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