITY.
  8069 
  8070 * Pure: name spaces have been refined, with significant changes of the
  8071 internal interfaces -- INCOMPATIBILITY.  Renamed cond_extern(_table)
  8072 to extern(_table).  The plain name entry path is superceded by a
  8073 general 'naming' context, which also includes the 'policy' to produce
  8074 a fully qualified name and external accesses of a fully qualified
  8075 name; NameSpace.extend is superceded by context dependent
  8076 Sign.declare_name.  Several theory and proof context operations modify
  8077 the naming context.  Especially note Theory.restore_naming and
  8078 ProofContext.restore_naming to get back to a sane state; note that
  8079 Theory.add_path is no longer sufficient to recover from
  8080 Theory.absolute_path in particular.
  8081 
  8082 * Pure: new flags short_names (default false) and unique_names
  8083 (default true) for controlling output of qualified names.  If
  8084 short_names is set, names are printed unqualified.  If unique_names is
  8085 reset, the name prefix is reduced to the minimum required to achieve
  8086 the original result when interning again, even if there is an overlap
  8087 with earlier declarations.
  8088 
  8089 * Pure/TheoryDataFun: change of the argument structure; 'prep_ext' is
  8090 now 'extend', and 'merge' gets an additional Pretty.pp argument
  8091 (useful for printing error messages).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  8092 
  8093 * Pure: major reorganization of the theory context.  Type Sign.sg and
  8094 Theory.theory are now identified, referring to the universal
  8095 Context.theory (see Pure/context.ML).  Actual signature and theory
  8096 content is managed as theory data.  The old code and interfaces were
  8097 spread over many files and structures; the new arrangement introduces
  8098 considerable INCOMPATIBILITY to gain more clarity:
  8099 
  8100   Context -- theory management operations (name, identity, inclusion,
  8101     parents, ancestors, merge, etc.), plus generic theory data;
  8102 
  8103   Sign -- logical signature and syntax operations (declaring consts,
  8104     types, etc.), plus certify/read for common entities;
  8105 
  8106   Theory -- logical theory operations (stating axioms, definitions,
  8107     oracles), plus a copy of logical signature operations (consts,
  8108     types, etc.); also a few basic management operations (Theory.copy,
  8109     Theory.merge, etc.)
  8110 
  8111 The most basic sign_of operations (Theory.sign_of, Thm.sign_of_thm
  8112 etc.) as well as the sign field in Thm.rep_thm etc. have been retained
  8113 for convenience -- they merely return the theory.
  8114 
  8115 * Pure: type Type.tsig is superceded by theory in most interfaces.
  8116 
  8117 * Pure: the Isar proof context type is already defined early in Pure
  8118 as Context.proof (note that ProofContext.context and Proof.context are
  8119 aliases, where the latter is the preferred name).  This enables other
  8120 Isabelle components to refer to that type even before Isar is present.
  8121 
  8122 * Pure/sign/theory: discontinued named name spaces (i.e. classK,
  8123 typeK, constK, axiomK, oracleK), but provide explicit operations for
  8124 any of these kinds.  For example, Sign.intern typeK is now
  8125 Sign.intern_type, Theory.hide_space Sign.typeK is now
  8126 Theory.hide_types.  Also note that former
  8127 Theory.hide_classes/types/consts are now
  8128 Theory.hide_classes_i/types_i/consts_i, while the non '_i' versions
  8129 internalize their arguments!  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  8130 
  8131 * Pure: get_thm interface (of PureThy and ProofContext) expects
  8132 datatype thmref (with constructors Name and NameSelection) instead of
  8133 plain string -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8134 
  8135 * Pure: cases produced by proof methods specify options, where NONE
  8136 means to remove case bindings -- INCOMPATIBILITY in
  8137 (RAW_)METHOD_CASES.
  8138 
  8139 * Pure: the following operations retrieve axioms or theorems from a
  8140 theory node or theory hierarchy, respectively:
  8141 
  8142   Theory.axioms_of: theory -> (string * term) list
  8143   Theory.all_axioms_of: theory -> (string * term) list
  8144   PureThy.thms_of: theory -> (string * thm) list
  8145   PureThy.all_thms_of: theory -> (string * thm) list
  8146 
  8147 * Pure: print_tac now outputs the goal through the trace channel.
  8148 
  8149 * Isar toplevel: improved diagnostics, mostly for Poly/ML only.
  8150 Reference Toplevel.debug (default false) controls detailed printing
  8151 and tracing of low-level exceptions; Toplevel.profiling (default 0)
  8152 controls execution profiling -- set to 1 for time and 2 for space
  8153 (both increase the runtime).
  8154 
  8155 * Isar session: The initial use of ROOT.ML is now always timed,
  8156 i.e. the log will show the actual process times, in contrast to the
  8157 elapsed wall-clock time that the outer shell wrapper produces.
  8158 
  8159 * Simplifier: improved handling of bound variables (nameless
  8160 representation, avoid allocating new strings).  Simprocs that invoke
  8161 the Simplifier recursively should use Simplifier.inherit_bounds to
  8162 avoid local name clashes.  Failure to do so produces warnings
  8163 "Simplifier: renamed bound variable ..."; set Simplifier.debug_bounds
  8164 for further details.
  8165 
  8166 * ML functions legacy_bindings and use_legacy_bindings produce ML fact
  8167 bindings for all theorems stored within a given theory; this may help
  8168 in porting non-Isar theories to Isar ones, while keeping ML proof
  8169 scripts for the time being.
  8170 
  8171 * ML operator HTML.with_charset specifies the charset begin used for
  8172 generated HTML files.  For example:
  8173 
  8174   HTML.with_charset "utf-8" use_thy "Hebrew";
  8175   HTML.with_charset "utf-8" use_thy "Chinese";
  8176 
  8177 
  8178 *** System ***
  8179 
  8180 * Allow symlinks to all proper Isabelle executables (Isabelle,
  8181 isabelle, isatool etc.).
  8182 
  8183 * ISABELLE_DOC_FORMAT setting specifies preferred document format (for
  8184 isatool doc, isatool mkdir, display_drafts etc.).
  8185 
  8186 * isatool usedir: option -f allows specification of the ML file to be
  8187 used by Isabelle; default is ROOT.ML.
  8188 
  8189 * New isatool version outputs the version identifier of the Isabelle
  8190 distribution being used.
  8191 
  8192 * HOL: new isatool dimacs2hol converts files in DIMACS CNF format
  8193 (containing Boolean satisfiability problems) into Isabelle/HOL
  8194 theories.
  8195 
  8196 
  8197 
  8198 New in Isabelle2004 (April 2004)
  8199 --------------------------------
  8200 
  8201 *** General ***
  8202 
  8203 * Provers/order.ML:  new efficient reasoner for partial and linear orders.
  8204   Replaces linorder.ML.
  8205 
  8206 * Pure: Greek letters (except small lambda, \<lambda>), as well as Gothic
  8207   (\<aa>...\<zz>\<AA>...\<ZZ>), calligraphic (\<A>...\<Z>), and Euler
  8208   (\<a>...\<z>), are now considered normal letters, and can therefore
  8209   be used anywhere where an ASCII letter (a...zA...Z) has until
  8210   now. COMPATIBILITY: This obviously changes the parsing of some
  8211   terms, especially where a symbol has been used as a binder, say
  8212   '\<Pi>x. ...', which is now a type error since \<Pi>x will be parsed
  8213   as an identifier.  Fix it by inserting a space around former
  8214   symbols.  Call 'isatool fixgreek' to try to fix parsing errors in
  8215   existing theory and ML files.
  8216 
  8217 * Pure: Macintosh and Windows line-breaks are now allowed in theory files.
  8218 
  8219 * Pure: single letter sub/superscripts (\<^isub> and \<^isup>) are now
  8220   allowed in identifiers. Similar to Greek letters \<^isub> is now considered
  8221   a normal (but invisible) letter. For multiple letter subscripts repeat
  8222   \<^isub> like this: x\<^isub>1\<^isub>2.
  8223 
  8224 * Pure: There are now sub-/superscripts that can span more than one
  8225   character. Text between \<^bsub> and \<^esub> is set in subscript in
  8226   ProofGeneral and LaTeX, text between \<^bsup> and \<^esup> in
  8227   superscript. The new control characters are not identifier parts.
  8228 
  8229 * Pure: Control-symbols of the form \<^raw:...> will literally print the
  8230   content of "..." to the latex file instead of \isacntrl... . The "..."
  8231   may consist of any printable characters excluding the end bracket >.
  8232 
  8233 * Pure: Using new Isar command "finalconsts" (or the ML functions
  8234   Theory.add_finals or Theory.add_finals_i) it is now possible to
  8235   declare constants "final", which prevents their being given a definition
  8236   later.  It is useful for constants whose behaviour is fixed axiomatically
  8237   rather than definitionally, such as the meta-logic connectives.
  8238 
  8239 * Pure: 'instance' now handles general arities with general sorts
  8240   (i.e. intersections of classes),
  8241 
  8242 * Presentation: generated HTML now uses a CSS style sheet to make layout
  8243   (somewhat) independent of content. It is copied from lib/html/isabelle.css.
  8244   It can be changed to alter the colors/layout of generated pages.
  8245 
  8246 
  8247 *** Isar ***
  8248 
  8249 * Tactic emulation methods rule_tac, erule_tac, drule_tac, frule_tac,
  8250   cut_tac, subgoal_tac and thin_tac:
  8251   - Now understand static (Isar) contexts.  As a consequence, users of Isar
  8252     locales are no longer forced to write Isar proof scripts.
  8253     For details see Isar Reference Manual, paragraph 4.3.2: Further tactic
  8254     emulations.
  8255   - INCOMPATIBILITY: names of variables to be instantiated may no
  8256     longer be enclosed in quotes.  Instead, precede variable name with `?'.
  8257     This is consistent with the instantiation attribute "where".
  8258 
  8259 * Attributes "where" and "of":
  8260   - Now take type variables of instantiated theorem into account when reading
  8261     the instantiation string.  This fixes a bug that caused instantiated
  8262     theorems to have too special types in some circumstances.
  8263   - "where" permits explicit instantiations of type variables.
  8264 
  8265 * Calculation commands "moreover" and "also" no longer interfere with
  8266   current facts ("this"), admitting arbitrary combinations with "then"
  8267   and derived forms.
  8268 
  8269 * Locales:
  8270   - Goal statements involving the context element "includes" no longer
  8271     generate theorems with internal delta predicates (those ending on
  8272     "_axioms") in the premise.
  8273     Resolve particular premise with <locale>.intro to obtain old form.
  8274   - Fixed bug in type inference ("unify_frozen") that prevented mix of target
  8275     specification and "includes" elements in goal statement.
  8276   - Rule sets <locale>.intro and <locale>.axioms no longer declared as
  8277     [intro?] and [elim?] (respectively) by default.
  8278   - Experimental command for instantiation of locales in proof contexts:
  8279         instantiate <label>[<attrs>]: <loc>
  8280     Instantiates locale <loc> and adds all its theorems to the current context
  8281     taking into account their attributes.  Label and attrs are optional
  8282     modifiers, like in theorem declarations.  If present, names of
  8283     instantiated theorems are qualified with <label>, and the attributes
  8284     <attrs> are applied after any attributes these theorems might have already.
  8285       If the locale has assumptions, a chained fact of the form
  8286     "<loc> t1 ... tn" is expected from which instantiations of the parameters
  8287     are derived.  The command does not support old-style locales declared
  8288     with "locale (open)".
  8289       A few (very simple) examples can be found in FOL/ex/LocaleInst.thy.
  8290 
  8291 * HOL: Tactic emulation methods induct_tac and case_tac understand static
  8292   (Isar) contexts.
  8293 
  8294 
  8295 *** HOL ***
  8296 
  8297 * Proof import: new image HOL4 contains the imported library from
  8298   the HOL4 system with about 2500 theorems. It is imported by
  8299   replaying proof terms produced by HOL4 in Isabelle. The HOL4 image
  8300   can be used like any other Isabelle image.  See
  8301   HOL/Import/HOL/README for more information.
  8302 
  8303 * Simplifier:
  8304   - Much improved handling of linear and partial orders.
  8305     Reasoners for linear and partial orders are set up for type classes
  8306     "linorder" and "order" respectively, and are added to the default simpset
  8307     as solvers.  This means that the simplifier can build transitivity chains
  8308     to solve goals from the assumptions.
  8309   - INCOMPATIBILITY: old proofs break occasionally.  Typically, applications
  8310     of blast or auto after simplification become unnecessary because the goal
  8311     is solved by simplification already.
  8312 
  8313 * Numerics: new theory Ring_and_Field contains over 250 basic numerical laws,
  8314     all proved in axiomatic type classes for semirings, rings and fields.
  8315 
  8316 * Numerics:
  8317   - Numeric types (nat, int, and in HOL-Complex rat, real, complex, etc.) are
  8318     now formalized using the Ring_and_Field theory mentioned above.
  8319   - INCOMPATIBILITY: simplification and arithmetic behaves somewhat differently
  8320     than before, because now they are set up once in a generic manner.
  8321   - INCOMPATIBILITY: many type-specific arithmetic laws have gone.
  8322     Look for the general versions in Ring_and_Field (and Power if they concern
  8323     exponentiation).
  8324 
  8325 * Type "rat" of the rational numbers is now available in HOL-Complex.
  8326 
  8327 * Records:
  8328   - Record types are now by default printed with their type abbreviation
  8329     instead of the list of all field types. This can be configured via
  8330     the reference "print_record_type_abbr".
  8331   - Simproc "record_upd_simproc" for simplification of multiple updates added
  8332     (not enabled by default).
  8333   - Simproc "record_ex_sel_eq_simproc" to simplify EX x. sel r = x resp.
  8334     EX x. x = sel r to True (not enabled by default).
  8335   - Tactic "record_split_simp_tac" to split and simplify records added.
  8336 
  8337 * 'specification' command added, allowing for definition by
  8338   specification.  There is also an 'ax_specification' command that
  8339   introduces the new constants axiomatically.
  8340 
  8341 * arith(_tac) is now able to generate counterexamples for reals as well.
  8342 
  8343 * HOL-Algebra: new locale "ring" for non-commutative rings.
  8344 
  8345 * HOL-ex: InductiveInvariant_examples illustrates advanced recursive function
  8346   definitions, thanks to Sava Krsti\'{c} and John Matthews.
  8347 
  8348 * HOL-Matrix: a first theory for matrices in HOL with an application of
  8349   matrix theory to linear programming.
  8350 
  8351 * Unions and Intersections:
  8352   The latex output syntax of UN and INT has been changed
  8353   from "\Union x \in A. B" to "\Union_{x \in A} B"
  8354   i.e. the index formulae has become a subscript.
  8355   Similarly for "\Union x. B", and for \Inter instead of \Union.
  8356 
  8357 * Unions and Intersections over Intervals:
  8358   There is new short syntax "UN i<=n. A" for "UN i:{0..n}. A". There is
  8359   also an x-symbol version with subscripts "\<Union>\<^bsub>i <= n\<^esub>. A"
  8360   like in normal math, and corresponding versions for < and for intersection.
  8361 
  8362 * HOL/List: Ordering "lexico" is renamed "lenlex" and the standard
  8363   lexicographic dictonary ordering has been added as "lexord".
  8364 
  8365 * ML: the legacy theory structures Int and List have been removed. They had
  8366   conflicted with ML Basis Library structures having the same names.
  8367 
  8368 * 'refute' command added to search for (finite) countermodels.  Only works
  8369   for a fragment of HOL.  The installation of an external SAT solver is
  8370   highly recommended.  See "HOL/Refute.thy" for details.
  8371 
  8372 * 'quickcheck' command: Allows to find counterexamples by evaluating
  8373   formulae under an assignment of free variables to random values.
  8374   In contrast to 'refute', it can deal with inductive datatypes,
  8375   but cannot handle quantifiers. See "HOL/ex/Quickcheck_Examples.thy"
  8376   for examples.
  8377 
  8378 
  8379 *** HOLCF ***
  8380 
  8381 * Streams now come with concatenation and are part of the HOLCF image
  8382 
  8383 
  8384 
  8385 New in Isabelle2003 (May 2003)
  8386 ------------------------------
  8387 
  8388 *** General ***
  8389 
  8390 * Provers/simplifier:
  8391 
  8392   - Completely reimplemented method simp (ML: Asm_full_simp_tac):
  8393     Assumptions are now subject to complete mutual simplification,
  8394     not just from left to right. The simplifier now preserves
  8395     the order of assumptions.
  8396 
  8397     Potential INCOMPATIBILITY:
  8398 
  8399     -- simp sometimes diverges where the old version did
  8400        not, e.g. invoking simp on the goal
  8401 
  8402         [| P (f x); y = x; f x = f y |] ==> Q
  8403 
  8404        now gives rise to the infinite reduction sequence
  8405 
  8406         P(f x) --(f x = f y)--> P(f y) --(y = x)--> P(f x) --(f x = f y)--> ...
  8407 
  8408        Using "simp (asm_lr)" (ML: Asm_lr_simp_tac) instead often solves this
  8409        kind of problem.
  8410 
  8411     -- Tactics combining classical reasoner and simplification (such as auto)
  8412        are also affected by this change, because many of them rely on
  8413        simp. They may sometimes diverge as well or yield a different numbers
  8414        of subgoals. Try to use e.g. force, fastsimp, or safe instead of auto
  8415        in case of problems. Sometimes subsequent calls to the classical
  8416        reasoner will fail because a preceeding call to the simplifier too
  8417        eagerly simplified the goal, e.g. deleted redundant premises.
  8418 
  8419   - The simplifier trace now shows the names of the applied rewrite rules
  8420 
  8421   - You can limit the number of recursive invocations of the simplifier
  8422     during conditional rewriting (where the simplifie tries to solve the
  8423     conditions before applying the rewrite rule):
  8424     ML "simp_depth_limit := n"
  8425     where n is an integer. Thus you can force termination where previously
  8426     the simplifier would diverge.
  8427 
  8428   - Accepts free variables as head terms in congruence rules.  Useful in Isar.
  8429 
  8430   - No longer aborts on failed congruence proof.  Instead, the
  8431     congruence is ignored.
  8432 
  8433 * Pure: New generic framework for extracting programs from constructive
  8434   proofs. See HOL/Extraction.thy for an example instantiation, as well
  8435   as HOL/Extraction for some case studies.
  8436 
  8437 * Pure: The main goal of the proof state is no longer shown by default, only
  8438 the subgoals. This behaviour is controlled by a new flag.
  8439    PG menu: Isabelle/Isar -> Settings -> Show Main Goal
  8440 (ML: Proof.show_main_goal).
  8441 
  8442 * Pure: You can find all matching introduction rules for subgoal 1, i.e. all
  8443 rules whose conclusion matches subgoal 1:
  8444       PG menu: Isabelle/Isar -> Show me -> matching rules
  8445 The rules are ordered by how closely they match the subgoal.
  8446 In particular, rules that solve a subgoal outright are displayed first
  8447 (or rather last, the way they are printed).
  8448 (ML: ProofGeneral.print_intros())
  8449 
  8450 * Pure: New flag trace_unify_fail causes unification to print
  8451 diagnostic information (PG: in trace buffer) when it fails. This is
  8452 useful for figuring out why single step proofs like rule, erule or
  8453 assumption failed.
  8454 
  8455 * Pure: Locale specifications now produce predicate definitions
  8456 according to the body of text (covering assumptions modulo local
  8457 definitions); predicate "loc_axioms" covers newly introduced text,
  8458 while "loc" is cumulative wrt. all included locale expressions; the
  8459 latter view is presented only on export into the global theory
  8460 context; potential INCOMPATIBILITY, use "(open)" option to fall back
  8461 on the old view without predicates;
  8462 
  8463 * Pure: predefined locales "var" and "struct" are useful for sharing
  8464 parameters (as in CASL, for example); just specify something like
  8465 ``var x + var y + struct M'' as import;
  8466 
  8467 * Pure: improved thms_containing: proper indexing of facts instead of
  8468 raw theorems; check validity of results wrt. current name space;
  8469 include local facts of proof configuration (also covers active
  8470 locales), cover fixed variables in index; may use "_" in term
  8471 specification; an optional limit for the number of printed facts may
  8472 be given (the default is 40);
  8473 
  8474 * Pure: disallow duplicate fact bindings within new-style theory files
  8475 (batch-mode only);
  8476 
  8477 * Provers: improved induct method: assumptions introduced by case
  8478 "foo" are split into "foo.hyps" (from the rule) and "foo.prems" (from
  8479 the goal statement); "foo" still refers to all facts collectively;
  8480 
  8481 * Provers: the function blast.overloaded has been removed: all constants
  8482 are regarded as potentially overloaded, which improves robustness in exchange
  8483 for slight decrease in efficiency;
  8484 
  8485 * Provers/linorder: New generic prover for transitivity reasoning over
  8486 linear orders.  Note: this prover is not efficient!
  8487 
  8488 * Isar: preview of problems to finish 'show' now produce an error
  8489 rather than just a warning (in interactive mode);
  8490 
  8491 
  8492 *** HOL ***
  8493 
  8494 * arith(_tac)
  8495 
  8496  - Produces a counter example if it cannot prove a goal.
  8497    Note that the counter example may be spurious if the goal is not a formula
  8498    of quantifier-free linear arithmetic.
  8499    In ProofGeneral the counter example appears in the trace buffer.
  8500 
  8501  - Knows about div k and mod k where k is a numeral of type nat or int.
  8502 
  8503  - Calls full Presburger arithmetic (by Amine Chaieb) if quantifier-free
  8504    linear arithmetic fails. This takes account of quantifiers and divisibility.
  8505    Presburger arithmetic can also be called explicitly via presburger(_tac).
  8506 
  8507 * simp's arithmetic capabilities have been enhanced a bit: it now
  8508 takes ~= in premises into account (by performing a case split);
  8509 
  8510 * simp reduces "m*(n div m) + n mod m" to n, even if the two summands
  8511 are distributed over a sum of terms;
  8512 
  8513 * New tactic "trans_tac" and method "trans" instantiate
  8514 Provers/linorder.ML for axclasses "order" and "linorder" (predicates
  8515 "<=", "<" and "=").
  8516 
  8517 * function INCOMPATIBILITIES: Pi-sets have been redefined and moved from main
  8518 HOL to Library/FuncSet; constant "Fun.op o" is now called "Fun.comp";
  8519 
  8520 * 'typedef' command has new option "open" to suppress the set
  8521 definition;
  8522 
  8523 * functions Min and Max on finite sets have been introduced (theory
  8524 Finite_Set);
  8525 
  8526 * attribute [symmetric] now works for relations as well; it turns
  8527 (x,y) : R^-1 into (y,x) : R, and vice versa;
  8528 
  8529 * induct over a !!-quantified statement (say !!x1..xn):
  8530   each "case" automatically performs "fix x1 .. xn" with exactly those names.
  8531 
  8532 * Map: `empty' is no longer a constant but a syntactic abbreviation for
  8533 %x. None. Warning: empty_def now refers to the previously hidden definition
  8534 of the empty set.
  8535 
  8536 * Algebra: formalization of classical algebra.  Intended as base for
  8537 any algebraic development in Isabelle.  Currently covers group theory
  8538 (up to Sylow's theorem) and ring theory (Universal Property of
  8539 Univariate Polynomials).  Contributions welcome;
  8540 
  8541 * GroupTheory: deleted, since its material has been moved to Algebra;
  8542 
  8543 * Complex: new directory of the complex numbers with numeric constants,
  8544 nonstandard complex numbers, and some complex analysis, standard and
  8545 nonstandard (Jacques Fleuriot);
  8546 
  8547 * HOL-Complex: new image for analysis, replacing HOL-Real and HOL-Hyperreal;
  8548 
  8549 * Hyperreal: introduced Gauge integration and hyperreal logarithms (Jacques
  8550 Fleuriot);
  8551 
  8552 * Real/HahnBanach: updated and adapted to locales;
  8553 
  8554 * NumberTheory: added Gauss's law of quadratic reciprocity (by Avigad,
  8555 Gray and Kramer);
  8556 
  8557 * UNITY: added the Meier-Sanders theory of progress sets;
  8558 
  8559 * MicroJava: bytecode verifier and lightweight bytecode verifier
  8560 as abstract algorithms, instantiated to the JVM;
  8561 
  8562 * Bali: Java source language formalization. Type system, operational
  8563 semantics, axiomatic semantics. Supported language features:
  8564 classes, interfaces, objects,virtual methods, static methods,
  8565 static/instance fields, arrays, access modifiers, definite
  8566 assignment, exceptions.
  8567 
  8568 
  8569 *** ZF ***
  8570 
  8571 * ZF/Constructible: consistency proof for AC (Gdel's constructible
  8572 universe, etc.);
  8573 
  8574 * Main ZF: virtually all theories converted to new-style format;
  8575 
  8576 
  8577 *** ML ***
  8578 
  8579 * Pure: Tactic.prove provides sane interface for internal proofs;
  8580 omits the infamous "standard" operation, so this is more appropriate
  8581 than prove_goalw_cterm in many situations (e.g. in simprocs);
  8582 
  8583 * Pure: improved error reporting of simprocs;
  8584 
  8585 * Provers: Simplifier.simproc(_i) provides sane interface for setting
  8586 up simprocs;
  8587 
  8588 
  8589 *** Document preparation ***
  8590 
  8591 * uses \par instead of \\ for line breaks in theory text. This may
  8592 shift some page breaks in large documents. To get the old behaviour
  8593 use \renewcommand{\isanewline}{\mbox{}\\\mbox{}} in root.tex.
  8594 
  8595 * minimized dependencies of isabelle.sty and isabellesym.sty on
  8596 other packages
  8597 
  8598 * \<euro> now needs package babel/greek instead of marvosym (which
  8599 broke \Rightarrow)
  8600 
  8601 * normal size for \<zero>...\<nine> (uses \mathbf instead of
  8602 textcomp package)
  8603 
  8604 
  8605 
  8606 New in Isabelle2002 (March 2002)
  8607 --------------------------------
  8608 
  8609 *** Document preparation ***
  8610 
  8611 * greatly simplified document preparation setup, including more
  8612 graceful interpretation of isatool usedir -i/-d/-D options, and more
  8613 instructive isatool mkdir; users should basically be able to get
  8614 started with "isatool mkdir HOL Test && isatool make"; alternatively,
  8615 users may run a separate document processing stage manually like this:
  8616 "isatool usedir -D output HOL Test && isatool document Test/output";
  8617 
  8618 * theory dependency graph may now be incorporated into documents;
  8619 isatool usedir -g true will produce session_graph.eps/.pdf for use
  8620 with \includegraphics of LaTeX;
  8621 
  8622 * proper spacing of consecutive markup elements, especially text
  8623 blocks after section headings;
  8624 
  8625 * support bold style (for single symbols only), input syntax is like
  8626 this: "\<^bold>\<alpha>" or "\<^bold>A";
  8627 
  8628 * \<bullet> is now output as bold \cdot by default, which looks much
  8629 better in printed text;
  8630 
  8631 * added default LaTeX bindings for \<tturnstile> and \<TTurnstile>;
  8632 note that these symbols are currently unavailable in Proof General /
  8633 X-Symbol; new symbols \<zero>, \<one>, ..., \<nine>, and \<euro>;
  8634 
  8635 * isatool latex no longer depends on changed TEXINPUTS, instead
  8636 isatool document copies the Isabelle style files to the target
  8637 location;
  8638 
  8639 
  8640 *** Isar ***
  8641 
  8642 * Pure/Provers: improved proof by cases and induction;
  8643   - 'case' command admits impromptu naming of parameters (such as
  8644     "case (Suc n)");
  8645   - 'induct' method divinates rule instantiation from the inductive
  8646     claim; no longer requires excessive ?P bindings for proper
  8647     instantiation of cases;
  8648   - 'induct' method properly enumerates all possibilities of set/type
  8649     rules; as a consequence facts may be also passed through *type*
  8650     rules without further ado;
  8651   - 'induct' method now derives symbolic cases from the *rulified*
  8652     rule (before it used to rulify cases stemming from the internal
  8653     atomized version); this means that the context of a non-atomic
  8654     statement becomes is included in the hypothesis, avoiding the
  8655     slightly cumbersome show "PROP ?case" form;
  8656   - 'induct' may now use elim-style induction rules without chaining
  8657     facts, using ``missing'' premises from the goal state; this allows
  8658     rules stemming from inductive sets to be applied in unstructured
  8659     scripts, while still benefitting from proper handling of non-atomic
  8660     statements; NB: major inductive premises need to be put first, all
  8661     the rest of the goal is passed through the induction;
  8662   - 'induct' proper support for mutual induction involving non-atomic
  8663     rule statements (uses the new concept of simultaneous goals, see
  8664     below);
  8665   - append all possible rule selections, but only use the first
  8666     success (no backtracking);
  8667   - removed obsolete "(simplified)" and "(stripped)" options of methods;
  8668   - undeclared rule case names default to numbers 1, 2, 3, ...;
  8669   - added 'print_induct_rules' (covered by help item in recent Proof
  8670     General versions);
  8671   - moved induct/cases attributes to Pure, methods to Provers;
  8672   - generic method setup instantiated for FOL and HOL;
  8673 
  8674 * Pure: support multiple simultaneous goal statements, for example
  8675 "have a: A and b: B" (same for 'theorem' etc.); being a pure
  8676 meta-level mechanism, this acts as if several individual goals had
  8677 been stated separately; in particular common proof methods need to be
  8678 repeated in order to cover all claims; note that a single elimination
  8679 step is *not* sufficient to establish the two conjunctions, so this
  8680 fails:
  8681 
  8682   assume "A & B" then have A and B ..   (*".." fails*)
  8683 
  8684 better use "obtain" in situations as above; alternative refer to
  8685 multi-step methods like 'auto', 'simp_all', 'blast+' etc.;
  8686 
  8687 * Pure: proper integration with ``locales''; unlike the original
  8688 version by Florian Kammller, Isar locales package high-level proof
  8689 contexts rather than raw logical ones (e.g. we admit to include
  8690 attributes everywhere); operations on locales include merge and
  8691 rename; support for implicit arguments (``structures''); simultaneous
  8692 type-inference over imports and text; see also HOL/ex/Locales.thy for
  8693 some examples;
  8694 
  8695 * Pure: the following commands have been ``localized'', supporting a
  8696 target locale specification "(in name)": 'lemma', 'theorem',
  8697 'corollary', 'lemmas', 'theorems', 'declare'; the results will be
  8698 stored both within the locale and at the theory level (exported and
  8699 qualified by the locale name);
  8700 
  8701 * Pure: theory goals may now be specified in ``long'' form, with
  8702 ad-hoc contexts consisting of arbitrary locale elements. for example
  8703 ``lemma foo: fixes x assumes "A x" shows "B x"'' (local syntax and
  8704 definitions may be given, too); the result is a meta-level rule with
  8705 the context elements being discharged in the obvious way;
  8706 
  8707 * Pure: new proof command 'using' allows to augment currently used
  8708 facts after a goal statement ('using' is syntactically analogous to
  8709 'apply', but acts on the goal's facts only); this allows chained facts
  8710 to be separated into parts given before and after a claim, as in
  8711 ``from a and b have C using d and e <proof>'';
  8712 
  8713 * Pure: renamed "antecedent" case to "rule_context";
  8714 
  8715 * Pure: new 'judgment' command records explicit information about the
  8716 object-logic embedding (used by several tools internally); no longer
  8717 use hard-wired "Trueprop";
  8718 
  8719 * Pure: added 'corollary' command;
  8720 
  8721 * Pure: fixed 'token_translation' command;
  8722 
  8723 * Pure: removed obsolete 'exported' attribute;
  8724 
  8725 * Pure: dummy pattern "_" in is/let is now automatically lifted over
  8726 bound variables: "ALL x. P x --> Q x" (is "ALL x. _ --> ?C x")
  8727 supersedes more cumbersome ... (is "ALL x. _ x --> ?C x");
  8728 
  8729 * Pure: method 'atomize' presents local goal premises as object-level
  8730 statements (atomic meta-level propositions); setup controlled via
  8731 rewrite rules declarations of 'atomize' attribute; example
  8732 application: 'induct' method with proper rule statements in improper
  8733 proof *scripts*;
  8734 
  8735 * Pure: emulation of instantiation tactics (rule_tac, cut_tac, etc.)
  8736 now consider the syntactic context of assumptions, giving a better
  8737 chance to get type-inference of the arguments right (this is
  8738 especially important for locales);
  8739 
  8740 * Pure: "sorry" no longer requires quick_and_dirty in interactive
  8741 mode;
  8742 
  8743 * Pure/obtain: the formal conclusion "thesis", being marked as
  8744 ``internal'', may no longer be reference directly in the text;
  8745 potential INCOMPATIBILITY, may need to use "?thesis" in rare
  8746 situations;
  8747 
  8748 * Pure: generic 'sym' attribute which declares a rule both as pure
  8749 'elim?' and for the 'symmetric' operation;
  8750 
  8751 * Pure: marginal comments ``--'' may now occur just anywhere in the
  8752 text; the fixed correlation with particular command syntax has been
  8753 discontinued;
  8754 
  8755 * Pure: new method 'rules' is particularly well-suited for proof
  8756 search in intuitionistic logic; a bit slower than 'blast' or 'fast',
  8757 but often produces more compact proof terms with less detours;
  8758 
  8759 * Pure/Provers/classical: simplified integration with pure rule
  8760 attributes and methods; the classical "intro?/elim?/dest?"
  8761 declarations coincide with the pure ones; the "rule" method no longer
  8762 includes classically swapped intros; "intro" and "elim" methods no
  8763 longer pick rules from the context; also got rid of ML declarations
  8764 AddXIs/AddXEs/AddXDs; all of this has some potential for
  8765 INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8766 
  8767 * Provers/classical: attribute 'swapped' produces classical inversions
  8768 of introduction rules;
  8769 
  8770 * Provers/simplifier: 'simplified' attribute may refer to explicit
  8771 rules instead of full simplifier context; 'iff' attribute handles
  8772 conditional rules;
  8773 
  8774 * HOL: 'typedef' now allows alternative names for Rep/Abs morphisms;
  8775 
  8776 * HOL: 'recdef' now fails on unfinished automated proofs, use
  8777 "(permissive)" option to recover old behavior;
  8778 
  8779 * HOL: 'inductive' no longer features separate (collective) attributes
  8780 for 'intros' (was found too confusing);
  8781 
  8782 * HOL: properly declared induction rules less_induct and
  8783 wf_induct_rule;
  8784 
  8785 
  8786 *** HOL ***
  8787 
  8788 * HOL: moved over to sane numeral syntax; the new policy is as
  8789 follows:
  8790 
  8791   - 0 and 1 are polymorphic constants, which are defined on any
  8792   numeric type (nat, int, real etc.);
  8793 
  8794   - 2, 3, 4, ... and -1, -2, -3, ... are polymorphic numerals, based
  8795   binary representation internally;
  8796 
  8797   - type nat has special constructor Suc, and generally prefers Suc 0
  8798   over 1::nat and Suc (Suc 0) over 2::nat;
  8799 
  8800 This change may cause significant problems of INCOMPATIBILITY; here
  8801 are some hints on converting existing sources:
  8802 
  8803   - due to the new "num" token, "-0" and "-1" etc. are now atomic
  8804   entities, so expressions involving "-" (unary or binary minus) need
  8805   to be spaced properly;
  8806 
  8807   - existing occurrences of "1" may need to be constraint "1::nat" or
  8808   even replaced by Suc 0; similar for old "2";
  8809 
  8810   - replace "#nnn" by "nnn", and "#-nnn" by "-nnn";
  8811 
  8812   - remove all special provisions on numerals in proofs;
  8813 
  8814 * HOL: simp rules nat_number expand numerals on nat to Suc/0
  8815 representation (depends on bin_arith_simps in the default context);
  8816 
  8817 * HOL: symbolic syntax for x^2 (numeral 2);
  8818 
  8819 * HOL: the class of all HOL types is now called "type" rather than
  8820 "term"; INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt references to this type class
  8821 in axclass/classes, instance/arities, and (usually rare) occurrences
  8822 in typings (of consts etc.); internally the class is called
  8823 "HOL.type", ML programs should refer to HOLogic.typeS;
  8824 
  8825 * HOL/record package improvements:
  8826   - new derived operations "fields" to build a partial record section,
  8827     "extend" to promote a fixed record to a record scheme, and
  8828     "truncate" for the reverse; cf. theorems "xxx.defs", which are *not*
  8829     declared as simp by default;
  8830   - shared operations ("more", "fields", etc.) now need to be always
  8831     qualified) --- potential INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8832   - removed "make_scheme" operations (use "make" with "extend") --
  8833     INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8834   - removed "more" class (simply use "term") -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8835   - provides cases/induct rules for use with corresponding Isar
  8836     methods (for concrete records, record schemes, concrete more
  8837     parts, and schematic more parts -- in that order);
  8838   - internal definitions directly based on a light-weight abstract
  8839     theory of product types over typedef rather than datatype;
  8840 
  8841 * HOL: generic code generator for generating executable ML code from
  8842 specifications; specific support for HOL constructs such as inductive
  8843 datatypes and sets, as well as recursive functions; can be invoked
  8844 via 'generate_code' theory section;
  8845 
  8846 * HOL: canonical cases/induct rules for n-tuples (n = 3..7);
  8847 
  8848 * HOL: consolidated and renamed several theories.  In particular:
  8849         Ord.thy has been absorbed into HOL.thy
  8850         String.thy has been absorbed into List.thy
  8851 
  8852 * HOL: concrete setsum syntax "\<Sum>i:A. b" == "setsum (%i. b) A"
  8853 (beware of argument permutation!);
  8854 
  8855 * HOL: linorder_less_split superseded by linorder_cases;
  8856 
  8857 * HOL/List: "nodups" renamed to "distinct";
  8858 
  8859 * HOL: added "The" definite description operator; move Hilbert's "Eps"
  8860 to peripheral theory "Hilbert_Choice"; some INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  8861   - Ex_def has changed, now need to use some_eq_ex
  8862 
  8863 * HOL: made split_all_tac safe; EXISTING PROOFS MAY FAIL OR LOOP, so
  8864 in this (rare) case use:
  8865 
  8866   delSWrapper "split_all_tac"
  8867   addSbefore ("unsafe_split_all_tac", unsafe_split_all_tac)
  8868 
  8869 * HOL: added safe wrapper "split_conv_tac" to claset; EXISTING PROOFS
  8870 MAY FAIL;
  8871 
  8872 * HOL: introduced f^n = f o ... o f; warning: due to the limits of
  8873 Isabelle's type classes, ^ on functions and relations has too general
  8874 a domain, namely ('a * 'b) set and 'a => 'b; this means that it may be
  8875 necessary to attach explicit type constraints;
  8876 
  8877 * HOL/Relation: the prefix name of the infix "O" has been changed from
  8878 "comp" to "rel_comp"; INCOMPATIBILITY: a few theorems have been
  8879 renamed accordingly (eg "compI" -> "rel_compI").
  8880 
  8881 * HOL: syntax translations now work properly with numerals and records
  8882 expressions;
  8883 
  8884 * HOL: bounded abstraction now uses syntax "%" / "\<lambda>" instead
  8885 of "lam" -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8886 
  8887 * HOL: got rid of some global declarations (potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  8888 for ML tools): const "()" renamed "Product_Type.Unity", type "unit"
  8889 renamed "Product_Type.unit";
  8890 
  8891 * HOL: renamed rtrancl_into_rtrancl2 to converse_rtrancl_into_rtrancl
  8892 
  8893 * HOL: removed obsolete theorem "optionE" (use "option.exhaust", or
  8894 the "cases" method);
  8895 
  8896 * HOL/GroupTheory: group theory examples including Sylow's theorem (by
  8897 Florian Kammller);
  8898 
  8899 * HOL/IMP: updated and converted to new-style theory format; several
  8900 parts turned into readable document, with proper Isar proof texts and
  8901 some explanations (by Gerwin Klein);
  8902 
  8903 * HOL-Real: added Complex_Numbers (by Gertrud Bauer);
  8904 
  8905 * HOL-Hyperreal is now a logic image;
  8906 
  8907 
  8908 *** HOLCF ***
  8909 
  8910 * Isar: consts/constdefs supports mixfix syntax for continuous
  8911 operations;
  8912 
  8913 * Isar: domain package adapted to new-style theory format, e.g. see
  8914 HOLCF/ex/Dnat.thy;
  8915 
  8916 * theory Lift: proper use of rep_datatype lift instead of ML hacks --
  8917 potential INCOMPATIBILITY; now use plain induct_tac instead of former
  8918 lift.induct_tac, always use UU instead of Undef;
  8919 
  8920 * HOLCF/IMP: updated and converted to new-style theory;
  8921 
  8922 
  8923 *** ZF ***
  8924 
  8925 * Isar: proper integration of logic-specific tools and packages,
  8926 including theory commands '(co)inductive', '(co)datatype',
  8927 'rep_datatype', 'inductive_cases', as well as methods 'ind_cases',
  8928 'induct_tac', 'case_tac', and 'typecheck' (with attribute 'TC');
  8929 
  8930 * theory Main no longer includes AC; for the Axiom of Choice, base
  8931 your theory on Main_ZFC;
  8932 
  8933 * the integer library now covers quotients and remainders, with many
  8934 laws relating division to addition, multiplication, etc.;
  8935 
  8936 * ZF/UNITY: Chandy and Misra's UNITY is now available in ZF, giving a
  8937 typeless version of the formalism;
  8938 
  8939 * ZF/AC, Coind, IMP, Resid: updated and converted to new-style theory
  8940 format;
  8941 
  8942 * ZF/Induct: new directory for examples of inductive definitions,
  8943 including theory Multiset for multiset orderings; converted to
  8944 new-style theory format;
  8945 
  8946 * ZF: many new theorems about lists, ordinals, etc.;
  8947 
  8948 
  8949 *** General ***
  8950 
  8951 * Pure/kernel: meta-level proof terms (by Stefan Berghofer); reference
  8952 variable proof controls level of detail: 0 = no proofs (only oracle
  8953 dependencies), 1 = lemma dependencies, 2 = compact proof terms; see
  8954 also ref manual for further ML interfaces;
  8955 
  8956 * Pure/axclass: removed obsolete ML interface
  8957 goal_subclass/goal_arity;
  8958 
  8959 * Pure/syntax: new token syntax "num" for plain numerals (without "#"
  8960 of "xnum"); potential INCOMPATIBILITY, since -0, -1 etc. are now
  8961 separate tokens, so expressions involving minus need to be spaced
  8962 properly;
  8963 
  8964 * Pure/syntax: support non-oriented infixes, using keyword "infix"
  8965 rather than "infixl" or "infixr";
  8966 
  8967 * Pure/syntax: concrete syntax for dummy type variables admits genuine
  8968 sort constraint specifications in type inference; e.g. "x::_::foo"
  8969 ensures that the type of "x" is of sort "foo" (but not necessarily a
  8970 type variable);
  8971 
  8972 * Pure/syntax: print modes "type_brackets" and "no_type_brackets"
  8973 control output of nested => (types); the default behavior is
  8974 "type_brackets";
  8975 
  8976 * Pure/syntax: builtin parse translation for "_constify" turns valued
  8977 tokens into AST constants;
  8978 
  8979 * Pure/syntax: prefer later declarations of translations and print
  8980 translation functions; potential INCOMPATIBILITY: need to reverse
  8981 multiple declarations for same syntax element constant;
  8982 
  8983 * Pure/show_hyps reset by default (in accordance to existing Isar
  8984 practice);
  8985 
  8986 * Provers/classical: renamed addaltern to addafter, addSaltern to
  8987 addSafter;
  8988 
  8989 * Provers/clasimp: ``iff'' declarations now handle conditional rules
  8990 as well;
  8991 
  8992 * system: tested support for MacOS X; should be able to get Isabelle +
  8993 Proof General to work in a plain Terminal after installing Poly/ML
  8994 (e.g. from the Isabelle distribution area) and GNU bash alone
  8995 (e.g. from http://www.apple.com); full X11, XEmacs and X-Symbol
  8996 support requires further installations, e.g. from
  8997 http://fink.sourceforge.net/);
  8998 
  8999 * system: support Poly/ML 4.1.1 (able to manage larger heaps);
  9000 
  9001 * system: reduced base memory usage by Poly/ML (approx. 20 MB instead
  9002 of 40 MB), cf. ML_OPTIONS;
  9003 
  9004 * system: Proof General keywords specification is now part of the
  9005 Isabelle distribution (see etc/isar-keywords.el);
  9006 
  9007 * system: support for persistent Proof General sessions (refrain from
  9008 outdating all loaded theories on startup); user may create writable
  9009 logic images like this: ``isabelle -q HOL Test'';
  9010 
  9011 * system: smart selection of Isabelle process versus Isabelle
  9012 interface, accommodates case-insensitive file systems (e.g. HFS+); may
  9013 run both "isabelle" and "Isabelle" even if file names are badly
  9014 damaged (executable inspects the case of the first letter of its own
  9015 name); added separate "isabelle-process" and "isabelle-interface";
  9016 
  9017 * system: refrain from any attempt at filtering input streams; no
  9018 longer support ``8bit'' encoding of old isabelle font, instead proper
  9019 iso-latin characters may now be used; the related isatools
  9020 "symbolinput" and "nonascii" have disappeared as well;
  9021 
  9022 * system: removed old "xterm" interface (the print modes "xterm" and
  9023 "xterm_color" are still available for direct use in a suitable
  9024 terminal);
  9025 
  9026 
  9027 
  9028 New in Isabelle99-2 (February 2001)
  9029 -----------------------------------
  9030 
  9031 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES ***
  9032 
  9033 * HOL: please note that theories in the Library and elsewhere often use the
  9034 new-style (Isar) format; to refer to their theorems in an ML script you must
  9035 bind them to ML identifers by e.g.      val thm_name = thm "thm_name";
  9036 
  9037 * HOL: inductive package no longer splits induction rule aggressively,
  9038 but only as far as specified by the introductions given; the old
  9039 format may be recovered via ML function complete_split_rule or attribute
  9040 'split_rule (complete)';
  9041 
  9042 * HOL: induct renamed to lfp_induct, lfp_Tarski to lfp_unfold,
  9043 gfp_Tarski to gfp_unfold;
  9044 
  9045 * HOL: contrapos, contrapos2 renamed to contrapos_nn, contrapos_pp;
  9046 
  9047 * HOL: infix "dvd" now has priority 50 rather than 70 (because it is a
  9048 relation); infix "^^" has been renamed "``"; infix "``" has been
  9049 renamed "`"; "univalent" has been renamed "single_valued";
  9050 
  9051 * HOL/Real: "rinv" and "hrinv" replaced by overloaded "inverse"
  9052 operation;
  9053 
  9054 * HOLCF: infix "`" has been renamed "$"; the symbol syntax is \<cdot>;
  9055 
  9056 * Isar: 'obtain' no longer declares "that" fact as simp/intro;
  9057 
  9058 * Isar/HOL: method 'induct' now handles non-atomic goals; as a
  9059 consequence, it is no longer monotonic wrt. the local goal context
  9060 (which is now passed through the inductive cases);
  9061 
  9062 * Document preparation: renamed standard symbols \<ll> to \<lless> and
  9063 \<gg> to \<ggreater>;
  9064 
  9065 
  9066 *** Document preparation ***
  9067 
  9068 * \isabellestyle{NAME} selects version of Isabelle output (currently
  9069 available: are "it" for near math-mode best-style output, "sl" for
  9070 slanted text style, and "tt" for plain type-writer; if no
  9071 \isabellestyle command is given, output is according to slanted
  9072 type-writer);
  9073 
  9074 * support sub/super scripts (for single symbols only), input syntax is
  9075 like this: "A\<^sup>*" or "A\<^sup>\<star>";
  9076 
  9077 * some more standard symbols; see Appendix A of the system manual for
  9078 the complete list of symbols defined in isabellesym.sty;
  9079 
  9080 * improved isabelle style files; more abstract symbol implementation
  9081 (should now use \isamath{...} and \isatext{...} in custom symbol
  9082 definitions);
  9083 
  9084 * antiquotation @{goals} and @{subgoals} for output of *dynamic* goals
  9085 state; Note that presentation of goal states does not conform to
  9086 actual human-readable proof documents.  Please do not include goal
  9087 states into document output unless you really know what you are doing!
  9088 
  9089 * proper indentation of antiquoted output with proportional LaTeX
  9090 fonts;
  9091 
  9092 * no_document ML operator temporarily disables LaTeX document
  9093 generation;
  9094 
  9095 * isatool unsymbolize tunes sources for plain ASCII communication;
  9096 
  9097 
  9098 *** Isar ***
  9099 
  9100 * Pure: Isar now suffers initial goal statements to contain unbound
  9101 schematic variables (this does not conform to actual readable proof
  9102 documents, due to unpredictable outcome and non-compositional proof
  9103 checking); users who know what they are doing may use schematic goals
  9104 for Prolog-style synthesis of proven results;
  9105 
  9106 * Pure: assumption method (an implicit finishing) now handles actual
  9107 rules as well;
  9108 
  9109 * Pure: improved 'obtain' --- moved to Pure, insert "that" into
  9110 initial goal, declare "that" only as Pure intro (only for single
  9111 steps); the "that" rule assumption may now be involved in implicit
  9112 finishing, thus ".." becomes a feasible for trivial obtains;
  9113 
  9114 * Pure: default proof step now includes 'intro_classes'; thus trivial
  9115 instance proofs may be performed by "..";
  9116 
  9117 * Pure: ?thesis / ?this / "..." now work for pure meta-level
  9118 statements as well;
  9119 
  9120 * Pure: more robust selection of calculational rules;
  9121 
  9122 * Pure: the builtin notion of 'finished' goal now includes the ==-refl
  9123 rule (as well as the assumption rule);
  9124 
  9125 * Pure: 'thm_deps' command visualizes dependencies of theorems and
  9126 lemmas, using the graph browser tool;
  9127 
  9128 * Pure: predict failure of "show" in interactive mode;
  9129 
  9130 * Pure: 'thms_containing' now takes actual terms as arguments;
  9131 
  9132 * HOL: improved method 'induct' --- now handles non-atomic goals
  9133 (potential INCOMPATIBILITY); tuned error handling;
  9134 
  9135 * HOL: cases and induct rules now provide explicit hints about the
  9136 number of facts to be consumed (0 for "type" and 1 for "set" rules);
  9137 any remaining facts are inserted into the goal verbatim;
  9138 
  9139 * HOL: local contexts (aka cases) may now contain term bindings as
  9140 well; the 'cases' and 'induct' methods new provide a ?case binding for
  9141 the result to be shown in each case;
  9142 
  9143 * HOL: added 'recdef_tc' command;
  9144 
  9145 * isatool convert assists in eliminating legacy ML scripts;
  9146 
  9147 
  9148 *** HOL ***
  9149 
  9150 * HOL/Library: a collection of generic theories to be used together
  9151 with main HOL; the theory loader path already includes this directory
  9152 by default; the following existing theories have been moved here:
  9153 HOL/Induct/Multiset, HOL/Induct/Acc (as Accessible_Part), HOL/While
  9154 (as While_Combinator), HOL/Lex/Prefix (as List_Prefix);
  9155 
  9156 * HOL/Unix: "Some aspects of Unix file-system security", a typical
  9157 modelling and verification task performed in Isabelle/HOL +
  9158 Isabelle/Isar + Isabelle document preparation (by Markus Wenzel).
  9159 
  9160 * HOL/Algebra: special summation operator SUM no longer exists, it has
  9161 been replaced by setsum; infix 'assoc' now has priority 50 (like
  9162 'dvd'); axiom 'one_not_zero' has been moved from axclass 'ring' to
  9163 'domain', this makes the theory consistent with mathematical
  9164 literature;
  9165 
  9166 * HOL basics: added overloaded operations "inverse" and "divide"
  9167 (infix "/"), syntax for generic "abs" operation, generic summation
  9168 operator \<Sum>;
  9169 
  9170 * HOL/typedef: simplified package, provide more useful rules (see also
  9171 HOL/subset.thy);
  9172 
  9173 * HOL/datatype: induction rule for arbitrarily branching datatypes is
  9174 now expressed as a proper nested rule (old-style tactic scripts may
  9175 require atomize_strip_tac to cope with non-atomic premises);
  9176 
  9177 * HOL: renamed theory "Prod" to "Product_Type", renamed "split" rule
  9178 to "split_conv" (old name still available for compatibility);
  9179 
  9180 * HOL: improved concrete syntax for strings (e.g. allows translation
  9181 rules with string literals);
  9182 
  9183 * HOL-Real-Hyperreal: this extends HOL-Real with the hyperreals
  9184  and Fleuriot's mechanization of analysis, including the transcendental
  9185  functions for the reals;
  9186 
  9187 * HOL/Real, HOL/Hyperreal: improved arithmetic simplification;
  9188 
  9189 
  9190 *** CTT ***
  9191 
  9192 * CTT: x-symbol support for Pi, Sigma, -->, : (membership); note that
  9193 "lam" is displayed as TWO lambda-symbols
  9194 
  9195 * CTT: theory Main now available, containing everything (that is, Bool
  9196 and Arith);
  9197 
  9198 
  9199 *** General ***
  9200 
  9201 * Pure: the Simplifier has been implemented properly as a derived rule
  9202 outside of the actual kernel (at last!); the overall performance
  9203 penalty in practical applications is about 50%, while reliability of
  9204 the Isabelle inference kernel has been greatly improved;
  9205 
  9206 * print modes "brackets" and "no_brackets" control output of nested =>
  9207 (types) and ==> (props); the default behaviour is "brackets";
  9208 
  9209 * Provers: fast_tac (and friends) now handle actual object-logic rules
  9210 as assumptions as well;
  9211 
  9212 * system: support Poly/ML 4.0;
  9213 
  9214 * system: isatool install handles KDE version 1 or 2;
  9215 
  9216 
  9217 
  9218 New in Isabelle99-1 (October 2000)
  9219 ----------------------------------
  9220 
  9221 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES ***
  9222 
  9223 * HOL: simplification of natural numbers is much changed; to partly
  9224 recover the old behaviour (e.g. to prevent n+n rewriting to #2*n)
  9225 issue the following ML commands:
  9226 
  9227   Delsimprocs Nat_Numeral_Simprocs.cancel_numerals;
  9228   Delsimprocs [Nat_Numeral_Simprocs.combine_numerals];
  9229 
  9230 * HOL: simplification no longer dives into case-expressions; this is
  9231 controlled by "t.weak_case_cong" for each datatype t;
  9232 
  9233 * HOL: nat_less_induct renamed to less_induct;
  9234 
  9235 * HOL: systematic renaming of the SOME (Eps) rules, may use isatool
  9236 fixsome to patch .thy and .ML sources automatically;
  9237 
  9238   select_equality  -> some_equality
  9239   select_eq_Ex     -> some_eq_ex
  9240   selectI2EX       -> someI2_ex
  9241   selectI2         -> someI2
  9242   selectI          -> someI
  9243   select1_equality -> some1_equality
  9244   Eps_sym_eq       -> some_sym_eq_trivial
  9245   Eps_eq           -> some_eq_trivial
  9246 
  9247 * HOL: exhaust_tac on datatypes superceded by new generic case_tac;
  9248 
  9249 * HOL: removed obsolete theorem binding expand_if (refer to split_if
  9250 instead);
  9251 
  9252 * HOL: the recursion equations generated by 'recdef' are now called
  9253 f.simps instead of f.rules;
  9254 
  9255 * HOL: qed_spec_mp now also handles bounded ALL as well;
  9256 
  9257 * HOL: 0 is now overloaded, so the type constraint ":: nat" may
  9258 sometimes be needed;
  9259 
  9260 * HOL: the constant for "f``x" is now "image" rather than "op ``";
  9261 
  9262 * HOL: the constant for "f-``x" is now "vimage" rather than "op -``";
  9263 
  9264 * HOL: the disjoint sum is now "<+>" instead of "Plus"; the cartesian
  9265 product is now "<*>" instead of "Times"; the lexicographic product is
  9266 now "<*lex*>" instead of "**";
  9267 
  9268 * HOL: theory Sexp is now in HOL/Induct examples (it used to be part
  9269 of main HOL, but was unused); better use HOL's datatype package;
  9270 
  9271 * HOL: removed "symbols" syntax for constant "override" of theory Map;
  9272 the old syntax may be recovered as follows:
  9273 
  9274   syntax (symbols)
  9275     override  :: "('a ~=> 'b) => ('a ~=> 'b) => ('a ~=> 'b)"
  9276       (infixl "\\<oplus>" 100)
  9277 
  9278 * HOL/Real: "rabs" replaced by overloaded "abs" function;
  9279 
  9280 * HOL/ML: even fewer consts are declared as global (see theories Ord,
  9281 Lfp, Gfp, WF); this only affects ML packages that refer to const names
  9282 internally;
  9283 
  9284 * HOL and ZF: syntax for quotienting wrt an equivalence relation
  9285 changed from A/r to A//r;
  9286 
  9287 * ZF: new treatment of arithmetic (nat & int) may break some old
  9288 proofs;
  9289 
  9290 * Isar: renamed some attributes (RS -> THEN, simplify -> simplified,
  9291 rulify -> rule_format, elimify -> elim_format, ...);
  9292 
  9293 * Isar/Provers: intro/elim/dest attributes changed; renamed
  9294 intro/intro!/intro!! flags to intro!/intro/intro? (in most cases, one
  9295 should have to change intro!! to intro? only); replaced "delrule" by
  9296 "rule del";
  9297 
  9298 * Isar/HOL: renamed "intrs" to "intros" in inductive definitions;
  9299 
  9300 * Provers: strengthened force_tac by using new first_best_tac;
  9301 
  9302 * LaTeX document preparation: several changes of isabelle.sty (see
  9303 lib/texinputs);
  9304 
  9305 
  9306 *** Document preparation ***
  9307 
  9308 * formal comments (text blocks etc.) in new-style theories may now
  9309 contain antiquotations of thm/prop/term/typ/text to be presented
  9310 according to latex print mode; concrete syntax is like this:
  9311 @{term[show_types] "f(x) = a + x"};
  9312 
  9313 * isatool mkdir provides easy setup of Isabelle session directories,
  9314 including proper document sources;
  9315 
  9316 * generated LaTeX sources are now deleted after successful run
  9317 (isatool document -c); may retain a copy somewhere else via -D option
  9318 of isatool usedir;
  9319 
  9320 * isatool usedir -D now lets isatool latex -o sty update the Isabelle
  9321 style files, achieving self-contained LaTeX sources and simplifying
  9322 LaTeX debugging;
  9323 
  9324 * old-style theories now produce (crude) LaTeX output as well;
  9325 
  9326 * browser info session directories are now self-contained (may be put
  9327 on WWW server seperately); improved graphs of nested sessions; removed
  9328 graph for 'all sessions';
  9329 
  9330 * several improvements in isabelle style files; \isabellestyle{it}
  9331 produces fake math mode output; \isamarkupheader is now \section by
  9332 default; see lib/texinputs/isabelle.sty etc.;
  9333 
  9334 
  9335 *** Isar ***
  9336 
  9337 * Isar/Pure: local results and corresponding term bindings are now
  9338 subject to Hindley-Milner polymorphism (similar to ML); this
  9339 accommodates incremental type-inference very nicely;
  9340 
  9341 * Isar/Pure: new derived language element 'obtain' supports
  9342 generalized existence reasoning;
  9343 
  9344 * Isar/Pure: new calculational elements 'moreover' and 'ultimately'
  9345 support accumulation of results, without applying any rules yet;
  9346 useful to collect intermediate results without explicit name
  9347 references, and for use with transitivity rules with more than 2
  9348 premises;
  9349 
  9350 * Isar/Pure: scalable support for case-analysis type proofs: new
  9351 'case' language element refers to local contexts symbolically, as
  9352 produced by certain proof methods; internally, case names are attached
  9353 to theorems as "tags";
  9354 
  9355 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'hide' removes declarations from
  9356 class/type/const name spaces;
  9357 
  9358 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'defs' supports option "(overloaded)" to
  9359 indicate potential overloading;
  9360 
  9361 * Isar/Pure: changed syntax of local blocks from {{ }} to { };
  9362 
  9363 * Isar/Pure: syntax of sorts made 'inner', i.e. have to write
  9364 "{a,b,c}" instead of {a,b,c};
  9365 
  9366 * Isar/Pure now provides its own version of intro/elim/dest
  9367 attributes; useful for building new logics, but beware of confusion
  9368 with the version in Provers/classical;
  9369 
  9370 * Isar/Pure: the local context of (non-atomic) goals is provided via
  9371 case name 'antecedent';
  9372 
  9373 * Isar/Pure: removed obsolete 'transfer' attribute (transfer of thms
  9374 to the current context is now done automatically);
  9375 
  9376 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'method_setup' provides a simple interface
  9377 for definining proof methods in ML;
  9378 
  9379 * Isar/Provers: intro/elim/dest attributes changed; renamed
  9380 intro/intro!/intro!! flags to intro!/intro/intro? (INCOMPATIBILITY, in
  9381 most cases, one should have to change intro!! to intro? only);
  9382 replaced "delrule" by "rule del";
  9383 
  9384 * Isar/Provers: new 'hypsubst' method, plain 'subst' method and
  9385 'symmetric' attribute (the latter supercedes [RS sym]);
  9386 
  9387 * Isar/Provers: splitter support (via 'split' attribute and 'simp'
  9388 method modifier); 'simp' method: 'only:' modifier removes loopers as
  9389 well (including splits);
  9390 
  9391 * Isar/Provers: Simplifier and Classical methods now support all kind
  9392 of modifiers used in the past, including 'cong', 'iff', etc.
  9393 
  9394 * Isar/Provers: added 'fastsimp' and 'clarsimp' methods (combination
  9395 of Simplifier and Classical reasoner);
  9396 
  9397 * Isar/HOL: new proof method 'cases' and improved version of 'induct'
  9398 now support named cases; major packages (inductive, datatype, primrec,
  9399 recdef) support case names and properly name parameters;
  9400 
  9401 * Isar/HOL: new transitivity rules for substitution in inequalities --
  9402 monotonicity conditions are extracted to be proven at end of
  9403 calculations;
  9404 
  9405 * Isar/HOL: removed 'case_split' thm binding, should use 'cases' proof
  9406 method anyway;
  9407 
  9408 * Isar/HOL: removed old expand_if = split_if; theorems if_splits =
  9409 split_if split_if_asm; datatype package provides theorems foo.splits =
  9410 foo.split foo.split_asm for each datatype;
  9411 
  9412 * Isar/HOL: tuned inductive package, rename "intrs" to "intros"
  9413 (potential INCOMPATIBILITY), emulation of mk_cases feature for proof
  9414 scripts: new 'inductive_cases' command and 'ind_cases' method; (Note:
  9415 use "(cases (simplified))" method in proper proof texts);
  9416 
  9417 * Isar/HOL: added global 'arith_split' attribute for 'arith' method;
  9418 
  9419 * Isar: names of theorems etc. may be natural numbers as well;
  9420 
  9421 * Isar: 'pr' command: optional arguments for goals_limit and
  9422 ProofContext.prems_limit; no longer prints theory contexts, but only
  9423 proof states;
  9424 
  9425 * Isar: diagnostic commands 'pr', 'thm', 'prop', 'term', 'typ' admit
  9426 additional print modes to be specified; e.g. "pr(latex)" will print
  9427 proof state according to the Isabelle LaTeX style;
  9428 
  9429 * Isar: improved support for emulating tactic scripts, including proof
  9430 methods 'rule_tac' etc., 'cut_tac', 'thin_tac', 'subgoal_tac',
  9431 'rename_tac', 'rotate_tac', 'tactic', and 'case_tac' / 'induct_tac'
  9432 (for HOL datatypes);
  9433 
  9434 * Isar: simplified (more robust) goal selection of proof methods: 1st
  9435 goal, all goals, or explicit goal specifier (tactic emulation); thus
  9436 'proof method scripts' have to be in depth-first order;
  9437 
  9438 * Isar: tuned 'let' syntax: replaced 'as' keyword by 'and';
  9439 
  9440 * Isar: removed 'help' command, which hasn't been too helpful anyway;
  9441 should instead use individual commands for printing items
  9442 (print_commands, print_methods etc.);
  9443 
  9444 * Isar: added 'nothing' --- the empty list of theorems;
  9445 
  9446 
  9447 *** HOL ***
  9448 
  9449 * HOL/MicroJava: formalization of a fragment of Java, together with a
  9450 corresponding virtual machine and a specification of its bytecode
  9451 verifier and a lightweight bytecode verifier, including proofs of
  9452 type-safety; by Gerwin Klein, Tobias Nipkow, David von Oheimb, and
  9453 Cornelia Pusch (see also the homepage of project Bali at
  9454 http://isabelle.in.tum.de/Bali/);
  9455 
  9456 * HOL/Algebra: new theory of rings and univariate polynomials, by
  9457 Clemens Ballarin;
  9458 
  9459 * HOL/NumberTheory: fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Chinese
  9460 Remainder Theorem, Fermat/Euler Theorem, Wilson's Theorem, by Thomas M
  9461 Rasmussen;
  9462 
  9463 * HOL/Lattice: fundamental concepts of lattice theory and order
  9464 structures, including duals, properties of bounds versus algebraic
  9465 laws, lattice operations versus set-theoretic ones, the Knaster-Tarski
  9466 Theorem for complete lattices etc.; may also serve as a demonstration
  9467 for abstract algebraic reasoning using axiomatic type classes, and
  9468 mathematics-style proof in Isabelle/Isar; by Markus Wenzel;
  9469 
  9470 * HOL/Prolog: a (bare-bones) implementation of Lambda-Prolog, by David
  9471 von Oheimb;
  9472 
  9473 * HOL/IMPP: extension of IMP with local variables and mutually
  9474 recursive procedures, by David von Oheimb;
  9475 
  9476 * HOL/Lambda: converted into new-style theory and document;
  9477 
  9478 * HOL/ex/Multiquote: example of multiple nested quotations and
  9479 anti-quotations -- basically a generalized version of de-Bruijn
  9480 representation; very useful in avoiding lifting of operations;
  9481 
  9482 * HOL/record: added general record equality rule to simpset; fixed
  9483 select-update simplification procedure to handle extended records as
  9484 well; admit "r" as field name;
  9485 
  9486 * HOL: 0 is now overloaded over the new sort "zero", allowing its use with
  9487 other numeric types and also as the identity of groups, rings, etc.;
  9488 
  9489 * HOL: new axclass plus_ac0 for addition with the AC-laws and 0 as identity.
  9490 Types nat and int belong to this axclass;
  9491 
  9492 * HOL: greatly improved simplification involving numerals of type nat, int, real:
  9493    (i + #8 + j) = Suc k simplifies to  #7 + (i + j) = k
  9494    i*j + k + j*#3*i     simplifies to  #4*(i*j) + k
  9495   two terms #m*u and #n*u are replaced by #(m+n)*u
  9496     (where #m, #n and u can implicitly be 1; this is simproc combine_numerals)
  9497   and the term/formula #m*u+x ~~ #n*u+y simplifies simplifies to #(m-n)+x ~~ y
  9498     or x ~~ #(n-m)+y, where ~~ is one of = < <= or - (simproc cancel_numerals);
  9499 
  9500 * HOL: meson_tac is available (previously in ex/meson.ML); it is a
  9501 powerful prover for predicate logic but knows nothing of clasets; see
  9502 ex/mesontest.ML and ex/mesontest2.ML for example applications;
  9503 
  9504 * HOL: new version of "case_tac" subsumes both boolean case split and
  9505 "exhaust_tac" on datatypes; INCOMPATIBILITY: exhaust_tac no longer
  9506 exists, may define val exhaust_tac = case_tac for ad-hoc portability;
  9507 
  9508 * HOL: simplification no longer dives into case-expressions: only the
  9509 selector expression is simplified, but not the remaining arms; to
  9510 enable full simplification of case-expressions for datatype t, you may
  9511 remove t.weak_case_cong from the simpset, either globally (Delcongs
  9512 [thm"t.weak_case_cong"];) or locally (delcongs [...]).
  9513 
  9514 * HOL/recdef: the recursion equations generated by 'recdef' for
  9515 function 'f' are now called f.simps instead of f.rules; if all
  9516 termination conditions are proved automatically, these simplification
  9517 rules are added to the simpset, as in primrec; rules may be named
  9518 individually as well, resulting in a separate list of theorems for
  9519 each equation;
  9520 
  9521 * HOL/While is a new theory that provides a while-combinator. It
  9522 permits the definition of tail-recursive functions without the
  9523 provision of a termination measure. The latter is necessary once the
  9524 invariant proof rule for while is applied.
  9525 
  9526 * HOL: new (overloaded) notation for the set of elements below/above
  9527 some element: {..u}, {..u(}, {l..}, {)l..}. See theory SetInterval.
  9528 
  9529 * HOL: theorems impI, allI, ballI bound as "strip";
  9530 
  9531 * HOL: new tactic induct_thm_tac: thm -> string -> int -> tactic
  9532 induct_tac th "x1 ... xn" expects th to have a conclusion of the form
  9533 P v1 ... vn and abbreviates res_inst_tac [("v1","x1"),...,("vn","xn")] th;
  9534 
  9535 * HOL/Real: "rabs" replaced by overloaded "abs" function;
  9536 
  9537 * HOL: theory Sexp now in HOL/Induct examples (it used to be part of
  9538 main HOL, but was unused);
  9539 
  9540 * HOL: fewer consts declared as global (e.g. have to refer to
  9541 "Lfp.lfp" instead of "lfp" internally; affects ML packages only);
  9542 
  9543 * HOL: tuned AST representation of nested pairs, avoiding bogus output
  9544 in case of overlap with user translations (e.g. judgements over
  9545 tuples); (note that the underlying logical represenation is still
  9546 bogus);
  9547 
  9548 
  9549 *** ZF ***
  9550 
  9551 * ZF: simplification automatically cancels common terms in arithmetic
  9552 expressions over nat and int;
  9553 
  9554 * ZF: new treatment of nat to minimize type-checking: all operators
  9555 coerce their operands to a natural number using the function natify,
  9556 making the algebraic laws unconditional;
  9557 
  9558 * ZF: as above, for int: operators coerce their operands to an integer
  9559 using the function intify;
  9560 
  9561 * ZF: the integer library now contains many of the usual laws for the
  9562 orderings, including $<=, and monotonicity laws for $+ and $*;
  9563 
  9564 * ZF: new example ZF/ex/NatSum to demonstrate integer arithmetic
  9565 simplification;
  9566 
  9567 * FOL and ZF: AddIffs now available, giving theorems of the form P<->Q
  9568 to the simplifier and classical reasoner simultaneously;
  9569 
  9570 
  9571 *** General ***
  9572 
  9573 * Provers: blast_tac now handles actual object-logic rules as
  9574 assumptions; note that auto_tac uses blast_tac internally as well;
  9575 
  9576 * Provers: new functions rulify/rulify_no_asm: thm -> thm for turning
  9577 outer -->/All/Ball into ==>/!!; qed_spec_mp now uses rulify_no_asm;
  9578 
  9579 * Provers: delrules now handles destruct rules as well (no longer need
  9580 explicit make_elim);
  9581 
  9582 * Provers: Blast_tac now warns of and ignores "weak elimination rules" e.g.
  9583   [| inj ?f;          ?f ?x = ?f ?y; ?x = ?y ==> ?W |] ==> ?W
  9584 use instead the strong form,
  9585   [| inj ?f; ~ ?W ==> ?f ?x = ?f ?y; ?x = ?y ==> ?W |] ==> ?W
  9586 in HOL, FOL and ZF the function cla_make_elim will create such rules
  9587 from destruct-rules;
  9588 
  9589 * Provers: Simplifier.easy_setup provides a fast path to basic
  9590 Simplifier setup for new object-logics;
  9591 
  9592 * Pure: AST translation rules no longer require constant head on LHS;
  9593 
  9594 * Pure: improved name spaces: ambiguous output is qualified; support
  9595 for hiding of names;
  9596 
  9597 * system: smart setup of canonical ML_HOME, ISABELLE_INTERFACE, and
  9598 XSYMBOL_HOME; no longer need to do manual configuration in most
  9599 situations;
  9600 
  9601 * system: compression of ML heaps images may now be controlled via -c
  9602 option of isabelle and isatool usedir (currently only observed by
  9603 Poly/ML);
  9604 
  9605 * system: isatool installfonts may handle X-Symbol fonts as well (very
  9606 useful for remote X11);
  9607 
  9608 * system: provide TAGS file for Isabelle sources;
  9609 
  9610 * ML: infix 'OF' is a version of 'MRS' with more appropriate argument
  9611 order;
  9612 
  9613 * ML: renamed flags Syntax.trace_norm_ast to Syntax.trace_ast; global
  9614 timing flag supersedes proof_timing and Toplevel.trace;
  9615 
  9616 * ML: new combinators |>> and |>>> for incremental transformations
  9617 with secondary results (e.g. certain theory extensions):
  9618 
  9619 * ML: PureThy.add_defs gets additional argument to indicate potential
  9620 overloading (usually false);
  9621 
  9622 * ML: PureThy.add_thms/add_axioms/add_defs now return theorems as
  9623 results;
  9624 
  9625 
  9626 
  9627 New in Isabelle99 (October 1999)
  9628 --------------------------------
  9629 
  9630 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
  9631 
  9632 * HOL: The THEN and ELSE parts of conditional expressions (if P then x else y)
  9633 are no longer simplified.  (This allows the simplifier to unfold recursive
  9634 functional programs.)  To restore the old behaviour, declare
  9635 
  9636     Delcongs [if_weak_cong];
  9637 
  9638 * HOL: Removed the obsolete syntax "Compl A"; use -A for set
  9639 complement;
  9640 
  9641 * HOL: the predicate "inj" is now defined by translation to "inj_on";
  9642 
  9643 * HOL/datatype: mutual_induct_tac no longer exists --
  9644   use induct_tac "x_1 ... x_n" instead of mutual_induct_tac ["x_1", ..., "x_n"]
  9645 
  9646 * HOL/typedef: fixed type inference for representing set; type
  9647 arguments now have to occur explicitly on the rhs as type constraints;
  9648 
  9649 * ZF: The con_defs part of an inductive definition may no longer refer
  9650 to constants declared in the same theory;
  9651 
  9652 * HOL, ZF: the function mk_cases, generated by the inductive
  9653 definition package, has lost an argument.  To simplify its result, it
  9654 uses the default simpset instead of a supplied list of theorems.
  9655 
  9656 * HOL/List: the constructors of type list are now Nil and Cons;
  9657 
  9658 * Simplifier: the type of the infix ML functions
  9659         setSSolver addSSolver setSolver addSolver
  9660 is now  simpset * solver -> simpset  where `solver' is a new abstract type
  9661 for packaging solvers. A solver is created via
  9662         mk_solver: string -> (thm list -> int -> tactic) -> solver
  9663 where the string argument is only a comment.
  9664 
  9665 
  9666 *** Proof tools ***
  9667 
  9668 * Provers/Arith/fast_lin_arith.ML contains a functor for creating a
  9669 decision procedure for linear arithmetic. Currently it is used for
  9670 types `nat', `int', and `real' in HOL (see below); it can, should and
  9671 will be instantiated for other types and logics as well.
  9672 
  9673 * The simplifier now accepts rewrite rules with flexible heads, eg
  9674      hom ?f ==> ?f(?x+?y) = ?f ?x + ?f ?y
  9675   They are applied like any rule with a non-pattern lhs, i.e. by first-order
  9676   matching.
  9677 
  9678 
  9679 *** General ***
  9680 
  9681 * New Isabelle/Isar subsystem provides an alternative to traditional
  9682 tactical theorem proving; together with the ProofGeneral/isar user
  9683 interface it offers an interactive environment for developing human
  9684 readable proof documents (Isar == Intelligible semi-automated
  9685 reasoning); for further information see isatool doc isar-ref,
  9686 src/HOL/Isar_examples and http://isabelle.in.tum.de/Isar/
  9687 
  9688 * improved and simplified presentation of theories: better HTML markup
  9689 (including colors), graph views in several sizes; isatool usedir now
  9690 provides a proper interface for user theories (via -P option); actual
  9691 document preparation based on (PDF)LaTeX is available as well (for
  9692 new-style theories only); see isatool doc system for more information;
  9693 
  9694 * native support for Proof General, both for classic Isabelle and
  9695 Isabelle/Isar;
  9696 
  9697 * ML function thm_deps visualizes dependencies of theorems and lemmas,
  9698 using the graph browser tool;
  9699 
  9700 * Isabelle manuals now also available as PDF;
  9701 
  9702 * theory loader rewritten from scratch (may not be fully
  9703 bug-compatible); old loadpath variable has been replaced by show_path,
  9704 add_path, del_path, reset_path functions; new operations such as
  9705 update_thy, touch_thy, remove_thy, use/update_thy_only (see also
  9706 isatool doc ref);
  9707 
  9708 * improved isatool install: option -k creates KDE application icon,
  9709 option -p DIR installs standalone binaries;
  9710 
  9711 * added ML_PLATFORM setting (useful for cross-platform installations);
  9712 more robust handling of platform specific ML images for SML/NJ;
  9713 
  9714 * the settings environment is now statically scoped, i.e. it is never
  9715 created again in sub-processes invoked from isabelle, isatool, or
  9716 Isabelle;
  9717 
  9718 * path element specification '~~' refers to '$ISABELLE_HOME';
  9719 
  9720 * in locales, the "assumes" and "defines" parts may be omitted if
  9721 empty;
  9722 
  9723 * new print_mode "xsymbols" for extended symbol support (e.g. genuine
  9724 long arrows);
  9725 
  9726 * new print_mode "HTML";
  9727 
  9728 * new flag show_tags controls display of tags of theorems (which are
  9729 basically just comments that may be attached by some tools);
  9730 
  9731 * Isamode 2.6 requires patch to accomodate change of Isabelle font
  9732 mode and goal output format:
  9733 
  9734 diff -r Isamode-2.6/elisp/isa-load.el Isamode/elisp/isa-load.el
  9735 244c244
  9736 <       (list (isa-getenv "ISABELLE") "-msymbols" logic-name)
  9737 ---
  9738 >       (list (isa-getenv "ISABELLE") "-misabelle_font" "-msymbols" logic-name)
  9739 diff -r Isabelle-2.6/elisp/isa-proofstate.el Isamode/elisp/isa-proofstate.el
  9740 181c181
  9741 < (defconst proofstate-proofstart-regexp "^Level [0-9]+$"
  9742 ---
  9743 > (defconst proofstate-proofstart-regexp "^Level [0-9]+"
  9744 
  9745 * function bind_thms stores lists of theorems (cf. bind_thm);
  9746 
  9747 * new shorthand tactics ftac, eatac, datac, fatac;
  9748 
  9749 * qed (and friends) now accept "" as result name; in that case the
  9750 theorem is not stored, but proper checks and presentation of the
  9751 result still apply;
  9752 
  9753 * theorem database now also indexes constants "Trueprop", "all",
  9754 "==>", "=="; thus thms_containing, findI etc. may retrieve more rules;
  9755 
  9756 
  9757 *** HOL ***
  9758 
  9759 ** HOL arithmetic **
  9760 
  9761 * There are now decision procedures for linear arithmetic over nat and
  9762 int:
  9763 
  9764 1. arith_tac copes with arbitrary formulae involving `=', `<', `<=',
  9765 `+', `-', `Suc', `min', `max' and numerical constants; other subterms
  9766 are treated as atomic; subformulae not involving type `nat' or `int'
  9767 are ignored; quantified subformulae are ignored unless they are
  9768 positive universal or negative existential. The tactic has to be
  9769 invoked by hand and can be a little bit slow. In particular, the
  9770 running time is exponential in the number of occurrences of `min' and
  9771 `max', and `-' on `nat'.
  9772 
  9773 2. fast_arith_tac is a cut-down version of arith_tac: it only takes
  9774 (negated) (in)equalities among the premises and the conclusion into
  9775 account (i.e. no compound formulae) and does not know about `min' and
  9776 `max', and `-' on `nat'. It is fast and is used automatically by the
  9777 simplifier.
  9778 
  9779 NB: At the moment, these decision procedures do not cope with mixed
  9780 nat/int formulae where the two parts interact, such as `m < n ==>
  9781 int(m) < int(n)'.
  9782 
  9783 * HOL/Numeral provides a generic theory of numerals (encoded
  9784 efficiently as bit strings); setup for types nat/int/real is in place;
  9785 INCOMPATIBILITY: since numeral syntax is now polymorphic, rather than
  9786 int, existing theories and proof scripts may require a few additional
  9787 type constraints;
  9788 
  9789 * integer division and remainder can now be performed on constant
  9790 arguments;
  9791 
  9792 * many properties of integer multiplication, division and remainder
  9793 are now available;
  9794 
  9795 * An interface to the Stanford Validity Checker (SVC) is available through the
  9796 tactic svc_tac.  Propositional tautologies and theorems of linear arithmetic
  9797 are proved automatically.  SVC must be installed separately, and its results
  9798 must be TAKEN ON TRUST (Isabelle does not check the proofs, but tags any
  9799 invocation of the underlying oracle).  For SVC see
  9800   http://verify.stanford.edu/SVC
  9801 
  9802 * IsaMakefile: the HOL-Real target now builds an actual image;
  9803 
  9804 
  9805 ** HOL misc **
  9806 
  9807 * HOL/Real/HahnBanach: the Hahn-Banach theorem for real vector spaces
  9808 (in Isabelle/Isar) -- by Gertrud Bauer;
  9809 
  9810 * HOL/BCV: generic model of bytecode verification, i.e. data-flow
  9811 analysis for assembly languages with subtypes;
  9812 
  9813 * HOL/TLA (Lamport's Temporal Logic of Actions): major reorganization
  9814 -- avoids syntactic ambiguities and treats state, transition, and
  9815 temporal levels more uniformly; introduces INCOMPATIBILITIES due to
  9816 changed syntax and (many) tactics;
  9817 
  9818 * HOL/inductive: Now also handles more general introduction rules such
  9819   as "ALL y. (y, x) : r --> y : acc r ==> x : acc r"; monotonicity
  9820   theorems are now maintained within the theory (maintained via the
  9821   "mono" attribute);
  9822 
  9823 * HOL/datatype: Now also handles arbitrarily branching datatypes
  9824   (using function types) such as
  9825 
  9826   datatype 'a tree = Atom 'a | Branch "nat => 'a tree"
  9827 
  9828 * HOL/record: record_simproc (part of the default simpset) takes care
  9829 of selectors applied to updated records; record_split_tac is no longer
  9830 part of the default claset; update_defs may now be removed from the
  9831 simpset in many cases; COMPATIBILITY: old behavior achieved by
  9832 
  9833   claset_ref () := claset() addSWrapper record_split_wrapper;
  9834   Delsimprocs [record_simproc]
  9835 
  9836 * HOL/typedef: fixed type inference for representing set; type
  9837 arguments now have to occur explicitly on the rhs as type constraints;
  9838 
  9839 * HOL/recdef (TFL): 'congs' syntax now expects comma separated list of theorem
  9840 names rather than an ML expression;
  9841 
  9842 * HOL/defer_recdef (TFL): like recdef but the well-founded relation can be
  9843 supplied later.  Program schemes can be defined, such as
  9844     "While B C s = (if B s then While B C (C s) else s)"
  9845 where the well-founded relation can be chosen after B and C have been given.
  9846 
  9847 * HOL/List: the constructors of type list are now Nil and Cons;
  9848 INCOMPATIBILITY: while [] and infix # syntax is still there, of
  9849 course, ML tools referring to List.list.op # etc. have to be adapted;
  9850 
  9851 * HOL_quantifiers flag superseded by "HOL" print mode, which is
  9852 disabled by default; run isabelle with option -m HOL to get back to
  9853 the original Gordon/HOL-style output;
  9854 
  9855 * HOL/Ord.thy: new bounded quantifier syntax (input only): ALL x<y. P,
  9856 ALL x<=y. P, EX x<y. P, EX x<=y. P;
  9857 
  9858 * HOL basic syntax simplified (more orthogonal): all variants of
  9859 All/Ex now support plain / symbolic / HOL notation; plain syntax for
  9860 Eps operator is provided as well: "SOME x. P[x]";
  9861 
  9862 * HOL/Sum.thy: sum_case has been moved to HOL/Datatype;
  9863 
  9864 * HOL/Univ.thy: infix syntax <*>, <+>, <**>, <+> eliminated and made
  9865 thus available for user theories;
  9866 
  9867 * HOLCF/IOA/Sequents: renamed 'Cons' to 'Consq' to avoid clash with
  9868 HOL/List; hardly an INCOMPATIBILITY since '>>' syntax is used all the
  9869 time;
  9870 
  9871 * HOL: new tactic smp_tac: int -> int -> tactic, which applies spec
  9872 several times and then mp;
  9873 
  9874 
  9875 *** LK ***
  9876 
  9877 * the notation <<...>> is now available as a notation for sequences of
  9878 formulas;
  9879 
  9880 * the simplifier is now installed
  9881 
  9882 * the axiom system has been generalized (thanks to Soren Heilmann)
  9883 
  9884 * the classical reasoner now has a default rule database
  9885 
  9886 
  9887 *** ZF ***
  9888 
  9889 * new primrec section allows primitive recursive functions to be given
  9890 directly (as in HOL) over datatypes and the natural numbers;
  9891 
  9892 * new tactics induct_tac and exhaust_tac for induction (or case
  9893 analysis) over datatypes and the natural numbers;
  9894 
  9895 * the datatype declaration of type T now defines the recursor T_rec;
  9896 
  9897 * simplification automatically does freeness reasoning for datatype
  9898 constructors;
  9899 
  9900 * automatic type-inference, with AddTCs command to insert new
  9901 type-checking rules;
  9902 
  9903 * datatype introduction rules are now added as Safe Introduction rules
  9904 to the claset;
  9905 
  9906 * the syntax "if P then x else y" is now available in addition to
  9907 if(P,x,y);
  9908 
  9909 
  9910 *** Internal programming interfaces ***
  9911 
  9912 * tuned simplifier trace output; new flag debug_simp;
  9913 
  9914 * structures Vartab / Termtab (instances of TableFun) offer efficient
  9915 tables indexed by indexname_ord / term_ord (compatible with aconv);
  9916 
  9917 * AxClass.axclass_tac lost the theory argument;
  9918 
  9919 * tuned current_goals_markers semantics: begin / end goal avoids
  9920 printing empty lines;
  9921 
  9922 * removed prs and prs_fn hook, which was broken because it did not
  9923 include \n in its semantics, forcing writeln to add one
  9924 uncoditionally; replaced prs_fn by writeln_fn; consider std_output:
  9925 string -> unit if you really want to output text without newline;
  9926 
  9927 * Symbol.output subject to print mode; INCOMPATIBILITY: defaults to
  9928 plain output, interface builders may have to enable 'isabelle_font'
  9929 mode to get Isabelle font glyphs as before;
  9930 
  9931 * refined token_translation interface; INCOMPATIBILITY: output length
  9932 now of type real instead of int;
  9933 
  9934 * theory loader actions may be traced via new ThyInfo.add_hook
  9935 interface (see src/Pure/Thy/thy_info.ML); example application: keep
  9936 your own database of information attached to *whole* theories -- as
  9937 opposed to intra-theory data slots offered via TheoryDataFun;
  9938 
  9939 * proper handling of dangling sort hypotheses (at last!);
  9940 Thm.strip_shyps and Drule.strip_shyps_warning take care of removing
  9941 extra sort hypotheses that can be witnessed from the type signature;
  9942 the force_strip_shyps flag is gone, any remaining shyps are simply
  9943 left in the theorem (with a warning issued by strip_shyps_warning);
  9944 
  9945 
  9946 
  9947 New in Isabelle98-1 (October 1998)
  9948 ----------------------------------
  9949 
  9950 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
  9951 
  9952 * several changes of automated proof tools;
  9953 
  9954 * HOL: major changes to the inductive and datatype packages, including
  9955 some minor incompatibilities of theory syntax;
  9956 
  9957 * HOL: renamed r^-1 to 'converse' from 'inverse'; 'inj_onto' is now
  9958 called `inj_on';
  9959 
  9960 * HOL: removed duplicate thms in Arith:
  9961   less_imp_add_less  should be replaced by  trans_less_add1
  9962   le_imp_add_le      should be replaced by  trans_le_add1
  9963 
  9964 * HOL: unary minus is now overloaded (new type constraints may be
  9965 required);
  9966 
  9967 * HOL and ZF: unary minus for integers is now #- instead of #~.  In
  9968 ZF, expressions such as n#-1 must be changed to n#- 1, since #-1 is
  9969 now taken as an integer constant.
  9970 
  9971 * Pure: ML function 'theory_of' renamed to 'theory';
  9972 
  9973 
  9974 *** Proof tools ***
  9975 
  9976 * Simplifier:
  9977   1. Asm_full_simp_tac is now more aggressive.
  9978      1. It will sometimes reorient premises if that increases their power to
  9979         simplify.
  9980      2. It does no longer proceed strictly from left to right but may also
  9981         rotate premises to achieve further simplification.
  9982      For compatibility reasons there is now Asm_lr_simp_tac which is like the
  9983      old Asm_full_simp_tac in that it does not rotate premises.
  9984   2. The simplifier now knows a little bit about nat-arithmetic.
  9985 
  9986 * Classical reasoner: wrapper mechanism for the classical reasoner now
  9987 allows for selected deletion of wrappers, by introduction of names for
  9988 wrapper functionals.  This implies that addbefore, addSbefore,
  9989 addaltern, and addSaltern now take a pair (name, tactic) as argument,
  9990 and that adding two tactics with the same name overwrites the first
  9991 one (emitting a warning).
  9992   type wrapper = (int -> tactic) -> (int -> tactic)
  9993   setWrapper, setSWrapper, compWrapper and compSWrapper are replaced by
  9994   addWrapper, addSWrapper: claset * (string * wrapper) -> claset
  9995   delWrapper, delSWrapper: claset *  string            -> claset
  9996   getWrapper is renamed to appWrappers, getSWrapper to appSWrappers;
  9997 
  9998 * Classical reasoner: addbefore/addSbefore now have APPEND/ORELSE
  9999 semantics; addbefore now affects only the unsafe part of step_tac
 10000 etc.; this affects addss/auto_tac/force_tac, so EXISTING PROOFS MAY
 10001 FAIL, but proofs should be fixable easily, e.g. by replacing Auto_tac
 10002 by Force_tac;
 10003 
 10004 * Classical reasoner: setwrapper to setWrapper and compwrapper to
 10005 compWrapper; added safe wrapper (and access functions for it);
 10006 
 10007 * HOL/split_all_tac is now much faster and fails if there is nothing
 10008 to split.  Some EXISTING PROOFS MAY REQUIRE ADAPTION because the order
 10009 and the names of the automatically generated variables have changed.
 10010 split_all_tac has moved within claset() from unsafe wrappers to safe
 10011 wrappers, which means that !!-bound variables are split much more
 10012 aggressively, and safe_tac and clarify_tac now split such variables.
 10013 If this splitting is not appropriate, use delSWrapper "split_all_tac".
 10014 Note: the same holds for record_split_tac, which does the job of
 10015 split_all_tac for record fields.
 10016 
 10017 * HOL/Simplifier: Rewrite rules for case distinctions can now be added
 10018 permanently to the default simpset using Addsplits just like
 10019 Addsimps. They can be removed via Delsplits just like
 10020 Delsimps. Lower-case versions are also available.
 10021 
 10022 * HOL/Simplifier: The rule split_if is now part of the default
 10023 simpset. This means that the simplifier will eliminate all occurrences
 10024 of if-then-else in the conclusion of a goal. To prevent this, you can
 10025 either remove split_if completely from the default simpset by
 10026 `Delsplits [split_if]' or remove it in a specific call of the
 10027 simplifier using `... delsplits [split_if]'.  You can also add/delete
 10028 other case splitting rules to/from the default simpset: every datatype
 10029 generates suitable rules `split_t_case' and `split_t_case_asm' (where
 10030 t is the name of the datatype).
 10031 
 10032 * Classical reasoner / Simplifier combination: new force_tac (and
 10033 derivatives Force_tac, force) combines rewriting and classical
 10034 reasoning (and whatever other tools) similarly to auto_tac, but is
 10035 aimed to solve the given subgoal completely.
 10036 
 10037 
 10038 *** General ***
 10039 
 10040 * new top-level commands `Goal' and `Goalw' that improve upon `goal'
 10041 and `goalw': the theory is no longer needed as an explicit argument -
 10042 the current theory context is used; assumptions are no longer returned
 10043 at the ML-level unless one of them starts with ==> or !!; it is
 10044 recommended to convert to these new commands using isatool fixgoal
 10045 (backup your sources first!);
 10046 
 10047 * new top-level commands 'thm' and 'thms' for retrieving theorems from
 10048 the current theory context, and 'theory' to lookup stored theories;
 10049 
 10050 * new theory section 'locale' for declaring constants, assumptions and
 10051 definitions that have local scope;
 10052 
 10053 * new theory section 'nonterminals' for purely syntactic types;
 10054 
 10055 * new theory section 'setup' for generic ML setup functions
 10056 (e.g. package initialization);
 10057 
 10058 * the distribution now includes Isabelle icons: see
 10059 lib/logo/isabelle-{small,tiny}.xpm;
 10060 
 10061 * isatool install - install binaries with absolute references to
 10062 ISABELLE_HOME/bin;
 10063 
 10064 * isatool logo -- create instances of the Isabelle logo (as EPS);
 10065 
 10066 * print mode 'emacs' reserved for Isamode;
 10067 
 10068 * support multiple print (ast) translations per constant name;
 10069 
 10070 * theorems involving oracles are now printed with a suffixed [!];
 10071 
 10072 
 10073 *** HOL ***
 10074 
 10075 * there is now a tutorial on Isabelle/HOL (do 'isatool doc tutorial');
 10076 
 10077 * HOL/inductive package reorganized and improved: now supports mutual
 10078 definitions such as
 10079 
 10080   inductive EVEN ODD
 10081     intrs
 10082       null "0 : EVEN"
 10083       oddI "n : EVEN ==> Suc n : ODD"
 10084       evenI "n : ODD ==> Suc n : EVEN"
 10085 
 10086 new theorem list "elims" contains an elimination rule for each of the
 10087 recursive sets; inductive definitions now handle disjunctive premises
 10088 correctly (also ZF);
 10089 
 10090 INCOMPATIBILITIES: requires Inductive as an ancestor; component
 10091 "mutual_induct" no longer exists - the induction rule is always
 10092 contained in "induct";
 10093 
 10094 
 10095 * HOL/datatype package re-implemented and greatly improved: now
 10096 supports mutually recursive datatypes such as
 10097 
 10098   datatype
 10099     'a aexp = IF_THEN_ELSE ('a bexp) ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10100             | SUM ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10101             | DIFF ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10102             | NUM 'a
 10103   and
 10104     'a bexp = LESS ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10105             | AND ('a bexp) ('a bexp)
 10106             | OR ('a bexp) ('a bexp)
 10107 
 10108 as well as indirectly recursive datatypes such as
 10109 
 10110   datatype
 10111     ('a, 'b) term = Var 'a
 10112                   | App 'b ((('a, 'b) term) list)
 10113 
 10114 The new tactic  mutual_induct_tac [<var_1>, ..., <var_n>] i  performs
 10115 induction on mutually / indirectly recursive datatypes.
 10116 
 10117 Primrec equations are now stored in theory and can be accessed via
 10118 <function_name>.simps.
 10119 
 10120 INCOMPATIBILITIES:
 10121 
 10122   - Theories using datatypes must now have theory Datatype as an
 10123     ancestor.
 10124   - The specific <typename>.induct_tac no longer exists - use the
 10125     generic induct_tac instead.
 10126   - natE has been renamed to nat.exhaust - use exhaust_tac
 10127     instead of res_inst_tac ... natE. Note that the variable
 10128     names in nat.exhaust differ from the names in natE, this
 10129     may cause some "fragile" proofs to fail.
 10130   - The theorems split_<typename>_case and split_<typename>_case_asm
 10131     have been renamed to <typename>.split and <typename>.split_asm.
 10132   - Since default sorts of type variables are now handled correctly,
 10133     some datatype definitions may have to be annotated with explicit
 10134     sort constraints.
 10135   - Primrec definitions no longer require function name and type
 10136     of recursive argument.
 10137 
 10138 Consider using isatool fixdatatype to adapt your theories and proof
 10139 scripts to the new package (backup your sources first!).
 10140 
 10141 
 10142 * HOL/record package: considerably improved implementation; now
 10143 includes concrete syntax for record types, terms, updates; theorems
 10144 for surjective pairing and splitting !!-bound record variables; proof
 10145 support is as follows:
 10146 
 10147   1) standard conversions (selectors or updates applied to record
 10148 constructor terms) are part of the standard simpset;
 10149 
 10150   2) inject equations of the form ((x, y) = (x', y')) == x=x' & y=y' are
 10151 made part of standard simpset and claset via addIffs;
 10152 
 10153   3) a tactic for record field splitting (record_split_tac) is part of
 10154 the standard claset (addSWrapper);
 10155 
 10156 To get a better idea about these rules you may retrieve them via
 10157 something like 'thms "foo.simps"' or 'thms "foo.iffs"', where "foo" is
 10158 the name of your record type.
 10159 
 10160 The split tactic 3) conceptually simplifies by the following rule:
 10161 
 10162   "(!!x. PROP ?P x) == (!!a b. PROP ?P (a, b))"
 10163 
 10164 Thus any record variable that is bound by meta-all will automatically
 10165 blow up into some record constructor term, consequently the
 10166 simplifications of 1), 2) apply.  Thus force_tac, auto_tac etc. shall
 10167 solve record problems automatically.
 10168 
 10169 
 10170 * reorganized the main HOL image: HOL/Integ and String loaded by
 10171 default; theory Main includes everything;
 10172 
 10173 * automatic simplification of integer sums and comparisons, using cancellation;
 10174 
 10175 * added option_map_eq_Some and not_Some_eq to the default simpset and claset;
 10176 
 10177 * added disj_not1 = "(~P | Q) = (P --> Q)" to the default simpset;
 10178 
 10179 * many new identities for unions, intersections, set difference, etc.;
 10180 
 10181 * expand_if, expand_split, expand_sum_case and expand_nat_case are now
 10182 called split_if, split_split, split_sum_case and split_nat_case (to go
 10183 with add/delsplits);
 10184 
 10185 * HOL/Prod introduces simplification procedure unit_eq_proc rewriting
 10186 (?x::unit) = (); this is made part of the default simpset, which COULD
 10187 MAKE EXISTING PROOFS FAIL under rare circumstances (consider
 10188 'Delsimprocs [unit_eq_proc];' as last resort); also note that
 10189 unit_abs_eta_conv is added in order to counter the effect of
 10190 unit_eq_proc on (%u::unit. f u), replacing it by f rather than by
 10191 %u.f();
 10192 
 10193 * HOL/Fun INCOMPATIBILITY: `inj_onto' is now called `inj_on' (which
 10194 makes more sense);
 10195 
 10196 * HOL/Set INCOMPATIBILITY: rule `equals0D' is now a well-formed destruct rule;
 10197   It and 'sym RS equals0D' are now in the default  claset, giving automatic
 10198   disjointness reasoning but breaking a few old proofs.
 10199 
 10200 * HOL/Relation INCOMPATIBILITY: renamed the relational operator r^-1
 10201 to 'converse' from 'inverse' (for compatibility with ZF and some
 10202 literature);
 10203 
 10204 * HOL/recdef can now declare non-recursive functions, with {} supplied as
 10205 the well-founded relation;
 10206 
 10207 * HOL/Set INCOMPATIBILITY: the complement of set A is now written -A instead of
 10208     Compl A.  The "Compl" syntax remains available as input syntax for this
 10209     release ONLY.
 10210 
 10211 * HOL/Update: new theory of function updates:
 10212     f(a:=b) == %x. if x=a then b else f x
 10213 may also be iterated as in f(a:=b,c:=d,...);
 10214 
 10215 * HOL/Vimage: new theory for inverse image of a function, syntax f-``B;
 10216 
 10217 * HOL/List:
 10218   - new function list_update written xs[i:=v] that updates the i-th
 10219     list position. May also be iterated as in xs[i:=a,j:=b,...].
 10220   - new function `upt' written [i..j(] which generates the list
 10221     [i,i+1,...,j-1], i.e. the upper bound is excluded. To include the upper
 10222     bound write [i..j], which is a shorthand for [i..j+1(].
 10223   - new lexicographic orderings and corresponding wellfoundedness theorems.
 10224 
 10225 * HOL/Arith:
 10226   - removed 'pred' (predecessor) function;
 10227   - generalized some theorems about n-1;
 10228   - many new laws about "div" and "mod";
 10229   - new laws about greatest common divisors (see theory ex/Primes);
 10230 
 10231 * HOL/Relation: renamed the relational operator r^-1 "converse"
 10232 instead of "inverse";
 10233 
 10234 * HOL/Induct/Multiset: a theory of multisets, including the wellfoundedness
 10235   of the multiset ordering;
 10236 
 10237 * directory HOL/Real: a construction of the reals using Dedekind cuts
 10238   (not included by default);
 10239 
 10240 * directory HOL/UNITY: Chandy and Misra's UNITY formalism;
 10241 
 10242 * directory HOL/Hoare: a new version of Hoare logic which permits many-sorted
 10243   programs, i.e. different program variables may have different types.
 10244 
 10245 * calling (stac rew i) now fails if "rew" has no effect on the goal
 10246   [previously, this check worked only if the rewrite rule was unconditional]
 10247   Now rew can involve either definitions or equalities (either == or =).
 10248 
 10249 
 10250 *** ZF ***
 10251 
 10252 * theory Main includes everything; INCOMPATIBILITY: theory ZF.thy contains
 10253   only the theorems proved on ZF.ML;
 10254 
 10255 * ZF INCOMPATIBILITY: rule `equals0D' is now a well-formed destruct rule;
 10256   It and 'sym RS equals0D' are now in the default  claset, giving automatic
 10257   disjointness reasoning but breaking a few old proofs.
 10258 
 10259 * ZF/Update: new theory of function updates
 10260     with default rewrite rule  f(x:=y) ` z = if(z=x, y, f`z)
 10261   may also be iterated as in f(a:=b,c:=d,...);
 10262 
 10263 * in  let x=t in u(x), neither t nor u(x) has to be an FOL term.
 10264 
 10265 * calling (stac rew i) now fails if "rew" has no effect on the goal
 10266   [previously, this check worked only if the rewrite rule was unconditional]
 10267   Now rew can involve either definitions or equalities (either == or =).
 10268 
 10269 * case_tac provided for compatibility with HOL
 10270     (like the old excluded_middle_tac, but with subgoals swapped)
 10271 
 10272 
 10273 *** Internal programming interfaces ***
 10274 
 10275 * Pure: several new basic modules made available for general use, see
 10276 also src/Pure/README;
 10277 
 10278 * improved the theory data mechanism to support encapsulation (data
 10279 kind name replaced by private Object.kind, acting as authorization
 10280 key); new type-safe user interface via functor TheoryDataFun; generic
 10281 print_data function becomes basically useless;
 10282 
 10283 * removed global_names compatibility flag -- all theory declarations
 10284 are qualified by default;
 10285 
 10286 * module Pure/Syntax now offers quote / antiquote translation
 10287 functions (useful for Hoare logic etc. with implicit dependencies);
 10288 see HOL/ex/Antiquote for an example use;
 10289 
 10290 * Simplifier now offers conversions (asm_)(full_)rewrite: simpset ->
 10291 cterm -> thm;
 10292 
 10293 * new tactical CHANGED_GOAL for checking that a tactic modifies a
 10294 subgoal;
 10295 
 10296 * Display.print_goals function moved to Locale.print_goals;
 10297 
 10298 * standard print function for goals supports current_goals_markers
 10299 variable for marking begin of proof, end of proof, start of goal; the
 10300 default is ("", "", ""); setting current_goals_markers := ("<proof>",
 10301 "</proof>", "<goal>") causes SGML like tagged proof state printing,
 10302 for example;
 10303 
 10304 
 10305 
 10306 New in Isabelle98 (January 1998)
 10307 --------------------------------
 10308 
 10309 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
 10310 
 10311 * changed lexical syntax of terms / types: dots made part of long
 10312 identifiers, e.g. "%x.x" no longer possible, should be "%x. x";
 10313 
 10314 * simpset (and claset) reference variable replaced by functions
 10315 simpset / simpset_ref;
 10316 
 10317 * no longer supports theory aliases (via merge) and non-trivial
 10318 implicit merge of thms' signatures;
 10319 
 10320 * most internal names of constants changed due to qualified names;
 10321 
 10322 * changed Pure/Sequence interface (see Pure/seq.ML);
 10323 
 10324 
 10325 *** General Changes ***
 10326 
 10327 * hierachically structured name spaces (for consts, types, axms, thms
 10328 etc.); new lexical class 'longid' (e.g. Foo.bar.x) may render much of
 10329 old input syntactically incorrect (e.g. "%x.x"); COMPATIBILITY:
 10330 isatool fixdots ensures space after dots (e.g. "%x. x"); set
 10331 long_names for fully qualified output names; NOTE: ML programs
 10332 (special tactics, packages etc.) referring to internal names may have
 10333 to be adapted to cope with fully qualified names; in case of severe
 10334 backward campatibility problems try setting 'global_names' at compile
 10335 time to have enrything declared within a flat name space; one may also
 10336 fine tune name declarations in theories via the 'global' and 'local'
 10337 section;
 10338 
 10339 * reimplemented the implicit simpset and claset using the new anytype
 10340 data filed in signatures; references simpset:simpset ref etc. are
 10341 replaced by functions simpset:unit->simpset and
 10342 simpset_ref:unit->simpset ref; COMPATIBILITY: use isatool fixclasimp
 10343 to patch your ML files accordingly;
 10344 
 10345 * HTML output now includes theory graph data for display with Java
 10346 applet or isatool browser; data generated automatically via isatool
 10347 usedir (see -i option, ISABELLE_USEDIR_OPTIONS);
 10348 
 10349 * defs may now be conditional; improved rewrite_goals_tac to handle
 10350 conditional equations;
 10351 
 10352 * defs now admits additional type arguments, using TYPE('a) syntax;
 10353 
 10354 * theory aliases via merge (e.g. M=A+B+C) no longer supported, always
 10355 creates a new theory node; implicit merge of thms' signatures is
 10356 restricted to 'trivial' ones; COMPATIBILITY: one may have to use
 10357 transfer:theory->thm->thm in (rare) cases;
 10358 
 10359 * improved handling of draft signatures / theories; draft thms (and
 10360 ctyps, cterms) are automatically promoted to real ones;
 10361 
 10362 * slightly changed interfaces for oracles: admit many per theory, named
 10363 (e.g. oracle foo = mlfun), additional name argument for invoke_oracle;
 10364 
 10365 * print_goals: optional output of const types (set show_consts and
 10366 show_types);
 10367 
 10368 * improved output of warnings (###) and errors (***);
 10369 
 10370 * subgoal_tac displays a warning if the new subgoal has type variables;
 10371 
 10372 * removed old README and Makefiles;
 10373 
 10374 * replaced print_goals_ref hook by print_current_goals_fn and result_error_fn;
 10375 
 10376 * removed obsolete init_pps and init_database;
 10377 
 10378 * deleted the obsolete tactical STATE, which was declared by
 10379     fun STATE tacfun st = tacfun st st;
 10380 
 10381 * cd and use now support path variables, e.g. $ISABELLE_HOME, or ~
 10382 (which abbreviates $HOME);
 10383 
 10384 * changed Pure/Sequence interface (see Pure/seq.ML); COMPATIBILITY:
 10385 use isatool fixseq to adapt your ML programs (this works for fully
 10386 qualified references to the Sequence structure only!);
 10387 
 10388 * use_thy no longer requires writable current directory; it always
 10389 reloads .ML *and* .thy file, if either one is out of date;
 10390 
 10391 
 10392 *** Classical Reasoner ***
 10393 
 10394 * Clarify_tac, clarify_tac, clarify_step_tac, Clarify_step_tac: new
 10395 tactics that use classical reasoning to simplify a subgoal without
 10396 splitting it into several subgoals;
 10397 
 10398 * Safe_tac: like safe_tac but uses the default claset;
 10399 
 10400 
 10401 *** Simplifier ***
 10402 
 10403 * added simplification meta rules:
 10404     (asm_)(full_)simplify: simpset -> thm -> thm;
 10405 
 10406 * simplifier.ML no longer part of Pure -- has to be loaded by object
 10407 logics (again);
 10408 
 10409 * added prems argument to simplification procedures;
 10410 
 10411 * HOL, FOL, ZF: added infix function `addsplits':
 10412   instead of `<simpset> setloop (split_tac <thms>)'
 10413   you can simply write `<simpset> addsplits <thms>'
 10414 
 10415 
 10416 *** Syntax ***
 10417 
 10418 * TYPE('a) syntax for type reflection terms;
 10419 
 10420 * no longer handles consts with name "" -- declare as 'syntax' instead;
 10421 
 10422 * pretty printer: changed order of mixfix annotation preference (again!);
 10423 
 10424 * Pure: fixed idt/idts vs. pttrn/pttrns syntactic categories;
 10425 
 10426 
 10427 *** HOL ***
 10428 
 10429 * HOL: there is a new splitter `split_asm_tac' that can be used e.g.
 10430   with `addloop' of the simplifier to faciliate case splitting in premises.
 10431 
 10432 * HOL/TLA: Stephan Merz's formalization of Lamport's Temporal Logic of Actions;
 10433 
 10434 * HOL/Auth: new protocol proofs including some for the Internet
 10435   protocol TLS;
 10436 
 10437 * HOL/Map: new theory of `maps' a la VDM;
 10438 
 10439 * HOL/simplifier: simplification procedures nat_cancel_sums for
 10440 cancelling out common nat summands from =, <, <= (in)equalities, or
 10441 differences; simplification procedures nat_cancel_factor for
 10442 cancelling common factor from =, <, <= (in)equalities over natural
 10443 sums; nat_cancel contains both kinds of procedures, it is installed by
 10444 default in Arith.thy -- this COULD MAKE EXISTING PROOFS FAIL;
 10445 
 10446 * HOL/simplifier: terms of the form
 10447   `? x. P1(x) & ... & Pn(x) & x=t & Q1(x) & ... Qn(x)'  (or t=x)
 10448   are rewritten to
 10449   `P1(t) & ... & Pn(t) & Q1(t) & ... Qn(t)',
 10450   and those of the form
 10451   `! x. P1(x) & ... & Pn(x) & x=t & Q1(x) & ... Qn(x) --> R(x)'  (or t=x)
 10452   are rewritten to
 10453   `P1(t) & ... & Pn(t) & Q1(t) & ... Qn(t) --> R(t)',
 10454 
 10455 * HOL/datatype
 10456   Each datatype `t' now comes with a theorem `split_t_case' of the form
 10457 
 10458   P(t_case f1 ... fn x) =
 10459      ( (!y1 ... ym1. x = C1 y1 ... ym1 --> P(f1 y1 ... ym1)) &
 10460         ...
 10461        (!y1 ... ymn. x = Cn y1 ... ymn --> P(f1 y1 ... ymn))
 10462      )
 10463 
 10464   and a theorem `split_t_case_asm' of the form
 10465 
 10466   P(t_case f1 ... fn x) =
 10467     ~( (? y1 ... ym1. x = C1 y1 ... ym1 & ~P(f1 y1 ... ym1)) |
 10468         ...
 10469        (? y1 ... ymn. x = Cn y1 ... ymn & ~P(f1 y1 ... ymn))
 10470      )
 10471   which can be added to a simpset via `addsplits'. The existing theorems
 10472   expand_list_case and expand_option_case have been renamed to
 10473   split_list_case and split_option_case.
 10474 
 10475 * HOL/Arithmetic:
 10476   - `pred n' is automatically converted to `n-1'.
 10477     Users are strongly encouraged not to use `pred' any longer,
 10478     because it will disappear altogether at some point.
 10479   - Users are strongly encouraged to write "0 < n" rather than
 10480     "n ~= 0". Theorems and proof tools have been modified towards this
 10481     `standard'.
 10482 
 10483 * HOL/Lists:
 10484   the function "set_of_list" has been renamed "set" (and its theorems too);
 10485   the function "nth" now takes its arguments in the reverse order and
 10486   has acquired the infix notation "!" as in "xs!n".
 10487 
 10488 * HOL/Set: UNIV is now a constant and is no longer translated to Compl{};
 10489 
 10490 * HOL/Set: The operator (UN x.B x) now abbreviates (UN x:UNIV. B x) and its
 10491   specialist theorems (like UN1_I) are gone.  Similarly for (INT x.B x);
 10492 
 10493 * HOL/record: extensible records with schematic structural subtyping
 10494 (single inheritance); EXPERIMENTAL version demonstrating the encoding,
 10495 still lacks various theorems and concrete record syntax;
 10496 
 10497 
 10498 *** HOLCF ***
 10499 
 10500 * removed "axioms" and "generated by" sections;
 10501 
 10502 * replaced "ops" section by extended "consts" section, which is capable of
 10503   handling the continuous function space "->" directly;
 10504 
 10505 * domain package:
 10506   . proves theorems immediately and stores them in the theory,
 10507   . creates hierachical name space,
 10508   . now uses normal mixfix annotations (instead of cinfix...),
 10509   . minor changes to some names and values (for consistency),
 10510   . e.g. cases -> casedist, dists_eq -> dist_eqs, [take_lemma] -> take_lemmas,
 10511   . separator between mutual domain defs: changed "," to "and",
 10512   . improved handling of sort constraints;  now they have to
 10513     appear on the left-hand side of the equations only;
 10514 
 10515 * fixed LAM <x,y,zs>.b syntax;
 10516 
 10517 * added extended adm_tac to simplifier in HOLCF -- can now discharge
 10518 adm (%x. P (t x)), where P is chainfinite and t continuous;
 10519 
 10520 
 10521 *** FOL and ZF ***
 10522 
 10523 * FOL: there is a new splitter `split_asm_tac' that can be used e.g.
 10524   with `addloop' of the simplifier to faciliate case splitting in premises.
 10525 
 10526 * qed_spec_mp, qed_goal_spec_mp, qed_goalw_spec_mp are available, as
 10527 in HOL, they strip ALL and --> from proved theorems;
 10528 
 10529 
 10530 
 10531 New in Isabelle94-8 (May 1997)
 10532 ------------------------------
 10533 
 10534 *** General Changes ***
 10535 
 10536 * new utilities to build / run / maintain Isabelle etc. (in parts
 10537 still somewhat experimental); old Makefiles etc. still functional;
 10538 
 10539 * new 'Isabelle System Manual';
 10540 
 10541 * INSTALL text, together with ./configure and ./build scripts;
 10542 
 10543 * reimplemented type inference for greater efficiency, better error
 10544 messages and clean internal interface;
 10545 
 10546 * prlim command for dealing with lots of subgoals (an easier way of
 10547 setting goals_limit);
 10548 
 10549 
 10550 *** Syntax ***
 10551 
 10552 * supports alternative (named) syntax tables (parser and pretty
 10553 printer); internal interface is provided by add_modesyntax(_i);
 10554 
 10555 * Pure, FOL, ZF, HOL, HOLCF now support symbolic input and output; to
 10556 be used in conjunction with the Isabelle symbol font; uses the
 10557 "symbols" syntax table;
 10558 
 10559 * added token_translation interface (may translate name tokens in
 10560 arbitrary ways, dependent on their type (free, bound, tfree, ...) and
 10561 the current print_mode); IMPORTANT: user print translation functions
 10562 are responsible for marking newly introduced bounds
 10563 (Syntax.mark_boundT);
 10564 
 10565 * token translations for modes "xterm" and "xterm_color" that display
 10566 names in bold, underline etc. or colors (which requires a color
 10567 version of xterm);
 10568 
 10569 * infixes may now be declared with names independent of their syntax;
 10570 
 10571 * added typed_print_translation (like print_translation, but may
 10572 access type of constant);
 10573 
 10574 
 10575 *** Classical Reasoner ***
 10576 
 10577 Blast_tac: a new tactic!  It is often more powerful than fast_tac, but has
 10578 some limitations.  Blast_tac...
 10579   + ignores addss, addbefore, addafter; this restriction is intrinsic
 10580   + ignores elimination rules that don't have the correct format
 10581         (the conclusion MUST be a formula variable)
 10582   + ignores types, which can make HOL proofs fail
 10583   + rules must not require higher-order unification, e.g. apply_type in ZF
 10584     [message "Function Var's argument not a bound variable" relates to this]
 10585   + its proof strategy is more general but can actually be slower
 10586 
 10587 * substitution with equality assumptions no longer permutes other
 10588 assumptions;
 10589 
 10590 * minor changes in semantics of addafter (now called addaltern); renamed
 10591 setwrapper to setWrapper and compwrapper to compWrapper; added safe wrapper
 10592 (and access functions for it);
 10593 
 10594 * improved combination of classical reasoner and simplifier:
 10595   + functions for handling clasimpsets
 10596   + improvement of addss: now the simplifier is called _after_ the
 10597     safe steps.
 10598   + safe variant of addss called addSss: uses safe simplifications
 10599     _during_ the safe steps. It is more complete as it allows multiple
 10600     instantiations of unknowns (e.g. with slow_tac).
 10601 
 10602 *** Simplifier ***
 10603 
 10604 * added interface for simplification procedures (functions that
 10605 produce *proven* rewrite rules on the fly, depending on current
 10606 redex);
 10607 
 10608 * ordering on terms as parameter (used for ordered rewriting);
 10609 
 10610 * new functions delcongs, deleqcongs, and Delcongs. richer rep_ss;
 10611 
 10612 * the solver is now split into a safe and an unsafe part.
 10613 This should be invisible for the normal user, except that the
 10614 functions setsolver and addsolver have been renamed to setSolver and
 10615 addSolver; added safe_asm_full_simp_tac;
 10616 
 10617 
 10618 *** HOL ***
 10619 
 10620 * a generic induction tactic `induct_tac' which works for all datatypes and
 10621 also for type `nat';
 10622 
 10623 * a generic case distinction tactic `exhaust_tac' which works for all
 10624 datatypes and also for type `nat';
 10625 
 10626 * each datatype comes with a function `size';
 10627 
 10628 * patterns in case expressions allow tuple patterns as arguments to
 10629 constructors, for example `case x of [] => ... | (x,y,z)#ps => ...';
 10630 
 10631 * primrec now also works with type nat;
 10632 
 10633 * recdef: a new declaration form, allows general recursive functions to be
 10634 defined in theory files.  See HOL/ex/Fib, HOL/ex/Primes, HOL/Subst/Unify.
 10635 
 10636 * the constant for negation has been renamed from "not" to "Not" to
 10637 harmonize with FOL, ZF, LK, etc.;
 10638 
 10639 * HOL/ex/LFilter theory of a corecursive "filter" functional for
 10640 infinite lists;
 10641 
 10642 * HOL/Modelcheck demonstrates invocation of model checker oracle;
 10643 
 10644 * HOL/ex/Ring.thy declares cring_simp, which solves equational
 10645 problems in commutative rings, using axiomatic type classes for + and *;
 10646 
 10647 * more examples in HOL/MiniML and HOL/Auth;
 10648 
 10649 * more default rewrite rules for quantifiers, union/intersection;
 10650 
 10651 * a new constant `arbitrary == @x.False';
 10652 
 10653 * HOLCF/IOA replaces old HOL/IOA;
 10654 
 10655 * HOLCF changes: derived all rules and arities
 10656   + axiomatic type classes instead of classes
 10657   + typedef instead of faking type definitions
 10658   + eliminated the internal constants less_fun, less_cfun, UU_fun, UU_cfun etc.
 10659   + new axclasses cpo, chfin, flat with flat < chfin < pcpo < cpo < po
 10660   + eliminated the types void, one, tr
 10661   + use unit lift and bool lift (with translations) instead of one and tr
 10662   + eliminated blift from Lift3.thy (use Def instead of blift)
 10663   all eliminated rules are derived as theorems --> no visible changes ;
 10664 
 10665 
 10666 *** ZF ***
 10667 
 10668 * ZF now has Fast_tac, Simp_tac and Auto_tac.  Union_iff is a now a default
 10669 rewrite rule; this may affect some proofs.  eq_cs is gone but can be put back
 10670 as ZF_cs addSIs [equalityI];
 10671 
 10672 
 10673 
 10674 New in Isabelle94-7 (November 96)
 10675 ---------------------------------
 10676 
 10677 * allowing negative levels (as offsets) in prlev and choplev;
 10678 
 10679 * super-linear speedup for large simplifications;
 10680 
 10681 * FOL, ZF and HOL now use miniscoping: rewriting pushes
 10682 quantifications in as far as possible (COULD MAKE EXISTING PROOFS
 10683 FAIL); can suppress it using the command Delsimps (ex_simps @
 10684 all_simps); De Morgan laws are also now included, by default;
 10685 
 10686 * improved printing of ==>  :  ~:
 10687 
 10688 * new object-logic "Sequents" adds linear logic, while replacing LK
 10689 and Modal (thanks to Sara Kalvala);
 10690 
 10691 * HOL/Auth: correctness proofs for authentication protocols;
 10692 
 10693 * HOL: new auto_tac combines rewriting and classical reasoning (many
 10694 examples on HOL/Auth);
 10695 
 10696 * HOL: new command AddIffs for declaring theorems of the form P=Q to
 10697 the rewriter and classical reasoner simultaneously;
 10698 
 10699 * function uresult no longer returns theorems in "standard" format;
 10700 regain previous version by: val uresult = standard o uresult;
 10701 
 10702 
 10703 
 10704 New in Isabelle94-6
 10705 -------------------
 10706 
 10707 * oracles -- these establish an interface between Isabelle and trusted
 10708 external reasoners, which may deliver results as theorems;
 10709 
 10710 * proof objects (in particular record all uses of oracles);
 10711 
 10712 * Simp_tac, Fast_tac, etc. that refer to implicit simpset / claset;
 10713 
 10714 * "constdefs" section in theory files;
 10715 
 10716 * "primrec" section (HOL) no longer requires names;
 10717 
 10718 * internal type "tactic" now simply "thm -> thm Sequence.seq";
 10719 
 10720 
 10721 
 10722 New in Isabelle94-5
 10723 -------------------
 10724 
 10725 * reduced space requirements;
 10726 
 10727 * automatic HTML generation from theories;
 10728 
 10729 * theory files no longer require "..." (quotes) around most types;
 10730 
 10731 * new examples, including two proofs of the Church-Rosser theorem;
 10732 
 10733 * non-curried (1994) version of HOL is no longer distributed;
 10734 
 10735 
 10736 
 10737 New in Isabelle94-4
 10738 -------------------
 10739 
 10740 * greatly reduced space requirements;
 10741 
 10742 * theory files (.thy) no longer require \...\ escapes at line breaks;
 10743 
 10744 * searchable theorem database (see the section "Retrieving theorems" on
 10745 page 8 of the Reference Manual);
 10746 
 10747 * new examples, including Grabczewski's monumental case study of the
 10748 Axiom of Choice;
 10749 
 10750 * The previous version of HOL renamed to Old_HOL;
 10751 
 10752 * The new version of HOL (previously called CHOL) uses a curried syntax
 10753 for functions.  Application looks like f a b instead of f(a,b);
 10754 
 10755 * Mutually recursive inductive definitions finally work in HOL;
 10756 
 10757 * In ZF, pattern-matching on tuples is now available in all abstractions and
 10758 translates to the operator "split";
 10759 
 10760 
 10761 
 10762 New in Isabelle94-3
 10763 -------------------
 10764 
 10765 * new infix operator, addss, allowing the classical reasoner to
 10766 perform simplification at each step of its search.  Example:
 10767         fast_tac (cs addss ss)
 10768 
 10769 * a new logic, CHOL, the same as HOL, but with a curried syntax
 10770 for functions.  Application looks like f a b instead of f(a,b).  Also pairs
 10771 look like (a,b) instead of <a,b>;
 10772 
 10773 * PLEASE NOTE: CHOL will eventually replace HOL!
 10774 
 10775 * In CHOL, pattern-matching on tuples is now available in all abstractions.
 10776 It translates to the operator "split".  A new theory of integers is available;
 10777 
 10778 * In ZF, integer numerals now denote two's-complement binary integers.
 10779 Arithmetic operations can be performed by rewriting.  See ZF/ex/Bin.ML;
 10780 
 10781 * Many new examples: I/O automata, Church-Rosser theorem, equivalents
 10782 of the Axiom of Choice;
 10783 
 10784 
 10785 
 10786 New in Isabelle94-2
 10787 -------------------
 10788 
 10789 * Significantly faster resolution;
 10790 
 10791 * the different sections in a .thy file can now be mixed and repeated
 10792 freely;
 10793 
 10794 * Database of theorems for FOL, HOL and ZF.  New
 10795 commands including qed, qed_goal and bind_thm store theorems in the database.
 10796 
 10797 * Simple database queries: return a named theorem (get_thm) or all theorems of
 10798 a given theory (thms_of), or find out what theory a theorem was proved in
 10799 (theory_of_thm);
 10800 
 10801 * Bugs fixed in the inductive definition and datatype packages;
 10802 
 10803 * The classical reasoner provides deepen_tac and depth_tac, making FOL_dup_cs
 10804 and HOL_dup_cs obsolete;
 10805 
 10806 * Syntactic ambiguities caused by the new treatment of syntax in Isabelle94-1
 10807 have been removed;
 10808 
 10809 * Simpler definition of function space in ZF;
 10810 
 10811 * new results about cardinal and ordinal arithmetic in ZF;
 10812 
 10813 * 'subtype' facility in HOL for introducing new types as subsets of existing
 10814 types;
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