NEWS
author wenzelm
Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:12:28 +0100
changeset 47572 879f5c76ffb6
parent 47512 8801a24f9e9a
child 47599 ac701d7f7c3b
permissions -rw-r--r--
reactivated Find_Unused_Assms_Examples to avoid untested / dead stuff in the repository;
moved the whole HOL-Quickcheck_Examples target from "all" to "full" for now -- it does not terminate in certain situations (to be investigated further);
     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 
    14 * Updated and extended reference manuals ("isar-ref" and
    15 "implementation"); reduced remaining material in old "ref" manual.
    16 
    17 * Rule attributes in local theory declarations (e.g. locale or class)
    18 are now statically evaluated: the resulting theorem is stored instead
    19 of the original expression.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, where
    20 the historic accident of dynamic re-evaluation in interpretations
    21 etc. was exploited.
    22 
    23 * Commands 'lemmas' and 'theorems' allow local variables using 'for'
    24 declaration, and results are standardized before being stored.  Thus
    25 old-style "standard" after instantiation or composition of facts
    26 becomes obsolete.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, due to potential change of
    27 indices of schematic variables.
    28 
    29 * Renamed some inner syntax categories:
    30 
    31     num ~> num_token
    32     xnum ~> xnum_token
    33     xstr ~> str_token
    34 
    35 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.  Note that in practice "num_const" or
    36 "num_position" etc. are mainly used instead (which also include
    37 position information via constraints).
    38 
    39 * Simplified configuration options for syntax ambiguity: see
    40 "syntax_ambiguity_warning" and "syntax_ambiguity_limit" in isar-ref
    41 manual.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
    42 
    43 
    44 *** Pure ***
    45 
    46 * Discontinued old "prems" fact, which used to refer to the accidental
    47 collection of foundational premises in the context (marked as legacy
    48 since Isabelle2011).
    49 
    50 * Obsolete command 'types' has been discontinued.  Use 'type_synonym'
    51 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
    52 
    53 * Ancient code generator for SML and its commands 'code_module',
    54 'code_library', 'consts_code', 'types_code' have been discontinued.
    55 Use commands of the generic code generator instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
    56 
    57 * Redundant attribute 'code_inline' has been discontinued. Use
    58 'code_unfold' instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
    59 
    60 * Dropped attribute 'code_unfold_post' in favor of the its dual
    61 'code_abbrev', which yields a common pattern in definitions like
    62 
    63   definition [code_abbrev]: "f = t"
    64 
    65 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    66 
    67 * Sort constraints are now propagated in simultaneous statements, just
    68 like type constraints.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, where
    69 distinct sorts used to be assigned accidentally.  For example:
    70 
    71   lemma "P (x::'a::foo)" and "Q (y::'a::bar)"  -- "now illegal"
    72 
    73   lemma "P (x::'a)" and "Q (y::'a::bar)"
    74     -- "now uniform 'a::bar instead of default sort for first occurence (!)"
    75 
    76 
    77 *** HOL ***
    78 
    79 * Type 'a set is now a proper type constructor (just as before
    80 Isabelle2008).  Definitions mem_def and Collect_def have disappeared.
    81 Non-trivial INCOMPATIBILITY.  For developments keeping predicates and
    82 sets separate, it is often sufficient to rephrase sets S accidentally
    83 used as predicates by "%x. x : S" and predicates P accidentally used
    84 as sets by "{x. P x}".  Corresponding proofs in a first step should be
    85 pruned from any tinkering with former theorems mem_def and
    86 Collect_def.  For developments which deliberately mixed predicates and
    87 sets, a planning step is necessary to determine what should become a
    88 predicate and what a set.  It can be helpful to carry out that step in
    89 Isabelle2011-1 before jumping right into the current release.
    90 
    91 * New type synonym 'a rel = ('a * 'a) set
    92 
    93 * Consolidated various theorem names relating to Finite_Set.fold
    94 combinator:
    95 
    96   inf_INFI_fold_inf ~> inf_INF_fold_inf
    97   sup_SUPR_fold_sup ~> sup_SUP_fold_sup
    98   INFI_fold_inf ~> INF_fold_inf
    99   SUPR_fold_sup ~> SUP_fold_sup
   100   union_set ~> union_set_fold
   101   minus_set ~> minus_set_fold
   102   
   103 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   104 
   105 * Consolidated theorem names concerning fold combinators:
   106 
   107   INFI_set_fold ~> INF_set_fold
   108   SUPR_set_fold ~> SUP_set_fold
   109   INF_code ~> INF_set_foldr
   110   SUP_code ~> SUP_set_foldr
   111   foldr.simps ~> foldr_Nil foldr_Cons (in point-free formulation)
   112   foldl.simps ~> foldl_Nil foldl_Cons
   113   foldr_fold_rev ~> foldr_def
   114   foldl_fold ~> foldl_def
   115 
   116 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   117 
   118 * Dropped rarely useful theorems concerning fold combinators:
   119 foldl_apply, foldl_fun_comm, foldl_rev, fold_weak_invariant,
   120 rev_foldl_cons, fold_set_remdups, fold_set, fold_set1,
   121 concat_conv_foldl, foldl_weak_invariant, foldl_invariant,
   122 foldr_invariant, foldl_absorb0, foldl_foldr1_lemma, foldl_foldr1,
   123 listsum_conv_fold, listsum_foldl, sort_foldl_insort.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   124 Prefer "List.fold" with canonical argument order, or boil down
   125 "List.foldr" and "List.foldl" to "List.fold" by unfolding "foldr_def"
   126 and "foldl_def".  For the common phrases "%xs. List.foldr plus xs 0"
   127 and "List.foldl plus 0", prefer "List.listsum".
   128 
   129 * Congruence rules Option.map_cong and Option.bind_cong for recursion
   130 through option types.
   131 
   132 * Concrete syntax for case expressions includes constraints for source
   133 positions, and thus produces Prover IDE markup for its bindings.
   134 INCOMPATIBILITY for old-style syntax translations that augment the
   135 pattern notation; e.g. see src/HOL/HOLCF/One.thy for translations of
   136 one_case.
   137 
   138 * Discontinued configuration option "syntax_positions": atomic terms
   139 in parse trees are always annotated by position constraints.
   140 
   141 * Finite_Set.fold now qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   142 
   143 * Renamed some facts on canonical fold on lists, in order to avoid
   144 problems with interpretation involving corresponding facts on foldl
   145 with the same base names:
   146 
   147   fold_set_remdups ~> fold_set_fold_remdups
   148   fold_set ~> fold_set_fold
   149   fold1_set ~> fold1_set_fold
   150 
   151 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   152 
   153 * Renamed facts about the power operation on relations, i.e., relpow
   154   to match the constant's name:
   155   
   156   rel_pow_1 ~> relpow_1
   157   rel_pow_0_I ~> relpow_0_I
   158   rel_pow_Suc_I ~> relpow_Suc_I
   159   rel_pow_Suc_I2 ~> relpow_Suc_I2
   160   rel_pow_0_E ~> relpow_0_E
   161   rel_pow_Suc_E ~> relpow_Suc_E
   162   rel_pow_E ~> relpow_E
   163   rel_pow_Suc_D2 ~> relpow_Suc_D2
   164   rel_pow_Suc_E2 ~> relpow_Suc_E2 
   165   rel_pow_Suc_D2' ~> relpow_Suc_D2'
   166   rel_pow_E2 ~> relpow_E2
   167   rel_pow_add ~> relpow_add
   168   rel_pow_commute ~> relpow
   169   rel_pow_empty ~> relpow_empty:
   170   rtrancl_imp_UN_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_imp_UN_relpow
   171   rel_pow_imp_rtrancl ~> relpow_imp_rtrancl
   172   rtrancl_is_UN_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_is_UN_relpow
   173   rtrancl_imp_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_imp_relpow
   174   rel_pow_fun_conv ~> relpow_fun_conv
   175   rel_pow_finite_bounded1 ~> relpow_finite_bounded1
   176   rel_pow_finite_bounded ~> relpow_finite_bounded
   177   rtrancl_finite_eq_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_finite_eq_relpow
   178   trancl_finite_eq_rel_pow ~> trancl_finite_eq_relpow
   179   single_valued_rel_pow ~> single_valued_relpow
   180  
   181 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   182 
   183 * New theory HOL/Library/DAList provides an abstract type for association
   184   lists with distinct keys.
   185 
   186 * 'datatype' specifications allow explicit sort constraints.
   187 
   188 * Theory HOL/Library/Diagonalize has been removed. INCOMPATIBILITY,
   189 use theory HOL/Library/Nat_Bijection instead.
   190 
   191 * Session HOL-Word: Discontinued many redundant theorems specific to
   192 type 'a word. INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems
   193 instead.
   194 
   195   word_sub_alt ~> word_sub_wi
   196   word_add_alt ~> word_add_def
   197   word_mult_alt ~> word_mult_def
   198   word_minus_alt ~> word_minus_def
   199   word_0_alt ~> word_0_wi
   200   word_1_alt ~> word_1_wi
   201   word_add_0 ~> add_0_left
   202   word_add_0_right ~> add_0_right
   203   word_mult_1 ~> mult_1_left
   204   word_mult_1_right ~> mult_1_right
   205   word_add_commute ~> add_commute
   206   word_add_assoc ~> add_assoc
   207   word_add_left_commute ~> add_left_commute
   208   word_mult_commute ~> mult_commute
   209   word_mult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
   210   word_mult_left_commute ~> mult_left_commute
   211   word_left_distrib ~> left_distrib
   212   word_right_distrib ~> right_distrib
   213   word_left_minus ~> left_minus
   214   word_diff_0_right ~> diff_0_right
   215   word_diff_self ~> diff_self
   216   word_sub_def ~> diff_minus
   217   word_diff_minus ~> diff_minus
   218   word_add_ac ~> add_ac
   219   word_mult_ac ~> mult_ac
   220   word_plus_ac0 ~> add_0_left add_0_right add_ac
   221   word_times_ac1 ~> mult_1_left mult_1_right mult_ac
   222   word_order_trans ~> order_trans
   223   word_order_refl ~> order_refl
   224   word_order_antisym ~> order_antisym
   225   word_order_linear ~> linorder_linear
   226   lenw1_zero_neq_one ~> zero_neq_one
   227   word_number_of_eq ~> number_of_eq
   228   word_of_int_add_hom ~> wi_hom_add
   229   word_of_int_sub_hom ~> wi_hom_sub
   230   word_of_int_mult_hom ~> wi_hom_mult
   231   word_of_int_minus_hom ~> wi_hom_neg
   232   word_of_int_succ_hom ~> wi_hom_succ
   233   word_of_int_pred_hom ~> wi_hom_pred
   234   word_of_int_0_hom ~> word_0_wi
   235   word_of_int_1_hom ~> word_1_wi
   236 
   237 * Clarified attribute "mono_set": pure declaration without modifying
   238 the result of the fact expression.
   239 
   240 * "Transitive_Closure.ntrancl": bounded transitive closure on
   241 relations.
   242 
   243 * Constant "Set.not_member" now qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   244 
   245 * "sublists" moved to theory More_List.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   246 
   247 * Theory Int: Discontinued many legacy theorems specific to type int.
   248 INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems instead.
   249 
   250   zminus_zminus ~> minus_minus
   251   zminus_0 ~> minus_zero
   252   zminus_zadd_distrib ~> minus_add_distrib
   253   zadd_commute ~> add_commute
   254   zadd_assoc ~> add_assoc
   255   zadd_left_commute ~> add_left_commute
   256   zadd_ac ~> add_ac
   257   zmult_ac ~> mult_ac
   258   zadd_0 ~> add_0_left
   259   zadd_0_right ~> add_0_right
   260   zadd_zminus_inverse2 ~> left_minus
   261   zmult_zminus ~> mult_minus_left
   262   zmult_commute ~> mult_commute
   263   zmult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
   264   zadd_zmult_distrib ~> left_distrib
   265   zadd_zmult_distrib2 ~> right_distrib
   266   zdiff_zmult_distrib ~> left_diff_distrib
   267   zdiff_zmult_distrib2 ~> right_diff_distrib
   268   zmult_1 ~> mult_1_left
   269   zmult_1_right ~> mult_1_right
   270   zle_refl ~> order_refl
   271   zle_trans ~> order_trans
   272   zle_antisym ~> order_antisym
   273   zle_linear ~> linorder_linear
   274   zless_linear ~> linorder_less_linear
   275   zadd_left_mono ~> add_left_mono
   276   zadd_strict_right_mono ~> add_strict_right_mono
   277   zadd_zless_mono ~> add_less_le_mono
   278   int_0_less_1 ~> zero_less_one
   279   int_0_neq_1 ~> zero_neq_one
   280   zless_le ~> less_le
   281   zpower_zadd_distrib ~> power_add
   282   zero_less_zpower_abs_iff ~> zero_less_power_abs_iff
   283   zero_le_zpower_abs ~> zero_le_power_abs
   284 
   285 * Theory Deriv: Renamed
   286 
   287   DERIV_nonneg_imp_nonincreasing ~> DERIV_nonneg_imp_nondecreasing
   288 
   289 * New "case_product" attribute to generate a case rule doing multiple
   290 case distinctions at the same time.  E.g.
   291 
   292   list.exhaust [case_product nat.exhaust]
   293 
   294 produces a rule which can be used to perform case distinction on both
   295 a list and a nat.
   296 
   297 * Improved code generation of multisets.
   298 
   299 * New diagnostic command find_unused_assms to find potentially superfluous
   300   assumptions in theorems using Quickcheck.
   301 
   302 * Quickcheck:
   303   - Quickcheck returns variable assignments as counterexamples, which
   304     allows to reveal the underspecification of functions under test.
   305     For example, refuting "hd xs = x", it presents the variable
   306     assignment xs = [] and x = a1 as a counterexample, assuming that
   307     any property is false whenever "hd []" occurs in it.
   308     These counterexample are marked as potentially spurious, as
   309     Quickcheck also returns "xs = []" as a counterexample to the
   310     obvious theorem "hd xs = hd xs".
   311     After finding a potentially spurious counterexample, Quickcheck
   312     continues searching for genuine ones.
   313     By default, Quickcheck shows potentially spurious and genuine
   314     counterexamples. The option "genuine_only" sets quickcheck to
   315     only show genuine counterexamples.
   316 
   317   - The command 'quickcheck_generator' creates random and exhaustive
   318     value generators for a given type and operations.
   319     It generates values by using the operations as if they were
   320     constructors of that type. 
   321 
   322   - Support for multisets.
   323 
   324   - Added "use_subtype" options.
   325  
   326 * Nitpick:
   327   - Fixed infinite loop caused by the 'peephole_optim' option and
   328     affecting 'rat' and 'real'.
   329 
   330 * Sledgehammer:
   331   - Added "lam_trans", "uncurry_aliases", and "minimize" options.
   332   - Renamed "slicing" ("no_slicing") option to "slice" ("dont_slice").
   333   - Renamed "sound" option to "strict".
   334 
   335 * Metis:
   336   - Added possibility to specify lambda translations scheme as a
   337     parenthesized argument (e.g., "by (metis (lifting) ...)").
   338 
   339 * Command 'try0':
   340   - Renamed from 'try_methods'. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   341 
   342 
   343 *** FOL ***
   344 
   345 * New "case_product" attribute (see HOL).
   346 
   347 
   348 *** ML ***
   349 
   350 * Renamed Thm.capply to Thm.apply, and Thm.cabs to Thm.lambda in
   351 conformance with similar operations in structure Term and Logic.
   352 
   353 * Antiquotation @{attributes [...]} embeds attribute source
   354 representation into the ML text, which is particularly useful with
   355 declarations like Local_Theory.note.
   356 
   357 * Structure Proof_Context follows standard naming scheme.  Old
   358 ProofContext has been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   359 
   360 * Refined Local_Theory.declaration {syntax, pervasive}, with subtle
   361 change of semantics: update is applied to auxiliary local theory
   362 context as well.
   363 
   364 * Modernized some old-style infix operations:
   365 
   366   addeqcongs    ~> Simplifier.add_eqcong
   367   deleqcongs    ~> Simplifier.del_eqcong
   368   addcongs      ~> Simplifier.add_cong
   369   delcongs      ~> Simplifier.del_cong
   370   setmksimps    ~> Simplifier.set_mksimps
   371   setmkcong     ~> Simplifier.set_mkcong
   372   setmksym      ~> Simplifier.set_mksym
   373   setmkeqTrue   ~> Simplifier.set_mkeqTrue
   374   settermless   ~> Simplifier.set_termless
   375   setsubgoaler  ~> Simplifier.set_subgoaler
   376   addsplits     ~> Splitter.add_split
   377   delsplits     ~> Splitter.del_split
   378 
   379 
   380 
   381 New in Isabelle2011-1 (October 2011)
   382 ------------------------------------
   383 
   384 *** General ***
   385 
   386 * Improved Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE (PIDE), which can be invoked as
   387 "isabelle jedit" or "ISABELLE_HOME/Isabelle" on the command line.
   388 
   389   - Management of multiple theory files directly from the editor
   390     buffer store -- bypassing the file-system (no requirement to save
   391     files for checking).
   392 
   393   - Markup of formal entities within the text buffer, with semantic
   394     highlighting, tooltips and hyperlinks to jump to defining source
   395     positions.
   396 
   397   - Improved text rendering, with sub/superscripts in the source
   398     buffer (including support for copy/paste wrt. output panel, HTML
   399     theory output and other non-Isabelle text boxes).
   400 
   401   - Refined scheduling of proof checking and printing of results,
   402     based on interactive editor view.  (Note: jEdit folding and
   403     narrowing allows to restrict buffer perspectives explicitly.)
   404 
   405   - Reduced CPU performance requirements, usable on machines with few
   406     cores.
   407 
   408   - Reduced memory requirements due to pruning of unused document
   409     versions (garbage collection).
   410 
   411 See also ~~/src/Tools/jEdit/README.html for further information,
   412 including some remaining limitations.
   413 
   414 * Theory loader: source files are exclusively located via the master
   415 directory of each theory node (where the .thy file itself resides).
   416 The global load path (such as src/HOL/Library) has been discontinued.
   417 Note that the path element ~~ may be used to reference theories in the
   418 Isabelle home folder -- for instance, "~~/src/HOL/Library/FuncSet".
   419 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   420 
   421 * Theory loader: source files are identified by content via SHA1
   422 digests.  Discontinued former path/modtime identification and optional
   423 ISABELLE_FILE_IDENT plugin scripts.
   424 
   425 * Parallelization of nested Isar proofs is subject to
   426 Goal.parallel_proofs_threshold (default 100).  See also isabelle
   427 usedir option -Q.
   428 
   429 * Name space: former unsynchronized references are now proper
   430 configuration options, with more conventional names:
   431 
   432   long_names   ~> names_long
   433   short_names  ~> names_short
   434   unique_names ~> names_unique
   435 
   436 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, need to declare options in context like this:
   437 
   438   declare [[names_unique = false]]
   439 
   440 * Literal facts `prop` may contain dummy patterns, e.g. `_ = _`.  Note
   441 that the result needs to be unique, which means fact specifications
   442 may have to be refined after enriching a proof context.
   443 
   444 * Attribute "case_names" has been refined: the assumptions in each case
   445 can be named now by following the case name with [name1 name2 ...].
   446 
   447 * Isabelle/Isar reference manual has been updated and extended:
   448   - "Synopsis" provides a catalog of main Isar language concepts.
   449   - Formal references in syntax diagrams, via @{rail} antiquotation.
   450   - Updated material from classic "ref" manual, notably about
   451     "Classical Reasoner".
   452 
   453 
   454 *** HOL ***
   455 
   456 * Class bot and top require underlying partial order rather than
   457 preorder: uniqueness of bot and top is guaranteed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   458 
   459 * Class complete_lattice: generalized a couple of lemmas from sets;
   460 generalized theorems INF_cong and SUP_cong.  New type classes for
   461 complete boolean algebras and complete linear orders.  Lemmas
   462 Inf_less_iff, less_Sup_iff, INF_less_iff, less_SUP_iff now reside in
   463 class complete_linorder.
   464 
   465 Changed proposition of lemmas Inf_bool_def, Sup_bool_def, Inf_fun_def,
   466 Sup_fun_def, Inf_apply, Sup_apply.
   467 
   468 Removed redundant lemmas (the right hand side gives hints how to
   469 replace them for (metis ...), or (simp only: ...) proofs):
   470 
   471   Inf_singleton ~> Inf_insert [where A="{}", unfolded Inf_empty inf_top_right]
   472   Sup_singleton ~> Sup_insert [where A="{}", unfolded Sup_empty sup_bot_right]
   473   Inf_binary ~> Inf_insert, Inf_empty, and inf_top_right
   474   Sup_binary ~> Sup_insert, Sup_empty, and sup_bot_right
   475   Int_eq_Inter ~> Inf_insert, Inf_empty, and inf_top_right
   476   Un_eq_Union ~> Sup_insert, Sup_empty, and sup_bot_right
   477   Inter_def ~> INF_def, image_def
   478   Union_def ~> SUP_def, image_def
   479   INT_eq ~> INF_def, and image_def
   480   UN_eq ~> SUP_def, and image_def
   481   INF_subset ~> INF_superset_mono [OF _ order_refl]
   482 
   483 More consistent and comprehensive names:
   484 
   485   INTER_eq_Inter_image ~> INF_def
   486   UNION_eq_Union_image ~> SUP_def
   487   INFI_def ~> INF_def
   488   SUPR_def ~> SUP_def
   489   INF_leI ~> INF_lower
   490   INF_leI2 ~> INF_lower2
   491   le_INFI ~> INF_greatest
   492   le_SUPI ~> SUP_upper
   493   le_SUPI2 ~> SUP_upper2
   494   SUP_leI ~> SUP_least
   495   INFI_bool_eq ~> INF_bool_eq
   496   SUPR_bool_eq ~> SUP_bool_eq
   497   INFI_apply ~> INF_apply
   498   SUPR_apply ~> SUP_apply
   499   INTER_def ~> INTER_eq
   500   UNION_def ~> UNION_eq
   501 
   502 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   503 
   504 * Renamed theory Complete_Lattice to Complete_Lattices.
   505 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   506 
   507 * Theory Complete_Lattices: lemmas Inf_eq_top_iff, INF_eq_top_iff,
   508 INF_image, Inf_insert, INF_top, Inf_top_conv, INF_top_conv, SUP_bot,
   509 Sup_bot_conv, SUP_bot_conv, Sup_eq_top_iff, SUP_eq_top_iff, SUP_image,
   510 Sup_insert are now declared as [simp].  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   511 
   512 * Theory Lattice: lemmas compl_inf_bot, compl_le_comp_iff,
   513 compl_sup_top, inf_idem, inf_left_idem, inf_sup_absorb, sup_idem,
   514 sup_inf_absob, sup_left_idem are now declared as [simp].  Minor
   515 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   516 
   517 * Added syntactic classes "inf" and "sup" for the respective
   518 constants.  INCOMPATIBILITY: Changes in the argument order of the
   519 (mostly internal) locale predicates for some derived classes.
   520 
   521 * Theorem collections ball_simps and bex_simps do not contain theorems
   522 referring to UNION any longer; these have been moved to collection
   523 UN_ball_bex_simps.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   524 
   525 * Theory Archimedean_Field: floor now is defined as parameter of a
   526 separate type class floor_ceiling.
   527 
   528 * Theory Finite_Set: more coherent development of fold_set locales:
   529 
   530     locale fun_left_comm ~> locale comp_fun_commute
   531     locale fun_left_comm_idem ~> locale comp_fun_idem
   532 
   533 Both use point-free characterization; interpretation proofs may need
   534 adjustment.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   535 
   536 * Theory Limits: Type "'a net" has been renamed to "'a filter", in
   537 accordance with standard mathematical terminology. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   538 
   539 * Theory Complex_Main: The locale interpretations for the
   540 bounded_linear and bounded_bilinear locales have been removed, in
   541 order to reduce the number of duplicate lemmas. Users must use the
   542 original names for distributivity theorems, potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
   543 
   544   divide.add ~> add_divide_distrib
   545   divide.diff ~> diff_divide_distrib
   546   divide.setsum ~> setsum_divide_distrib
   547   mult.add_right ~> right_distrib
   548   mult.diff_right ~> right_diff_distrib
   549   mult_right.setsum ~> setsum_right_distrib
   550   mult_left.diff ~> left_diff_distrib
   551 
   552 * Theory Complex_Main: Several redundant theorems have been removed or
   553 replaced by more general versions. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   554 
   555   real_diff_def ~> minus_real_def
   556   real_divide_def ~> divide_real_def
   557   real_less_def ~> less_le
   558   real_abs_def ~> abs_real_def
   559   real_sgn_def ~> sgn_real_def
   560   real_mult_commute ~> mult_commute
   561   real_mult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
   562   real_mult_1 ~> mult_1_left
   563   real_add_mult_distrib ~> left_distrib
   564   real_zero_not_eq_one ~> zero_neq_one
   565   real_mult_inverse_left ~> left_inverse
   566   INVERSE_ZERO ~> inverse_zero
   567   real_le_refl ~> order_refl
   568   real_le_antisym ~> order_antisym
   569   real_le_trans ~> order_trans
   570   real_le_linear ~> linear
   571   real_le_eq_diff ~> le_iff_diff_le_0
   572   real_add_left_mono ~> add_left_mono
   573   real_mult_order ~> mult_pos_pos
   574   real_mult_less_mono2 ~> mult_strict_left_mono
   575   real_of_int_real_of_nat ~> real_of_int_of_nat_eq
   576   real_0_le_divide_iff ~> zero_le_divide_iff
   577   realpow_two_disj ~> power2_eq_iff
   578   real_squared_diff_one_factored ~> square_diff_one_factored
   579   realpow_two_diff ~> square_diff_square_factored
   580   reals_complete2 ~> complete_real
   581   real_sum_squared_expand ~> power2_sum
   582   exp_ln_eq ~> ln_unique
   583   expi_add ~> exp_add
   584   expi_zero ~> exp_zero
   585   lemma_DERIV_subst ~> DERIV_cong
   586   LIMSEQ_Zfun_iff ~> tendsto_Zfun_iff
   587   LIMSEQ_const ~> tendsto_const
   588   LIMSEQ_norm ~> tendsto_norm
   589   LIMSEQ_add ~> tendsto_add
   590   LIMSEQ_minus ~> tendsto_minus
   591   LIMSEQ_minus_cancel ~> tendsto_minus_cancel
   592   LIMSEQ_diff ~> tendsto_diff
   593   bounded_linear.LIMSEQ ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
   594   bounded_bilinear.LIMSEQ ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto
   595   LIMSEQ_mult ~> tendsto_mult
   596   LIMSEQ_inverse ~> tendsto_inverse
   597   LIMSEQ_divide ~> tendsto_divide
   598   LIMSEQ_pow ~> tendsto_power
   599   LIMSEQ_setsum ~> tendsto_setsum
   600   LIMSEQ_setprod ~> tendsto_setprod
   601   LIMSEQ_norm_zero ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff
   602   LIMSEQ_rabs_zero ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_iff
   603   LIMSEQ_imp_rabs ~> tendsto_rabs
   604   LIMSEQ_add_minus ~> tendsto_add [OF _ tendsto_minus]
   605   LIMSEQ_add_const ~> tendsto_add [OF _ tendsto_const]
   606   LIMSEQ_diff_const ~> tendsto_diff [OF _ tendsto_const]
   607   LIMSEQ_Complex ~> tendsto_Complex
   608   LIM_ident ~> tendsto_ident_at
   609   LIM_const ~> tendsto_const
   610   LIM_add ~> tendsto_add
   611   LIM_add_zero ~> tendsto_add_zero
   612   LIM_minus ~> tendsto_minus
   613   LIM_diff ~> tendsto_diff
   614   LIM_norm ~> tendsto_norm
   615   LIM_norm_zero ~> tendsto_norm_zero
   616   LIM_norm_zero_cancel ~> tendsto_norm_zero_cancel
   617   LIM_norm_zero_iff ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff
   618   LIM_rabs ~> tendsto_rabs
   619   LIM_rabs_zero ~> tendsto_rabs_zero
   620   LIM_rabs_zero_cancel ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_cancel
   621   LIM_rabs_zero_iff ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_iff
   622   LIM_compose ~> tendsto_compose
   623   LIM_mult ~> tendsto_mult
   624   LIM_scaleR ~> tendsto_scaleR
   625   LIM_of_real ~> tendsto_of_real
   626   LIM_power ~> tendsto_power
   627   LIM_inverse ~> tendsto_inverse
   628   LIM_sgn ~> tendsto_sgn
   629   isCont_LIM_compose ~> isCont_tendsto_compose
   630   bounded_linear.LIM ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
   631   bounded_linear.LIM_zero ~> bounded_linear.tendsto_zero
   632   bounded_bilinear.LIM ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto
   633   bounded_bilinear.LIM_prod_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_zero
   634   bounded_bilinear.LIM_left_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_left_zero
   635   bounded_bilinear.LIM_right_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_right_zero
   636   LIM_inverse_fun ~> tendsto_inverse [OF tendsto_ident_at]
   637 
   638 * Theory Complex_Main: The definition of infinite series was
   639 generalized.  Now it is defined on the type class {topological_space,
   640 comm_monoid_add}.  Hence it is useable also for extended real numbers.
   641 
   642 * Theory Complex_Main: The complex exponential function "expi" is now
   643 a type-constrained abbreviation for "exp :: complex => complex"; thus
   644 several polymorphic lemmas about "exp" are now applicable to "expi".
   645 
   646 * Code generation:
   647 
   648   - Theory Library/Code_Char_ord provides native ordering of
   649     characters in the target language.
   650 
   651   - Commands code_module and code_library are legacy, use export_code
   652     instead.
   653 
   654   - Method "evaluation" is legacy, use method "eval" instead.
   655 
   656   - Legacy evaluator "SML" is deactivated by default.  May be
   657     reactivated by the following theory command:
   658 
   659       setup {* Value.add_evaluator ("SML", Codegen.eval_term) *}
   660 
   661 * Declare ext [intro] by default.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.
   662 
   663 * New proof method "induction" that gives induction hypotheses the
   664 name "IH", thus distinguishing them from further hypotheses that come
   665 from rule induction.  The latter are still called "hyps".  Method
   666 "induction" is a thin wrapper around "induct" and follows the same
   667 syntax.
   668 
   669 * Method "fastsimp" has been renamed to "fastforce", but "fastsimp" is
   670 still available as a legacy feature for some time.
   671 
   672 * Nitpick:
   673   - Added "need" and "total_consts" options.
   674   - Reintroduced "show_skolems" option by popular demand.
   675   - Renamed attribute: nitpick_def ~> nitpick_unfold.
   676     INCOMPATIBILITY.
   677 
   678 * Sledgehammer:
   679   - Use quasi-sound (and efficient) translations by default.
   680   - Added support for the following provers: E-ToFoF, LEO-II,
   681     Satallax, SNARK, Waldmeister, and Z3 with TPTP syntax.
   682   - Automatically preplay and minimize proofs before showing them if
   683     this can be done within reasonable time.
   684   - sledgehammer available_provers ~> sledgehammer supported_provers.
   685     INCOMPATIBILITY.
   686   - Added "preplay_timeout", "slicing", "type_enc", "sound",
   687     "max_mono_iters", and "max_new_mono_instances" options.
   688   - Removed "explicit_apply" and "full_types" options as well as "Full
   689     Types" Proof General menu item. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   690 
   691 * Metis:
   692   - Removed "metisF" -- use "metis" instead. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   693   - Obsoleted "metisFT" -- use "metis (full_types)" instead.
   694     INCOMPATIBILITY.
   695 
   696 * Command 'try':
   697   - Renamed 'try_methods' and added "simp:", "intro:", "dest:", and
   698     "elim:" options. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   699   - Introduced 'try' that not only runs 'try_methods' but also
   700     'solve_direct', 'sledgehammer', 'quickcheck', and 'nitpick'.
   701 
   702 * Quickcheck:
   703   - Added "eval" option to evaluate terms for the found counterexample
   704     (currently only supported by the default (exhaustive) tester).
   705   - Added post-processing of terms to obtain readable counterexamples
   706     (currently only supported by the default (exhaustive) tester).
   707   - New counterexample generator quickcheck[narrowing] enables
   708     narrowing-based testing.  Requires the Glasgow Haskell compiler
   709     with its installation location defined in the Isabelle settings
   710     environment as ISABELLE_GHC.
   711   - Removed quickcheck tester "SML" based on the SML code generator
   712     (formly in HOL/Library).
   713 
   714 * Function package: discontinued option "tailrec".  INCOMPATIBILITY,
   715 use 'partial_function' instead.
   716 
   717 * Theory Library/Extended_Reals replaces now the positive extended
   718 reals found in probability theory. This file is extended by
   719 Multivariate_Analysis/Extended_Real_Limits.
   720 
   721 * Theory Library/Old_Recdef: old 'recdef' package has been moved here,
   722 from where it must be imported explicitly if it is really required.
   723 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   724 
   725 * Theory Library/Wfrec: well-founded recursion combinator "wfrec" has
   726 been moved here.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   727 
   728 * Theory Library/Saturated provides type of numbers with saturated
   729 arithmetic.
   730 
   731 * Theory Library/Product_Lattice defines a pointwise ordering for the
   732 product type 'a * 'b, and provides instance proofs for various order
   733 and lattice type classes.
   734 
   735 * Theory Library/Countable now provides the "countable_datatype" proof
   736 method for proving "countable" class instances for datatypes.
   737 
   738 * Theory Library/Cset_Monad allows do notation for computable sets
   739 (cset) via the generic monad ad-hoc overloading facility.
   740 
   741 * Library: Theories of common data structures are split into theories
   742 for implementation, an invariant-ensuring type, and connection to an
   743 abstract type. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   744 
   745   - RBT is split into RBT and RBT_Mapping.
   746   - AssocList is split and renamed into AList and AList_Mapping.
   747   - DList is split into DList_Impl, DList, and DList_Cset.
   748   - Cset is split into Cset and List_Cset.
   749 
   750 * Theory Library/Nat_Infinity has been renamed to
   751 Library/Extended_Nat, with name changes of the following types and
   752 constants:
   753 
   754   type inat   ~> type enat
   755   Fin         ~> enat
   756   Infty       ~> infinity (overloaded)
   757   iSuc        ~> eSuc
   758   the_Fin     ~> the_enat
   759 
   760 Every theorem name containing "inat", "Fin", "Infty", or "iSuc" has
   761 been renamed accordingly. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   762 
   763 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: The euclidean_space type class now
   764 fixes a constant "Basis :: 'a set" consisting of the standard
   765 orthonormal basis for the type. Users now have the option of
   766 quantifying over this set instead of using the "basis" function, e.g.
   767 "ALL x:Basis. P x" vs "ALL i<DIM('a). P (basis i)".
   768 
   769 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: Type "('a, 'b) cart" has been renamed
   770 to "('a, 'b) vec" (the syntax "'a ^ 'b" remains unaffected). Constants
   771 "Cart_nth" and "Cart_lambda" have been respectively renamed to
   772 "vec_nth" and "vec_lambda"; theorems mentioning those names have
   773 changed to match. Definition theorems for overloaded constants now use
   774 the standard "foo_vec_def" naming scheme. A few other theorems have
   775 been renamed as follows (INCOMPATIBILITY):
   776 
   777   Cart_eq          ~> vec_eq_iff
   778   dist_nth_le_cart ~> dist_vec_nth_le
   779   tendsto_vector   ~> vec_tendstoI
   780   Cauchy_vector    ~> vec_CauchyI
   781 
   782 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: Several duplicate theorems have been
   783 removed, and other theorems have been renamed or replaced with more
   784 general versions. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   785 
   786   finite_choice ~> finite_set_choice
   787   eventually_conjI ~> eventually_conj
   788   eventually_and ~> eventually_conj_iff
   789   eventually_false ~> eventually_False
   790   setsum_norm ~> norm_setsum
   791   Lim_sequentially ~> LIMSEQ_def
   792   Lim_ident_at ~> LIM_ident
   793   Lim_const ~> tendsto_const
   794   Lim_cmul ~> tendsto_scaleR [OF tendsto_const]
   795   Lim_neg ~> tendsto_minus
   796   Lim_add ~> tendsto_add
   797   Lim_sub ~> tendsto_diff
   798   Lim_mul ~> tendsto_scaleR
   799   Lim_vmul ~> tendsto_scaleR [OF _ tendsto_const]
   800   Lim_null_norm ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff [symmetric]
   801   Lim_linear ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
   802   Lim_component ~> tendsto_euclidean_component
   803   Lim_component_cart ~> tendsto_vec_nth
   804   Lim_inner ~> tendsto_inner [OF tendsto_const]
   805   dot_lsum ~> inner_setsum_left
   806   dot_rsum ~> inner_setsum_right
   807   continuous_cmul ~> continuous_scaleR [OF continuous_const]
   808   continuous_neg ~> continuous_minus
   809   continuous_sub ~> continuous_diff
   810   continuous_vmul ~> continuous_scaleR [OF _ continuous_const]
   811   continuous_mul ~> continuous_scaleR
   812   continuous_inv ~> continuous_inverse
   813   continuous_at_within_inv ~> continuous_at_within_inverse
   814   continuous_at_inv ~> continuous_at_inverse
   815   continuous_at_norm ~> continuous_norm [OF continuous_at_id]
   816   continuous_at_infnorm ~> continuous_infnorm [OF continuous_at_id]
   817   continuous_at_component ~> continuous_component [OF continuous_at_id]
   818   continuous_on_neg ~> continuous_on_minus
   819   continuous_on_sub ~> continuous_on_diff
   820   continuous_on_cmul ~> continuous_on_scaleR [OF continuous_on_const]
   821   continuous_on_vmul ~> continuous_on_scaleR [OF _ continuous_on_const]
   822   continuous_on_mul ~> continuous_on_scaleR
   823   continuous_on_mul_real ~> continuous_on_mult
   824   continuous_on_inner ~> continuous_on_inner [OF continuous_on_const]
   825   continuous_on_norm ~> continuous_on_norm [OF continuous_on_id]
   826   continuous_on_inverse ~> continuous_on_inv
   827   uniformly_continuous_on_neg ~> uniformly_continuous_on_minus
   828   uniformly_continuous_on_sub ~> uniformly_continuous_on_diff
   829   subset_interior ~> interior_mono
   830   subset_closure ~> closure_mono
   831   closure_univ ~> closure_UNIV
   832   real_arch_lt ~> reals_Archimedean2
   833   real_arch ~> reals_Archimedean3
   834   real_abs_norm ~> abs_norm_cancel
   835   real_abs_sub_norm ~> norm_triangle_ineq3
   836   norm_cauchy_schwarz_abs ~> Cauchy_Schwarz_ineq2
   837 
   838 * Session HOL-Probability:
   839   - Caratheodory's extension lemma is now proved for ring_of_sets.
   840   - Infinite products of probability measures are now available.
   841   - Sigma closure is independent, if the generator is independent
   842   - Use extended reals instead of positive extended
   843     reals. INCOMPATIBILITY.
   844 
   845 * Session HOLCF: Discontinued legacy theorem names, INCOMPATIBILITY.
   846 
   847   expand_fun_below ~> fun_below_iff
   848   below_fun_ext ~> fun_belowI
   849   expand_cfun_eq ~> cfun_eq_iff
   850   ext_cfun ~> cfun_eqI
   851   expand_cfun_below ~> cfun_below_iff
   852   below_cfun_ext ~> cfun_belowI
   853   monofun_fun_fun ~> fun_belowD
   854   monofun_fun_arg ~> monofunE
   855   monofun_lub_fun ~> adm_monofun [THEN admD]
   856   cont_lub_fun ~> adm_cont [THEN admD]
   857   cont2cont_Rep_CFun ~> cont2cont_APP
   858   cont_Rep_CFun_app ~> cont_APP_app
   859   cont_Rep_CFun_app_app ~> cont_APP_app_app
   860   cont_cfun_fun ~> cont_Rep_cfun1 [THEN contE]
   861   cont_cfun_arg ~> cont_Rep_cfun2 [THEN contE]
   862   contlub_cfun ~> lub_APP [symmetric]
   863   contlub_LAM ~> lub_LAM [symmetric]
   864   thelubI ~> lub_eqI
   865   UU_I ~> bottomI
   866   lift_distinct1 ~> lift.distinct(1)
   867   lift_distinct2 ~> lift.distinct(2)
   868   Def_not_UU ~> lift.distinct(2)
   869   Def_inject ~> lift.inject
   870   below_UU_iff ~> below_bottom_iff
   871   eq_UU_iff ~> eq_bottom_iff
   872 
   873 
   874 *** Document preparation ***
   875 
   876 * Antiquotation @{rail} layouts railroad syntax diagrams, see also
   877 isar-ref manual, both for description and actual application of the
   878 same.
   879 
   880 * Antiquotation @{value} evaluates the given term and presents its
   881 result.
   882 
   883 * Antiquotations: term style "isub" provides ad-hoc conversion of
   884 variables x1, y23 into subscripted form x\<^isub>1,
   885 y\<^isub>2\<^isub>3.
   886 
   887 * Predefined LaTeX macros for Isabelle symbols \<bind> and \<then>
   888 (e.g. see ~~/src/HOL/Library/Monad_Syntax.thy).
   889 
   890 * Localized \isabellestyle switch can be used within blocks or groups
   891 like this:
   892 
   893   \isabellestyle{it}  %preferred default
   894   {\isabellestylett @{text "typewriter stuff"}}
   895 
   896 * Discontinued special treatment of hard tabulators.  Implicit
   897 tab-width is now defined as 1.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY for visual
   898 layouts.
   899 
   900 
   901 *** ML ***
   902 
   903 * The inner syntax of sort/type/term/prop supports inlined YXML
   904 representations within quoted string tokens.  By encoding logical
   905 entities via Term_XML (in ML or Scala) concrete syntax can be
   906 bypassed, which is particularly useful for producing bits of text
   907 under external program control.
   908 
   909 * Antiquotations for ML and document preparation are managed as theory
   910 data, which requires explicit setup.
   911 
   912 * Isabelle_Process.is_active allows tools to check if the official
   913 process wrapper is running (Isabelle/Scala/jEdit) or the old TTY loop
   914 (better known as Proof General).
   915 
   916 * Structure Proof_Context follows standard naming scheme.  Old
   917 ProofContext is still available for some time as legacy alias.
   918 
   919 * Structure Timing provides various operations for timing; supersedes
   920 former start_timing/end_timing etc.
   921 
   922 * Path.print is the official way to show file-system paths to users
   923 (including quotes etc.).
   924 
   925 * Inner syntax: identifiers in parse trees of generic categories
   926 "logic", "aprop", "idt" etc. carry position information (disguised as
   927 type constraints).  Occasional INCOMPATIBILITY with non-compliant
   928 translations that choke on unexpected type constraints.  Positions can
   929 be stripped in ML translations via Syntax.strip_positions /
   930 Syntax.strip_positions_ast, or via the syntax constant
   931 "_strip_positions" within parse trees.  As last resort, positions can
   932 be disabled via the configuration option Syntax.positions, which is
   933 called "syntax_positions" in Isar attribute syntax.
   934 
   935 * Discontinued special status of various ML structures that contribute
   936 to structure Syntax (Ast, Lexicon, Mixfix, Parser, Printer etc.): less
   937 pervasive content, no inclusion in structure Syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
   938 refer directly to Ast.Constant, Lexicon.is_identifier,
   939 Syntax_Trans.mk_binder_tr etc.
   940 
   941 * Typed print translation: discontinued show_sorts argument, which is
   942 already available via context of "advanced" translation.
   943 
   944 * Refined PARALLEL_GOALS tactical: degrades gracefully for schematic
   945 goal states; body tactic needs to address all subgoals uniformly.
   946 
   947 * Slightly more special eq_list/eq_set, with shortcut involving
   948 pointer equality (assumes that eq relation is reflexive).
   949 
   950 * Classical tactics use proper Proof.context instead of historic types
   951 claset/clasimpset.  Old-style declarations like addIs, addEs, addDs
   952 operate directly on Proof.context.  Raw type claset retains its use as
   953 snapshot of the classical context, which can be recovered via
   954 (put_claset HOL_cs) etc.  Type clasimpset has been discontinued.
   955 INCOMPATIBILITY, classical tactics and derived proof methods require
   956 proper Proof.context.
   957 
   958 
   959 *** System ***
   960 
   961 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.2, which was the last version
   962 without proper multithreading and TimeLimit implementation.
   963 
   964 * Discontinued old lib/scripts/polyml-platform, which has been
   965 obsolete since Isabelle2009-2.
   966 
   967 * Various optional external tools are referenced more robustly and
   968 uniformly by explicit Isabelle settings as follows:
   969 
   970   ISABELLE_CSDP   (formerly CSDP_EXE)
   971   ISABELLE_GHC    (formerly EXEC_GHC or GHC_PATH)
   972   ISABELLE_OCAML  (formerly EXEC_OCAML)
   973   ISABELLE_SWIPL  (formerly EXEC_SWIPL)
   974   ISABELLE_YAP    (formerly EXEC_YAP)
   975 
   976 Note that automated detection from the file-system or search path has
   977 been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   978 
   979 * Scala layer provides JVM method invocation service for static
   980 methods of type (String)String, see Invoke_Scala.method in ML.  For
   981 example:
   982 
   983   Invoke_Scala.method "java.lang.System.getProperty" "java.home"
   984 
   985 Together with YXML.string_of_body/parse_body and XML.Encode/Decode
   986 this allows to pass structured values between ML and Scala.
   987 
   988 * The IsabelleText fonts includes some further glyphs to support the
   989 Prover IDE.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY: users who happen to have
   990 installed a local copy (which is normally *not* required) need to
   991 delete or update it from ~~/lib/fonts/.
   992 
   993 
   994 
   995 New in Isabelle2011 (January 2011)
   996 ----------------------------------
   997 
   998 *** General ***
   999 
  1000 * Experimental Prover IDE based on Isabelle/Scala and jEdit (see
  1001 src/Tools/jEdit).  This also serves as IDE for Isabelle/ML, with
  1002 useful tooltips and hyperlinks produced from its static analysis.  The
  1003 bundled component provides an executable Isabelle tool that can be run
  1004 like this:
  1005 
  1006   Isabelle2011/bin/isabelle jedit
  1007 
  1008 * Significantly improved Isabelle/Isar implementation manual.
  1009 
  1010 * System settings: ISABELLE_HOME_USER now includes ISABELLE_IDENTIFIER
  1011 (and thus refers to something like $HOME/.isabelle/Isabelle2011),
  1012 while the default heap location within that directory lacks that extra
  1013 suffix.  This isolates multiple Isabelle installations from each
  1014 other, avoiding problems with old settings in new versions.
  1015 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to copy/upgrade old user settings manually.
  1016 
  1017 * Source files are always encoded as UTF-8, instead of old-fashioned
  1018 ISO-Latin-1.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Isabelle LaTeX documents might require
  1019 the following package declarations:
  1020 
  1021   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  1022   \usepackage{textcomp}
  1023 
  1024 * Explicit treatment of UTF-8 sequences as Isabelle symbols, such that
  1025 a Unicode character is treated as a single symbol, not a sequence of
  1026 non-ASCII bytes as before.  Since Isabelle/ML string literals may
  1027 contain symbols without further backslash escapes, Unicode can now be
  1028 used here as well.  Recall that Symbol.explode in ML provides a
  1029 consistent view on symbols, while raw explode (or String.explode)
  1030 merely give a byte-oriented representation.
  1031 
  1032 * Theory loader: source files are primarily located via the master
  1033 directory of each theory node (where the .thy file itself resides).
  1034 The global load path is still partially available as legacy feature.
  1035 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY due to subtle change in file lookup: use
  1036 explicit paths, relatively to the theory.
  1037 
  1038 * Special treatment of ML file names has been discontinued.
  1039 Historically, optional extensions .ML or .sml were added on demand --
  1040 at the cost of clarity of file dependencies.  Recall that Isabelle/ML
  1041 files exclusively use the .ML extension.  Minor INCOMPATIBILTY.
  1042 
  1043 * Various options that affect pretty printing etc. are now properly
  1044 handled within the context via configuration options, instead of
  1045 unsynchronized references or print modes.  There are both ML Config.T
  1046 entities and Isar declaration attributes to access these.
  1047 
  1048   ML (Config.T)                 Isar (attribute)
  1049 
  1050   eta_contract                  eta_contract
  1051   show_brackets                 show_brackets
  1052   show_sorts                    show_sorts
  1053   show_types                    show_types
  1054   show_question_marks           show_question_marks
  1055   show_consts                   show_consts
  1056   show_abbrevs                  show_abbrevs
  1057 
  1058   Syntax.ast_trace              syntax_ast_trace
  1059   Syntax.ast_stat               syntax_ast_stat
  1060   Syntax.ambiguity_level        syntax_ambiguity_level
  1061 
  1062   Goal_Display.goals_limit      goals_limit
  1063   Goal_Display.show_main_goal   show_main_goal
  1064 
  1065   Method.rule_trace             rule_trace
  1066 
  1067   Thy_Output.display            thy_output_display
  1068   Thy_Output.quotes             thy_output_quotes
  1069   Thy_Output.indent             thy_output_indent
  1070   Thy_Output.source             thy_output_source
  1071   Thy_Output.break              thy_output_break
  1072 
  1073 Note that corresponding "..._default" references in ML may only be
  1074 changed globally at the ROOT session setup, but *not* within a theory.
  1075 The option "show_abbrevs" supersedes the former print mode
  1076 "no_abbrevs" with inverted meaning.
  1077 
  1078 * More systematic naming of some configuration options.
  1079 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1080 
  1081   trace_simp  ~>  simp_trace
  1082   debug_simp  ~>  simp_debug
  1083 
  1084 * Support for real valued configuration options, using simplistic
  1085 floating-point notation that coincides with the inner syntax for
  1086 float_token.
  1087 
  1088 * Support for real valued preferences (with approximative PGIP type):
  1089 front-ends need to accept "pgint" values in float notation.
  1090 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1091 
  1092 * The IsabelleText font now includes Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic from
  1093 DejaVu Sans.
  1094 
  1095 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.0 and 5.1 versions.
  1096 
  1097 
  1098 *** Pure ***
  1099 
  1100 * Command 'type_synonym' (with single argument) replaces somewhat
  1101 outdated 'types', which is still available as legacy feature for some
  1102 time.
  1103 
  1104 * Command 'nonterminal' (with 'and' separated list of arguments)
  1105 replaces somewhat outdated 'nonterminals'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1106 
  1107 * Command 'notepad' replaces former 'example_proof' for
  1108 experimentation in Isar without any result.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1109 
  1110 * Locale interpretation commands 'interpret' and 'sublocale' accept
  1111 lists of equations to map definitions in a locale to appropriate
  1112 entities in the context of the interpretation.  The 'interpretation'
  1113 command already provided this functionality.
  1114 
  1115 * Diagnostic command 'print_dependencies' prints the locale instances
  1116 that would be activated if the specified expression was interpreted in
  1117 the current context.  Variant "print_dependencies!" assumes a context
  1118 without interpretations.
  1119 
  1120 * Diagnostic command 'print_interps' prints interpretations in proofs
  1121 in addition to interpretations in theories.
  1122 
  1123 * Discontinued obsolete 'global' and 'local' commands to manipulate
  1124 the theory name space.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.  The ML functions
  1125 Sign.root_path and Sign.local_path may be applied directly where this
  1126 feature is still required for historical reasons.
  1127 
  1128 * Discontinued obsolete 'constdefs' command.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  1129 'definition' instead.
  1130 
  1131 * The "prems" fact, which refers to the accidental collection of
  1132 foundational premises in the context, is now explicitly marked as
  1133 legacy feature and will be discontinued soon.  Consider using "assms"
  1134 of the head statement or reference facts by explicit names.
  1135 
  1136 * Document antiquotations @{class} and @{type} print classes and type
  1137 constructors.
  1138 
  1139 * Document antiquotation @{file} checks file/directory entries within
  1140 the local file system.
  1141 
  1142 
  1143 *** HOL ***
  1144 
  1145 * Coercive subtyping: functions can be declared as coercions and type
  1146 inference will add them as necessary upon input of a term.  Theory
  1147 Complex_Main declares real :: nat => real and real :: int => real as
  1148 coercions. A coercion function f is declared like this:
  1149 
  1150   declare [[coercion f]]
  1151 
  1152 To lift coercions through type constructors (e.g. from nat => real to
  1153 nat list => real list), map functions can be declared, e.g.
  1154 
  1155   declare [[coercion_map map]]
  1156 
  1157 Currently coercion inference is activated only in theories including
  1158 real numbers, i.e. descendants of Complex_Main.  This is controlled by
  1159 the configuration option "coercion_enabled", e.g. it can be enabled in
  1160 other theories like this:
  1161 
  1162   declare [[coercion_enabled]]
  1163 
  1164 * Command 'partial_function' provides basic support for recursive
  1165 function definitions over complete partial orders.  Concrete instances
  1166 are provided for i) the option type, ii) tail recursion on arbitrary
  1167 types, and iii) the heap monad of Imperative_HOL.  See
  1168 src/HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy and src/HOL/Imperative_HOL/ex/Linked_Lists.thy
  1169 for examples.
  1170 
  1171 * Function package: f.psimps rules are no longer implicitly declared
  1172 as [simp].  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1173 
  1174 * Datatype package: theorems generated for executable equality (class
  1175 "eq") carry proper names and are treated as default code equations.
  1176 
  1177 * Inductive package: now offers command 'inductive_simps' to
  1178 automatically derive instantiated and simplified equations for
  1179 inductive predicates, similar to 'inductive_cases'.
  1180 
  1181 * Command 'enriched_type' allows to register properties of the
  1182 functorial structure of types.
  1183 
  1184 * Improved infrastructure for term evaluation using code generator
  1185 techniques, in particular static evaluation conversions.
  1186 
  1187 * Code generator: Scala (2.8 or higher) has been added to the target
  1188 languages.
  1189 
  1190 * Code generator: globbing constant expressions "*" and "Theory.*"
  1191 have been replaced by the more idiomatic "_" and "Theory._".
  1192 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1193 
  1194 * Code generator: export_code without explicit file declaration prints
  1195 to standard output.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1196 
  1197 * Code generator: do not print function definitions for case
  1198 combinators any longer.
  1199 
  1200 * Code generator: simplification with rules determined with
  1201 src/Tools/Code/code_simp.ML and method "code_simp".
  1202 
  1203 * Code generator for records: more idiomatic representation of record
  1204 types.  Warning: records are not covered by ancient SML code
  1205 generation any longer.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  In cases of need, a suitable
  1206 rep_datatype declaration helps to succeed then:
  1207 
  1208   record 'a foo = ...
  1209   ...
  1210   rep_datatype foo_ext ...
  1211 
  1212 * Records: logical foundation type for records does not carry a
  1213 '_type' suffix any longer (obsolete due to authentic syntax).
  1214 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1215 
  1216 * Quickcheck now by default uses exhaustive testing instead of random
  1217 testing.  Random testing can be invoked by "quickcheck [random]",
  1218 exhaustive testing by "quickcheck [exhaustive]".
  1219 
  1220 * Quickcheck instantiates polymorphic types with small finite
  1221 datatypes by default. This enables a simple execution mechanism to
  1222 handle quantifiers and function equality over the finite datatypes.
  1223 
  1224 * Quickcheck random generator has been renamed from "code" to
  1225 "random".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1226 
  1227 * Quickcheck now has a configurable time limit which is set to 30
  1228 seconds by default. This can be changed by adding [timeout = n] to the
  1229 quickcheck command. The time limit for Auto Quickcheck is still set
  1230 independently.
  1231 
  1232 * Quickcheck in locales considers interpretations of that locale for
  1233 counter example search.
  1234 
  1235 * Sledgehammer:
  1236   - Added "smt" and "remote_smt" provers based on the "smt" proof
  1237     method. See the Sledgehammer manual for details ("isabelle doc
  1238     sledgehammer").
  1239   - Renamed commands:
  1240     sledgehammer atp_info ~> sledgehammer running_provers
  1241     sledgehammer atp_kill ~> sledgehammer kill_provers
  1242     sledgehammer available_atps ~> sledgehammer available_provers
  1243     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1244   - Renamed options:
  1245     sledgehammer [atps = ...] ~> sledgehammer [provers = ...]
  1246     sledgehammer [atp = ...] ~> sledgehammer [prover = ...]
  1247     sledgehammer [timeout = 77 s] ~> sledgehammer [timeout = 77]
  1248     (and "ms" and "min" are no longer supported)
  1249     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1250 
  1251 * Nitpick:
  1252   - Renamed options:
  1253     nitpick [timeout = 77 s] ~> nitpick [timeout = 77]
  1254     nitpick [tac_timeout = 777 ms] ~> nitpick [tac_timeout = 0.777]
  1255     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1256   - Added support for partial quotient types.
  1257   - Added local versions of the "Nitpick.register_xxx" functions.
  1258   - Added "whack" option.
  1259   - Allow registration of quotient types as codatatypes.
  1260   - Improved "merge_type_vars" option to merge more types.
  1261   - Removed unsound "fast_descrs" option.
  1262   - Added custom symmetry breaking for datatypes, making it possible to reach
  1263     higher cardinalities.
  1264   - Prevent the expansion of too large definitions.
  1265 
  1266 * Proof methods "metis" and "meson" now have configuration options
  1267 "meson_trace", "metis_trace", and "metis_verbose" that can be enabled
  1268 to diagnose these tools. E.g.
  1269 
  1270     using [[metis_trace = true]]
  1271 
  1272 * Auto Solve: Renamed "Auto Solve Direct".  The tool is now available
  1273 manually as command 'solve_direct'.
  1274 
  1275 * The default SMT solver Z3 must be enabled explicitly (due to
  1276 licensing issues) by setting the environment variable
  1277 Z3_NON_COMMERCIAL in etc/settings of the component, for example.  For
  1278 commercial applications, the SMT solver CVC3 is provided as fall-back;
  1279 changing the SMT solver is done via the configuration option
  1280 "smt_solver".
  1281 
  1282 * Remote SMT solvers need to be referred to by the "remote_" prefix,
  1283 i.e. "remote_cvc3" and "remote_z3".
  1284 
  1285 * Added basic SMT support for datatypes, records, and typedefs using
  1286 the oracle mode (no proofs).  Direct support of pairs has been dropped
  1287 in exchange (pass theorems fst_conv snd_conv pair_collapse to the SMT
  1288 support for a similar behavior).  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1289 
  1290 * Changed SMT configuration options:
  1291   - Renamed:
  1292     z3_proofs ~> smt_oracle (with inverted meaning)
  1293     z3_trace_assms ~> smt_trace_used_facts
  1294     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1295   - Added:
  1296     smt_verbose
  1297     smt_random_seed
  1298     smt_datatypes
  1299     smt_infer_triggers
  1300     smt_monomorph_limit
  1301     cvc3_options
  1302     remote_cvc3_options
  1303     remote_z3_options
  1304     yices_options
  1305 
  1306 * Boogie output files (.b2i files) need to be declared in the theory
  1307 header.
  1308 
  1309 * Simplification procedure "list_to_set_comprehension" rewrites list
  1310 comprehensions applied to List.set to set comprehensions.  Occasional
  1311 INCOMPATIBILITY, may be deactivated like this:
  1312 
  1313   declare [[simproc del: list_to_set_comprehension]]
  1314 
  1315 * Removed old version of primrec package.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1316 
  1317 * Removed simplifier congruence rule of "prod_case", as has for long
  1318 been the case with "split".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1319 
  1320 * String.literal is a type, but not a datatype.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1321 
  1322 * Removed [split_format ... and ... and ...] version of
  1323 [split_format].  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1324 
  1325 * Predicate "sorted" now defined inductively, with nice induction
  1326 rules.  INCOMPATIBILITY: former sorted.simps now named sorted_simps.
  1327 
  1328 * Constant "contents" renamed to "the_elem", to free the generic name
  1329 contents for other uses.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1330 
  1331 * Renamed class eq and constant eq (for code generation) to class
  1332 equal and constant equal, plus renaming of related facts and various
  1333 tuning.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1334 
  1335 * Dropped type classes mult_mono and mult_mono1.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1336 
  1337 * Removed output syntax "'a ~=> 'b" for "'a => 'b option".
  1338 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1339 
  1340 * Renamed theory Fset to Cset, type Fset.fset to Cset.set, in order to
  1341 avoid confusion with finite sets.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1342 
  1343 * Abandoned locales equiv, congruent and congruent2 for equivalence
  1344 relations.  INCOMPATIBILITY: use equivI rather than equiv_intro (same
  1345 for congruent(2)).
  1346 
  1347 * Some previously unqualified names have been qualified:
  1348 
  1349   types
  1350     bool ~> HOL.bool
  1351     nat ~> Nat.nat
  1352 
  1353   constants
  1354     Trueprop ~> HOL.Trueprop
  1355     True ~> HOL.True
  1356     False ~> HOL.False
  1357     op & ~> HOL.conj
  1358     op | ~> HOL.disj
  1359     op --> ~> HOL.implies
  1360     op = ~> HOL.eq
  1361     Not ~> HOL.Not
  1362     The ~> HOL.The
  1363     All ~> HOL.All
  1364     Ex ~> HOL.Ex
  1365     Ex1 ~> HOL.Ex1
  1366     Let ~> HOL.Let
  1367     If ~> HOL.If
  1368     Ball ~> Set.Ball
  1369     Bex ~> Set.Bex
  1370     Suc ~> Nat.Suc
  1371     Pair ~> Product_Type.Pair
  1372     fst ~> Product_Type.fst
  1373     snd ~> Product_Type.snd
  1374     curry ~> Product_Type.curry
  1375     op : ~> Set.member
  1376     Collect ~> Set.Collect
  1377 
  1378 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1379 
  1380 * More canonical naming convention for some fundamental definitions:
  1381 
  1382     bot_bool_eq ~> bot_bool_def
  1383     top_bool_eq ~> top_bool_def
  1384     inf_bool_eq ~> inf_bool_def
  1385     sup_bool_eq ~> sup_bool_def
  1386     bot_fun_eq  ~> bot_fun_def
  1387     top_fun_eq  ~> top_fun_def
  1388     inf_fun_eq  ~> inf_fun_def
  1389     sup_fun_eq  ~> sup_fun_def
  1390 
  1391 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1392 
  1393 * More stylized fact names:
  1394 
  1395   expand_fun_eq ~> fun_eq_iff
  1396   expand_set_eq ~> set_eq_iff
  1397   set_ext       ~> set_eqI
  1398   nat_number    ~> eval_nat_numeral
  1399 
  1400 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1401 
  1402 * Refactoring of code-generation specific operations in theory List:
  1403 
  1404   constants
  1405     null ~> List.null
  1406 
  1407   facts
  1408     mem_iff ~> member_def
  1409     null_empty ~> null_def
  1410 
  1411 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Note that these were not supposed to be used
  1412 regularly unless for striking reasons; their main purpose was code
  1413 generation.
  1414 
  1415 Various operations from the Haskell prelude are used for generating
  1416 Haskell code.
  1417 
  1418 * Term "bij f" is now an abbreviation of "bij_betw f UNIV UNIV".  Term
  1419 "surj f" is now an abbreviation of "range f = UNIV".  The theorems
  1420 bij_def and surj_def are unchanged.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1421 
  1422 * Abolished some non-alphabetic type names: "prod" and "sum" replace
  1423 "*" and "+" respectively.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1424 
  1425 * Name "Plus" of disjoint sum operator "<+>" is now hidden.  Write
  1426 "Sum_Type.Plus" instead.
  1427 
  1428 * Constant "split" has been merged with constant "prod_case"; names of
  1429 ML functions, facts etc. involving split have been retained so far,
  1430 though.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1431 
  1432 * Dropped old infix syntax "_ mem _" for List.member; use "_ : set _"
  1433 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1434 
  1435 * Removed lemma "Option.is_none_none" which duplicates "is_none_def".
  1436 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1437 
  1438 * Former theory Library/Enum is now part of the HOL-Main image.
  1439 INCOMPATIBILITY: all constants of the Enum theory now have to be
  1440 referred to by its qualified name.
  1441 
  1442   enum    ~>  Enum.enum
  1443   nlists  ~>  Enum.nlists
  1444   product ~>  Enum.product
  1445 
  1446 * Theory Library/Monad_Syntax provides do-syntax for monad types.
  1447 Syntax in Library/State_Monad has been changed to avoid ambiguities.
  1448 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1449 
  1450 * Theory Library/SetsAndFunctions has been split into
  1451 Library/Function_Algebras and Library/Set_Algebras; canonical names
  1452 for instance definitions for functions; various improvements.
  1453 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1454 
  1455 * Theory Library/Multiset provides stable quicksort implementation of
  1456 sort_key.
  1457 
  1458 * Theory Library/Multiset: renamed empty_idemp ~> empty_neutral.
  1459 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1460 
  1461 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: introduced a type class for euclidean
  1462 space.  Most theorems are now stated in terms of euclidean spaces
  1463 instead of finite cartesian products.
  1464 
  1465   types
  1466     real ^ 'n ~>  'a::real_vector
  1467               ~>  'a::euclidean_space
  1468               ~>  'a::ordered_euclidean_space
  1469         (depends on your needs)
  1470 
  1471   constants
  1472      _ $ _        ~> _ $$ _
  1473      \<chi> x. _  ~> \<chi>\<chi> x. _
  1474      CARD('n)     ~> DIM('a)
  1475 
  1476 Also note that the indices are now natural numbers and not from some
  1477 finite type. Finite cartesian products of euclidean spaces, products
  1478 of euclidean spaces the real and complex numbers are instantiated to
  1479 be euclidean_spaces.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1480 
  1481 * Session Probability: introduced pextreal as positive extended real
  1482 numbers.  Use pextreal as value for measures.  Introduce the
  1483 Radon-Nikodym derivative, product spaces and Fubini's theorem for
  1484 arbitrary sigma finite measures.  Introduces Lebesgue measure based on
  1485 the integral in Multivariate Analysis.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1486 
  1487 * Session Imperative_HOL: revamped, corrected dozens of inadequacies.
  1488 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1489 
  1490 * Session SPARK (with image HOL-SPARK) provides commands to load and
  1491 prove verification conditions generated by the SPARK Ada program
  1492 verifier.  See also src/HOL/SPARK and src/HOL/SPARK/Examples.
  1493 
  1494 
  1495 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  1496 
  1497 * Theorems for additive ring operations (locale abelian_monoid and
  1498 descendants) are generated by interpretation from their multiplicative
  1499 counterparts.  Names (in particular theorem names) have the mandatory
  1500 qualifier 'add'.  Previous theorem names are redeclared for
  1501 compatibility.
  1502 
  1503 * Structure "int_ring" is now an abbreviation (previously a
  1504 definition).  This fits more natural with advanced interpretations.
  1505 
  1506 
  1507 *** HOLCF ***
  1508 
  1509 * The domain package now runs in definitional mode by default: The
  1510 former command 'new_domain' is now called 'domain'.  To use the domain
  1511 package in its original axiomatic mode, use 'domain (unsafe)'.
  1512 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1513 
  1514 * The new class "domain" is now the default sort.  Class "predomain"
  1515 is an unpointed version of "domain". Theories can be updated by
  1516 replacing sort annotations as shown below.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1517 
  1518   'a::type ~> 'a::countable
  1519   'a::cpo  ~> 'a::predomain
  1520   'a::pcpo ~> 'a::domain
  1521 
  1522 * The old type class "rep" has been superseded by class "domain".
  1523 Accordingly, users of the definitional package must remove any
  1524 "default_sort rep" declarations.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1525 
  1526 * The domain package (definitional mode) now supports unpointed
  1527 predomain argument types, as long as they are marked 'lazy'. (Strict
  1528 arguments must be in class "domain".) For example, the following
  1529 domain definition now works:
  1530 
  1531   domain natlist = nil | cons (lazy "nat discr") (lazy "natlist")
  1532 
  1533 * Theory HOLCF/Library/HOL_Cpo provides cpo and predomain class
  1534 instances for types from main HOL: bool, nat, int, char, 'a + 'b,
  1535 'a option, and 'a list.  Additionally, it configures fixrec and the
  1536 domain package to work with these types.  For example:
  1537 
  1538   fixrec isInl :: "('a + 'b) u -> tr"
  1539     where "isInl$(up$(Inl x)) = TT" | "isInl$(up$(Inr y)) = FF"
  1540 
  1541   domain V = VFun (lazy "V -> V") | VCon (lazy "nat") (lazy "V list")
  1542 
  1543 * The "(permissive)" option of fixrec has been replaced with a
  1544 per-equation "(unchecked)" option. See
  1545 src/HOL/HOLCF/Tutorial/Fixrec_ex.thy for examples. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1546 
  1547 * The "bifinite" class no longer fixes a constant "approx"; the class
  1548 now just asserts that such a function exists.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1549 
  1550 * Former type "alg_defl" has been renamed to "defl".  HOLCF no longer
  1551 defines an embedding of type 'a defl into udom by default; instances
  1552 of "bifinite" and "domain" classes are available in
  1553 src/HOL/HOLCF/Library/Defl_Bifinite.thy.
  1554 
  1555 * The syntax "REP('a)" has been replaced with "DEFL('a)".
  1556 
  1557 * The predicate "directed" has been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1558 
  1559 * The type class "finite_po" has been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1560 
  1561 * The function "cprod_map" has been renamed to "prod_map".
  1562 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1563 
  1564 * The monadic bind operator on each powerdomain has new binder syntax
  1565 similar to sets, e.g. "\<Union>\<sharp>x\<in>xs. t" represents
  1566 "upper_bind\<cdot>xs\<cdot>(\<Lambda> x. t)".
  1567 
  1568 * The infix syntax for binary union on each powerdomain has changed
  1569 from e.g. "+\<sharp>" to "\<union>\<sharp>", for consistency with set
  1570 syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1571 
  1572 * The constant "UU" has been renamed to "bottom".  The syntax "UU" is
  1573 still supported as an input translation.
  1574 
  1575 * Renamed some theorems (the original names are also still available).
  1576 
  1577   expand_fun_below   ~> fun_below_iff
  1578   below_fun_ext      ~> fun_belowI
  1579   expand_cfun_eq     ~> cfun_eq_iff
  1580   ext_cfun           ~> cfun_eqI
  1581   expand_cfun_below  ~> cfun_below_iff
  1582   below_cfun_ext     ~> cfun_belowI
  1583   cont2cont_Rep_CFun ~> cont2cont_APP
  1584 
  1585 * The Abs and Rep functions for various types have changed names.
  1586 Related theorem names have also changed to match. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1587 
  1588   Rep_CFun  ~> Rep_cfun
  1589   Abs_CFun  ~> Abs_cfun
  1590   Rep_Sprod ~> Rep_sprod
  1591   Abs_Sprod ~> Abs_sprod
  1592   Rep_Ssum  ~> Rep_ssum
  1593   Abs_Ssum  ~> Abs_ssum
  1594 
  1595 * Lemmas with names of the form *_defined_iff or *_strict_iff have
  1596 been renamed to *_bottom_iff.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1597 
  1598 * Various changes to bisimulation/coinduction with domain package:
  1599 
  1600   - Definitions of "bisim" constants no longer mention definedness.
  1601   - With mutual recursion, "bisim" predicate is now curried.
  1602   - With mutual recursion, each type gets a separate coind theorem.
  1603   - Variable names in bisim_def and coinduct rules have changed.
  1604 
  1605 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1606 
  1607 * Case combinators generated by the domain package for type "foo" are
  1608 now named "foo_case" instead of "foo_when".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1609 
  1610 * Several theorems have been renamed to more accurately reflect the
  1611 names of constants and types involved.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1612 
  1613   thelub_const    ~> lub_const
  1614   lub_const       ~> is_lub_const
  1615   thelubI         ~> lub_eqI
  1616   is_lub_lub      ~> is_lubD2
  1617   lubI            ~> is_lub_lub
  1618   unique_lub      ~> is_lub_unique
  1619   is_ub_lub       ~> is_lub_rangeD1
  1620   lub_bin_chain   ~> is_lub_bin_chain
  1621   lub_fun         ~> is_lub_fun
  1622   thelub_fun      ~> lub_fun
  1623   thelub_cfun     ~> lub_cfun
  1624   thelub_Pair     ~> lub_Pair
  1625   lub_cprod       ~> is_lub_prod
  1626   thelub_cprod    ~> lub_prod
  1627   minimal_cprod   ~> minimal_prod
  1628   inst_cprod_pcpo ~> inst_prod_pcpo
  1629   UU_I            ~> bottomI
  1630   compact_UU      ~> compact_bottom
  1631   deflation_UU    ~> deflation_bottom
  1632   finite_deflation_UU ~> finite_deflation_bottom
  1633 
  1634 * Many legacy theorem names have been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1635 
  1636   sq_ord_less_eq_trans ~> below_eq_trans
  1637   sq_ord_eq_less_trans ~> eq_below_trans
  1638   refl_less            ~> below_refl
  1639   trans_less           ~> below_trans
  1640   antisym_less         ~> below_antisym
  1641   antisym_less_inverse ~> po_eq_conv [THEN iffD1]
  1642   box_less             ~> box_below
  1643   rev_trans_less       ~> rev_below_trans
  1644   not_less2not_eq      ~> not_below2not_eq
  1645   less_UU_iff          ~> below_UU_iff
  1646   flat_less_iff        ~> flat_below_iff
  1647   adm_less             ~> adm_below
  1648   adm_not_less         ~> adm_not_below
  1649   adm_compact_not_less ~> adm_compact_not_below
  1650   less_fun_def         ~> below_fun_def
  1651   expand_fun_less      ~> fun_below_iff
  1652   less_fun_ext         ~> fun_belowI
  1653   less_discr_def       ~> below_discr_def
  1654   discr_less_eq        ~> discr_below_eq
  1655   less_unit_def        ~> below_unit_def
  1656   less_cprod_def       ~> below_prod_def
  1657   prod_lessI           ~> prod_belowI
  1658   Pair_less_iff        ~> Pair_below_iff
  1659   fst_less_iff         ~> fst_below_iff
  1660   snd_less_iff         ~> snd_below_iff
  1661   expand_cfun_less     ~> cfun_below_iff
  1662   less_cfun_ext        ~> cfun_belowI
  1663   injection_less       ~> injection_below
  1664   less_up_def          ~> below_up_def
  1665   not_Iup_less         ~> not_Iup_below
  1666   Iup_less             ~> Iup_below
  1667   up_less              ~> up_below
  1668   Def_inject_less_eq   ~> Def_below_Def
  1669   Def_less_is_eq       ~> Def_below_iff
  1670   spair_less_iff       ~> spair_below_iff
  1671   less_sprod           ~> below_sprod
  1672   spair_less           ~> spair_below
  1673   sfst_less_iff        ~> sfst_below_iff
  1674   ssnd_less_iff        ~> ssnd_below_iff
  1675   fix_least_less       ~> fix_least_below
  1676   dist_less_one        ~> dist_below_one
  1677   less_ONE             ~> below_ONE
  1678   ONE_less_iff         ~> ONE_below_iff
  1679   less_sinlD           ~> below_sinlD
  1680   less_sinrD           ~> below_sinrD
  1681 
  1682 
  1683 *** FOL and ZF ***
  1684 
  1685 * All constant names are now qualified internally and use proper
  1686 identifiers, e.g. "IFOL.eq" instead of "op =".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1687 
  1688 
  1689 *** ML ***
  1690 
  1691 * Antiquotation @{assert} inlines a function bool -> unit that raises
  1692 Fail if the argument is false.  Due to inlining the source position of
  1693 failed assertions is included in the error output.
  1694 
  1695 * Discontinued antiquotation @{theory_ref}, which is obsolete since ML
  1696 text is in practice always evaluated with a stable theory checkpoint.
  1697 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, use (Theory.check_thy @{theory}) instead.
  1698 
  1699 * Antiquotation @{theory A} refers to theory A from the ancestry of
  1700 the current context, not any accidental theory loader state as before.
  1701 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, subtle change in semantics.
  1702 
  1703 * Syntax.pretty_priority (default 0) configures the required priority
  1704 of pretty-printed output and thus affects insertion of parentheses.
  1705 
  1706 * Syntax.default_root (default "any") configures the inner syntax
  1707 category (nonterminal symbol) for parsing of terms.
  1708 
  1709 * Former exception Library.UnequalLengths now coincides with
  1710 ListPair.UnequalLengths.
  1711 
  1712 * Renamed structure MetaSimplifier to Raw_Simplifier.  Note that the
  1713 main functionality is provided by structure Simplifier.
  1714 
  1715 * Renamed raw "explode" function to "raw_explode" to emphasize its
  1716 meaning.  Note that internally to Isabelle, Symbol.explode is used in
  1717 almost all situations.
  1718 
  1719 * Discontinued obsolete function sys_error and exception SYS_ERROR.
  1720 See implementation manual for further details on exceptions in
  1721 Isabelle/ML.
  1722 
  1723 * Renamed setmp_noncritical to Unsynchronized.setmp to emphasize its
  1724 meaning.
  1725 
  1726 * Renamed structure PureThy to Pure_Thy and moved most of its
  1727 operations to structure Global_Theory, to emphasize that this is
  1728 rarely-used global-only stuff.
  1729 
  1730 * Discontinued Output.debug.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, use plain writeln
  1731 instead (or tracing for high-volume output).
  1732 
  1733 * Configuration option show_question_marks only affects regular pretty
  1734 printing of types and terms, not raw Term.string_of_vname.
  1735 
  1736 * ML_Context.thm and ML_Context.thms are no longer pervasive.  Rare
  1737 INCOMPATIBILITY, superseded by static antiquotations @{thm} and
  1738 @{thms} for most purposes.
  1739 
  1740 * ML structure Unsynchronized is never opened, not even in Isar
  1741 interaction mode as before.  Old Unsynchronized.set etc. have been
  1742 discontinued -- use plain := instead.  This should be *rare* anyway,
  1743 since modern tools always work via official context data, notably
  1744 configuration options.
  1745 
  1746 * Parallel and asynchronous execution requires special care concerning
  1747 interrupts.  Structure Exn provides some convenience functions that
  1748 avoid working directly with raw Interrupt.  User code must not absorb
  1749 interrupts -- intermediate handling (for cleanup etc.) needs to be
  1750 followed by re-raising of the original exception.  Another common
  1751 source of mistakes are "handle _" patterns, which make the meaning of
  1752 the program subject to physical effects of the environment.
  1753 
  1754 
  1755 
  1756 New in Isabelle2009-2 (June 2010)
  1757 ---------------------------------
  1758 
  1759 *** General ***
  1760 
  1761 * Authentic syntax for *all* logical entities (type classes, type
  1762 constructors, term constants): provides simple and robust
  1763 correspondence between formal entities and concrete syntax.  Within
  1764 the parse tree / AST representations, "constants" are decorated by
  1765 their category (class, type, const) and spelled out explicitly with
  1766 their full internal name.
  1767 
  1768 Substantial INCOMPATIBILITY concerning low-level syntax declarations
  1769 and translations (translation rules and translation functions in ML).
  1770 Some hints on upgrading:
  1771 
  1772   - Many existing uses of 'syntax' and 'translations' can be replaced
  1773     by more modern 'type_notation', 'notation' and 'abbreviation',
  1774     which are independent of this issue.
  1775 
  1776   - 'translations' require markup within the AST; the term syntax
  1777     provides the following special forms:
  1778 
  1779       CONST c   -- produces syntax version of constant c from context
  1780       XCONST c  -- literally c, checked as constant from context
  1781       c         -- literally c, if declared by 'syntax'
  1782 
  1783     Plain identifiers are treated as AST variables -- occasionally the
  1784     system indicates accidental variables via the error "rhs contains
  1785     extra variables".
  1786 
  1787     Type classes and type constructors are marked according to their
  1788     concrete syntax.  Some old translations rules need to be written
  1789     for the "type" category, using type constructor application
  1790     instead of pseudo-term application of the default category
  1791     "logic".
  1792 
  1793   - 'parse_translation' etc. in ML may use the following
  1794     antiquotations:
  1795 
  1796       @{class_syntax c}   -- type class c within parse tree / AST
  1797       @{term_syntax c}    -- type constructor c within parse tree / AST
  1798       @{const_syntax c}   -- ML version of "CONST c" above
  1799       @{syntax_const c}   -- literally c (checked wrt. 'syntax' declarations)
  1800 
  1801   - Literal types within 'typed_print_translations', i.e. those *not*
  1802     represented as pseudo-terms are represented verbatim.  Use @{class
  1803     c} or @{type_name c} here instead of the above syntax
  1804     antiquotations.
  1805 
  1806 Note that old non-authentic syntax was based on unqualified base
  1807 names, so all of the above "constant" names would coincide.  Recall
  1808 that 'print_syntax' and ML_command "set Syntax.trace_ast" help to
  1809 diagnose syntax problems.
  1810 
  1811 * Type constructors admit general mixfix syntax, not just infix.
  1812 
  1813 * Concrete syntax may be attached to local entities without a proof
  1814 body, too.  This works via regular mixfix annotations for 'fix',
  1815 'def', 'obtain' etc. or via the explicit 'write' command, which is
  1816 similar to the 'notation' command in theory specifications.
  1817 
  1818 * Discontinued unnamed infix syntax (legacy feature for many years) --
  1819 need to specify constant name and syntax separately.  Internal ML
  1820 datatype constructors have been renamed from InfixName to Infix etc.
  1821 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1822 
  1823 * Schematic theorem statements need to be explicitly markup as such,
  1824 via commands 'schematic_lemma', 'schematic_theorem',
  1825 'schematic_corollary'.  Thus the relevance of the proof is made
  1826 syntactically clear, which impacts performance in a parallel or
  1827 asynchronous interactive environment.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1828 
  1829 * Use of cumulative prems via "!" in some proof methods has been
  1830 discontinued (old legacy feature).
  1831 
  1832 * References 'trace_simp' and 'debug_simp' have been replaced by
  1833 configuration options stored in the context. Enabling tracing (the
  1834 case of debugging is similar) in proofs works via
  1835 
  1836   using [[trace_simp = true]]
  1837 
  1838 Tracing is then active for all invocations of the simplifier in
  1839 subsequent goal refinement steps. Tracing may also still be enabled or
  1840 disabled via the ProofGeneral settings menu.
  1841 
  1842 * Separate commands 'hide_class', 'hide_type', 'hide_const',
  1843 'hide_fact' replace the former 'hide' KIND command.  Minor
  1844 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1845 
  1846 * Improved parallelism of proof term normalization: usedir -p2 -q0 is
  1847 more efficient than combinations with -q1 or -q2.
  1848 
  1849 
  1850 *** Pure ***
  1851 
  1852 * Proofterms record type-class reasoning explicitly, using the
  1853 "unconstrain" operation internally.  This eliminates all sort
  1854 constraints from a theorem and proof, introducing explicit
  1855 OFCLASS-premises.  On the proof term level, this operation is
  1856 automatically applied at theorem boundaries, such that closed proofs
  1857 are always free of sort constraints.  INCOMPATIBILITY for tools that
  1858 inspect proof terms.
  1859 
  1860 * Local theory specifications may depend on extra type variables that
  1861 are not present in the result type -- arguments TYPE('a) :: 'a itself
  1862 are added internally.  For example:
  1863 
  1864   definition unitary :: bool where "unitary = (ALL (x::'a) y. x = y)"
  1865 
  1866 * Predicates of locales introduced by classes carry a mandatory
  1867 "class" prefix.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1868 
  1869 * Vacuous class specifications observe default sort.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1870 
  1871 * Old 'axclass' command has been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  1872 'class' instead.
  1873 
  1874 * Command 'code_reflect' allows to incorporate generated ML code into
  1875 runtime environment; replaces immature code_datatype antiquotation.
  1876 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1877 
  1878 * Code generator: simple concept for abstract datatypes obeying
  1879 invariants.
  1880 
  1881 * Code generator: details of internal data cache have no impact on the
  1882 user space functionality any longer.
  1883 
  1884 * Methods "unfold_locales" and "intro_locales" ignore non-locale
  1885 subgoals.  This is more appropriate for interpretations with 'where'.
  1886 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1887 
  1888 * Command 'example_proof' opens an empty proof body.  This allows to
  1889 experiment with Isar, without producing any persistent result.
  1890 
  1891 * Commands 'type_notation' and 'no_type_notation' declare type syntax
  1892 within a local theory context, with explicit checking of the
  1893 constructors involved (in contrast to the raw 'syntax' versions).
  1894 
  1895 * Commands 'types' and 'typedecl' now work within a local theory
  1896 context -- without introducing dependencies on parameters or
  1897 assumptions, which is not possible in Isabelle/Pure.
  1898 
  1899 * Command 'defaultsort' has been renamed to 'default_sort', it works
  1900 within a local theory context.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1901 
  1902 
  1903 *** HOL ***
  1904 
  1905 * Command 'typedef' now works within a local theory context -- without
  1906 introducing dependencies on parameters or assumptions, which is not
  1907 possible in Isabelle/Pure/HOL.  Note that the logical environment may
  1908 contain multiple interpretations of local typedefs (with different
  1909 non-emptiness proofs), even in a global theory context.
  1910 
  1911 * New package for quotient types.  Commands 'quotient_type' and
  1912 'quotient_definition' may be used for defining types and constants by
  1913 quotient constructions.  An example is the type of integers created by
  1914 quotienting pairs of natural numbers:
  1915 
  1916   fun
  1917     intrel :: "(nat * nat) => (nat * nat) => bool"
  1918   where
  1919     "intrel (x, y) (u, v) = (x + v = u + y)"
  1920 
  1921   quotient_type int = "nat * nat" / intrel
  1922     by (auto simp add: equivp_def expand_fun_eq)
  1923 
  1924   quotient_definition
  1925     "0::int" is "(0::nat, 0::nat)"
  1926 
  1927 The method "lifting" can be used to lift of theorems from the
  1928 underlying "raw" type to the quotient type.  The example
  1929 src/HOL/Quotient_Examples/FSet.thy includes such a quotient
  1930 construction and provides a reasoning infrastructure for finite sets.
  1931 
  1932 * Renamed Library/Quotient.thy to Library/Quotient_Type.thy to avoid
  1933 clash with new theory Quotient in Main HOL.
  1934 
  1935 * Moved the SMT binding into the main HOL session, eliminating
  1936 separate HOL-SMT session.
  1937 
  1938 * List membership infix mem operation is only an input abbreviation.
  1939 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1940 
  1941 * Theory Library/Word.thy has been removed.  Use library Word/Word.thy
  1942 for future developements; former Library/Word.thy is still present in
  1943 the AFP entry RSAPPS.
  1944 
  1945 * Theorem Int.int_induct renamed to Int.int_of_nat_induct and is no
  1946 longer shadowed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1947 
  1948 * Dropped theorem duplicate comp_arith; use semiring_norm instead.
  1949 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1950 
  1951 * Dropped theorem RealPow.real_sq_order; use power2_le_imp_le instead.
  1952 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1953 
  1954 * Dropped normalizing_semiring etc; use the facts in semiring classes
  1955 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1956 
  1957 * Dropped several real-specific versions of lemmas about floor and
  1958 ceiling; use the generic lemmas from theory "Archimedean_Field"
  1959 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1960 
  1961   floor_number_of_eq         ~> floor_number_of
  1962   le_floor_eq_number_of      ~> number_of_le_floor
  1963   le_floor_eq_zero           ~> zero_le_floor
  1964   le_floor_eq_one            ~> one_le_floor
  1965   floor_less_eq_number_of    ~> floor_less_number_of
  1966   floor_less_eq_zero         ~> floor_less_zero
  1967   floor_less_eq_one          ~> floor_less_one
  1968   less_floor_eq_number_of    ~> number_of_less_floor
  1969   less_floor_eq_zero         ~> zero_less_floor
  1970   less_floor_eq_one          ~> one_less_floor
  1971   floor_le_eq_number_of      ~> floor_le_number_of
  1972   floor_le_eq_zero           ~> floor_le_zero
  1973   floor_le_eq_one            ~> floor_le_one
  1974   floor_subtract_number_of   ~> floor_diff_number_of
  1975   floor_subtract_one         ~> floor_diff_one
  1976   ceiling_number_of_eq       ~> ceiling_number_of
  1977   ceiling_le_eq_number_of    ~> ceiling_le_number_of
  1978   ceiling_le_zero_eq         ~> ceiling_le_zero
  1979   ceiling_le_eq_one          ~> ceiling_le_one
  1980   less_ceiling_eq_number_of  ~> number_of_less_ceiling
  1981   less_ceiling_eq_zero       ~> zero_less_ceiling
  1982   less_ceiling_eq_one        ~> one_less_ceiling
  1983   ceiling_less_eq_number_of  ~> ceiling_less_number_of
  1984   ceiling_less_eq_zero       ~> ceiling_less_zero
  1985   ceiling_less_eq_one        ~> ceiling_less_one
  1986   le_ceiling_eq_number_of    ~> number_of_le_ceiling
  1987   le_ceiling_eq_zero         ~> zero_le_ceiling
  1988   le_ceiling_eq_one          ~> one_le_ceiling
  1989   ceiling_subtract_number_of ~> ceiling_diff_number_of
  1990   ceiling_subtract_one       ~> ceiling_diff_one
  1991 
  1992 * Theory "Finite_Set": various folding_XXX locales facilitate the
  1993 application of the various fold combinators on finite sets.
  1994 
  1995 * Library theory "RBT" renamed to "RBT_Impl"; new library theory "RBT"
  1996 provides abstract red-black tree type which is backed by "RBT_Impl" as
  1997 implementation.  INCOMPATIBILTY.
  1998 
  1999 * Theory Library/Coinductive_List has been removed -- superseded by
  2000 AFP/thys/Coinductive.
  2001 
  2002 * Theory PReal, including the type "preal" and related operations, has
  2003 been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2004 
  2005 * Real: new development using Cauchy Sequences.
  2006 
  2007 * Split off theory "Big_Operators" containing setsum, setprod,
  2008 Inf_fin, Sup_fin, Min, Max from theory Finite_Set.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2009 
  2010 * Theory "Rational" renamed to "Rat", for consistency with "Nat",
  2011 "Int" etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2012 
  2013 * Constant Rat.normalize needs to be qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2014 
  2015 * New set of rules "ac_simps" provides combined assoc / commute
  2016 rewrites for all interpretations of the appropriate generic locales.
  2017 
  2018 * Renamed theory "OrderedGroup" to "Groups" and split theory
  2019 "Ring_and_Field" into theories "Rings" and "Fields"; for more
  2020 appropriate and more consistent names suitable for name prefixes
  2021 within the HOL theories.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2022 
  2023 * Some generic constants have been put to appropriate theories:
  2024   - less_eq, less: Orderings
  2025   - zero, one, plus, minus, uminus, times, abs, sgn: Groups
  2026   - inverse, divide: Rings
  2027 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2028 
  2029 * More consistent naming of type classes involving orderings (and
  2030 lattices):
  2031 
  2032     lower_semilattice                   ~> semilattice_inf
  2033     upper_semilattice                   ~> semilattice_sup
  2034 
  2035     dense_linear_order                  ~> dense_linorder
  2036 
  2037     pordered_ab_group_add               ~> ordered_ab_group_add
  2038     pordered_ab_group_add_abs           ~> ordered_ab_group_add_abs
  2039     pordered_ab_semigroup_add           ~> ordered_ab_semigroup_add
  2040     pordered_ab_semigroup_add_imp_le    ~> ordered_ab_semigroup_add_imp_le
  2041     pordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add    ~> ordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add
  2042     pordered_cancel_comm_semiring       ~> ordered_cancel_comm_semiring
  2043     pordered_cancel_semiring            ~> ordered_cancel_semiring
  2044     pordered_comm_monoid_add            ~> ordered_comm_monoid_add
  2045     pordered_comm_ring                  ~> ordered_comm_ring
  2046     pordered_comm_semiring              ~> ordered_comm_semiring
  2047     pordered_ring                       ~> ordered_ring
  2048     pordered_ring_abs                   ~> ordered_ring_abs
  2049     pordered_semiring                   ~> ordered_semiring
  2050 
  2051     ordered_ab_group_add                ~> linordered_ab_group_add
  2052     ordered_ab_semigroup_add            ~> linordered_ab_semigroup_add
  2053     ordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add     ~> linordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add
  2054     ordered_comm_semiring_strict        ~> linordered_comm_semiring_strict
  2055     ordered_field                       ~> linordered_field
  2056     ordered_field_no_lb                 ~> linordered_field_no_lb
  2057     ordered_field_no_ub                 ~> linordered_field_no_ub
  2058     ordered_field_dense_linear_order    ~> dense_linordered_field
  2059     ordered_idom                        ~> linordered_idom
  2060     ordered_ring                        ~> linordered_ring
  2061     ordered_ring_le_cancel_factor       ~> linordered_ring_le_cancel_factor
  2062     ordered_ring_less_cancel_factor     ~> linordered_ring_less_cancel_factor
  2063     ordered_ring_strict                 ~> linordered_ring_strict
  2064     ordered_semidom                     ~> linordered_semidom
  2065     ordered_semiring                    ~> linordered_semiring
  2066     ordered_semiring_1                  ~> linordered_semiring_1
  2067     ordered_semiring_1_strict           ~> linordered_semiring_1_strict
  2068     ordered_semiring_strict             ~> linordered_semiring_strict
  2069 
  2070   The following slightly odd type classes have been moved to a
  2071   separate theory Library/Lattice_Algebras:
  2072 
  2073     lordered_ab_group_add               ~> lattice_ab_group_add
  2074     lordered_ab_group_add_abs           ~> lattice_ab_group_add_abs
  2075     lordered_ab_group_add_meet          ~> semilattice_inf_ab_group_add
  2076     lordered_ab_group_add_join          ~> semilattice_sup_ab_group_add
  2077     lordered_ring                       ~> lattice_ring
  2078 
  2079 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2080 
  2081 * Refined field classes:
  2082   - classes division_ring_inverse_zero, field_inverse_zero,
  2083     linordered_field_inverse_zero include rule inverse 0 = 0 --
  2084     subsumes former division_by_zero class;
  2085   - numerous lemmas have been ported from field to division_ring.
  2086 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2087 
  2088 * Refined algebra theorem collections:
  2089   - dropped theorem group group_simps, use algebra_simps instead;
  2090   - dropped theorem group ring_simps, use field_simps instead;
  2091   - proper theorem collection field_simps subsumes former theorem
  2092     groups field_eq_simps and field_simps;
  2093   - dropped lemma eq_minus_self_iff which is a duplicate for
  2094     equal_neg_zero.
  2095 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2096 
  2097 * Theory Finite_Set and List: some lemmas have been generalized from
  2098 sets to lattices:
  2099 
  2100   fun_left_comm_idem_inter      ~> fun_left_comm_idem_inf
  2101   fun_left_comm_idem_union      ~> fun_left_comm_idem_sup
  2102   inter_Inter_fold_inter        ~> inf_Inf_fold_inf
  2103   union_Union_fold_union        ~> sup_Sup_fold_sup
  2104   Inter_fold_inter              ~> Inf_fold_inf
  2105   Union_fold_union              ~> Sup_fold_sup
  2106   inter_INTER_fold_inter        ~> inf_INFI_fold_inf
  2107   union_UNION_fold_union        ~> sup_SUPR_fold_sup
  2108   INTER_fold_inter              ~> INFI_fold_inf
  2109   UNION_fold_union              ~> SUPR_fold_sup
  2110 
  2111 * Theory "Complete_Lattice": lemmas top_def and bot_def have been
  2112 replaced by the more convenient lemmas Inf_empty and Sup_empty.
  2113 Dropped lemmas Inf_insert_simp and Sup_insert_simp, which are subsumed
  2114 by Inf_insert and Sup_insert.  Lemmas Inf_UNIV and Sup_UNIV replace
  2115 former Inf_Univ and Sup_Univ.  Lemmas inf_top_right and sup_bot_right
  2116 subsume inf_top and sup_bot respectively.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2117 
  2118 * Reorganized theory Multiset: swapped notation of pointwise and
  2119 multiset order:
  2120 
  2121   - pointwise ordering is instance of class order with standard syntax
  2122     <= and <;
  2123   - multiset ordering has syntax <=# and <#; partial order properties
  2124     are provided by means of interpretation with prefix
  2125     multiset_order;
  2126   - less duplication, less historical organization of sections,
  2127     conversion from associations lists to multisets, rudimentary code
  2128     generation;
  2129   - use insert_DiffM2 [symmetric] instead of elem_imp_eq_diff_union,
  2130     if needed.
  2131 
  2132 Renamed:
  2133 
  2134   multiset_eq_conv_count_eq  ~>  multiset_ext_iff
  2135   multi_count_ext  ~>  multiset_ext
  2136   diff_union_inverse2  ~>  diff_union_cancelR
  2137 
  2138 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2139 
  2140 * Theory Permutation: replaced local "remove" by List.remove1.
  2141 
  2142 * Code generation: ML and OCaml code is decorated with signatures.
  2143 
  2144 * Theory List: added transpose.
  2145 
  2146 * Library/Nat_Bijection.thy is a collection of bijective functions
  2147 between nat and other types, which supersedes the older libraries
  2148 Library/Nat_Int_Bij.thy and HOLCF/NatIso.thy.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2149 
  2150   Constants:
  2151   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat         ~> prod_encode
  2152   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2         ~> prod_decode
  2153   Nat_Int_Bij.int_to_nat_bij      ~> int_encode
  2154   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_int_bij      ~> int_decode
  2155   Countable.pair_encode           ~> prod_encode
  2156   NatIso.prod2nat                 ~> prod_encode
  2157   NatIso.nat2prod                 ~> prod_decode
  2158   NatIso.sum2nat                  ~> sum_encode
  2159   NatIso.nat2sum                  ~> sum_decode
  2160   NatIso.list2nat                 ~> list_encode
  2161   NatIso.nat2list                 ~> list_decode
  2162   NatIso.set2nat                  ~> set_encode
  2163   NatIso.nat2set                  ~> set_decode
  2164 
  2165   Lemmas:
  2166   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_nat_to_int_bij  ~> bij_int_decode
  2167   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat_inj     ~> inj_prod_encode
  2168   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat_surj    ~> surj_prod_encode
  2169   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2_inj     ~> inj_prod_decode
  2170   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2_surj    ~> surj_prod_decode
  2171   Nat_Int_Bij.i2n_n2i_id          ~> int_encode_inverse
  2172   Nat_Int_Bij.n2i_i2n_id          ~> int_decode_inverse
  2173   Nat_Int_Bij.surj_nat_to_int_bij ~> surj_int_encode
  2174   Nat_Int_Bij.surj_int_to_nat_bij ~> surj_int_decode
  2175   Nat_Int_Bij.inj_nat_to_int_bij  ~> inj_int_encode
  2176   Nat_Int_Bij.inj_int_to_nat_bij  ~> inj_int_decode
  2177   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_nat_to_int_bij  ~> bij_int_encode
  2178   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_int_to_nat_bij  ~> bij_int_decode
  2179 
  2180 * Sledgehammer:
  2181   - Renamed ATP commands:
  2182     atp_info     ~> sledgehammer running_atps
  2183     atp_kill     ~> sledgehammer kill_atps
  2184     atp_messages ~> sledgehammer messages
  2185     atp_minimize ~> sledgehammer minimize
  2186     print_atps   ~> sledgehammer available_atps
  2187     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2188   - Added user's manual ("isabelle doc sledgehammer").
  2189   - Added option syntax and "sledgehammer_params" to customize
  2190     Sledgehammer's behavior.  See the manual for details.
  2191   - Modified the Isar proof reconstruction code so that it produces
  2192     direct proofs rather than proofs by contradiction.  (This feature
  2193     is still experimental.)
  2194   - Made Isar proof reconstruction work for SPASS, remote ATPs, and in
  2195     full-typed mode.
  2196   - Added support for TPTP syntax for SPASS via the "spass_tptp" ATP.
  2197 
  2198 * Nitpick:
  2199   - Added and implemented "binary_ints" and "bits" options.
  2200   - Added "std" option and implemented support for nonstandard models.
  2201   - Added and implemented "finitize" option to improve the precision
  2202     of infinite datatypes based on a monotonicity analysis.
  2203   - Added support for quotient types.
  2204   - Added support for "specification" and "ax_specification"
  2205     constructs.
  2206   - Added support for local definitions (for "function" and
  2207     "termination" proofs).
  2208   - Added support for term postprocessors.
  2209   - Optimized "Multiset.multiset" and "FinFun.finfun".
  2210   - Improved efficiency of "destroy_constrs" optimization.
  2211   - Fixed soundness bugs related to "destroy_constrs" optimization and
  2212     record getters.
  2213   - Fixed soundness bug related to higher-order constructors.
  2214   - Fixed soundness bug when "full_descrs" is enabled.
  2215   - Improved precision of set constructs.
  2216   - Added "atoms" option.
  2217   - Added cache to speed up repeated Kodkod invocations on the same
  2218     problems.
  2219   - Renamed "MiniSatJNI", "zChaffJNI", "BerkMinAlloy", and
  2220     "SAT4JLight" to "MiniSat_JNI", "zChaff_JNI", "BerkMin_Alloy", and
  2221     "SAT4J_Light".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2222   - Removed "skolemize", "uncurry", "sym_break", "flatten_prop",
  2223     "sharing_depth", and "show_skolems" options.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2224   - Removed "nitpick_intro" attribute.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2225 
  2226 * Method "induct" now takes instantiations of the form t, where t is not
  2227   a variable, as a shorthand for "x == t", where x is a fresh variable.
  2228   If this is not intended, t has to be enclosed in parentheses.
  2229   By default, the equalities generated by definitional instantiations
  2230   are pre-simplified, which may cause parameters of inductive cases
  2231   to disappear, or may even delete some of the inductive cases.
  2232   Use "induct (no_simp)" instead of "induct" to restore the old
  2233   behaviour. The (no_simp) option is also understood by the "cases"
  2234   and "nominal_induct" methods, which now perform pre-simplification, too.
  2235   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2236 
  2237 
  2238 *** HOLCF ***
  2239 
  2240 * Variable names in lemmas generated by the domain package have
  2241 changed; the naming scheme is now consistent with the HOL datatype
  2242 package.  Some proof scripts may be affected, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2243 
  2244 * The domain package no longer defines the function "foo_copy" for
  2245 recursive domain "foo".  The reach lemma is now stated directly in
  2246 terms of "foo_take".  Lemmas and proofs that mention "foo_copy" must
  2247 be reformulated in terms of "foo_take", INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2248 
  2249 * Most definedness lemmas generated by the domain package (previously
  2250 of the form "x ~= UU ==> foo$x ~= UU") now have an if-and-only-if form
  2251 like "foo$x = UU <-> x = UU", which works better as a simp rule.
  2252 Proofs that used definedness lemmas as intro rules may break,
  2253 potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2254 
  2255 * Induction and casedist rules generated by the domain package now
  2256 declare proper case_names (one called "bottom", and one named for each
  2257 constructor).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2258 
  2259 * For mutually-recursive domains, separate "reach" and "take_lemma"
  2260 rules are generated for each domain, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2261 
  2262   foo_bar.reach       ~> foo.reach  bar.reach
  2263   foo_bar.take_lemmas ~> foo.take_lemma  bar.take_lemma
  2264 
  2265 * Some lemmas generated by the domain package have been renamed for
  2266 consistency with the datatype package, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2267 
  2268   foo.ind        ~> foo.induct
  2269   foo.finite_ind ~> foo.finite_induct
  2270   foo.coind      ~> foo.coinduct
  2271   foo.casedist   ~> foo.exhaust
  2272   foo.exhaust    ~> foo.nchotomy
  2273 
  2274 * For consistency with other definition packages, the fixrec package
  2275 now generates qualified theorem names, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2276 
  2277   foo_simps  ~> foo.simps
  2278   foo_unfold ~> foo.unfold
  2279   foo_induct ~> foo.induct
  2280 
  2281 * The "fixrec_simp" attribute has been removed.  The "fixrec_simp"
  2282 method and internal fixrec proofs now use the default simpset instead.
  2283 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2284 
  2285 * The "contlub" predicate has been removed.  Proof scripts should use
  2286 lemma contI2 in place of monocontlub2cont, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2287 
  2288 * The "admw" predicate has been removed, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2289 
  2290 * The constants cpair, cfst, and csnd have been removed in favor of
  2291 Pair, fst, and snd from Isabelle/HOL, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2292 
  2293 
  2294 *** ML ***
  2295 
  2296 * Antiquotations for basic formal entities:
  2297 
  2298     @{class NAME}         -- type class
  2299     @{class_syntax NAME}  -- syntax representation of the above
  2300 
  2301     @{type_name NAME}     -- logical type
  2302     @{type_abbrev NAME}   -- type abbreviation
  2303     @{nonterminal NAME}   -- type of concrete syntactic category
  2304     @{type_syntax NAME}   -- syntax representation of any of the above
  2305 
  2306     @{const_name NAME}    -- logical constant (INCOMPATIBILITY)
  2307     @{const_abbrev NAME}  -- abbreviated constant
  2308     @{const_syntax NAME}  -- syntax representation of any of the above
  2309 
  2310 * Antiquotation @{syntax_const NAME} ensures that NAME refers to a raw
  2311 syntax constant (cf. 'syntax' command).
  2312 
  2313 * Antiquotation @{make_string} inlines a function to print arbitrary
  2314 values similar to the ML toplevel.  The result is compiler dependent
  2315 and may fall back on "?" in certain situations.
  2316 
  2317 * Diagnostic commands 'ML_val' and 'ML_command' may refer to
  2318 antiquotations @{Isar.state} and @{Isar.goal}.  This replaces impure
  2319 Isar.state() and Isar.goal(), which belong to the old TTY loop and do
  2320 not work with the asynchronous Isar document model.
  2321 
  2322 * Configuration options now admit dynamic default values, depending on
  2323 the context or even global references.
  2324 
  2325 * SHA1.digest digests strings according to SHA-1 (see RFC 3174).  It
  2326 uses an efficient external library if available (for Poly/ML).
  2327 
  2328 * Renamed some important ML structures, while keeping the old names
  2329 for some time as aliases within the structure Legacy:
  2330 
  2331   OuterKeyword  ~>  Keyword
  2332   OuterLex      ~>  Token
  2333   OuterParse    ~>  Parse
  2334   OuterSyntax   ~>  Outer_Syntax
  2335   PrintMode     ~>  Print_Mode
  2336   SpecParse     ~>  Parse_Spec
  2337   ThyInfo       ~>  Thy_Info
  2338   ThyLoad       ~>  Thy_Load
  2339   ThyOutput     ~>  Thy_Output
  2340   TypeInfer     ~>  Type_Infer
  2341 
  2342 Note that "open Legacy" simplifies porting of sources, but forgetting
  2343 to remove it again will complicate porting again in the future.
  2344 
  2345 * Most operations that refer to a global context are named
  2346 accordingly, e.g. Simplifier.global_context or
  2347 ProofContext.init_global.  There are some situations where a global
  2348 context actually works, but under normal circumstances one needs to
  2349 pass the proper local context through the code!
  2350 
  2351 * Discontinued old TheoryDataFun with its copy/init operation -- data
  2352 needs to be pure.  Functor Theory_Data_PP retains the traditional
  2353 Pretty.pp argument to merge, which is absent in the standard
  2354 Theory_Data version.
  2355 
  2356 * Sorts.certify_sort and derived "cert" operations for types and terms
  2357 no longer minimize sorts.  Thus certification at the boundary of the
  2358 inference kernel becomes invariant under addition of class relations,
  2359 which is an important monotonicity principle.  Sorts are now minimized
  2360 in the syntax layer only, at the boundary between the end-user and the
  2361 system.  Subtle INCOMPATIBILITY, may have to use Sign.minimize_sort
  2362 explicitly in rare situations.
  2363 
  2364 * Renamed old-style Drule.standard to Drule.export_without_context, to
  2365 emphasize that this is in no way a standard operation.
  2366 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2367 
  2368 * Subgoal.FOCUS (and variants): resulting goal state is normalized as
  2369 usual for resolution.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2370 
  2371 * Renamed varify/unvarify operations to varify_global/unvarify_global
  2372 to emphasize that these only work in a global situation (which is
  2373 quite rare).
  2374 
  2375 * Curried take and drop in library.ML; negative length is interpreted
  2376 as infinity (as in chop).  Subtle INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2377 
  2378 * Proof terms: type substitutions on proof constants now use canonical
  2379 order of type variables.  INCOMPATIBILITY for tools working with proof
  2380 terms.
  2381 
  2382 * Raw axioms/defs may no longer carry sort constraints, and raw defs
  2383 may no longer carry premises.  User-level specifications are
  2384 transformed accordingly by Thm.add_axiom/add_def.
  2385 
  2386 
  2387 *** System ***
  2388 
  2389 * Discontinued special HOL_USEDIR_OPTIONS for the main HOL image;
  2390 ISABELLE_USEDIR_OPTIONS applies uniformly to all sessions.  Note that
  2391 proof terms are enabled unconditionally in the new HOL-Proofs image.
  2392 
  2393 * Discontinued old ISABELLE and ISATOOL environment settings (legacy
  2394 feature since Isabelle2009).  Use ISABELLE_PROCESS and ISABELLE_TOOL,
  2395 respectively.
  2396 
  2397 * Old lib/scripts/polyml-platform is superseded by the
  2398 ISABELLE_PLATFORM setting variable, which defaults to the 32 bit
  2399 variant, even on a 64 bit machine.  The following example setting
  2400 prefers 64 bit if available:
  2401 
  2402   ML_PLATFORM="${ISABELLE_PLATFORM64:-$ISABELLE_PLATFORM}"
  2403 
  2404 * The preliminary Isabelle/jEdit application demonstrates the emerging
  2405 Isabelle/Scala layer for advanced prover interaction and integration.
  2406 See src/Tools/jEdit or "isabelle jedit" provided by the properly built
  2407 component.
  2408 
  2409 * "IsabelleText" is a Unicode font derived from Bitstream Vera Mono
  2410 and Bluesky TeX fonts.  It provides the usual Isabelle symbols,
  2411 similar to the default assignment of the document preparation system
  2412 (cf. isabellesym.sty).  The Isabelle/Scala class Isabelle_System
  2413 provides some operations for direct access to the font without asking
  2414 the user for manual installation.
  2415 
  2416 
  2417 
  2418 New in Isabelle2009-1 (December 2009)
  2419 -------------------------------------
  2420 
  2421 *** General ***
  2422 
  2423 * Discontinued old form of "escaped symbols" such as \\<forall>.  Only
  2424 one backslash should be used, even in ML sources.
  2425 
  2426 
  2427 *** Pure ***
  2428 
  2429 * Locale interpretation propagates mixins along the locale hierarchy.
  2430 The currently only available mixins are the equations used to map
  2431 local definitions to terms of the target domain of an interpretation.
  2432 
  2433 * Reactivated diagnostic command 'print_interps'.  Use "print_interps
  2434 loc" to print all interpretations of locale "loc" in the theory.
  2435 Interpretations in proofs are not shown.
  2436 
  2437 * Thoroughly revised locales tutorial.  New section on conditional
  2438 interpretation.
  2439 
  2440 * On instantiation of classes, remaining undefined class parameters
  2441 are formally declared.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2442 
  2443 
  2444 *** Document preparation ***
  2445 
  2446 * New generalized style concept for printing terms: @{foo (style) ...}
  2447 instead of @{foo_style style ...}  (old form is still retained for
  2448 backward compatibility).  Styles can be also applied for
  2449 antiquotations prop, term_type and typeof.
  2450 
  2451 
  2452 *** HOL ***
  2453 
  2454 * New proof method "smt" for a combination of first-order logic with
  2455 equality, linear and nonlinear (natural/integer/real) arithmetic, and
  2456 fixed-size bitvectors; there is also basic support for higher-order
  2457 features (esp. lambda abstractions).  It is an incomplete decision
  2458 procedure based on external SMT solvers using the oracle mechanism;
  2459 for the SMT solver Z3, this method is proof-producing.  Certificates
  2460 are provided to avoid calling the external solvers solely for
  2461 re-checking proofs.  Due to a remote SMT service there is no need for
  2462 installing SMT solvers locally.  See src/HOL/SMT.
  2463 
  2464 * New commands to load and prove verification conditions generated by
  2465 the Boogie program verifier or derived systems (e.g. the Verifying C
  2466 Compiler (VCC) or Spec#).  See src/HOL/Boogie.
  2467 
  2468 * New counterexample generator tool 'nitpick' based on the Kodkod
  2469 relational model finder.  See src/HOL/Tools/Nitpick and
  2470 src/HOL/Nitpick_Examples.
  2471 
  2472 * New commands 'code_pred' and 'values' to invoke the predicate
  2473 compiler and to enumerate values of inductive predicates.
  2474 
  2475 * A tabled implementation of the reflexive transitive closure.
  2476 
  2477 * New implementation of quickcheck uses generic code generator;
  2478 default generators are provided for all suitable HOL types, records
  2479 and datatypes.  Old quickcheck can be re-activated importing theory
  2480 Library/SML_Quickcheck.
  2481 
  2482 * New testing tool Mirabelle for automated proof tools.  Applies
  2483 several tools and tactics like sledgehammer, metis, or quickcheck, to
  2484 every proof step in a theory.  To be used in batch mode via the
  2485 "mirabelle" utility.
  2486 
  2487 * New proof method "sos" (sum of squares) for nonlinear real
  2488 arithmetic (originally due to John Harison). It requires theory
  2489 Library/Sum_Of_Squares.  It is not a complete decision procedure but
  2490 works well in practice on quantifier-free real arithmetic with +, -,
  2491 *, ^, =, <= and <, i.e. boolean combinations of equalities and
  2492 inequalities between polynomials.  It makes use of external
  2493 semidefinite programming solvers.  Method "sos" generates a
  2494 certificate that can be pasted into the proof thus avoiding the need
  2495 to call an external tool every time the proof is checked.  See
  2496 src/HOL/Library/Sum_Of_Squares.
  2497 
  2498 * New method "linarith" invokes existing linear arithmetic decision
  2499 procedure only.
  2500 
  2501 * New command 'atp_minimal' reduces result produced by Sledgehammer.
  2502 
  2503 * New Sledgehammer option "Full Types" in Proof General settings menu.
  2504 Causes full type information to be output to the ATPs.  This slows
  2505 ATPs down considerably but eliminates a source of unsound "proofs"
  2506 that fail later.
  2507 
  2508 * New method "metisFT": A version of metis that uses full type
  2509 information in order to avoid failures of proof reconstruction.
  2510 
  2511 * New evaluator "approximate" approximates an real valued term using
  2512 the same method as the approximation method.
  2513 
  2514 * Method "approximate" now supports arithmetic expressions as
  2515 boundaries of intervals and implements interval splitting and Taylor
  2516 series expansion.
  2517 
  2518 * ML antiquotation @{code_datatype} inserts definition of a datatype
  2519 generated by the code generator; e.g. see src/HOL/Predicate.thy.
  2520 
  2521 * New theory SupInf of the supremum and infimum operators for sets of
  2522 reals.
  2523 
  2524 * New theory Probability, which contains a development of measure
  2525 theory, eventually leading to Lebesgue integration and probability.
  2526 
  2527 * Extended Multivariate Analysis to include derivation and Brouwer's
  2528 fixpoint theorem.
  2529 
  2530 * Reorganization of number theory, INCOMPATIBILITY:
  2531   - new number theory development for nat and int, in theories Divides
  2532     and GCD as well as in new session Number_Theory
  2533   - some constants and facts now suffixed with _nat and _int
  2534     accordingly
  2535   - former session NumberTheory now named Old_Number_Theory, including
  2536     theories Legacy_GCD and Primes (prefer Number_Theory if possible)
  2537   - moved theory Pocklington from src/HOL/Library to
  2538     src/HOL/Old_Number_Theory
  2539 
  2540 * Theory GCD includes functions Gcd/GCD and Lcm/LCM for the gcd and
  2541 lcm of finite and infinite sets. It is shown that they form a complete
  2542 lattice.
  2543 
  2544 * Class semiring_div requires superclass no_zero_divisors and proof of
  2545 div_mult_mult1; theorems div_mult_mult1, div_mult_mult2,
  2546 div_mult_mult1_if, div_mult_mult1 and div_mult_mult2 have been
  2547 generalized to class semiring_div, subsuming former theorems
  2548 zdiv_zmult_zmult1, zdiv_zmult_zmult1_if, zdiv_zmult_zmult1 and
  2549 zdiv_zmult_zmult2.  div_mult_mult1 is now [simp] by default.
  2550 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2551 
  2552 * Refinements to lattice classes and sets:
  2553   - less default intro/elim rules in locale variant, more default
  2554     intro/elim rules in class variant: more uniformity
  2555   - lemma ge_sup_conv renamed to le_sup_iff, in accordance with
  2556     le_inf_iff
  2557   - dropped lemma alias inf_ACI for inf_aci (same for sup_ACI and
  2558     sup_aci)
  2559   - renamed ACI to inf_sup_aci
  2560   - new class "boolean_algebra"
  2561   - class "complete_lattice" moved to separate theory
  2562     "Complete_Lattice"; corresponding constants (and abbreviations)
  2563     renamed and with authentic syntax:
  2564     Set.Inf ~>    Complete_Lattice.Inf
  2565     Set.Sup ~>    Complete_Lattice.Sup
  2566     Set.INFI ~>   Complete_Lattice.INFI
  2567     Set.SUPR ~>   Complete_Lattice.SUPR
  2568     Set.Inter ~>  Complete_Lattice.Inter
  2569     Set.Union ~>  Complete_Lattice.Union
  2570     Set.INTER ~>  Complete_Lattice.INTER
  2571     Set.UNION ~>  Complete_Lattice.UNION
  2572   - authentic syntax for
  2573     Set.Pow
  2574     Set.image
  2575   - mere abbreviations:
  2576     Set.empty               (for bot)
  2577     Set.UNIV                (for top)
  2578     Set.inter               (for inf, formerly Set.Int)
  2579     Set.union               (for sup, formerly Set.Un)
  2580     Complete_Lattice.Inter  (for Inf)
  2581     Complete_Lattice.Union  (for Sup)
  2582     Complete_Lattice.INTER  (for INFI)
  2583     Complete_Lattice.UNION  (for SUPR)
  2584   - object-logic definitions as far as appropriate
  2585 
  2586 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Care is required when theorems Int_subset_iff or
  2587 Un_subset_iff are explicitly deleted as default simp rules; then also
  2588 their lattice counterparts le_inf_iff and le_sup_iff have to be
  2589 deleted to achieve the desired effect.
  2590 
  2591 * Rules inf_absorb1, inf_absorb2, sup_absorb1, sup_absorb2 are no simp
  2592 rules by default any longer; the same applies to min_max.inf_absorb1
  2593 etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2594 
  2595 * Rules sup_Int_eq and sup_Un_eq are no longer declared as
  2596 pred_set_conv by default.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2597 
  2598 * Power operations on relations and functions are now one dedicated
  2599 constant "compow" with infix syntax "^^".  Power operation on
  2600 multiplicative monoids retains syntax "^" and is now defined generic
  2601 in class power.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2602 
  2603 * Relation composition "R O S" now has a more standard argument order:
  2604 "R O S = {(x, z). EX y. (x, y) : R & (y, z) : S}".  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  2605 rewrite propositions with "S O R" --> "R O S". Proofs may occasionally
  2606 break, since the O_assoc rule was not rewritten like this.  Fix using
  2607 O_assoc[symmetric].  The same applies to the curried version "R OO S".
  2608 
  2609 * Function "Inv" is renamed to "inv_into" and function "inv" is now an
  2610 abbreviation for "inv_into UNIV".  Lemmas are renamed accordingly.
  2611 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2612 
  2613 * Most rules produced by inductive and datatype package have mandatory
  2614 prefixes.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2615 
  2616 * Changed "DERIV_intros" to a dynamic fact, which can be augmented by
  2617 the attribute of the same name.  Each of the theorems in the list
  2618 DERIV_intros assumes composition with an additional function and
  2619 matches a variable to the derivative, which has to be solved by the
  2620 Simplifier.  Hence (auto intro!: DERIV_intros) computes the derivative
  2621 of most elementary terms.  Former Maclauren.DERIV_tac and
  2622 Maclauren.deriv_tac should be replaced by (auto intro!: DERIV_intros).
  2623 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2624 
  2625 * Code generator attributes follow the usual underscore convention:
  2626     code_unfold     replaces    code unfold
  2627     code_post       replaces    code post
  2628     etc.
  2629   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2630 
  2631 * Renamed methods:
  2632     sizechange -> size_change
  2633     induct_scheme -> induction_schema
  2634   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2635 
  2636 * Discontinued abbreviation "arbitrary" of constant "undefined".
  2637 INCOMPATIBILITY, use "undefined" directly.
  2638 
  2639 * Renamed theorems:
  2640     Suc_eq_add_numeral_1 -> Suc_eq_plus1
  2641     Suc_eq_add_numeral_1_left -> Suc_eq_plus1_left
  2642     Suc_plus1 -> Suc_eq_plus1
  2643     *anti_sym -> *antisym*
  2644     vector_less_eq_def -> vector_le_def
  2645   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2646 
  2647 * Added theorem List.map_map as [simp].  Removed List.map_compose.
  2648 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2649 
  2650 * Removed predicate "M hassize n" (<--> card M = n & finite M).
  2651 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2652 
  2653 
  2654 *** HOLCF ***
  2655 
  2656 * Theory Representable defines a class "rep" of domains that are
  2657 representable (via an ep-pair) in the universal domain type "udom".
  2658 Instances are provided for all type constructors defined in HOLCF.
  2659 
  2660 * The 'new_domain' command is a purely definitional version of the
  2661 domain package, for representable domains.  Syntax is identical to the
  2662 old domain package.  The 'new_domain' package also supports indirect
  2663 recursion using previously-defined type constructors.  See
  2664 src/HOLCF/ex/New_Domain.thy for examples.
  2665 
  2666 * Method "fixrec_simp" unfolds one step of a fixrec-defined constant
  2667 on the left-hand side of an equation, and then performs
  2668 simplification.  Rewriting is done using rules declared with the
  2669 "fixrec_simp" attribute.  The "fixrec_simp" method is intended as a
  2670 replacement for "fixpat"; see src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for examples.
  2671 
  2672 * The pattern-match compiler in 'fixrec' can now handle constructors
  2673 with HOL function types.  Pattern-match combinators for the Pair
  2674 constructor are pre-configured.
  2675 
  2676 * The 'fixrec' package now produces better fixed-point induction rules
  2677 for mutually-recursive definitions:  Induction rules have conclusions
  2678 of the form "P foo bar" instead of "P <foo, bar>".
  2679 
  2680 * The constant "sq_le" (with infix syntax "<<" or "\<sqsubseteq>") has
  2681 been renamed to "below".  The name "below" now replaces "less" in many
  2682 theorem names.  (Legacy theorem names using "less" are still supported
  2683 as well.)
  2684 
  2685 * The 'fixrec' package now supports "bottom patterns".  Bottom
  2686 patterns can be used to generate strictness rules, or to make
  2687 functions more strict (much like the bang-patterns supported by the
  2688 Glasgow Haskell Compiler).  See src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  2689 examples.
  2690 
  2691 
  2692 *** ML ***
  2693 
  2694 * Support for Poly/ML 5.3.0, with improved reporting of compiler
  2695 errors and run-time exceptions, including detailed source positions.
  2696 
  2697 * Structure Name_Space (formerly NameSpace) now manages uniquely
  2698 identified entries, with some additional information such as source
  2699 position, logical grouping etc.
  2700 
  2701 * Theory and context data is now introduced by the simplified and
  2702 modernized functors Theory_Data, Proof_Data, Generic_Data.  Data needs
  2703 to be pure, but the old TheoryDataFun for mutable data (with explicit
  2704 copy operation) is still available for some time.
  2705 
  2706 * Structure Synchronized (cf. src/Pure/Concurrent/synchronized.ML)
  2707 provides a high-level programming interface to synchronized state
  2708 variables with atomic update.  This works via pure function
  2709 application within a critical section -- its runtime should be as
  2710 short as possible; beware of deadlocks if critical code is nested,
  2711 either directly or indirectly via other synchronized variables!
  2712 
  2713 * Structure Unsynchronized (cf. src/Pure/ML-Systems/unsynchronized.ML)
  2714 wraps raw ML references, explicitly indicating their non-thread-safe
  2715 behaviour.  The Isar toplevel keeps this structure open, to
  2716 accommodate Proof General as well as quick and dirty interactive
  2717 experiments with references.
  2718 
  2719 * PARALLEL_CHOICE and PARALLEL_GOALS provide basic support for
  2720 parallel tactical reasoning.
  2721 
  2722 * Tacticals Subgoal.FOCUS, Subgoal.FOCUS_PREMS, Subgoal.FOCUS_PARAMS
  2723 are similar to SUBPROOF, but are slightly more flexible: only the
  2724 specified parts of the subgoal are imported into the context, and the
  2725 body tactic may introduce new subgoals and schematic variables.
  2726 
  2727 * Old tactical METAHYPS, which does not observe the proof context, has
  2728 been renamed to Old_Goals.METAHYPS and awaits deletion.  Use SUBPROOF
  2729 or Subgoal.FOCUS etc.
  2730 
  2731 * Renamed functor TableFun to Table, and GraphFun to Graph.  (Since
  2732 functors have their own ML name space there is no point to mark them
  2733 separately.)  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2734 
  2735 * Renamed NamedThmsFun to Named_Thms.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2736 
  2737 * Renamed several structures FooBar to Foo_Bar.  Occasional,
  2738 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2739 
  2740 * Operations of structure Skip_Proof no longer require quick_and_dirty
  2741 mode, which avoids critical setmp.
  2742 
  2743 * Eliminated old Attrib.add_attributes, Method.add_methods and related
  2744 combinators for "args".  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to use simplified
  2745 Attrib/Method.setup introduced in Isabelle2009.
  2746 
  2747 * Proper context for simpset_of, claset_of, clasimpset_of.  May fall
  2748 back on global_simpset_of, global_claset_of, global_clasimpset_of as
  2749 last resort.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2750 
  2751 * Display.pretty_thm now requires a proper context (cf. former
  2752 ProofContext.pretty_thm).  May fall back on Display.pretty_thm_global
  2753 or even Display.pretty_thm_without_context as last resort.
  2754 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2755 
  2756 * Discontinued Display.pretty_ctyp/cterm etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  2757 Syntax.pretty_typ/term directly, preferably with proper context
  2758 instead of global theory.
  2759 
  2760 
  2761 *** System ***
  2762 
  2763 * Further fine tuning of parallel proof checking, scales up to 8 cores
  2764 (max. speedup factor 5.0).  See also Goal.parallel_proofs in ML and
  2765 usedir option -q.
  2766 
  2767 * Support for additional "Isabelle components" via etc/components, see
  2768 also the system manual.
  2769 
  2770 * The isabelle makeall tool now operates on all components with
  2771 IsaMakefile, not just hardwired "logics".
  2772 
  2773 * Removed "compress" option from isabelle-process and isabelle usedir;
  2774 this is always enabled.
  2775 
  2776 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 4.x versions.
  2777 
  2778 * Isabelle tool "wwwfind" provides web interface for 'find_theorems'
  2779 on a given logic image.  This requires the lighttpd webserver and is
  2780 currently supported on Linux only.
  2781 
  2782 
  2783 
  2784 New in Isabelle2009 (April 2009)
  2785 --------------------------------
  2786 
  2787 *** General ***
  2788 
  2789 * Simplified main Isabelle executables, with less surprises on
  2790 case-insensitive file-systems (such as Mac OS).
  2791 
  2792   - The main Isabelle tool wrapper is now called "isabelle" instead of
  2793     "isatool."
  2794 
  2795   - The former "isabelle" alias for "isabelle-process" has been
  2796     removed (should rarely occur to regular users).
  2797 
  2798   - The former "isabelle-interface" and its alias "Isabelle" have been
  2799     removed (interfaces are now regular Isabelle tools).
  2800 
  2801 Within scripts and make files, the Isabelle environment variables
  2802 ISABELLE_TOOL and ISABELLE_PROCESS replace old ISATOOL and ISABELLE,
  2803 respectively.  (The latter are still available as legacy feature.)
  2804 
  2805 The old isabelle-interface wrapper could react in confusing ways if
  2806 the interface was uninstalled or changed otherwise.  Individual
  2807 interface tool configuration is now more explicit, see also the
  2808 Isabelle system manual.  In particular, Proof General is now available
  2809 via "isabelle emacs".
  2810 
  2811 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt derivative scripts.  Users may need to
  2812 purge installed copies of Isabelle executables and re-run "isabelle
  2813 install -p ...", or use symlinks.
  2814 
  2815 * The default for ISABELLE_HOME_USER is now ~/.isabelle instead of the
  2816 old ~/isabelle, which was slightly non-standard and apt to cause
  2817 surprises on case-insensitive file-systems (such as Mac OS).
  2818 
  2819 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to move existing ~/isabelle/etc,
  2820 ~/isabelle/heaps, ~/isabelle/browser_info to the new place.  Special
  2821 care is required when using older releases of Isabelle.  Note that
  2822 ISABELLE_HOME_USER can be changed in Isabelle/etc/settings of any
  2823 Isabelle distribution, in order to use the new ~/.isabelle uniformly.
  2824 
  2825 * Proofs of fully specified statements are run in parallel on
  2826 multi-core systems.  A speedup factor of 2.5 to 3.2 can be expected on
  2827 a regular 4-core machine, if the initial heap space is made reasonably
  2828 large (cf. Poly/ML option -H).  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.)
  2829 
  2830 * The main reference manuals ("isar-ref", "implementation", and
  2831 "system") have been updated and extended.  Formally checked references
  2832 as hyperlinks are now available uniformly.
  2833 
  2834 
  2835 *** Pure ***
  2836 
  2837 * Complete re-implementation of locales.  INCOMPATIBILITY in several
  2838 respects.  The most important changes are listed below.  See the
  2839 Tutorial on Locales ("locales" manual) for details.
  2840 
  2841 - In locale expressions, instantiation replaces renaming.  Parameters
  2842 must be declared in a for clause.  To aid compatibility with previous
  2843 parameter inheritance, in locale declarations, parameters that are not
  2844 'touched' (instantiation position "_" or omitted) are implicitly added
  2845 with their syntax at the beginning of the for clause.
  2846 
  2847 - Syntax from abbreviations and definitions in locales is available in
  2848 locale expressions and context elements.  The latter is particularly
  2849 useful in locale declarations.
  2850 
  2851 - More flexible mechanisms to qualify names generated by locale
  2852 expressions.  Qualifiers (prefixes) may be specified in locale
  2853 expressions, and can be marked as mandatory (syntax: "name!:") or
  2854 optional (syntax "name?:").  The default depends for plain "name:"
  2855 depends on the situation where a locale expression is used: in
  2856 commands 'locale' and 'sublocale' prefixes are optional, in
  2857 'interpretation' and 'interpret' prefixes are mandatory.  The old
  2858 implicit qualifiers derived from the parameter names of a locale are
  2859 no longer generated.
  2860 
  2861 - Command "sublocale l < e" replaces "interpretation l < e".  The
  2862 instantiation clause in "interpretation" and "interpret" (square
  2863 brackets) is no longer available.  Use locale expressions.
  2864 
  2865 - When converting proof scripts, mandatory qualifiers in
  2866 'interpretation' and 'interpret' should be retained by default, even
  2867 if this is an INCOMPATIBILITY compared to former behavior.  In the
  2868 worst case, use the "name?:" form for non-mandatory ones.  Qualifiers
  2869 in locale expressions range over a single locale instance only.
  2870 
  2871 - Dropped locale element "includes".  This is a major INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2872 In existing theorem specifications replace the includes element by the
  2873 respective context elements of the included locale, omitting those
  2874 that are already present in the theorem specification.  Multiple
  2875 assume elements of a locale should be replaced by a single one
  2876 involving the locale predicate.  In the proof body, declarations (most
  2877 notably theorems) may be regained by interpreting the respective
  2878 locales in the proof context as required (command "interpret").
  2879 
  2880 If using "includes" in replacement of a target solely because the
  2881 parameter types in the theorem are not as general as in the target,
  2882 consider declaring a new locale with additional type constraints on
  2883 the parameters (context element "constrains").
  2884 
  2885 - Discontinued "locale (open)".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2886 
  2887 - Locale interpretation commands no longer attempt to simplify goal.
  2888 INCOMPATIBILITY: in rare situations the generated goal differs.  Use
  2889 methods intro_locales and unfold_locales to clarify.
  2890 
  2891 - Locale interpretation commands no longer accept interpretation
  2892 attributes.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2893 
  2894 * Class declaration: so-called "base sort" must not be given in import
  2895 list any longer, but is inferred from the specification.  Particularly
  2896 in HOL, write
  2897 
  2898     class foo = ...
  2899 
  2900 instead of
  2901 
  2902     class foo = type + ...
  2903 
  2904 * Class target: global versions of theorems stemming do not carry a
  2905 parameter prefix any longer.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2906 
  2907 * Class 'instance' command no longer accepts attached definitions.
  2908 INCOMPATIBILITY, use proper 'instantiation' target instead.
  2909 
  2910 * Recovered hiding of consts, which was accidentally broken in
  2911 Isabelle2007.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, ``hide const c'' really
  2912 makes c inaccessible; consider using ``hide (open) const c'' instead.
  2913 
  2914 * Slightly more coherent Pure syntax, with updated documentation in
  2915 isar-ref manual.  Removed locales meta_term_syntax and
  2916 meta_conjunction_syntax: TERM and &&& (formerly &&) are now permanent,
  2917 INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations.  Note that &&& should not be used
  2918 directly in regular applications.
  2919 
  2920 * There is a new syntactic category "float_const" for signed decimal
  2921 fractions (e.g. 123.45 or -123.45).
  2922 
  2923 * Removed exotic 'token_translation' command.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use ML
  2924 interface with 'setup' command instead.
  2925 
  2926 * Command 'local_setup' is similar to 'setup', but operates on a local
  2927 theory context.
  2928 
  2929 * The 'axiomatization' command now only works within a global theory
  2930 context.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2931 
  2932 * Goal-directed proof now enforces strict proof irrelevance wrt. sort
  2933 hypotheses.  Sorts required in the course of reasoning need to be
  2934 covered by the constraints in the initial statement, completed by the
  2935 type instance information of the background theory.  Non-trivial sort
  2936 hypotheses, which rarely occur in practice, may be specified via
  2937 vacuous propositions of the form SORT_CONSTRAINT('a::c).  For example:
  2938 
  2939   lemma assumes "SORT_CONSTRAINT('a::empty)" shows False ...
  2940 
  2941 The result contains an implicit sort hypotheses as before --
  2942 SORT_CONSTRAINT premises are eliminated as part of the canonical rule
  2943 normalization.
  2944 
  2945 * Generalized Isar history, with support for linear undo, direct state
  2946 addressing etc.
  2947 
  2948 * Changed defaults for unify configuration options:
  2949 
  2950   unify_trace_bound = 50 (formerly 25)
  2951   unify_search_bound = 60 (formerly 30)
  2952 
  2953 * Different bookkeeping for code equations (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  2954 
  2955   a) On theory merge, the last set of code equations for a particular
  2956      constant is taken (in accordance with the policy applied by other
  2957      parts of the code generator framework).
  2958 
  2959   b) Code equations stemming from explicit declarations (e.g. code
  2960      attribute) gain priority over default code equations stemming
  2961      from definition, primrec, fun etc.
  2962 
  2963 * Keyword 'code_exception' now named 'code_abort'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2964 
  2965 * Unified theorem tables for both code generators.  Thus [code
  2966 func] has disappeared and only [code] remains.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2967 
  2968 * Command 'find_consts' searches for constants based on type and name
  2969 patterns, e.g.
  2970 
  2971     find_consts "_ => bool"
  2972 
  2973 By default, matching is against subtypes, but it may be restricted to
  2974 the whole type.  Searching by name is possible.  Multiple queries are
  2975 conjunctive and queries may be negated by prefixing them with a
  2976 hyphen:
  2977 
  2978     find_consts strict: "_ => bool" name: "Int" -"int => int"
  2979 
  2980 * New 'find_theorems' criterion "solves" matches theorems that
  2981 directly solve the current goal (modulo higher-order unification).
  2982 
  2983 * Auto solve feature for main theorem statements: whenever a new goal
  2984 is stated, "find_theorems solves" is called; any theorems that could
  2985 solve the lemma directly are listed as part of the goal state.
  2986 Cf. associated options in Proof General Isabelle settings menu,
  2987 enabled by default, with reasonable timeout for pathological cases of
  2988 higher-order unification.
  2989 
  2990 
  2991 *** Document preparation ***
  2992 
  2993 * Antiquotation @{lemma} now imitates a regular terminal proof,
  2994 demanding keyword 'by' and supporting the full method expression
  2995 syntax just like the Isar command 'by'.
  2996 
  2997 
  2998 *** HOL ***
  2999 
  3000 * Integrated main parts of former image HOL-Complex with HOL.  Entry
  3001 points Main and Complex_Main remain as before.
  3002 
  3003 * Logic image HOL-Plain provides a minimal HOL with the most important
  3004 tools available (inductive, datatype, primrec, ...).  This facilitates
  3005 experimentation and tool development.  Note that user applications
  3006 (and library theories) should never refer to anything below theory
  3007 Main, as before.
  3008 
  3009 * Logic image HOL-Main stops at theory Main, and thus facilitates
  3010 experimentation due to shorter build times.
  3011 
  3012 * Logic image HOL-NSA contains theories of nonstandard analysis which
  3013 were previously part of former HOL-Complex.  Entry point Hyperreal
  3014 remains valid, but theories formerly using Complex_Main should now use
  3015 new entry point Hypercomplex.
  3016 
  3017 * Generic ATP manager for Sledgehammer, based on ML threads instead of
  3018 Posix processes.  Avoids potentially expensive forking of the ML
  3019 process.  New thread-based implementation also works on non-Unix
  3020 platforms (Cygwin).  Provers are no longer hardwired, but defined
  3021 within the theory via plain ML wrapper functions.  Basic Sledgehammer
  3022 commands are covered in the isar-ref manual.
  3023 
  3024 * Wrapper scripts for remote SystemOnTPTP service allows to use
  3025 sledgehammer without local ATP installation (Vampire etc.). Other
  3026 provers may be included via suitable ML wrappers, see also
  3027 src/HOL/ATP_Linkup.thy.
  3028 
  3029 * ATP selection (E/Vampire/Spass) is now via Proof General's settings
  3030 menu.
  3031 
  3032 * The metis method no longer fails because the theorem is too trivial
  3033 (contains the empty clause).
  3034 
  3035 * The metis method now fails in the usual manner, rather than raising
  3036 an exception, if it determines that it cannot prove the theorem.
  3037 
  3038 * Method "coherent" implements a prover for coherent logic (see also
  3039 src/Tools/coherent.ML).
  3040 
  3041 * Constants "undefined" and "default" replace "arbitrary".  Usually
  3042 "undefined" is the right choice to replace "arbitrary", though
  3043 logically there is no difference.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3044 
  3045 * Command "value" now integrates different evaluation mechanisms.  The
  3046 result of the first successful evaluation mechanism is printed.  In
  3047 square brackets a particular named evaluation mechanisms may be
  3048 specified (currently, [SML], [code] or [nbe]).  See further
  3049 src/HOL/ex/Eval_Examples.thy.
  3050 
  3051 * Normalization by evaluation now allows non-leftlinear equations.
  3052 Declare with attribute [code nbe].
  3053 
  3054 * Methods "case_tac" and "induct_tac" now refer to the very same rules
  3055 as the structured Isar versions "cases" and "induct", cf. the
  3056 corresponding "cases" and "induct" attributes.  Mutual induction rules
  3057 are now presented as a list of individual projections
  3058 (e.g. foo_bar.inducts for types foo and bar); the old format with
  3059 explicit HOL conjunction is no longer supported.  INCOMPATIBILITY, in
  3060 rare situations a different rule is selected --- notably nested tuple
  3061 elimination instead of former prod.exhaust: use explicit (case_tac t
  3062 rule: prod.exhaust) here.
  3063 
  3064 * Attributes "cases", "induct", "coinduct" support "del" option.
  3065 
  3066 * Removed fact "case_split_thm", which duplicates "case_split".
  3067 
  3068 * The option datatype has been moved to a new theory Option.  Renamed
  3069 option_map to Option.map, and o2s to Option.set, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3070 
  3071 * New predicate "strict_mono" classifies strict functions on partial
  3072 orders.  With strict functions on linear orders, reasoning about
  3073 (in)equalities is facilitated by theorems "strict_mono_eq",
  3074 "strict_mono_less_eq" and "strict_mono_less".
  3075 
  3076 * Some set operations are now proper qualified constants with
  3077 authentic syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
  3078 
  3079     op Int ~>   Set.Int
  3080     op Un ~>    Set.Un
  3081     INTER ~>    Set.INTER
  3082     UNION ~>    Set.UNION
  3083     Inter ~>    Set.Inter
  3084     Union ~>    Set.Union
  3085     {} ~>       Set.empty
  3086     UNIV ~>     Set.UNIV
  3087 
  3088 * Class complete_lattice with operations Inf, Sup, INFI, SUPR now in
  3089 theory Set.
  3090 
  3091 * Auxiliary class "itself" has disappeared -- classes without any
  3092 parameter are treated as expected by the 'class' command.
  3093 
  3094 * Leibnitz's Series for Pi and the arcus tangens and logarithm series.
  3095 
  3096 * Common decision procedures (Cooper, MIR, Ferrack, Approximation,
  3097 Dense_Linear_Order) are now in directory HOL/Decision_Procs.
  3098 
  3099 * Theory src/HOL/Decision_Procs/Approximation provides the new proof
  3100 method "approximation".  It proves formulas on real values by using
  3101 interval arithmetic.  In the formulas are also the transcendental
  3102 functions sin, cos, tan, atan, ln, exp and the constant pi are
  3103 allowed. For examples see
  3104 src/HOL/Descision_Procs/ex/Approximation_Ex.thy.
  3105 
  3106 * Theory "Reflection" now resides in HOL/Library.
  3107 
  3108 * Entry point to Word library now simply named "Word".
  3109 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3110 
  3111 * Made source layout more coherent with logical distribution
  3112 structure:
  3113 
  3114     src/HOL/Library/RType.thy ~> src/HOL/Typerep.thy
  3115     src/HOL/Library/Code_Message.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3116     src/HOL/Library/GCD.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3117     src/HOL/Library/Order_Relation.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3118     src/HOL/Library/Parity.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3119     src/HOL/Library/Univ_Poly.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3120     src/HOL/Real/ContNotDenum.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  3121     src/HOL/Real/Lubs.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3122     src/HOL/Real/PReal.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3123     src/HOL/Real/Rational.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3124     src/HOL/Real/RComplete.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3125     src/HOL/Real/RealDef.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3126     src/HOL/Real/RealPow.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3127     src/HOL/Real/Real.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3128     src/HOL/Complex/Complex_Main.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3129     src/HOL/Complex/Complex.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3130     src/HOL/Complex/FrechetDeriv.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  3131     src/HOL/Complex/Fundamental_Theorem_Algebra.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  3132     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Deriv.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3133     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Fact.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3134     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Integration.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3135     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Lim.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3136     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Ln.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3137     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Log.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3138     src/HOL/Hyperreal/MacLaurin.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3139     src/HOL/Hyperreal/NthRoot.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3140     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Series.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3141     src/HOL/Hyperreal/SEQ.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3142     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Taylor.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3143     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Transcendental.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3144     src/HOL/Real/Float ~> src/HOL/Library/
  3145     src/HOL/Real/HahnBanach ~> src/HOL/HahnBanach
  3146     src/HOL/Real/RealVector.thy ~> src/HOL/
  3147 
  3148     src/HOL/arith_data.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3149     src/HOL/hologic.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3150     src/HOL/simpdata.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3151     src/HOL/int_arith1.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools/int_arith.ML
  3152     src/HOL/int_factor_simprocs.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3153     src/HOL/nat_simprocs.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3154     src/HOL/Real/float_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3155     src/HOL/Real/float_syntax.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3156     src/HOL/Real/rat_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3157     src/HOL/Real/real_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  3158 
  3159     src/HOL/Library/Array.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  3160     src/HOL/Library/Heap_Monad.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  3161     src/HOL/Library/Heap.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  3162     src/HOL/Library/Imperative_HOL.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  3163     src/HOL/Library/Ref.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  3164     src/HOL/Library/Relational.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  3165 
  3166 * If methods "eval" and "evaluation" encounter a structured proof
  3167 state with !!/==>, only the conclusion is evaluated to True (if
  3168 possible), avoiding strange error messages.
  3169 
  3170 * Method "sizechange" automates termination proofs using (a
  3171 modification of) the size-change principle.  Requires SAT solver.  See
  3172 src/HOL/ex/Termination.thy for examples.
  3173 
  3174 * Simplifier: simproc for let expressions now unfolds if bound
  3175 variable occurs at most once in let expression body.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3176 
  3177 * Method "arith": Linear arithmetic now ignores all inequalities when
  3178 fast_arith_neq_limit is exceeded, instead of giving up entirely.
  3179 
  3180 * New attribute "arith" for facts that should always be used
  3181 automatically by arithmetic. It is intended to be used locally in
  3182 proofs, e.g.
  3183 
  3184   assumes [arith]: "x > 0"
  3185 
  3186 Global usage is discouraged because of possible performance impact.
  3187 
  3188 * New classes "top" and "bot" with corresponding operations "top" and
  3189 "bot" in theory Orderings; instantiation of class "complete_lattice"
  3190 requires instantiation of classes "top" and "bot".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3191 
  3192 * Changed definition lemma "less_fun_def" in order to provide an
  3193 instance for preorders on functions; use lemma "less_le" instead.
  3194 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3195 
  3196 * Theory Orderings: class "wellorder" moved here, with explicit
  3197 induction rule "less_induct" as assumption.  For instantiation of
  3198 "wellorder" by means of predicate "wf", use rule wf_wellorderI.
  3199 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3200 
  3201 * Theory Orderings: added class "preorder" as superclass of "order".
  3202 INCOMPATIBILITY: Instantiation proofs for order, linorder
  3203 etc. slightly changed.  Some theorems named order_class.* now named
  3204 preorder_class.*.
  3205 
  3206 * Theory Relation: renamed "refl" to "refl_on", "reflexive" to "refl,
  3207 "diag" to "Id_on".
  3208 
  3209 * Theory Finite_Set: added a new fold combinator of type
  3210 
  3211   ('a => 'b => 'b) => 'b => 'a set => 'b
  3212 
  3213 Occasionally this is more convenient than the old fold combinator
  3214 which is now defined in terms of the new one and renamed to
  3215 fold_image.
  3216 
  3217 * Theories Ring_and_Field and OrderedGroup: The lemmas "group_simps"
  3218 and "ring_simps" have been replaced by "algebra_simps" (which can be
  3219 extended with further lemmas!).  At the moment both still exist but
  3220 the former will disappear at some point.
  3221 
  3222 * Theory Power: Lemma power_Suc is now declared as a simp rule in
  3223 class recpower.  Type-specific simp rules for various recpower types
  3224 have been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY, rename old lemmas as follows:
  3225 
  3226 rat_power_0    -> power_0
  3227 rat_power_Suc  -> power_Suc
  3228 realpow_0      -> power_0
  3229 realpow_Suc    -> power_Suc
  3230 complexpow_0   -> power_0
  3231 complexpow_Suc -> power_Suc
  3232 power_poly_0   -> power_0
  3233 power_poly_Suc -> power_Suc
  3234 
  3235 * Theories Ring_and_Field and Divides: Definition of "op dvd" has been
  3236 moved to separate class dvd in Ring_and_Field; a couple of lemmas on
  3237 dvd has been generalized to class comm_semiring_1.  Likewise a bunch
  3238 of lemmas from Divides has been generalized from nat to class
  3239 semiring_div.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  This involves the following theorem
  3240 renames resulting from duplicate elimination:
  3241 
  3242     dvd_def_mod ~>          dvd_eq_mod_eq_0
  3243     zero_dvd_iff ~>         dvd_0_left_iff
  3244     dvd_0 ~>                dvd_0_right
  3245     DIVISION_BY_ZERO_DIV ~> div_by_0
  3246     DIVISION_BY_ZERO_MOD ~> mod_by_0
  3247     mult_div ~>             div_mult_self2_is_id
  3248     mult_mod ~>             mod_mult_self2_is_0
  3249 
  3250 * Theory IntDiv: removed many lemmas that are instances of class-based
  3251 generalizations (from Divides and Ring_and_Field).  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  3252 rename old lemmas as follows:
  3253 
  3254 dvd_diff               -> nat_dvd_diff
  3255 dvd_zminus_iff         -> dvd_minus_iff
  3256 mod_add1_eq            -> mod_add_eq
  3257 mod_mult1_eq           -> mod_mult_right_eq
  3258 mod_mult1_eq'          -> mod_mult_left_eq
  3259 mod_mult_distrib_mod   -> mod_mult_eq
  3260 nat_mod_add_left_eq    -> mod_add_left_eq
  3261 nat_mod_add_right_eq   -> mod_add_right_eq
  3262 nat_mod_div_trivial    -> mod_div_trivial
  3263 nat_mod_mod_trivial    -> mod_mod_trivial
  3264 zdiv_zadd_self1        -> div_add_self1
  3265 zdiv_zadd_self2        -> div_add_self2
  3266 zdiv_zmult_self1       -> div_mult_self2_is_id
  3267 zdiv_zmult_self2       -> div_mult_self1_is_id
  3268 zdvd_triv_left         -> dvd_triv_left
  3269 zdvd_triv_right        -> dvd_triv_right
  3270 zdvd_zmult_cancel_disj -> dvd_mult_cancel_left
  3271 zmod_eq0_zdvd_iff      -> dvd_eq_mod_eq_0[symmetric]
  3272 zmod_zadd_left_eq      -> mod_add_left_eq
  3273 zmod_zadd_right_eq     -> mod_add_right_eq
  3274 zmod_zadd_self1        -> mod_add_self1
  3275 zmod_zadd_self2        -> mod_add_self2
  3276 zmod_zadd1_eq          -> mod_add_eq
  3277 zmod_zdiff1_eq         -> mod_diff_eq
  3278 zmod_zdvd_zmod         -> mod_mod_cancel
  3279 zmod_zmod_cancel       -> mod_mod_cancel
  3280 zmod_zmult_self1       -> mod_mult_self2_is_0
  3281 zmod_zmult_self2       -> mod_mult_self1_is_0
  3282 zmod_1                 -> mod_by_1
  3283 zdiv_1                 -> div_by_1
  3284 zdvd_abs1              -> abs_dvd_iff
  3285 zdvd_abs2              -> dvd_abs_iff
  3286 zdvd_refl              -> dvd_refl
  3287 zdvd_trans             -> dvd_trans
  3288 zdvd_zadd              -> dvd_add
  3289 zdvd_zdiff             -> dvd_diff
  3290 zdvd_zminus_iff        -> dvd_minus_iff
  3291 zdvd_zminus2_iff       -> minus_dvd_iff
  3292 zdvd_zmultD            -> dvd_mult_right
  3293 zdvd_zmultD2           -> dvd_mult_left
  3294 zdvd_zmult_mono        -> mult_dvd_mono
  3295 zdvd_0_right           -> dvd_0_right
  3296 zdvd_0_left            -> dvd_0_left_iff
  3297 zdvd_1_left            -> one_dvd
  3298 zminus_dvd_iff         -> minus_dvd_iff
  3299 
  3300 * Theory Rational: 'Fract k 0' now equals '0'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3301 
  3302 * The real numbers offer decimal input syntax: 12.34 is translated
  3303 into 1234/10^2. This translation is not reversed upon output.
  3304 
  3305 * Theory Library/Polynomial defines an abstract type 'a poly of
  3306 univariate polynomials with coefficients of type 'a.  In addition to
  3307 the standard ring operations, it also supports div and mod.  Code
  3308 generation is also supported, using list-style constructors.
  3309 
  3310 * Theory Library/Inner_Product defines a class of real_inner for real
  3311 inner product spaces, with an overloaded operation inner :: 'a => 'a
  3312 => real.  Class real_inner is a subclass of real_normed_vector from
  3313 theory RealVector.
  3314 
  3315 * Theory Library/Product_Vector provides instances for the product
  3316 type 'a * 'b of several classes from RealVector and Inner_Product.
  3317 Definitions of addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication, norms,
  3318 and inner products are included.
  3319 
  3320 * Theory Library/Bit defines the field "bit" of integers modulo 2.  In
  3321 addition to the field operations, numerals and case syntax are also
  3322 supported.
  3323 
  3324 * Theory Library/Diagonalize provides constructive version of Cantor's
  3325 first diagonalization argument.
  3326 
  3327 * Theory Library/GCD: Curried operations gcd, lcm (for nat) and zgcd,
  3328 zlcm (for int); carried together from various gcd/lcm developements in
  3329 the HOL Distribution.  Constants zgcd and zlcm replace former igcd and
  3330 ilcm; corresponding theorems renamed accordingly.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  3331 may recover tupled syntax as follows:
  3332 
  3333     hide (open) const gcd
  3334     abbreviation gcd where
  3335       "gcd == (%(a, b). GCD.gcd a b)"
  3336     notation (output)
  3337       GCD.gcd ("gcd '(_, _')")
  3338 
  3339 The same works for lcm, zgcd, zlcm.
  3340 
  3341 * Theory Library/Nat_Infinity: added addition, numeral syntax and more
  3342 instantiations for algebraic structures.  Removed some duplicate
  3343 theorems.  Changes in simp rules.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3344 
  3345 * ML antiquotation @{code} takes a constant as argument and generates
  3346 corresponding code in background and inserts name of the corresponding
  3347 resulting ML value/function/datatype constructor binding in place.
  3348 All occurrences of @{code} with a single ML block are generated
  3349 simultaneously.  Provides a generic and safe interface for
  3350 instrumentalizing code generation.  See
  3351 src/HOL/Decision_Procs/Ferrack.thy for a more ambitious application.
  3352 In future you ought to refrain from ad-hoc compiling generated SML
  3353 code on the ML toplevel.  Note that (for technical reasons) @{code}
  3354 cannot refer to constants for which user-defined serializations are
  3355 set.  Refer to the corresponding ML counterpart directly in that
  3356 cases.
  3357 
  3358 * Command 'rep_datatype': instead of theorem names the command now
  3359 takes a list of terms denoting the constructors of the type to be
  3360 represented as datatype.  The characteristic theorems have to be
  3361 proven.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Also observe that the following theorems
  3362 have disappeared in favour of existing ones:
  3363 
  3364     unit_induct                 ~> unit.induct
  3365     prod_induct                 ~> prod.induct
  3366     sum_induct                  ~> sum.induct
  3367     Suc_Suc_eq                  ~> nat.inject
  3368     Suc_not_Zero Zero_not_Suc   ~> nat.distinct
  3369 
  3370 
  3371 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  3372 
  3373 * New locales for orders and lattices where the equivalence relation
  3374 is not restricted to equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY: all order and lattice
  3375 locales use a record structure with field eq for the equivalence.
  3376 
  3377 * New theory of factorial domains.
  3378 
  3379 * Units_l_inv and Units_r_inv are now simp rules by default.
  3380 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Simplifier proof that require deletion of l_inv
  3381 and/or r_inv will now also require deletion of these lemmas.
  3382 
  3383 * Renamed the following theorems, INCOMPATIBILITY:
  3384 
  3385 UpperD ~> Upper_memD
  3386 LowerD ~> Lower_memD
  3387 least_carrier ~> least_closed
  3388 greatest_carrier ~> greatest_closed
  3389 greatest_Lower_above ~> greatest_Lower_below
  3390 one_zero ~> carrier_one_zero
  3391 one_not_zero ~> carrier_one_not_zero  (collision with assumption)
  3392 
  3393 
  3394 *** HOL-Nominal ***
  3395 
  3396 * Nominal datatypes can now contain type-variables.
  3397 
  3398 * Commands 'nominal_inductive' and 'equivariance' work with local
  3399 theory targets.
  3400 
  3401 * Nominal primrec can now works with local theory targets and its
  3402 specification syntax now conforms to the general format as seen in
  3403 'inductive' etc.
  3404 
  3405 * Method "perm_simp" honours the standard simplifier attributes
  3406 (no_asm), (no_asm_use) etc.
  3407 
  3408 * The new predicate #* is defined like freshness, except that on the
  3409 left hand side can be a set or list of atoms.
  3410 
  3411 * Experimental command 'nominal_inductive2' derives strong induction
  3412 principles for inductive definitions.  In contrast to
  3413 'nominal_inductive', which can only deal with a fixed number of
  3414 binders, it can deal with arbitrary expressions standing for sets of
  3415 atoms to be avoided.  The only inductive definition we have at the
  3416 moment that needs this generalisation is the typing rule for Lets in
  3417 the algorithm W:
  3418 
  3419  Gamma |- t1 : T1   (x,close Gamma T1)::Gamma |- t2 : T2   x#Gamma
  3420  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  3421          Gamma |- Let x be t1 in t2 : T2
  3422 
  3423 In this rule one wants to avoid all the binders that are introduced by
  3424 "close Gamma T1".  We are looking for other examples where this
  3425 feature might be useful.  Please let us know.
  3426 
  3427 
  3428 *** HOLCF ***
  3429 
  3430 * Reimplemented the simplification procedure for proving continuity
  3431 subgoals.  The new simproc is extensible; users can declare additional
  3432 continuity introduction rules with the attribute [cont2cont].
  3433 
  3434 * The continuity simproc now uses a different introduction rule for
  3435 solving continuity subgoals on terms with lambda abstractions.  In
  3436 some rare cases the new simproc may fail to solve subgoals that the
  3437 old one could solve, and "simp add: cont2cont_LAM" may be necessary.
  3438 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3439 
  3440 * Command 'fixrec': specification syntax now conforms to the general
  3441 format as seen in 'inductive' etc.  See src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  3442 examples.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3443 
  3444 
  3445 *** ZF ***
  3446 
  3447 * Proof of Zorn's Lemma for partial orders.
  3448 
  3449 
  3450 *** ML ***
  3451 
  3452 * Multithreading for Poly/ML 5.1/5.2 is no longer supported, only for
  3453 Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.  Important note: the TimeLimit facility
  3454 depends on multithreading, so timouts will not work before Poly/ML
  3455 5.2.1!
  3456 
  3457 * High-level support for concurrent ML programming, see
  3458 src/Pure/Cuncurrent.  The data-oriented model of "future values" is
  3459 particularly convenient to organize independent functional
  3460 computations.  The concept of "synchronized variables" provides a
  3461 higher-order interface for components with shared state, avoiding the
  3462 delicate details of mutexes and condition variables.  (Requires
  3463 Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.)
  3464 
  3465 * ML bindings produced via Isar commands are stored within the Isar
  3466 context (theory or proof).  Consequently, commands like 'use' and 'ML'
  3467 become thread-safe and work with undo as expected (concerning
  3468 top-level bindings, not side-effects on global references).
  3469 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to provide proper Isar context when invoking the
  3470 compiler at runtime; really global bindings need to be given outside a
  3471 theory.  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2 or later.)
  3472 
  3473 * Command 'ML_prf' is analogous to 'ML' but works within a proof
  3474 context.  Top-level ML bindings are stored within the proof context in
  3475 a purely sequential fashion, disregarding the nested proof structure.
  3476 ML bindings introduced by 'ML_prf' are discarded at the end of the
  3477 proof.  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2 or later.)
  3478 
  3479 * Simplified ML attribute and method setup, cf. functions Attrib.setup
  3480 and Method.setup, as well as Isar commands 'attribute_setup' and
  3481 'method_setup'.  INCOMPATIBILITY for 'method_setup', need to simplify
  3482 existing code accordingly, or use plain 'setup' together with old
  3483 Method.add_method.
  3484 
  3485 * Simplified ML oracle interface Thm.add_oracle promotes 'a -> cterm
  3486 to 'a -> thm, while results are always tagged with an authentic oracle
  3487 name.  The Isar command 'oracle' is now polymorphic, no argument type
  3488 is specified.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to simplify existing oracle code
  3489 accordingly.  Note that extra performance may be gained by producing
  3490 the cterm carefully, avoiding slow Thm.cterm_of.
  3491 
  3492 * Simplified interface for defining document antiquotations via
  3493 ThyOutput.antiquotation, ThyOutput.output, and optionally
  3494 ThyOutput.maybe_pretty_source.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to simplify user
  3495 antiquotations accordingly, see src/Pure/Thy/thy_output.ML for common
  3496 examples.
  3497 
  3498 * More systematic treatment of long names, abstract name bindings, and
  3499 name space operations.  Basic operations on qualified names have been
  3500 move from structure NameSpace to Long_Name, e.g. Long_Name.base_name,
  3501 Long_Name.append.  Old type bstring has been mostly replaced by
  3502 abstract type binding (see structure Binding), which supports precise
  3503 qualification by packages and local theory targets, as well as proper
  3504 tracking of source positions.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to wrap old
  3505 bstring values into Binding.name, or better pass through abstract
  3506 bindings everywhere.  See further src/Pure/General/long_name.ML,
  3507 src/Pure/General/binding.ML and src/Pure/General/name_space.ML
  3508 
  3509 * Result facts (from PureThy.note_thms, ProofContext.note_thms,
  3510 LocalTheory.note etc.) now refer to the *full* internal name, not the
  3511 bstring as before.  INCOMPATIBILITY, not detected by ML type-checking!
  3512 
  3513 * Disposed old type and term read functions (Sign.read_def_typ,
  3514 Sign.read_typ, Sign.read_def_terms, Sign.read_term,
  3515 Thm.read_def_cterms, Thm.read_cterm etc.).  INCOMPATIBILITY, should
  3516 use regular Syntax.read_typ, Syntax.read_term, Syntax.read_typ_global,
  3517 Syntax.read_term_global etc.; see also OldGoals.read_term as last
  3518 resort for legacy applications.
  3519 
  3520 * Disposed old declarations, tactics, tactic combinators that refer to
  3521 the simpset or claset of an implicit theory (such as Addsimps,
  3522 Simp_tac, SIMPSET).  INCOMPATIBILITY, should use @{simpset} etc. in
  3523 embedded ML text, or local_simpset_of with a proper context passed as
  3524 explicit runtime argument.
  3525 
  3526 * Rules and tactics that read instantiations (read_instantiate,
  3527 res_inst_tac, thin_tac, subgoal_tac etc.) now demand a proper proof
  3528 context, which is required for parsing and type-checking.  Moreover,
  3529 the variables are specified as plain indexnames, not string encodings
  3530 thereof.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3531 
  3532 * Generic Toplevel.add_hook interface allows to analyze the result of
  3533 transactions.  E.g. see src/Pure/ProofGeneral/proof_general_pgip.ML
  3534 for theorem dependency output of transactions resulting in a new
  3535 theory state.
  3536 
  3537 * ML antiquotations: block-structured compilation context indicated by
  3538 \<lbrace> ... \<rbrace>; additional antiquotation forms:
  3539 
  3540   @{binding name}                         - basic name binding
  3541   @{let ?pat = term}                      - term abbreviation (HO matching)
  3542   @{note name = fact}                     - fact abbreviation
  3543   @{thm fact}                             - singleton fact (with attributes)
  3544   @{thms fact}                            - general fact (with attributes)
  3545   @{lemma prop by method}                 - singleton goal
  3546   @{lemma prop by meth1 meth2}            - singleton goal
  3547   @{lemma prop1 ... propN by method}      - general goal
  3548   @{lemma prop1 ... propN by meth1 meth2} - general goal
  3549   @{lemma (open) ...}                     - open derivation
  3550 
  3551 
  3552 *** System ***
  3553 
  3554 * The Isabelle "emacs" tool provides a specific interface to invoke
  3555 Proof General / Emacs, with more explicit failure if that is not
  3556 installed (the old isabelle-interface script silently falls back on
  3557 isabelle-process).  The PROOFGENERAL_HOME setting determines the
  3558 installation location of the Proof General distribution.
  3559 
  3560 * Isabelle/lib/classes/Pure.jar provides basic support to integrate
  3561 the Isabelle process into a JVM/Scala application.  See
  3562 Isabelle/lib/jedit/plugin for a minimal example.  (The obsolete Java
  3563 process wrapper has been discontinued.)
  3564 
  3565 * Added homegrown Isabelle font with unicode layout, see lib/fonts.
  3566 
  3567 * Various status messages (with exact source position information) are
  3568 emitted, if proper markup print mode is enabled.  This allows
  3569 user-interface components to provide detailed feedback on internal
  3570 prover operations.
  3571 
  3572 
  3573 
  3574 New in Isabelle2008 (June 2008)
  3575 -------------------------------
  3576 
  3577 *** General ***
  3578 
  3579 * The Isabelle/Isar Reference Manual (isar-ref) has been reorganized
  3580 and updated, with formally checked references as hyperlinks.
  3581 
  3582 * Theory loader: use_thy (and similar operations) no longer set the
  3583 implicit ML context, which was occasionally hard to predict and in
  3584 conflict with concurrency.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use ML within Isar which
  3585 provides a proper context already.
  3586 
  3587 * Theory loader: old-style ML proof scripts being *attached* to a thy
  3588 file are no longer supported.  INCOMPATIBILITY, regular 'uses' and
  3589 'use' within a theory file will do the job.
  3590 
  3591 * Name space merge now observes canonical order, i.e. the second space
  3592 is inserted into the first one, while existing entries in the first
  3593 space take precedence.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, may try to
  3594 swap theory imports.
  3595 
  3596 * Syntax: symbol \<chi> is now considered a letter.  Potential
  3597 INCOMPATIBILITY in identifier syntax etc.
  3598 
  3599 * Outer syntax: string tokens no longer admit escaped white space,
  3600 which was an accidental (undocumented) feature.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  3601 white space without escapes.
  3602 
  3603 * Outer syntax: string tokens may contain arbitrary character codes
  3604 specified via 3 decimal digits (as in SML).  E.g. "foo\095bar" for
  3605 "foo_bar".
  3606 
  3607 
  3608 *** Pure ***
  3609 
  3610 * Context-dependent token translations.  Default setup reverts locally
  3611 fixed variables, and adds hilite markup for undeclared frees.
  3612 
  3613 * Unused theorems can be found using the new command 'unused_thms'.
  3614 There are three ways of invoking it:
  3615 
  3616 (1) unused_thms
  3617      Only finds unused theorems in the current theory.
  3618 
  3619 (2) unused_thms thy_1 ... thy_n -
  3620      Finds unused theorems in the current theory and all of its ancestors,
  3621      excluding the theories thy_1 ... thy_n and all of their ancestors.
  3622 
  3623 (3) unused_thms thy_1 ... thy_n - thy'_1 ... thy'_m
  3624      Finds unused theorems in the theories thy'_1 ... thy'_m and all of
  3625      their ancestors, excluding the theories thy_1 ... thy_n and all of
  3626      their ancestors.
  3627 
  3628 In order to increase the readability of the list produced by
  3629 unused_thms, theorems that have been created by a particular instance
  3630 of a theory command such as 'inductive' or 'function' are considered
  3631 to belong to the same "group", meaning that if at least one theorem in
  3632 this group is used, the other theorems in the same group are no longer
  3633 reported as unused.  Moreover, if all theorems in the group are
  3634 unused, only one theorem in the group is displayed.
  3635 
  3636 Note that proof objects have to be switched on in order for
  3637 unused_thms to work properly (i.e. !proofs must be >= 1, which is
  3638 usually the case when using Proof General with the default settings).
  3639 
  3640 * Authentic naming of facts disallows ad-hoc overwriting of previous
  3641 theorems within the same name space.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to remove
  3642 duplicate fact bindings, or even accidental fact duplications.  Note
  3643 that tools may maintain dynamically scoped facts systematically, using
  3644 PureThy.add_thms_dynamic.
  3645 
  3646 * Command 'hide' now allows to hide from "fact" name space as well.
  3647 
  3648 * Eliminated destructive theorem database, simpset, claset, and
  3649 clasimpset.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, really need to observe linear
  3650 update of theories within ML code.
  3651 
  3652 * Eliminated theory ProtoPure and CPure, leaving just one Pure theory.
  3653 INCOMPATIBILITY, object-logics depending on former Pure require
  3654 additional setup PureThy.old_appl_syntax_setup; object-logics
  3655 depending on former CPure need to refer to Pure.
  3656 
  3657 * Commands 'use' and 'ML' are now purely functional, operating on
  3658 theory/local_theory.  Removed former 'ML_setup' (on theory), use 'ML'
  3659 instead.  Added 'ML_val' as mere diagnostic replacement for 'ML'.
  3660 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3661 
  3662 * Command 'setup': discontinued implicit version with ML reference.
  3663 
  3664 * Instantiation target allows for simultaneous specification of class
  3665 instance operations together with an instantiation proof.
  3666 Type-checking phase allows to refer to class operations uniformly.
  3667 See src/HOL/Complex/Complex.thy for an Isar example and
  3668 src/HOL/Library/Eval.thy for an ML example.
  3669 
  3670 * Indexing of literal facts: be more serious about including only
  3671 facts from the visible specification/proof context, but not the
  3672 background context (locale etc.).  Affects `prop` notation and method
  3673 "fact".  INCOMPATIBILITY: need to name facts explicitly in rare
  3674 situations.
  3675 
  3676 * Method "cases", "induct", "coinduct": removed obsolete/undocumented
  3677 "(open)" option, which used to expose internal bound variables to the
  3678 proof text.
  3679 
  3680 * Isar statements: removed obsolete case "rule_context".
  3681 INCOMPATIBILITY, better use explicit fixes/assumes.
  3682 
  3683 * Locale proofs: default proof step now includes 'unfold_locales';
  3684 hence 'proof' without argument may be used to unfold locale
  3685 predicates.
  3686 
  3687 
  3688 *** Document preparation ***
  3689 
  3690 * Simplified pdfsetup.sty: color/hyperref is used unconditionally for
  3691 both pdf and dvi (hyperlinks usually work in xdvi as well); removed
  3692 obsolete thumbpdf setup (contemporary PDF viewers do this on the
  3693 spot); renamed link color from "darkblue" to "linkcolor" (default
  3694 value unchanged, can be redefined via \definecolor); no longer sets
  3695 "a4paper" option (unnecessary or even intrusive).
  3696 
  3697 * Antiquotation @{lemma A method} proves proposition A by the given
  3698 method (either a method name or a method name plus (optional) method
  3699 arguments in parentheses) and prints A just like @{prop A}.
  3700 
  3701 
  3702 *** HOL ***
  3703 
  3704 * New primrec package.  Specification syntax conforms in style to
  3705 definition/function/....  No separate induction rule is provided.  The
  3706 "primrec" command distinguishes old-style and new-style specifications
  3707 by syntax.  The former primrec package is now named OldPrimrecPackage.
  3708 When adjusting theories, beware: constants stemming from new-style
  3709 primrec specifications have authentic syntax.
  3710 
  3711 * Metis prover is now an order of magnitude faster, and also works
  3712 with multithreading.
  3713 
  3714 * Metis: the maximum number of clauses that can be produced from a
  3715 theorem is now given by the attribute max_clauses.  Theorems that
  3716 exceed this number are ignored, with a warning printed.
  3717 
  3718 * Sledgehammer no longer produces structured proofs by default. To
  3719 enable, declare [[sledgehammer_full = true]].  Attributes
  3720 reconstruction_modulus, reconstruction_sorts renamed
  3721 sledgehammer_modulus, sledgehammer_sorts.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3722 
  3723 * Method "induct_scheme" derives user-specified induction rules
  3724 from well-founded induction and completeness of patterns. This factors
  3725 out some operations that are done internally by the function package
  3726 and makes them available separately.  See
  3727 src/HOL/ex/Induction_Scheme.thy for examples.
  3728 
  3729 * More flexible generation of measure functions for termination
  3730 proofs: Measure functions can be declared by proving a rule of the
  3731 form "is_measure f" and giving it the [measure_function] attribute.
  3732 The "is_measure" predicate is logically meaningless (always true), and
  3733 just guides the heuristic.  To find suitable measure functions, the
  3734 termination prover sets up the goal "is_measure ?f" of the appropriate
  3735 type and generates all solutions by prolog-style backwards proof using
  3736 the declared rules.
  3737 
  3738 This setup also deals with rules like 
  3739 
  3740   "is_measure f ==> is_measure (list_size f)"
  3741 
  3742 which accommodates nested datatypes that recurse through lists.
  3743 Similar rules are predeclared for products and option types.
  3744 
  3745 * Turned the type of sets "'a set" into an abbreviation for "'a => bool"
  3746 
  3747   INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  3748 
  3749   - Definitions of overloaded constants on sets have to be replaced by
  3750     definitions on => and bool.
  3751 
  3752   - Some definitions of overloaded operators on sets can now be proved
  3753     using the definitions of the operators on => and bool.  Therefore,
  3754     the following theorems have been renamed:
  3755 
  3756       subset_def   -> subset_eq
  3757       psubset_def  -> psubset_eq
  3758       set_diff_def -> set_diff_eq
  3759       Compl_def    -> Compl_eq
  3760       Sup_set_def  -> Sup_set_eq
  3761       Inf_set_def  -> Inf_set_eq
  3762       sup_set_def  -> sup_set_eq
  3763       inf_set_def  -> inf_set_eq
  3764 
  3765   - Due to the incompleteness of the HO unification algorithm, some
  3766     rules such as subst may require manual instantiation, if some of
  3767     the unknowns in the rule is a set.
  3768 
  3769   - Higher order unification and forward proofs:
  3770     The proof pattern
  3771 
  3772       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  3773       then have "EX S. P S" ..
  3774 
  3775     no longer works (due to the incompleteness of the HO unification
  3776     algorithm) and must be replaced by the pattern
  3777 
  3778       have "EX S. P S"
  3779       proof
  3780         show "P S" <...>
  3781       qed
  3782 
  3783   - Calculational reasoning with subst (or similar rules):
  3784     The proof pattern
  3785 
  3786       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  3787       also have "S = T" <...>
  3788       finally have "P T" .
  3789 
  3790     no longer works (for similar reasons as the previous example) and
  3791     must be replaced by something like
  3792 
  3793       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  3794       moreover have "S = T" <...>
  3795       ultimately have "P T" by simp
  3796 
  3797   - Tactics or packages written in ML code:
  3798     Code performing pattern matching on types via
  3799 
  3800       Type ("set", [T]) => ...
  3801 
  3802     must be rewritten. Moreover, functions like strip_type or
  3803     binder_types no longer return the right value when applied to a
  3804     type of the form
  3805 
  3806       T1 => ... => Tn => U => bool
  3807 
  3808     rather than
  3809 
  3810       T1 => ... => Tn => U set
  3811 
  3812 * Merged theories Wellfounded_Recursion, Accessible_Part and
  3813 Wellfounded_Relations to theory Wellfounded.
  3814 
  3815 * Explicit class "eq" for executable equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3816 
  3817 * Class finite no longer treats UNIV as class parameter.  Use class
  3818 enum from theory Library/Enum instead to achieve a similar effect.
  3819 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3820 
  3821 * Theory List: rule list_induct2 now has explicitly named cases "Nil"
  3822 and "Cons".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3823 
  3824 * HOL (and FOL): renamed variables in rules imp_elim and swap.
  3825 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3826 
  3827 * Theory Product_Type: duplicated lemmas split_Pair_apply and
  3828 injective_fst_snd removed, use split_eta and prod_eqI instead.
  3829 Renamed upd_fst to apfst and upd_snd to apsnd.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3830 
  3831 * Theory Nat: removed redundant lemmas that merely duplicate lemmas of
  3832 the same name in theory Orderings:
  3833 
  3834   less_trans
  3835   less_linear
  3836   le_imp_less_or_eq
  3837   le_less_trans
  3838   less_le_trans
  3839   less_not_sym
  3840   less_asym
  3841 
  3842 Renamed less_imp_le to less_imp_le_nat, and less_irrefl to
  3843 less_irrefl_nat.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY due to more general types
  3844 and different variable names.
  3845 
  3846 * Library/Option_ord.thy: Canonical order on option type.
  3847 
  3848 * Library/RBT.thy: Red-black trees, an efficient implementation of
  3849 finite maps.
  3850 
  3851 * Library/Countable.thy: Type class for countable types.
  3852 
  3853 * Theory Int: The representation of numerals has changed.  The infix
  3854 operator BIT and the bit datatype with constructors B0 and B1 have
  3855 disappeared.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use "Int.Bit0 x" and "Int.Bit1 y" in
  3856 place of "x BIT bit.B0" and "y BIT bit.B1", respectively.  Theorems
  3857 involving BIT, B0, or B1 have been renamed with "Bit0" or "Bit1"
  3858 accordingly.
  3859 
  3860 * Theory Nat: definition of <= and < on natural numbers no longer
  3861 depend on well-founded relations.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Definitions
  3862 le_def and less_def have disappeared.  Consider lemmas not_less
  3863 [symmetric, where ?'a = nat] and less_eq [symmetric] instead.
  3864 
  3865 * Theory Finite_Set: locales ACf, ACe, ACIf, ACIfSL and ACIfSLlin
  3866 (whose purpose mainly is for various fold_set functionals) have been
  3867 abandoned in favor of the existing algebraic classes
  3868 ab_semigroup_mult, comm_monoid_mult, ab_semigroup_idem_mult,
  3869 lower_semilattice (resp. upper_semilattice) and linorder.
  3870 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3871 
  3872 * Theory Transitive_Closure: induct and cases rules now declare proper
  3873 case_names ("base" and "step").  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3874 
  3875 * Theorem Inductive.lfp_ordinal_induct generalized to complete
  3876 lattices.  The form set-specific version is available as
  3877 Inductive.lfp_ordinal_induct_set.
  3878 
  3879 * Renamed theorems "power.simps" to "power_int.simps".
  3880 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3881 
  3882 * Class semiring_div provides basic abstract properties of semirings
  3883 with division and modulo operations.  Subsumes former class dvd_mod.
  3884 
  3885 * Merged theories IntDef, Numeral and IntArith into unified theory
  3886 Int.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3887 
  3888 * Theory Library/Code_Index: type "index" now represents natural
  3889 numbers rather than integers.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3890 
  3891 * New class "uminus" with operation "uminus" (split of from class
  3892 "minus" which now only has operation "minus", binary).
  3893 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3894 
  3895 * Constants "card", "internal_split", "option_map" now with authentic
  3896 syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3897 
  3898 * Definitions subset_def, psubset_def, set_diff_def, Compl_def,
  3899 le_bool_def, less_bool_def, le_fun_def, less_fun_def, inf_bool_def,
  3900 sup_bool_def, Inf_bool_def, Sup_bool_def, inf_fun_def, sup_fun_def,
  3901 Inf_fun_def, Sup_fun_def, inf_set_def, sup_set_def, Inf_set_def,
  3902 Sup_set_def, le_def, less_def, option_map_def now with object
  3903 equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3904 
  3905 * Records. Removed K_record, and replaced it by pure lambda term
  3906 %x. c. The simplifier setup is now more robust against eta expansion.
  3907 INCOMPATIBILITY: in cases explicitly referring to K_record.
  3908 
  3909 * Library/Multiset: {#a, b, c#} abbreviates {#a#} + {#b#} + {#c#}.
  3910 
  3911 * Library/ListVector: new theory of arithmetic vector operations.
  3912 
  3913 * Library/Order_Relation: new theory of various orderings as sets of
  3914 pairs.  Defines preorders, partial orders, linear orders and
  3915 well-orders on sets and on types.
  3916 
  3917 
  3918 *** ZF ***
  3919 
  3920 * Renamed some theories to allow to loading both ZF and HOL in the
  3921 same session:
  3922 
  3923   Datatype  -> Datatype_ZF
  3924   Inductive -> Inductive_ZF
  3925   Int       -> Int_ZF
  3926   IntDiv    -> IntDiv_ZF
  3927   Nat       -> Nat_ZF
  3928   List      -> List_ZF
  3929   Main      -> Main_ZF
  3930 
  3931 INCOMPATIBILITY: ZF theories that import individual theories below
  3932 Main might need to be adapted.  Regular theory Main is still
  3933 available, as trivial extension of Main_ZF.
  3934 
  3935 
  3936 *** ML ***
  3937 
  3938 * ML within Isar: antiquotation @{const name} or @{const
  3939 name(typargs)} produces statically-checked Const term.
  3940 
  3941 * Functor NamedThmsFun: data is available to the user as dynamic fact
  3942 (of the same name).  Removed obsolete print command.
  3943 
  3944 * Removed obsolete "use_legacy_bindings" function.
  3945 
  3946 * The ``print mode'' is now a thread-local value derived from a global
  3947 template (the former print_mode reference), thus access becomes
  3948 non-critical.  The global print_mode reference is for session
  3949 management only; user-code should use print_mode_value,
  3950 print_mode_active, PrintMode.setmp etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3951 
  3952 * Functions system/system_out provide a robust way to invoke external
  3953 shell commands, with propagation of interrupts (requires Poly/ML
  3954 5.2.1).  Do not use OS.Process.system etc. from the basis library!
  3955 
  3956 
  3957 *** System ***
  3958 
  3959 * Default settings: PROOFGENERAL_OPTIONS no longer impose xemacs ---
  3960 in accordance with Proof General 3.7, which prefers GNU emacs.
  3961 
  3962 * isatool tty runs Isabelle process with plain tty interaction;
  3963 optional line editor may be specified via ISABELLE_LINE_EDITOR
  3964 setting, the default settings attempt to locate "ledit" and "rlwrap".
  3965 
  3966 * isatool browser now works with Cygwin as well, using general
  3967 "javapath" function defined in Isabelle process environment.
  3968 
  3969 * YXML notation provides a simple and efficient alternative to
  3970 standard XML transfer syntax.  See src/Pure/General/yxml.ML and
  3971 isatool yxml as described in the Isabelle system manual.
  3972 
  3973 * JVM class isabelle.IsabelleProcess (located in Isabelle/lib/classes)
  3974 provides general wrapper for managing an Isabelle process in a robust
  3975 fashion, with ``cooked'' output from stdin/stderr.
  3976 
  3977 * Rudimentary Isabelle plugin for jEdit (see Isabelle/lib/jedit),
  3978 based on Isabelle/JVM process wrapper (see Isabelle/lib/classes).
  3979 
  3980 * Removed obsolete THIS_IS_ISABELLE_BUILD feature.  NB: the documented
  3981 way of changing the user's settings is via
  3982 ISABELLE_HOME_USER/etc/settings, which is a fully featured bash
  3983 script.
  3984 
  3985 * Multithreading.max_threads := 0 refers to the number of actual CPU
  3986 cores of the underlying machine, which is a good starting point for
  3987 optimal performance tuning.  The corresponding usedir option -M allows
  3988 "max" as an alias for "0".  WARNING: does not work on certain versions
  3989 of Mac OS (with Poly/ML 5.1).
  3990 
  3991 * isabelle-process: non-ML sessions are run with "nice", to reduce the
  3992 adverse effect of Isabelle flooding interactive front-ends (notably
  3993 ProofGeneral / XEmacs).
  3994 
  3995 
  3996 
  3997 New in Isabelle2007 (November 2007)
  3998 -----------------------------------
  3999 
  4000 *** General ***
  4001 
  4002 * More uniform information about legacy features, notably a
  4003 warning/error of "Legacy feature: ...", depending on the state of the
  4004 tolerate_legacy_features flag (default true). FUTURE INCOMPATIBILITY:
  4005 legacy features will disappear eventually.
  4006 
  4007 * Theory syntax: the header format ``theory A = B + C:'' has been
  4008 discontinued in favour of ``theory A imports B C begin''.  Use isatool
  4009 fixheaders to convert existing theory files.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4010 
  4011 * Theory syntax: the old non-Isar theory file format has been
  4012 discontinued altogether.  Note that ML proof scripts may still be used
  4013 with Isar theories; migration is usually quite simple with the ML
  4014 function use_legacy_bindings.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4015 
  4016 * Theory syntax: some popular names (e.g. 'class', 'declaration',
  4017 'fun', 'help', 'if') are now keywords.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use double
  4018 quotes.
  4019 
  4020 * Theory loader: be more serious about observing the static theory
  4021 header specifications (including optional directories), but not the
  4022 accidental file locations of previously successful loads.  The strict
  4023 update policy of former update_thy is now already performed by
  4024 use_thy, so the former has been removed; use_thys updates several
  4025 theories simultaneously, just as 'imports' within a theory header
  4026 specification, but without merging the results.  Potential
  4027 INCOMPATIBILITY: may need to refine theory headers and commands
  4028 ROOT.ML which depend on load order.
  4029 
  4030 * Theory loader: optional support for content-based file
  4031 identification, instead of the traditional scheme of full physical
  4032 path plus date stamp; configured by the ISABELLE_FILE_IDENT setting
  4033 (cf. the system manual).  The new scheme allows to work with
  4034 non-finished theories in persistent session images, such that source
  4035 files may be moved later on without requiring reloads.
  4036 
  4037 * Theory loader: old-style ML proof scripts being *attached* to a thy
  4038 file (with the same base name as the theory) are considered a legacy
  4039 feature, which will disappear eventually. Even now, the theory loader
  4040 no longer maintains dependencies on such files.
  4041 
  4042 * Syntax: the scope for resolving ambiguities via type-inference is
  4043 now limited to individual terms, instead of whole simultaneous
  4044 specifications as before. This greatly reduces the complexity of the
  4045 syntax module and improves flexibility by separating parsing and
  4046 type-checking. INCOMPATIBILITY: additional type-constraints (explicit
  4047 'fixes' etc.) are required in rare situations.
  4048 
  4049 * Syntax: constants introduced by new-style packages ('definition',
  4050 'abbreviation' etc.) are passed through the syntax module in
  4051 ``authentic mode''. This means that associated mixfix annotations
  4052 really stick to such constants, independently of potential name space
  4053 ambiguities introduced later on. INCOMPATIBILITY: constants in parse
  4054 trees are represented slightly differently, may need to adapt syntax
  4055 translations accordingly. Use CONST marker in 'translations' and
  4056 @{const_syntax} antiquotation in 'parse_translation' etc.
  4057 
  4058 * Legacy goal package: reduced interface to the bare minimum required
  4059 to keep existing proof scripts running.  Most other user-level
  4060 functions are now part of the OldGoals structure, which is *not* open
  4061 by default (consider isatool expandshort before open OldGoals).
  4062 Removed top_sg, prin, printyp, pprint_term/typ altogether, because
  4063 these tend to cause confusion about the actual goal (!) context being
  4064 used here, which is not necessarily the same as the_context().
  4065 
  4066 * Command 'find_theorems': supports "*" wild-card in "name:"
  4067 criterion; "with_dups" option.  Certain ProofGeneral versions might
  4068 support a specific search form (see ProofGeneral/CHANGES).
  4069 
  4070 * The ``prems limit'' option (cf. ProofContext.prems_limit) is now -1
  4071 by default, which means that "prems" (and also "fixed variables") are
  4072 suppressed from proof state output.  Note that the ProofGeneral
  4073 settings mechanism allows to change and save options persistently, but
  4074 older versions of Isabelle will fail to start up if a negative prems
  4075 limit is imposed.
  4076 
  4077 * Local theory targets may be specified by non-nested blocks of
  4078 ``context/locale/class ... begin'' followed by ``end''.  The body may
  4079 contain definitions, theorems etc., including any derived mechanism
  4080 that has been implemented on top of these primitives.  This concept
  4081 generalizes the existing ``theorem (in ...)'' towards more versatility
  4082 and scalability.
  4083 
  4084 * Proof General interface: proper undo of final 'end' command;
  4085 discontinued Isabelle/classic mode (ML proof scripts).
  4086 
  4087 
  4088 *** Document preparation ***
  4089 
  4090 * Added antiquotation @{theory name} which prints the given name,
  4091 after checking that it refers to a valid ancestor theory in the
  4092 current context.
  4093 
  4094 * Added antiquotations @{ML_type text} and @{ML_struct text} which
  4095 check the given source text as ML type/structure, printing verbatim.
  4096 
  4097 * Added antiquotation @{abbrev "c args"} which prints the abbreviation
  4098 "c args == rhs" given in the current context.  (Any number of
  4099 arguments may be given on the LHS.)
  4100 
  4101 
  4102 *** Pure ***
  4103 
  4104 * The 'class' package offers a combination of axclass and locale to
  4105 achieve Haskell-like type classes in Isabelle.  Definitions and
  4106 theorems within a class context produce both relative results (with
  4107 implicit parameters according to the locale context), and polymorphic
  4108 constants with qualified polymorphism (according to the class
  4109 context).  Within the body context of a 'class' target, a separate
  4110 syntax layer ("user space type system") takes care of converting
  4111 between global polymorphic consts and internal locale representation.
  4112 See src/HOL/ex/Classpackage.thy for examples (as well as main HOL).
  4113 "isatool doc classes" provides a tutorial.
  4114 
  4115 * Generic code generator framework allows to generate executable
  4116 code for ML and Haskell (including Isabelle classes).  A short usage
  4117 sketch:
  4118 
  4119     internal compilation:
  4120         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in SML
  4121     writing SML code to a file:
  4122         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in SML <filename>
  4123     writing OCaml code to a file:
  4124         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in OCaml <filename>
  4125     writing Haskell code to a bunch of files:
  4126         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in Haskell <filename>
  4127 
  4128     evaluating closed propositions to True/False using code generation:
  4129         method ``eval''
  4130 
  4131 Reasonable default setup of framework in HOL.
  4132 
  4133 Theorem attributs for selecting and transforming function equations theorems:
  4134 
  4135     [code fun]:        select a theorem as function equation for a specific constant
  4136     [code fun del]:    deselect a theorem as function equation for a specific constant
  4137     [code inline]:     select an equation theorem for unfolding (inlining) in place
  4138     [code inline del]: deselect an equation theorem for unfolding (inlining) in place
  4139 
  4140 User-defined serializations (target in {SML, OCaml, Haskell}):
  4141 
  4142     code_const <and-list of constants (term syntax)>
  4143       {(target) <and-list of const target syntax>}+
  4144 
  4145     code_type <and-list of type constructors>
  4146       {(target) <and-list of type target syntax>}+
  4147 
  4148     code_instance <and-list of instances>
  4149       {(target)}+
  4150         where instance ::= <type constructor> :: <class>
  4151 
  4152     code_class <and_list of classes>
  4153       {(target) <and-list of class target syntax>}+
  4154         where class target syntax ::= <class name> {where {<classop> == <target syntax>}+}?
  4155 
  4156 code_instance and code_class only are effective to target Haskell.
  4157 
  4158 For example usage see src/HOL/ex/Codegenerator.thy and
  4159 src/HOL/ex/Codegenerator_Pretty.thy.  A separate tutorial on code
  4160 generation from Isabelle/HOL theories is available via "isatool doc
  4161 codegen".
  4162 
  4163 * Code generator: consts in 'consts_code' Isar commands are now
  4164 referred to by usual term syntax (including optional type
  4165 annotations).
  4166 
  4167 * Command 'no_translations' removes translation rules from theory
  4168 syntax.
  4169 
  4170 * Overloaded definitions are now actually checked for acyclic
  4171 dependencies.  The overloading scheme is slightly more general than
  4172 that of Haskell98, although Isabelle does not demand an exact
  4173 correspondence to type class and instance declarations.
  4174 INCOMPATIBILITY, use ``defs (unchecked overloaded)'' to admit more
  4175 exotic versions of overloading -- at the discretion of the user!
  4176 
  4177 Polymorphic constants are represented via type arguments, i.e. the
  4178 instantiation that matches an instance against the most general
  4179 declaration given in the signature.  For example, with the declaration
  4180 c :: 'a => 'a => 'a, an instance c :: nat => nat => nat is represented
  4181 as c(nat).  Overloading is essentially simultaneous structural
  4182 recursion over such type arguments.  Incomplete specification patterns
  4183 impose global constraints on all occurrences, e.g. c('a * 'a) on the
  4184 LHS means that more general c('a * 'b) will be disallowed on any RHS.
  4185 Command 'print_theory' outputs the normalized system of recursive
  4186 equations, see section "definitions".
  4187 
  4188 * Configuration options are maintained within the theory or proof
  4189 context (with name and type bool/int/string), providing a very simple
  4190 interface to a poor-man's version of general context data.  Tools may
  4191 declare options in ML (e.g. using Attrib.config_int) and then refer to
  4192 these values using Config.get etc.  Users may change options via an
  4193 associated attribute of the same name.  This form of context
  4194 declaration works particularly well with commands 'declare' or
  4195 'using', for example ``declare [[foo = 42]]''.  Thus it has become
  4196 very easy to avoid global references, which would not observe Isar
  4197 toplevel undo/redo and fail to work with multithreading.
  4198 
  4199 Various global ML references of Pure and HOL have been turned into
  4200 configuration options:
  4201 
  4202   Unify.search_bound		unify_search_bound
  4203   Unify.trace_bound		unify_trace_bound
  4204   Unify.trace_simp		unify_trace_simp
  4205   Unify.trace_types		unify_trace_types
  4206   Simplifier.simp_depth_limit	simp_depth_limit
  4207   Blast.depth_limit		blast_depth_limit
  4208   DatatypeProp.dtK		datatype_distinctness_limit
  4209   fast_arith_neq_limit  	fast_arith_neq_limit
  4210   fast_arith_split_limit	fast_arith_split_limit
  4211 
  4212 * Named collections of theorems may be easily installed as context
  4213 data using the functor NamedThmsFun (see also
  4214 src/Pure/Tools/named_thms.ML).  The user may add or delete facts via
  4215 attributes; there is also a toplevel print command.  This facility is
  4216 just a common case of general context data, which is the preferred way
  4217 for anything more complex than just a list of facts in canonical
  4218 order.
  4219 
  4220 * Isar: command 'declaration' augments a local theory by generic
  4221 declaration functions written in ML.  This enables arbitrary content
  4222 being added to the context, depending on a morphism that tells the
  4223 difference of the original declaration context wrt. the application
  4224 context encountered later on.
  4225 
  4226 * Isar: proper interfaces for simplification procedures.  Command
  4227 'simproc_setup' declares named simprocs (with match patterns, and body
  4228 text in ML).  Attribute "simproc" adds/deletes simprocs in the current
  4229 context.  ML antiquotation @{simproc name} retrieves named simprocs.
  4230 
  4231 * Isar: an extra pair of brackets around attribute declarations
  4232 abbreviates a theorem reference involving an internal dummy fact,
  4233 which will be ignored later --- only the effect of the attribute on
  4234 the background context will persist.  This form of in-place
  4235 declarations is particularly useful with commands like 'declare' and
  4236 'using', for example ``have A using [[simproc a]] by simp''.
  4237 
  4238 * Isar: method "assumption" (and implicit closing of subproofs) now
  4239 takes simple non-atomic goal assumptions into account: after applying
  4240 an assumption as a rule the resulting subgoals are solved by atomic
  4241 assumption steps.  This is particularly useful to finish 'obtain'
  4242 goals, such as "!!x. (!!x. P x ==> thesis) ==> P x ==> thesis",
  4243 without referring to the original premise "!!x. P x ==> thesis" in the
  4244 Isar proof context.  POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: method "assumption" is
  4245 more permissive.
  4246 
  4247 * Isar: implicit use of prems from the Isar proof context is
  4248 considered a legacy feature.  Common applications like ``have A .''
  4249 may be replaced by ``have A by fact'' or ``note `A`''.  In general,
  4250 referencing facts explicitly here improves readability and
  4251 maintainability of proof texts.
  4252 
  4253 * Isar: improper proof element 'guess' is like 'obtain', but derives
  4254 the obtained context from the course of reasoning!  For example:
  4255 
  4256   assume "EX x y. A x & B y"   -- "any previous fact"
  4257   then guess x and y by clarify
  4258 
  4259 This technique is potentially adventurous, depending on the facts and
  4260 proof tools being involved here.
  4261 
  4262 * Isar: known facts from the proof context may be specified as literal
  4263 propositions, using ASCII back-quote syntax.  This works wherever
  4264 named facts used to be allowed so far, in proof commands, proof
  4265 methods, attributes etc.  Literal facts are retrieved from the context
  4266 according to unification of type and term parameters.  For example,
  4267 provided that "A" and "A ==> B" and "!!x. P x ==> Q x" are known
  4268 theorems in the current context, then these are valid literal facts:
  4269 `A` and `A ==> B` and `!!x. P x ==> Q x" as well as `P a ==> Q a` etc.
  4270 
  4271 There is also a proof method "fact" which does the same composition
  4272 for explicit goal states, e.g. the following proof texts coincide with
  4273 certain special cases of literal facts:
  4274 
  4275   have "A" by fact                 ==  note `A`
  4276   have "A ==> B" by fact           ==  note `A ==> B`
  4277   have "!!x. P x ==> Q x" by fact  ==  note `!!x. P x ==> Q x`
  4278   have "P a ==> Q a" by fact       ==  note `P a ==> Q a`
  4279 
  4280 * Isar: ":" (colon) is no longer a symbolic identifier character in
  4281 outer syntax.  Thus symbolic identifiers may be used without
  4282 additional white space in declarations like this: ``assume *: A''.
  4283 
  4284 * Isar: 'print_facts' prints all local facts of the current context,
  4285 both named and unnamed ones.
  4286 
  4287 * Isar: 'def' now admits simultaneous definitions, e.g.:
  4288 
  4289   def x == "t" and y == "u"
  4290 
  4291 * Isar: added command 'unfolding', which is structurally similar to
  4292 'using', but affects both the goal state and facts by unfolding given
  4293 rewrite rules.  Thus many occurrences of the 'unfold' method or
  4294 'unfolded' attribute may be replaced by first-class proof text.
  4295 
  4296 * Isar: methods 'unfold' / 'fold', attributes 'unfolded' / 'folded',
  4297 and command 'unfolding' now all support object-level equalities
  4298 (potentially conditional).  The underlying notion of rewrite rule is
  4299 analogous to the 'rule_format' attribute, but *not* that of the
  4300 Simplifier (which is usually more generous).
  4301 
  4302 * Isar: the new attribute [rotated n] (default n = 1) rotates the
  4303 premises of a theorem by n. Useful in conjunction with drule.
  4304 
  4305 * Isar: the goal restriction operator [N] (default N = 1) evaluates a
  4306 method expression within a sandbox consisting of the first N
  4307 sub-goals, which need to exist.  For example, ``simp_all [3]''
  4308 simplifies the first three sub-goals, while (rule foo, simp_all)[]
  4309 simplifies all new goals that emerge from applying rule foo to the
  4310 originally first one.
  4311 
  4312 * Isar: schematic goals are no longer restricted to higher-order
  4313 patterns; e.g. ``lemma "?P(?x)" by (rule TrueI)'' now works as
  4314 expected.
  4315 
  4316 * Isar: the conclusion of a long theorem statement is now either
  4317 'shows' (a simultaneous conjunction, as before), or 'obtains'
  4318 (essentially a disjunction of cases with local parameters and
  4319 assumptions).  The latter allows to express general elimination rules
  4320 adequately; in this notation common elimination rules look like this:
  4321 
  4322   lemma exE:    -- "EX x. P x ==> (!!x. P x ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  4323     assumes "EX x. P x"
  4324     obtains x where "P x"
  4325 
  4326   lemma conjE:  -- "A & B ==> (A ==> B ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  4327     assumes "A & B"
  4328     obtains A and B
  4329 
  4330   lemma disjE:  -- "A | B ==> (A ==> thesis) ==> (B ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  4331     assumes "A | B"
  4332     obtains
  4333       A
  4334     | B
  4335 
  4336 The subsequent classical rules even refer to the formal "thesis"
  4337 explicitly:
  4338 
  4339   lemma classical:     -- "(~ thesis ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  4340     obtains "~ thesis"
  4341 
  4342   lemma Peirce's_Law:  -- "((thesis ==> something) ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  4343     obtains "thesis ==> something"
  4344 
  4345 The actual proof of an 'obtains' statement is analogous to that of the
  4346 Isar proof element 'obtain', only that there may be several cases.
  4347 Optional case names may be specified in parentheses; these will be
  4348 available both in the present proof and as annotations in the
  4349 resulting rule, for later use with the 'cases' method (cf. attribute
  4350 case_names).
  4351 
  4352 * Isar: the assumptions of a long theorem statement are available as
  4353 "assms" fact in the proof context.  This is more appropriate than the
  4354 (historical) "prems", which refers to all assumptions of the current
  4355 context, including those from the target locale, proof body etc.
  4356 
  4357 * Isar: 'print_statement' prints theorems from the current theory or
  4358 proof context in long statement form, according to the syntax of a
  4359 top-level lemma.
  4360 
  4361 * Isar: 'obtain' takes an optional case name for the local context
  4362 introduction rule (default "that").
  4363 
  4364 * Isar: removed obsolete 'concl is' patterns.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  4365 explicit (is "_ ==> ?foo") in the rare cases where this still happens
  4366 to occur.
  4367 
  4368 * Pure: syntax "CONST name" produces a fully internalized constant
  4369 according to the current context.  This is particularly useful for
  4370 syntax translations that should refer to internal constant
  4371 representations independently of name spaces.
  4372 
  4373 * Pure: syntax constant for foo (binder "FOO ") is called "foo_binder"
  4374 instead of "FOO ". This allows multiple binder declarations to coexist
  4375 in the same context.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4376 
  4377 * Isar/locales: 'notation' provides a robust interface to the 'syntax'
  4378 primitive that also works in a locale context (both for constants and
  4379 fixed variables). Type declaration and internal syntactic representation
  4380 of given constants retrieved from the context. Likewise, the
  4381 'no_notation' command allows to remove given syntax annotations from the
  4382 current context.
  4383 
  4384 * Isar/locales: new derived specification elements 'axiomatization',
  4385 'definition', 'abbreviation', which support type-inference, admit
  4386 object-level specifications (equality, equivalence).  See also the
  4387 isar-ref manual.  Examples:
  4388 
  4389   axiomatization
  4390     eq  (infix "===" 50) where
  4391     eq_refl: "x === x" and eq_subst: "x === y ==> P x ==> P y"
  4392 
  4393   definition "f x y = x + y + 1"
  4394   definition g where "g x = f x x"
  4395 
  4396   abbreviation
  4397     neq  (infix "=!=" 50) where
  4398     "x =!= y == ~ (x === y)"
  4399 
  4400 These specifications may be also used in a locale context.  Then the
  4401 constants being introduced depend on certain fixed parameters, and the
  4402 constant name is qualified by the locale base name.  An internal
  4403 abbreviation takes care for convenient input and output, making the
  4404 parameters implicit and using the original short name.  See also
  4405 src/HOL/ex/Abstract_NAT.thy for an example of deriving polymorphic
  4406 entities from a monomorphic theory.
  4407 
  4408 Presently, abbreviations are only available 'in' a target locale, but
  4409 not inherited by general import expressions.  Also note that
  4410 'abbreviation' may be used as a type-safe replacement for 'syntax' +
  4411 'translations' in common applications.  The "no_abbrevs" print mode
  4412 prevents folding of abbreviations in term output.
  4413 
  4414 Concrete syntax is attached to specified constants in internal form,
  4415 independently of name spaces.  The parse tree representation is
  4416 slightly different -- use 'notation' instead of raw 'syntax', and
  4417 'translations' with explicit "CONST" markup to accommodate this.
  4418 
  4419 * Pure/Isar: unified syntax for new-style specification mechanisms
  4420 (e.g.  'definition', 'abbreviation', or 'inductive' in HOL) admits
  4421 full type inference and dummy patterns ("_").  For example:
  4422 
  4423   definition "K x _ = x"
  4424 
  4425   inductive conj for A B
  4426   where "A ==> B ==> conj A B"
  4427 
  4428 * Pure: command 'print_abbrevs' prints all constant abbreviations of
  4429 the current context.  Print mode "no_abbrevs" prevents inversion of
  4430 abbreviations on output.
  4431 
  4432 * Isar/locales: improved parameter handling: use of locales "var" and
  4433 "struct" no longer necessary; - parameter renamings are no longer
  4434 required to be injective.  For example, this allows to define
  4435 endomorphisms as locale endom = homom mult mult h.
  4436 
  4437 * Isar/locales: changed the way locales with predicates are defined.
  4438 Instead of accumulating the specification, the imported expression is
  4439 now an interpretation.  INCOMPATIBILITY: different normal form of
  4440 locale expressions.  In particular, in interpretations of locales with
  4441 predicates, goals repesenting already interpreted fragments are not
  4442 removed automatically.  Use methods `intro_locales' and
  4443 `unfold_locales'; see below.
  4444 
  4445 * Isar/locales: new methods `intro_locales' and `unfold_locales'
  4446 provide backward reasoning on locales predicates.  The methods are
  4447 aware of interpretations and discharge corresponding goals.
  4448 `intro_locales' is less aggressive then `unfold_locales' and does not
  4449 unfold predicates to assumptions.
  4450 
  4451 * Isar/locales: the order in which locale fragments are accumulated
  4452 has changed.  This enables to override declarations from fragments due
  4453 to interpretations -- for example, unwanted simp rules.
  4454 
  4455 * Isar/locales: interpretation in theories and proof contexts has been
  4456 extended.  One may now specify (and prove) equations, which are
  4457 unfolded in interpreted theorems.  This is useful for replacing
  4458 defined concepts (constants depending on locale parameters) by
  4459 concepts already existing in the target context.  Example:
  4460 
  4461   interpretation partial_order ["op <= :: [int, int] => bool"]
  4462     where "partial_order.less (op <=) (x::int) y = (x < y)"
  4463 
  4464 Typically, the constant `partial_order.less' is created by a
  4465 definition specification element in the context of locale
  4466 partial_order.
  4467 
  4468 * Method "induct": improved internal context management to support
  4469 local fixes and defines on-the-fly. Thus explicit meta-level
  4470 connectives !!  and ==> are rarely required anymore in inductive goals
  4471 (using object-logic connectives for this purpose has been long
  4472 obsolete anyway). Common proof patterns are explained in
  4473 src/HOL/Induct/Common_Patterns.thy, see also
  4474 src/HOL/Isar_examples/Puzzle.thy and src/HOL/Lambda for realistic
  4475 examples.
  4476 
  4477 * Method "induct": improved handling of simultaneous goals. Instead of
  4478 introducing object-level conjunction, the statement is now split into
  4479 several conclusions, while the corresponding symbolic cases are nested
  4480 accordingly. INCOMPATIBILITY, proofs need to be structured explicitly,
  4481 see src/HOL/Induct/Common_Patterns.thy, for example.
  4482 
  4483 * Method "induct": mutual induction rules are now specified as a list
  4484 of rule sharing the same induction cases. HOL packages usually provide
  4485 foo_bar.inducts for mutually defined items foo and bar (e.g. inductive
  4486 predicates/sets or datatypes). INCOMPATIBILITY, users need to specify
  4487 mutual induction rules differently, i.e. like this:
  4488 
  4489   (induct rule: foo_bar.inducts)
  4490   (induct set: foo bar)
  4491   (induct pred: foo bar)
  4492   (induct type: foo bar)
  4493 
  4494 The ML function ProjectRule.projections turns old-style rules into the
  4495 new format.
  4496 
  4497 * Method "coinduct": dual of induction, see
  4498 src/HOL/Library/Coinductive_List.thy for various examples.
  4499 
  4500 * Method "cases", "induct", "coinduct": the ``(open)'' option is
  4501 considered a legacy feature.
  4502 
  4503 * Attribute "symmetric" produces result with standardized schematic
  4504 variables (index 0).  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4505 
  4506 * Simplifier: by default the simplifier trace only shows top level
  4507 rewrites now. That is, trace_simp_depth_limit is set to 1 by
  4508 default. Thus there is less danger of being flooded by the trace. The
  4509 trace indicates where parts have been suppressed.
  4510   
  4511 * Provers/classical: removed obsolete classical version of elim_format
  4512 attribute; classical elim/dest rules are now treated uniformly when
  4513 manipulating the claset.
  4514 
  4515 * Provers/classical: stricter checks to ensure that supplied intro,
  4516 dest and elim rules are well-formed; dest and elim rules must have at
  4517 least one premise.
  4518 
  4519 * Provers/classical: attributes dest/elim/intro take an optional
  4520 weight argument for the rule (just as the Pure versions).  Weights are
  4521 ignored by automated tools, but determine the search order of single
  4522 rule steps.
  4523 
  4524 * Syntax: input syntax now supports dummy variable binding "%_. b",
  4525 where the body does not mention the bound variable.  Note that dummy
  4526 patterns implicitly depend on their context of bounds, which makes
  4527 "{_. _}" match any set comprehension as expected.  Potential
  4528 INCOMPATIBILITY -- parse translations need to cope with syntactic
  4529 constant "_idtdummy" in the binding position.
  4530 
  4531 * Syntax: removed obsolete syntactic constant "_K" and its associated
  4532 parse translation.  INCOMPATIBILITY -- use dummy abstraction instead,
  4533 for example "A -> B" => "Pi A (%_. B)".
  4534 
  4535 * Pure: 'class_deps' command visualizes the subclass relation, using
  4536 the graph browser tool.
  4537 
  4538 * Pure: 'print_theory' now suppresses certain internal declarations by
  4539 default; use '!' option for full details.
  4540 
  4541 
  4542 *** HOL ***
  4543 
  4544 * Method "metis" proves goals by applying the Metis general-purpose
  4545 resolution prover (see also http://gilith.com/software/metis/).
  4546 Examples are in the directory MetisExamples.  WARNING: the
  4547 Isabelle/HOL-Metis integration does not yet work properly with
  4548 multi-threading.
  4549   
  4550 * Command 'sledgehammer' invokes external automatic theorem provers as
  4551 background processes.  It generates calls to the "metis" method if
  4552 successful. These can be pasted into the proof.  Users do not have to
  4553 wait for the automatic provers to return.  WARNING: does not really
  4554 work with multi-threading.
  4555 
  4556 * New "auto_quickcheck" feature tests outermost goal statements for
  4557 potential counter-examples.  Controlled by ML references
  4558 auto_quickcheck (default true) and auto_quickcheck_time_limit (default
  4559 5000 milliseconds).  Fails silently if statements is outside of
  4560 executable fragment, or any other codgenerator problem occurs.
  4561 
  4562 * New constant "undefined" with axiom "undefined x = undefined".
  4563 
  4564 * Added class "HOL.eq", allowing for code generation with polymorphic
  4565 equality.
  4566 
  4567 * Some renaming of class constants due to canonical name prefixing in
  4568 the new 'class' package:
  4569 
  4570     HOL.abs ~> HOL.abs_class.abs
  4571     HOL.divide ~> HOL.divide_class.divide
  4572     0 ~> HOL.zero_class.zero
  4573     1 ~> HOL.one_class.one
  4574     op + ~> HOL.plus_class.plus
  4575     op - ~> HOL.minus_class.minus
  4576     uminus ~> HOL.minus_class.uminus
  4577     op * ~> HOL.times_class.times
  4578     op < ~> HOL.ord_class.less
  4579     op <= > HOL.ord_class.less_eq
  4580     Nat.power ~> Power.power_class.power
  4581     Nat.size ~> Nat.size_class.size
  4582     Numeral.number_of ~> Numeral.number_class.number_of
  4583     FixedPoint.Inf ~> Lattices.complete_lattice_class.Inf
  4584     FixedPoint.Sup ~> Lattices.complete_lattice_class.Sup
  4585     Orderings.min ~> Orderings.ord_class.min
  4586     Orderings.max ~> Orderings.ord_class.max
  4587     Divides.op div ~> Divides.div_class.div
  4588     Divides.op mod ~> Divides.div_class.mod
  4589     Divides.op dvd ~> Divides.div_class.dvd
  4590 
  4591 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Adaptions may be required in the following cases:
  4592 
  4593 a) User-defined constants using any of the names "plus", "minus",
  4594 "times", "less" or "less_eq". The standard syntax translations for
  4595 "+", "-" and "*" may go wrong.  INCOMPATIBILITY: use more specific
  4596 names.
  4597 
  4598 b) Variables named "plus", "minus", "times", "less", "less_eq"
  4599 INCOMPATIBILITY: use more specific names.
  4600 
  4601 c) Permutative equations (e.g. "a + b = b + a")
  4602 Since the change of names also changes the order of terms, permutative
  4603 rewrite rules may get applied in a different order. Experience shows
  4604 that this is rarely the case (only two adaptions in the whole Isabelle
  4605 distribution).  INCOMPATIBILITY: rewrite proofs
  4606 
  4607 d) ML code directly refering to constant names
  4608 This in general only affects hand-written proof tactics, simprocs and
  4609 so on.  INCOMPATIBILITY: grep your sourcecode and replace names.
  4610 Consider using @{const_name} antiquotation.
  4611 
  4612 * New class "default" with associated constant "default".
  4613 
  4614 * Function "sgn" is now overloaded and available on int, real, complex
  4615 (and other numeric types), using class "sgn".  Two possible defs of
  4616 sgn are given as equational assumptions in the classes sgn_if and
  4617 sgn_div_norm; ordered_idom now also inherits from sgn_if.
  4618 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4619 
  4620 * Locale "partial_order" now unified with class "order" (cf. theory
  4621 Orderings), added parameter "less".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4622 
  4623 * Renamings in classes "order" and "linorder": facts "refl", "trans" and
  4624 "cases" to "order_refl", "order_trans" and "linorder_cases", to avoid
  4625 clashes with HOL "refl" and "trans".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4626 
  4627 * Classes "order" and "linorder": potential INCOMPATIBILITY due to
  4628 changed order of proof goals in instance proofs.
  4629 
  4630 * The transitivity reasoner for partial and linear orders is set up
  4631 for classes "order" and "linorder".  Instances of the reasoner are available
  4632 in all contexts importing or interpreting the corresponding locales.
  4633 Method "order" invokes the reasoner separately; the reasoner
  4634 is also integrated with the Simplifier as a solver.  Diagnostic
  4635 command 'print_orders' shows the available instances of the reasoner
  4636 in the current context.
  4637 
  4638 * Localized monotonicity predicate in theory "Orderings"; integrated
  4639 lemmas max_of_mono and min_of_mono with this predicate.
  4640 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4641 
  4642 * Formulation of theorem "dense" changed slightly due to integration
  4643 with new class dense_linear_order.
  4644 
  4645 * Uniform lattice theory development in HOL.
  4646 
  4647     constants "meet" and "join" now named "inf" and "sup"
  4648     constant "Meet" now named "Inf"
  4649 
  4650     classes "meet_semilorder" and "join_semilorder" now named
  4651       "lower_semilattice" and "upper_semilattice"
  4652     class "lorder" now named "lattice"
  4653     class "comp_lat" now named "complete_lattice"
  4654 
  4655     Instantiation of lattice classes allows explicit definitions
  4656     for "inf" and "sup" operations (or "Inf" and "Sup" for complete lattices).
  4657 
  4658   INCOMPATIBILITY.  Theorem renames:
  4659 
  4660     meet_left_le            ~> inf_le1
  4661     meet_right_le           ~> inf_le2
  4662     join_left_le            ~> sup_ge1
  4663     join_right_le           ~> sup_ge2
  4664     meet_join_le            ~> inf_sup_ord
  4665     le_meetI                ~> le_infI
  4666     join_leI                ~> le_supI
  4667     le_meet                 ~> le_inf_iff
  4668     le_join                 ~> ge_sup_conv
  4669     meet_idempotent         ~> inf_idem
  4670     join_idempotent         ~> sup_idem
  4671     meet_comm               ~> inf_commute
  4672     join_comm               ~> sup_commute
  4673     meet_leI1               ~> le_infI1
  4674     meet_leI2               ~> le_infI2
  4675     le_joinI1               ~> le_supI1
  4676     le_joinI2               ~> le_supI2
  4677     meet_assoc              ~> inf_assoc
  4678     join_assoc              ~> sup_assoc
  4679     meet_left_comm          ~> inf_left_commute
  4680     meet_left_idempotent    ~> inf_left_idem
  4681     join_left_comm          ~> sup_left_commute
  4682     join_left_idempotent    ~> sup_left_idem
  4683     meet_aci                ~> inf_aci
  4684     join_aci                ~> sup_aci
  4685     le_def_meet             ~> le_iff_inf
  4686     le_def_join             ~> le_iff_sup
  4687     join_absorp2            ~> sup_absorb2
  4688     join_absorp1            ~> sup_absorb1
  4689     meet_absorp1            ~> inf_absorb1
  4690     meet_absorp2            ~> inf_absorb2
  4691     meet_join_absorp        ~> inf_sup_absorb
  4692     join_meet_absorp        ~> sup_inf_absorb
  4693     distrib_join_le         ~> distrib_sup_le
  4694     distrib_meet_le         ~> distrib_inf_le
  4695 
  4696     add_meet_distrib_left   ~> add_inf_distrib_left
  4697     add_join_distrib_left   ~> add_sup_distrib_left
  4698     is_join_neg_meet        ~> is_join_neg_inf
  4699     is_meet_neg_join        ~> is_meet_neg_sup
  4700     add_meet_distrib_right  ~> add_inf_distrib_right
  4701     add_join_distrib_right  ~> add_sup_distrib_right
  4702     add_meet_join_distribs  ~> add_sup_inf_distribs
  4703     join_eq_neg_meet        ~> sup_eq_neg_inf
  4704     meet_eq_neg_join        ~> inf_eq_neg_sup
  4705     add_eq_meet_join        ~> add_eq_inf_sup
  4706     meet_0_imp_0            ~> inf_0_imp_0
  4707     join_0_imp_0            ~> sup_0_imp_0
  4708     meet_0_eq_0             ~> inf_0_eq_0
  4709     join_0_eq_0             ~> sup_0_eq_0
  4710     neg_meet_eq_join        ~> neg_inf_eq_sup
  4711     neg_join_eq_meet        ~> neg_sup_eq_inf
  4712     join_eq_if              ~> sup_eq_if
  4713 
  4714     mono_meet               ~> mono_inf
  4715     mono_join               ~> mono_sup
  4716     meet_bool_eq            ~> inf_bool_eq
  4717     join_bool_eq            ~> sup_bool_eq
  4718     meet_fun_eq             ~> inf_fun_eq
  4719     join_fun_eq             ~> sup_fun_eq
  4720     meet_set_eq             ~> inf_set_eq
  4721     join_set_eq             ~> sup_set_eq
  4722     meet1_iff               ~> inf1_iff
  4723     meet2_iff               ~> inf2_iff
  4724     meet1I                  ~> inf1I
  4725     meet2I                  ~> inf2I
  4726     meet1D1                 ~> inf1D1
  4727     meet2D1                 ~> inf2D1
  4728     meet1D2                 ~> inf1D2
  4729     meet2D2                 ~> inf2D2
  4730     meet1E                  ~> inf1E
  4731     meet2E                  ~> inf2E
  4732     join1_iff               ~> sup1_iff
  4733     join2_iff               ~> sup2_iff
  4734     join1I1                 ~> sup1I1
  4735     join2I1                 ~> sup2I1
  4736     join1I1                 ~> sup1I1
  4737     join2I2                 ~> sup1I2
  4738     join1CI                 ~> sup1CI
  4739     join2CI                 ~> sup2CI
  4740     join1E                  ~> sup1E
  4741     join2E                  ~> sup2E
  4742 
  4743     is_meet_Meet            ~> is_meet_Inf
  4744     Meet_bool_def           ~> Inf_bool_def
  4745     Meet_fun_def            ~> Inf_fun_def
  4746     Meet_greatest           ~> Inf_greatest
  4747     Meet_lower              ~> Inf_lower
  4748     Meet_set_def            ~> Inf_set_def
  4749 
  4750     Sup_def                 ~> Sup_Inf
  4751     Sup_bool_eq             ~> Sup_bool_def
  4752     Sup_fun_eq              ~> Sup_fun_def
  4753     Sup_set_eq              ~> Sup_set_def
  4754 
  4755     listsp_meetI            ~> listsp_infI
  4756     listsp_meet_eq          ~> listsp_inf_eq
  4757 
  4758     meet_min                ~> inf_min
  4759     join_max                ~> sup_max
  4760 
  4761 * Added syntactic class "size"; overloaded constant "size" now has
  4762 type "'a::size ==> bool"
  4763 
  4764 * Internal reorganisation of `size' of datatypes: size theorems
  4765 "foo.size" are no longer subsumed by "foo.simps" (but are still
  4766 simplification rules by default!); theorems "prod.size" now named
  4767 "*.size".
  4768 
  4769 * Class "div" now inherits from class "times" rather than "type".
  4770 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4771 
  4772 * HOL/Finite_Set: "name-space" locales Lattice, Distrib_lattice,
  4773 Linorder etc.  have disappeared; operations defined in terms of
  4774 fold_set now are named Inf_fin, Sup_fin.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4775 
  4776 * HOL/Nat: neq0_conv no longer declared as iff.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4777 
  4778 * HOL-Word: New extensive library and type for generic, fixed size
  4779 machine words, with arithemtic, bit-wise, shifting and rotating
  4780 operations, reflection into int, nat, and bool lists, automation for
  4781 linear arithmetic (by automatic reflection into nat or int), including
  4782 lemmas on overflow and monotonicity.  Instantiated to all appropriate
  4783 arithmetic type classes, supporting automatic simplification of
  4784 numerals on all operations.
  4785 
  4786 * Library/Boolean_Algebra: locales for abstract boolean algebras.
  4787 
  4788 * Library/Numeral_Type: numbers as types, e.g. TYPE(32).
  4789 
  4790 * Code generator library theories:
  4791   - Code_Integer represents HOL integers by big integer literals in target
  4792     languages.
  4793   - Code_Char represents HOL characters by character literals in target
  4794     languages.
  4795   - Code_Char_chr like Code_Char, but also offers treatment of character
  4796     codes; includes Code_Integer.
  4797   - Executable_Set allows to generate code for finite sets using lists.
  4798   - Executable_Rat implements rational numbers as triples (sign, enumerator,
  4799     denominator).
  4800   - Executable_Real implements a subset of real numbers, namly those
  4801     representable by rational numbers.
  4802   - Efficient_Nat implements natural numbers by integers, which in general will
  4803     result in higher efficency; pattern matching with 0/Suc is eliminated;
  4804     includes Code_Integer.
  4805   - Code_Index provides an additional datatype index which is mapped to
  4806     target-language built-in integers.
  4807   - Code_Message provides an additional datatype message_string which is isomorphic to
  4808     strings; messages are mapped to target-language strings.
  4809 
  4810 * New package for inductive predicates
  4811 
  4812   An n-ary predicate p with m parameters z_1, ..., z_m can now be defined via
  4813 
  4814     inductive
  4815       p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  4816       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  4817     where
  4818       rule_1: "... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_1_1 ... t_1_n"
  4819     | ...
  4820 
  4821   with full support for type-inference, rather than
  4822 
  4823     consts s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  4824 
  4825     abbreviation p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  4826     where "p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n == (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  4827 
  4828     inductive "s z_1 ... z_m"
  4829     intros
  4830       rule_1: "... ==> (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  4831       ...
  4832 
  4833   For backward compatibility, there is a wrapper allowing inductive
  4834   sets to be defined with the new package via
  4835 
  4836     inductive_set
  4837       s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  4838       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  4839     where
  4840       rule_1: "... ==> (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  4841     | ...
  4842 
  4843   or
  4844 
  4845     inductive_set
  4846       s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  4847       and p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  4848       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  4849     where
  4850       "p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n == (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  4851     | rule_1: "... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_1_1 ... t_1_n"
  4852     | ...
  4853 
  4854   if the additional syntax "p ..." is required.
  4855 
  4856   Numerous examples can be found in the subdirectories src/HOL/Auth,
  4857   src/HOL/Bali, src/HOL/Induct, and src/HOL/MicroJava.
  4858 
  4859   INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  4860 
  4861   - Since declaration and definition of inductive sets or predicates
  4862     is no longer separated, abbreviations involving the newly
  4863     introduced sets or predicates must be specified together with the
  4864     introduction rules after the 'where' keyword (see above), rather
  4865     than before the actual inductive definition.
  4866 
  4867   - The variables in induction and elimination rules are now
  4868     quantified in the order of their occurrence in the introduction
  4869     rules, rather than in alphabetical order. Since this may break
  4870     some proofs, these proofs either have to be repaired, e.g. by
  4871     reordering the variables a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i} in Isar 'case'
  4872     statements of the form
  4873 
  4874       case (rule_i a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i})
  4875 
  4876     or the old order of quantification has to be restored by explicitly adding
  4877     meta-level quantifiers in the introduction rules, i.e.
  4878 
  4879       | rule_i: "!!a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i}. ... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_i_1 ... t_i_n"
  4880 
  4881   - The format of the elimination rules is now
  4882 
  4883       p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n ==>
  4884         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x_1 = t_1_1 ==> ... ==> x_n = t_1_n ==> ... ==> P)
  4885         ==> ... ==> P
  4886 
  4887     for predicates and
  4888 
  4889       (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m ==>
  4890         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x_1 = t_1_1 ==> ... ==> x_n = t_1_n ==> ... ==> P)
  4891         ==> ... ==> P
  4892 
  4893     for sets rather than
  4894 
  4895       x : s z_1 ... z_m ==>
  4896         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x = (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) ==> ... ==> P)
  4897         ==> ... ==> P
  4898 
  4899     This may require terms in goals to be expanded to n-tuples
  4900     (e.g. using case_tac or simplification with the split_paired_all
  4901     rule) before the above elimination rule is applicable.
  4902 
  4903   - The elimination or case analysis rules for (mutually) inductive
  4904     sets or predicates are now called "p_1.cases" ... "p_k.cases". The
  4905     list of rules "p_1_..._p_k.elims" is no longer available.
  4906 
  4907 * New package "function"/"fun" for general recursive functions,
  4908 supporting mutual and nested recursion, definitions in local contexts,
  4909 more general pattern matching and partiality. See HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy
  4910 for small examples, and the separate tutorial on the function
  4911 package. The old recdef "package" is still available as before, but
  4912 users are encouraged to use the new package.
  4913 
  4914 * Method "lexicographic_order" automatically synthesizes termination
  4915 relations as lexicographic combinations of size measures. 
  4916 
  4917 * Case-expressions allow arbitrary constructor-patterns (including
  4918 "_") and take their order into account, like in functional
  4919 programming.  Internally, this is translated into nested
  4920 case-expressions; missing cases are added and mapped to the predefined
  4921 constant "undefined". In complicated cases printing may no longer show
  4922 the original input but the internal form. Lambda-abstractions allow
  4923 the same form of pattern matching: "% pat1 => e1 | ..." is an
  4924 abbreviation for "%x. case x of pat1 => e1 | ..." where x is a new
  4925 variable.
  4926 
  4927 * IntDef: The constant "int :: nat => int" has been removed; now "int"
  4928 is an abbreviation for "of_nat :: nat => int". The simplification
  4929 rules for "of_nat" have been changed to work like "int" did
  4930 previously.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY:
  4931   - "of_nat (Suc m)" simplifies to "1 + of_nat m" instead of "of_nat m + 1"
  4932   - of_nat_diff and of_nat_mult are no longer default simp rules
  4933 
  4934 * Method "algebra" solves polynomial equations over (semi)rings using
  4935 Groebner bases. The (semi)ring structure is defined by locales and the
  4936 tool setup depends on that generic context. Installing the method for
  4937 a specific type involves instantiating the locale and possibly adding
  4938 declarations for computation on the coefficients.  The method is
  4939 already instantiated for natural numbers and for the axiomatic class
  4940 of idoms with numerals.  See also the paper by Chaieb and Wenzel at
  4941 CALCULEMUS 2007 for the general principles underlying this
  4942 architecture of context-aware proof-tools.
  4943 
  4944 * Method "ferrack" implements quantifier elimination over
  4945 special-purpose dense linear orders using locales (analogous to
  4946 "algebra"). The method is already installed for class
  4947 {ordered_field,recpower,number_ring} which subsumes real, hyperreal,
  4948 rat, etc.
  4949 
  4950 * Former constant "List.op @" now named "List.append".  Use ML
  4951 antiquotations @{const_name List.append} or @{term " ... @ ... "} to
  4952 circumvent possible incompatibilities when working on ML level.
  4953 
  4954 * primrec: missing cases mapped to "undefined" instead of "arbitrary".
  4955 
  4956 * New function listsum :: 'a list => 'a for arbitrary monoids.
  4957 Special syntax: "SUM x <- xs. f x" (and latex variants)
  4958 
  4959 * New syntax for Haskell-like list comprehension (input only), eg.
  4960 [(x,y). x <- xs, y <- ys, x ~= y], see also src/HOL/List.thy.
  4961 
  4962 * The special syntax for function "filter" has changed from [x :
  4963 xs. P] to [x <- xs. P] to avoid an ambiguity caused by list
  4964 comprehension syntax, and for uniformity.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4965 
  4966 * [a..b] is now defined for arbitrary linear orders.  It used to be
  4967 defined on nat only, as an abbreviation for [a..<Suc b]
  4968 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4969 
  4970 * Renamed lemma "set_take_whileD"  to "set_takeWhileD".
  4971 
  4972 * New functions "sorted" and "sort" in src/HOL/List.thy.
  4973 
  4974 * New lemma collection field_simps (an extension of ring_simps) for
  4975 manipulating (in)equations involving division. Multiplies with all
  4976 denominators that can be proved to be non-zero (in equations) or
  4977 positive/negative (in inequations).
  4978 
  4979 * Lemma collections ring_eq_simps, group_eq_simps and ring_distrib
  4980 have been improved and renamed to ring_simps, group_simps and
  4981 ring_distribs.  Removed lemmas field_xyz in theory Ring_and_Field
  4982 because they were subsumed by lemmas xyz.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4983 
  4984 * Theory Library/Commutative_Ring: switched from recdef to function
  4985 package; constants add, mul, pow now curried.  Infix syntax for
  4986 algebraic operations.
  4987 
  4988 * Dropped redundant lemma def_imp_eq in favor of meta_eq_to_obj_eq.
  4989 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4990 
  4991 * Dropped redundant lemma if_def2 in favor of if_bool_eq_conj.
  4992 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4993 
  4994 * HOL/records: generalised field-update to take a function on the
  4995 field rather than the new value: r(|A := x|) is translated to A_update
  4996 (K x) r The K-combinator that is internally used is called K_record.
  4997 INCOMPATIBILITY: Usage of the plain update functions has to be
  4998 adapted.
  4999  
  5000 * Class "semiring_0" now contains annihilation axioms x * 0 = 0 and 0
  5001 * x = 0, which are required for a semiring.  Richer structures do not
  5002 inherit from semiring_0 anymore, because this property is a theorem
  5003 there, not an axiom.  INCOMPATIBILITY: In instances of semiring_0,
  5004 there is more to prove, but this is mostly trivial.
  5005 
  5006 * Class "recpower" is generalized to arbitrary monoids, not just
  5007 commutative semirings.  INCOMPATIBILITY: may need to incorporate
  5008 commutativity or semiring properties additionally.
  5009 
  5010 * Constant "List.list_all2" in List.thy now uses authentic syntax.
  5011 INCOMPATIBILITY: translations containing list_all2 may go wrong,
  5012 better use 'abbreviation'.
  5013 
  5014 * Renamed constant "List.op mem" to "List.member".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5015 
  5016 * Numeral syntax: type 'bin' which was a mere type copy of 'int' has
  5017 been abandoned in favour of plain 'int'.  INCOMPATIBILITY --
  5018 significant changes for setting up numeral syntax for types:
  5019   - New constants Numeral.pred and Numeral.succ instead
  5020       of former Numeral.bin_pred and Numeral.bin_succ.
  5021   - Use integer operations instead of bin_add, bin_mult and so on.
  5022   - Numeral simplification theorems named Numeral.numeral_simps instead of Bin_simps.
  5023   - ML structure Bin_Simprocs now named Int_Numeral_Base_Simprocs.
  5024 
  5025 See src/HOL/Integ/IntArith.thy for an example setup.
  5026 
  5027 * Command 'normal_form' computes the normal form of a term that may
  5028 contain free variables.  For example ``normal_form "rev [a, b, c]"''
  5029 produces ``[b, c, a]'' (without proof).  This command is suitable for
  5030 heavy-duty computations because the functions are compiled to ML
  5031 first.  Correspondingly, a method "normalization" is provided.  See
  5032 further src/HOL/ex/NormalForm.thy and src/Tools/nbe.ML.
  5033 
  5034 * Alternative iff syntax "A <-> B" for equality on bool (with priority
  5035 25 like -->); output depends on the "iff" print_mode, the default is
  5036 "A = B" (with priority 50).
  5037 
  5038 * Relations less (<) and less_eq (<=) are also available on type bool.
  5039 Modified syntax to disallow nesting without explicit parentheses,
  5040 e.g. "(x < y) < z" or "x < (y < z)", but NOT "x < y < z".  Potential
  5041 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5042 
  5043 * "LEAST x:A. P" expands to "LEAST x. x:A & P" (input only).
  5044 
  5045 * Relation composition operator "op O" now has precedence 75 and binds
  5046 stronger than union and intersection. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5047 
  5048 * The old set interval syntax "{m..n(}" (and relatives) has been
  5049 removed.  Use "{m..<n}" (and relatives) instead.
  5050 
  5051 * In the context of the assumption "~(s = t)" the Simplifier rewrites
  5052 "t = s" to False (by simproc "neq").  INCOMPATIBILITY, consider using
  5053 ``declare [[simproc del: neq]]''.
  5054 
  5055 * Simplifier: "m dvd n" where m and n are numbers is evaluated to
  5056 True/False.
  5057 
  5058 * Theorem Cons_eq_map_conv no longer declared as "simp".
  5059 
  5060 * Theorem setsum_mult renamed to setsum_right_distrib.
  5061 
  5062 * Prefer ex1I over ex_ex1I in single-step reasoning, e.g. by the
  5063 ``rule'' method.
  5064 
  5065 * Reimplemented methods "sat" and "satx", with several improvements:
  5066 goals no longer need to be stated as "<prems> ==> False", equivalences
  5067 (i.e. "=" on type bool) are handled, variable names of the form
  5068 "lit_<n>" are no longer reserved, significant speedup.
  5069 
  5070 * Methods "sat" and "satx" can now replay MiniSat proof traces.
  5071 zChaff is still supported as well.
  5072 
  5073 * 'inductive' and 'datatype': provide projections of mutual rules,
  5074 bundled as foo_bar.inducts;
  5075 
  5076 * Library: moved theories Parity, GCD, Binomial, Infinite_Set to
  5077 Library.
  5078 
  5079 * Library: moved theory Accessible_Part to main HOL.
  5080 
  5081 * Library: added theory Coinductive_List of potentially infinite lists
  5082 as greatest fixed-point.
  5083 
  5084 * Library: added theory AssocList which implements (finite) maps as
  5085 association lists.
  5086 
  5087 * Method "evaluation" solves goals (i.e. a boolean expression)
  5088 efficiently by compiling it to ML.  The goal is "proved" (via an
  5089 oracle) if it evaluates to True.
  5090 
  5091 * Linear arithmetic now splits certain operators (e.g. min, max, abs)
  5092 also when invoked by the simplifier.  This results in the Simplifier
  5093 being more powerful on arithmetic goals.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5094 Configuration option fast_arith_split_limit=0 recovers the old
  5095 behavior.
  5096 
  5097 * Support for hex (0x20) and binary (0b1001) numerals.
  5098 
  5099 * New method: reify eqs (t), where eqs are equations for an
  5100 interpretation I :: 'a list => 'b => 'c and t::'c is an optional
  5101 parameter, computes a term s::'b and a list xs::'a list and proves the
  5102 theorem I xs s = t. This is also known as reification or quoting. The
  5103 resulting theorem is applied to the subgoal to substitute t with I xs
  5104 s.  If t is omitted, the subgoal itself is reified.
  5105 
  5106 * New method: reflection corr_thm eqs (t). The parameters eqs and (t)
  5107 are as explained above. corr_thm is a theorem for I vs (f t) = I vs t,
  5108 where f is supposed to be a computable function (in the sense of code
  5109 generattion). The method uses reify to compute s and xs as above then
  5110 applies corr_thm and uses normalization by evaluation to "prove" f s =
  5111 r and finally gets the theorem t = r, which is again applied to the
  5112 subgoal. An Example is available in src/HOL/ex/ReflectionEx.thy.
  5113 
  5114 * Reflection: Automatic reification now handels binding, an example is
  5115 available in src/HOL/ex/ReflectionEx.thy
  5116 
  5117 * HOL-Statespace: ``State Spaces: The Locale Way'' introduces a
  5118 command 'statespace' that is similar to 'record', but introduces an
  5119 abstract specification based on the locale infrastructure instead of
  5120 HOL types.  This leads to extra flexibility in composing state spaces,
  5121 in particular multiple inheritance and renaming of components.
  5122 
  5123 
  5124 *** HOL-Complex ***
  5125 
  5126 * Hyperreal: Functions root and sqrt are now defined on negative real
  5127 inputs so that root n (- x) = - root n x and sqrt (- x) = - sqrt x.
  5128 Nonnegativity side conditions have been removed from many lemmas, so
  5129 that more subgoals may now be solved by simplification; potential
  5130 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5131 
  5132 * Real: new type classes formalize real normed vector spaces and
  5133 algebras, using new overloaded constants scaleR :: real => 'a => 'a
  5134 and norm :: 'a => real.
  5135 
  5136 * Real: constant of_real :: real => 'a::real_algebra_1 injects from
  5137 reals into other types. The overloaded constant Reals :: 'a set is now
  5138 defined as range of_real; potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5139 
  5140 * Real: proper support for ML code generation, including 'quickcheck'.
  5141 Reals are implemented as arbitrary precision rationals.
  5142 
  5143 * Hyperreal: Several constants that previously worked only for the
  5144 reals have been generalized, so they now work over arbitrary vector
  5145 spaces. Type annotations may need to be added in some cases; potential
  5146 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5147 
  5148   Infinitesimal  :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  5149   HFinite        :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  5150   HInfinite      :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  5151   approx         :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star => bool
  5152   monad          :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star set
  5153   galaxy         :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star set
  5154   (NS)LIMSEQ     :: [nat => 'a::real_normed_vector, 'a] => bool
  5155   (NS)convergent :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  5156   (NS)Bseq       :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  5157   (NS)Cauchy     :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  5158   (NS)LIM        :: ['a::real_normed_vector => 'b::real_normed_vector, 'a, 'b] => bool
  5159   is(NS)Cont     :: ['a::real_normed_vector => 'b::real_normed_vector, 'a] => bool
  5160   deriv          :: ['a::real_normed_field => 'a, 'a, 'a] => bool
  5161   sgn            :: 'a::real_normed_vector => 'a
  5162   exp            :: 'a::{recpower,real_normed_field,banach} => 'a
  5163 
  5164 * Complex: Some complex-specific constants are now abbreviations for
  5165 overloaded ones: complex_of_real = of_real, cmod = norm, hcmod =
  5166 hnorm.  Other constants have been entirely removed in favor of the
  5167 polymorphic versions (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  5168 
  5169   approx        <-- capprox
  5170   HFinite       <-- CFinite
  5171   HInfinite     <-- CInfinite
  5172   Infinitesimal <-- CInfinitesimal
  5173   monad         <-- cmonad
  5174   galaxy        <-- cgalaxy
  5175   (NS)LIM       <-- (NS)CLIM, (NS)CRLIM
  5176   is(NS)Cont    <-- is(NS)Contc, is(NS)contCR
  5177   (ns)deriv     <-- (ns)cderiv
  5178 
  5179 
  5180 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  5181 
  5182 * Formalisation of ideals and the quotient construction over rings.
  5183 
  5184 * Order and lattice theory no longer based on records.
  5185 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5186 
  5187 * Renamed lemmas least_carrier -> least_closed and greatest_carrier ->
  5188 greatest_closed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5189 
  5190 * Method algebra is now set up via an attribute.  For examples see
  5191 Ring.thy.  INCOMPATIBILITY: the method is now weaker on combinations
  5192 of algebraic structures.
  5193 
  5194 * Renamed theory CRing to Ring.
  5195 
  5196 
  5197 *** HOL-Nominal ***
  5198 
  5199 * Substantial, yet incomplete support for nominal datatypes (binding
  5200 structures) based on HOL-Nominal logic.  See src/HOL/Nominal and
  5201 src/HOL/Nominal/Examples.  Prospective users should consult
  5202 http://isabelle.in.tum.de/nominal/
  5203 
  5204 
  5205 *** ML ***
  5206 
  5207 * ML basics: just one true type int, which coincides with IntInf.int
  5208 (even on SML/NJ).
  5209 
  5210 * ML within Isar: antiquotations allow to embed statically-checked
  5211 formal entities in the source, referring to the context available at
  5212 compile-time.  For example:
  5213 
  5214 ML {* @{sort "{zero,one}"} *}
  5215 ML {* @{typ "'a => 'b"} *}
  5216 ML {* @{term "%x. x"} *}
  5217 ML {* @{prop "x == y"} *}
  5218 ML {* @{ctyp "'a => 'b"} *}
  5219 ML {* @{cterm "%x. x"} *}
  5220 ML {* @{cprop "x == y"} *}
  5221 ML {* @{thm asm_rl} *}
  5222 ML {* @{thms asm_rl} *}
  5223 ML {* @{type_name c} *}
  5224 ML {* @{type_syntax c} *}
  5225 ML {* @{const_name c} *}
  5226 ML {* @{const_syntax c} *}
  5227 ML {* @{context} *}
  5228 ML {* @{theory} *}
  5229 ML {* @{theory Pure} *}
  5230 ML {* @{theory_ref} *}
  5231 ML {* @{theory_ref Pure} *}
  5232 ML {* @{simpset} *}
  5233 ML {* @{claset} *}
  5234 ML {* @{clasimpset} *}
  5235 
  5236 The same works for sources being ``used'' within an Isar context.
  5237 
  5238 * ML in Isar: improved error reporting; extra verbosity with
  5239 ML_Context.trace enabled.
  5240 
  5241 * Pure/General/table.ML: the join operations now works via exceptions
  5242 DUP/SAME instead of type option. This is simpler in simple cases, and
  5243 admits slightly more efficient complex applications.
  5244 
  5245 * Pure: 'advanced' translation functions (parse_translation etc.) now
  5246 use Context.generic instead of just theory.
  5247 
  5248 * Pure: datatype Context.generic joins theory/Proof.context and
  5249 provides some facilities for code that works in either kind of
  5250 context, notably GenericDataFun for uniform theory and proof data.
  5251 
  5252 * Pure: simplified internal attribute type, which is now always
  5253 Context.generic * thm -> Context.generic * thm. Global (theory) vs.
  5254 local (Proof.context) attributes have been discontinued, while
  5255 minimizing code duplication. Thm.rule_attribute and
  5256 Thm.declaration_attribute build canonical attributes; see also structure
  5257 Context for further operations on Context.generic, notably
  5258 GenericDataFun. INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt attribute type
  5259 declarations and definitions.
  5260 
  5261 * Context data interfaces (Theory/Proof/GenericDataFun): removed
  5262 name/print, uninitialized data defaults to ad-hoc copy of empty value,
  5263 init only required for impure data. INCOMPATIBILITY: empty really need
  5264 to be empty (no dependencies on theory content!)
  5265 
  5266 * Pure/kernel: consts certification ignores sort constraints given in
  5267 signature declarations. (This information is not relevant to the
  5268 logic, but only for type inference.) SIGNIFICANT INTERNAL CHANGE,
  5269 potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5270 
  5271 * Pure: axiomatic type classes are now purely definitional, with
  5272 explicit proofs of class axioms and super class relations performed
  5273 internally. See Pure/axclass.ML for the main internal interfaces --
  5274 notably AxClass.define_class supercedes AxClass.add_axclass, and
  5275 AxClass.axiomatize_class/classrel/arity supersede
  5276 Sign.add_classes/classrel/arities.
  5277 
  5278 * Pure/Isar: Args/Attrib parsers operate on Context.generic --
  5279 global/local versions on theory vs. Proof.context have been
  5280 discontinued; Attrib.syntax and Method.syntax have been adapted
  5281 accordingly.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt parser expressions for
  5282 attributes, methods, etc.
  5283 
  5284 * Pure: several functions of signature "... -> theory -> theory * ..."
  5285 have been reoriented to "... -> theory -> ... * theory" in order to
  5286 allow natural usage in combination with the ||>, ||>>, |-> and
  5287 fold_map combinators.
  5288 
  5289 * Pure: official theorem names (closed derivations) and additional
  5290 comments (tags) are now strictly separate.  Name hints -- which are
  5291 maintained as tags -- may be attached any time without affecting the
  5292 derivation.
  5293 
  5294 * Pure: primitive rule lift_rule now takes goal cterm instead of an
  5295 actual goal state (thm).  Use Thm.lift_rule (Thm.cprem_of st i) to
  5296 achieve the old behaviour.
  5297 
  5298 * Pure: the "Goal" constant is now called "prop", supporting a
  5299 slightly more general idea of ``protecting'' meta-level rule
  5300 statements.
  5301 
  5302 * Pure: Logic.(un)varify only works in a global context, which is now
  5303 enforced instead of silently assumed.  INCOMPATIBILITY, may use
  5304 Logic.legacy_(un)varify as temporary workaround.
  5305 
  5306 * Pure: structure Name provides scalable operations for generating
  5307 internal variable names, notably Name.variants etc.  This replaces
  5308 some popular functions from term.ML:
  5309 
  5310   Term.variant		->  Name.variant
  5311   Term.variantlist	->  Name.variant_list
  5312   Term.invent_names	->  Name.invent_list
  5313 
  5314 Note that low-level renaming rarely occurs in new code -- operations
  5315 from structure Variable are used instead (see below).
  5316 
  5317 * Pure: structure Variable provides fundamental operations for proper
  5318 treatment of fixed/schematic variables in a context.  For example,
  5319 Variable.import introduces fixes for schematics of given facts and
  5320 Variable.export reverses the effect (up to renaming) -- this replaces
  5321 various freeze_thaw operations.
  5322 
  5323 * Pure: structure Goal provides simple interfaces for
  5324 init/conclude/finish and tactical prove operations (replacing former
  5325 Tactic.prove).  Goal.prove is the canonical way to prove results
  5326 within a given context; Goal.prove_global is a degraded version for
  5327 theory level goals, including a global Drule.standard.  Note that
  5328 OldGoals.prove_goalw_cterm has long been obsolete, since it is
  5329 ill-behaved in a local proof context (e.g. with local fixes/assumes or
  5330 in a locale context).
  5331 
  5332 * Pure/Syntax: generic interfaces for parsing (Syntax.parse_term etc.)
  5333 and type checking (Syntax.check_term etc.), with common combinations
  5334 (Syntax.read_term etc.). These supersede former Sign.read_term etc.
  5335 which are considered legacy and await removal.
  5336 
  5337 * Pure/Syntax: generic interfaces for type unchecking
  5338 (Syntax.uncheck_terms etc.) and unparsing (Syntax.unparse_term etc.),
  5339 with common combinations (Syntax.pretty_term, Syntax.string_of_term
  5340 etc.).  Former Sign.pretty_term, Sign.string_of_term etc. are still
  5341 available for convenience, but refer to the very same operations using
  5342 a mere theory instead of a full context.
  5343 
  5344 * Isar: simplified treatment of user-level errors, using exception
  5345 ERROR of string uniformly.  Function error now merely raises ERROR,
  5346 without any side effect on output channels.  The Isar toplevel takes
  5347 care of proper display of ERROR exceptions.  ML code may use plain
  5348 handle/can/try; cat_error may be used to concatenate errors like this:
  5349 
  5350   ... handle ERROR msg => cat_error msg "..."
  5351 
  5352 Toplevel ML code (run directly or through the Isar toplevel) may be
  5353 embedded into the Isar toplevel with exception display/debug like
  5354 this:
  5355 
  5356   Isar.toplevel (fn () => ...)
  5357 
  5358 INCOMPATIBILITY, removed special transform_error facilities, removed
  5359 obsolete variants of user-level exceptions (ERROR_MESSAGE,
  5360 Context.PROOF, ProofContext.CONTEXT, Proof.STATE, ProofHistory.FAIL)
  5361 -- use plain ERROR instead.
  5362 
  5363 * Isar: theory setup now has type (theory -> theory), instead of a
  5364 list.  INCOMPATIBILITY, may use #> to compose setup functions.
  5365 
  5366 * Isar: ML toplevel pretty printer for type Proof.context, subject to
  5367 ProofContext.debug/verbose flags.
  5368 
  5369 * Isar: Toplevel.theory_to_proof admits transactions that modify the
  5370 theory before entering a proof state.  Transactions now always see a
  5371 quasi-functional intermediate checkpoint, both in interactive and
  5372 batch mode.
  5373 
  5374 * Isar: simplified interfaces for outer syntax.  Renamed
  5375 OuterSyntax.add_keywords to OuterSyntax.keywords.  Removed
  5376 OuterSyntax.add_parsers -- this functionality is now included in
  5377 OuterSyntax.command etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5378 
  5379 * Simplifier: the simpset of a running simplification process now
  5380 contains a proof context (cf. Simplifier.the_context), which is the
  5381 very context that the initial simpset has been retrieved from (by
  5382 simpset_of/local_simpset_of).  Consequently, all plug-in components
  5383 (solver, looper etc.) may depend on arbitrary proof data.
  5384 
  5385 * Simplifier.inherit_context inherits the proof context (plus the
  5386 local bounds) of the current simplification process; any simproc
  5387 etc. that calls the Simplifier recursively should do this!  Removed
  5388 former Simplifier.inherit_bounds, which is already included here --
  5389 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Tools based on low-level rewriting may even have to
  5390 specify an explicit context using Simplifier.context/theory_context.
  5391 
  5392 * Simplifier/Classical Reasoner: more abstract interfaces
  5393 change_simpset/claset for modifying the simpset/claset reference of a
  5394 theory; raw versions simpset/claset_ref etc. have been discontinued --
  5395 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5396 
  5397 * Provers: more generic wrt. syntax of object-logics, avoid hardwired
  5398 "Trueprop" etc.
  5399 
  5400 
  5401 *** System ***
  5402 
  5403 * settings: the default heap location within ISABELLE_HOME_USER now
  5404 includes ISABELLE_IDENTIFIER.  This simplifies use of multiple
  5405 Isabelle installations.
  5406 
  5407 * isabelle-process: option -S (secure mode) disables some critical
  5408 operations, notably runtime compilation and evaluation of ML source
  5409 code.
  5410 
  5411 * Basic Isabelle mode for jEdit, see Isabelle/lib/jedit/.
  5412 
  5413 * Support for parallel execution, using native multicore support of
  5414 Poly/ML 5.1.  The theory loader exploits parallelism when processing
  5415 independent theories, according to the given theory header
  5416 specifications. The maximum number of worker threads is specified via
  5417 usedir option -M or the "max-threads" setting in Proof General. A
  5418 speedup factor of 1.5--3.5 can be expected on a 4-core machine, and up
  5419 to 6 on a 8-core machine.  User-code needs to observe certain
  5420 guidelines for thread-safe programming, see appendix A in the Isar
  5421 Implementation manual.
  5422 
  5423 
  5424 
  5425 New in Isabelle2005 (October 2005)
  5426 ----------------------------------
  5427 
  5428 *** General ***
  5429 
  5430 * Theory headers: the new header syntax for Isar theories is
  5431 
  5432   theory <name>
  5433   imports <theory1> ... <theoryN>
  5434   uses <file1> ... <fileM>
  5435   begin
  5436 
  5437 where the 'uses' part is optional.  The previous syntax
  5438 
  5439   theory <name> = <theory1> + ... + <theoryN>:
  5440 
  5441 will disappear in the next release.  Use isatool fixheaders to convert
  5442 existing theory files.  Note that there is no change in ancient
  5443 non-Isar theories now, but these will disappear soon.
  5444 
  5445 * Theory loader: parent theories can now also be referred to via
  5446 relative and absolute paths.
  5447 
  5448 * Command 'find_theorems' searches for a list of criteria instead of a
  5449 list of constants. Known criteria are: intro, elim, dest, name:string,
  5450 simp:term, and any term. Criteria can be preceded by '-' to select
  5451 theorems that do not match. Intro, elim, dest select theorems that
  5452 match the current goal, name:s selects theorems whose fully qualified
  5453 name contain s, and simp:term selects all simplification rules whose
  5454 lhs match term.  Any other term is interpreted as pattern and selects
  5455 all theorems matching the pattern. Available in ProofGeneral under
  5456 'ProofGeneral -> Find Theorems' or C-c C-f.  Example:
  5457 
  5458   C-c C-f (100) "(_::nat) + _ + _" intro -name: "HOL."
  5459 
  5460 prints the last 100 theorems matching the pattern "(_::nat) + _ + _",
  5461 matching the current goal as introduction rule and not having "HOL."
  5462 in their name (i.e. not being defined in theory HOL).
  5463 
  5464 * Command 'thms_containing' has been discontinued in favour of
  5465 'find_theorems'; INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5466 
  5467 * Communication with Proof General is now 8bit clean, which means that
  5468 Unicode text in UTF-8 encoding may be used within theory texts (both
  5469 formal and informal parts).  Cf. option -U of the Isabelle Proof
  5470 General interface.  Here are some simple examples (cf. src/HOL/ex):
  5471 
  5472   http://isabelle.in.tum.de/library/HOL/ex/Hebrew.html
  5473   http://isabelle.in.tum.de/library/HOL/ex/Chinese.html
  5474 
  5475 * Improved efficiency of the Simplifier and, to a lesser degree, the
  5476 Classical Reasoner.  Typical big applications run around 2 times
  5477 faster.
  5478 
  5479 
  5480 *** Document preparation ***
  5481 
  5482 * Commands 'display_drafts' and 'print_drafts' perform simple output
  5483 of raw sources.  Only those symbols that do not require additional
  5484 LaTeX packages (depending on comments in isabellesym.sty) are
  5485 displayed properly, everything else is left verbatim.  isatool display
  5486 and isatool print are used as front ends (these are subject to the
  5487 DVI/PDF_VIEWER and PRINT_COMMAND settings, respectively).
  5488 
  5489 * Command tags control specific markup of certain regions of text,
  5490 notably folding and hiding.  Predefined tags include "theory" (for
  5491 theory begin and end), "proof" for proof commands, and "ML" for
  5492 commands involving ML code; the additional tags "visible" and
  5493 "invisible" are unused by default.  Users may give explicit tag
  5494 specifications in the text, e.g. ''by %invisible (auto)''.  The
  5495 interpretation of tags is determined by the LaTeX job during document
  5496 preparation: see option -V of isatool usedir, or options -n and -t of
  5497 isatool document, or even the LaTeX macros \isakeeptag, \isafoldtag,
  5498 \isadroptag.
  5499 
  5500 Several document versions may be produced at the same time via isatool
  5501 usedir (the generated index.html will link all of them).  Typical
  5502 specifications include ''-V document=theory,proof,ML'' to present
  5503 theory/proof/ML parts faithfully, ''-V outline=/proof,/ML'' to fold
  5504 proof and ML commands, and ''-V mutilated=-theory,-proof,-ML'' to omit
  5505 these parts without any formal replacement text.  The Isabelle site
  5506 default settings produce ''document'' and ''outline'' versions as
  5507 specified above.
  5508 
  5509 * Several new antiquotations:
  5510 
  5511   @{term_type term} prints a term with its type annotated;
  5512 
  5513   @{typeof term} prints the type of a term;
  5514 
  5515   @{const const} is the same as @{term const}, but checks that the
  5516   argument is a known logical constant;
  5517 
  5518   @{term_style style term} and @{thm_style style thm} print a term or
  5519   theorem applying a "style" to it
  5520 
  5521   @{ML text}
  5522 
  5523 Predefined styles are 'lhs' and 'rhs' printing the lhs/rhs of
  5524 definitions, equations, inequations etc., 'concl' printing only the
  5525 conclusion of a meta-logical statement theorem, and 'prem1' .. 'prem19'
  5526 to print the specified premise.  TermStyle.add_style provides an ML
  5527 interface for introducing further styles.  See also the "LaTeX Sugar"
  5528 document practical applications.  The ML antiquotation prints
  5529 type-checked ML expressions verbatim.
  5530 
  5531 * Markup commands 'chapter', 'section', 'subsection', 'subsubsection',
  5532 and 'text' support optional locale specification '(in loc)', which
  5533 specifies the default context for interpreting antiquotations.  For
  5534 example: 'text (in lattice) {* @{thm inf_assoc}*}'.
  5535 
  5536 * Option 'locale=NAME' of antiquotations specifies an alternative
  5537 context interpreting the subsequent argument.  For example: @{thm
  5538 [locale=lattice] inf_assoc}.
  5539 
  5540 * Proper output of proof terms (@{prf ...} and @{full_prf ...}) within
  5541 a proof context.
  5542 
  5543 * Proper output of antiquotations for theory commands involving a
  5544 proof context (such as 'locale' or 'theorem (in loc) ...').
  5545 
  5546 * Delimiters of outer tokens (string etc.) now produce separate LaTeX
  5547 macros (\isachardoublequoteopen, isachardoublequoteclose etc.).
  5548 
  5549 * isatool usedir: new option -C (default true) controls whether option
  5550 -D should include a copy of the original document directory; -C false
  5551 prevents unwanted effects such as copying of administrative CVS data.
  5552 
  5553 
  5554 *** Pure ***
  5555 
  5556 * Considerably improved version of 'constdefs' command.  Now performs
  5557 automatic type-inference of declared constants; additional support for
  5558 local structure declarations (cf. locales and HOL records), see also
  5559 isar-ref manual.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY: need to observe strictly
  5560 sequential dependencies of definitions within a single 'constdefs'
  5561 section; moreover, the declared name needs to be an identifier.  If
  5562 all fails, consider to fall back on 'consts' and 'defs' separately.
  5563 
  5564 * Improved indexed syntax and implicit structures.  First of all,
  5565 indexed syntax provides a notational device for subscripted
  5566 application, using the new syntax \<^bsub>term\<^esub> for arbitrary
  5567 expressions.  Secondly, in a local context with structure
  5568 declarations, number indexes \<^sub>n or the empty index (default
  5569 number 1) refer to a certain fixed variable implicitly; option
  5570 show_structs controls printing of implicit structures.  Typical
  5571 applications of these concepts involve record types and locales.
  5572 
  5573 * New command 'no_syntax' removes grammar declarations (and
  5574 translations) resulting from the given syntax specification, which is
  5575 interpreted in the same manner as for the 'syntax' command.
  5576 
  5577 * 'Advanced' translation functions (parse_translation etc.) may depend
  5578 on the signature of the theory context being presently used for
  5579 parsing/printing, see also isar-ref manual.
  5580 
  5581 * Improved 'oracle' command provides a type-safe interface to turn an
  5582 ML expression of type theory -> T -> term into a primitive rule of
  5583 type theory -> T -> thm (i.e. the functionality of Thm.invoke_oracle
  5584 is already included here); see also FOL/ex/IffExample.thy;
  5585 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5586 
  5587 * axclass: name space prefix for class "c" is now "c_class" (was "c"
  5588 before); "cI" is no longer bound, use "c.intro" instead.
  5589 INCOMPATIBILITY.  This change avoids clashes of fact bindings for
  5590 axclasses vs. locales.
  5591 
  5592 * Improved internal renaming of symbolic identifiers -- attach primes
  5593 instead of base 26 numbers.
  5594 
  5595 * New flag show_question_marks controls printing of leading question
  5596 marks in schematic variable names.
  5597 
  5598 * In schematic variable names, *any* symbol following \<^isub> or
  5599 \<^isup> is now treated as part of the base name.  For example, the
  5600 following works without printing of awkward ".0" indexes:
  5601 
  5602   lemma "x\<^isub>1 = x\<^isub>2 ==> x\<^isub>2 = x\<^isub>1"
  5603     by simp
  5604 
  5605 * Inner syntax includes (*(*nested*) comments*).
  5606 
  5607 * Pretty printer now supports unbreakable blocks, specified in mixfix
  5608 annotations as "(00...)".
  5609 
  5610 * Clear separation of logical types and nonterminals, where the latter
  5611 may only occur in 'syntax' specifications or type abbreviations.
  5612 Before that distinction was only partially implemented via type class
  5613 "logic" vs. "{}".  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY in rare cases of improper
  5614 use of 'types'/'consts' instead of 'nonterminals'/'syntax'.  Some very
  5615 exotic syntax specifications may require further adaption
  5616 (e.g. Cube/Cube.thy).
  5617 
  5618 * Removed obsolete type class "logic", use the top sort {} instead.
  5619 Note that non-logical types should be declared as 'nonterminals'
  5620 rather than 'types'.  INCOMPATIBILITY for new object-logic
  5621 specifications.
  5622 
  5623 * Attributes 'induct' and 'cases': type or set names may now be
  5624 locally fixed variables as well.
  5625 
  5626 * Simplifier: can now control the depth to which conditional rewriting
  5627 is traced via the PG menu Isabelle -> Settings -> Trace Simp Depth
  5628 Limit.
  5629 
  5630 * Simplifier: simplification procedures may now take the current
  5631 simpset into account (cf. Simplifier.simproc(_i) / mk_simproc
  5632 interface), which is very useful for calling the Simplifier
  5633 recursively.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY: the 'prems' argument of simprocs
  5634 is gone -- use prems_of_ss on the simpset instead.  Moreover, the
  5635 low-level mk_simproc no longer applies Logic.varify internally, to
  5636 allow for use in a context of fixed variables.
  5637 
  5638 * thin_tac now works even if the assumption being deleted contains !!
  5639 or ==>.  More generally, erule now works even if the major premise of
  5640 the elimination rule contains !! or ==>.
  5641 
  5642 * Method 'rules' has been renamed to 'iprover'. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5643 
  5644 * Reorganized bootstrapping of the Pure theories; CPure is now derived
  5645 from Pure, which contains all common declarations already.  Both
  5646 theories are defined via plain Isabelle/Isar .thy files.
  5647 INCOMPATIBILITY: elements of CPure (such as the CPure.intro /
  5648 CPure.elim / CPure.dest attributes) now appear in the Pure name space;
  5649 use isatool fixcpure to adapt your theory and ML sources.
  5650 
  5651 * New syntax 'name(i-j, i-, i, ...)' for referring to specific
  5652 selections of theorems in named facts via index ranges.
  5653 
  5654 * 'print_theorems': in theory mode, really print the difference
  5655 wrt. the last state (works for interactive theory development only),
  5656 in proof mode print all local facts (cf. 'print_facts');
  5657 
  5658 * 'hide': option '(open)' hides only base names.
  5659 
  5660 * More efficient treatment of intermediate checkpoints in interactive
  5661 theory development.
  5662 
  5663 * Code generator is now invoked via code_module (incremental code
  5664 generation) and code_library (modular code generation, ML structures
  5665 for each theory).  INCOMPATIBILITY: new keywords 'file' and 'contains'
  5666 must be quoted when used as identifiers.
  5667 
  5668 * New 'value' command for reading, evaluating and printing terms using
  5669 the code generator.  INCOMPATIBILITY: command keyword 'value' must be
  5670 quoted when used as identifier.
  5671 
  5672 
  5673 *** Locales ***
  5674 
  5675 * New commands for the interpretation of locale expressions in
  5676 theories (1), locales (2) and proof contexts (3).  These generate
  5677 proof obligations from the expression specification.  After the
  5678 obligations have been discharged, theorems of the expression are added
  5679 to the theory, target locale or proof context.  The synopsis of the
  5680 commands is a follows:
  5681 
  5682   (1) interpretation expr inst
  5683   (2) interpretation target < expr
  5684   (3) interpret expr inst
  5685 
  5686 Interpretation in theories and proof contexts require a parameter
  5687 instantiation of terms from the current context.  This is applied to
  5688 specifications and theorems of the interpreted expression.
  5689 Interpretation in locales only permits parameter renaming through the
  5690 locale expression.  Interpretation is smart in that interpretations
  5691 that are active already do not occur in proof obligations, neither are
  5692 instantiated theorems stored in duplicate.  Use 'print_interps' to
  5693 inspect active interpretations of a particular locale.  For details,
  5694 see the Isar Reference manual.  Examples can be found in
  5695 HOL/Finite_Set.thy and HOL/Algebra/UnivPoly.thy.
  5696 
  5697 INCOMPATIBILITY: former 'instantiate' has been withdrawn, use
  5698 'interpret' instead.
  5699 
  5700 * New context element 'constrains' for adding type constraints to
  5701 parameters.
  5702 
  5703 * Context expressions: renaming of parameters with syntax
  5704 redeclaration.
  5705 
  5706 * Locale declaration: 'includes' disallowed.
  5707 
  5708 * Proper static binding of attribute syntax -- i.e. types / terms /
  5709 facts mentioned as arguments are always those of the locale definition
  5710 context, independently of the context of later invocations.  Moreover,
  5711 locale operations (renaming and type / term instantiation) are applied
  5712 to attribute arguments as expected.
  5713 
  5714 INCOMPATIBILITY of the ML interface: always pass Attrib.src instead of
  5715 actual attributes; rare situations may require Attrib.attribute to
  5716 embed those attributes into Attrib.src that lack concrete syntax.
  5717 Attribute implementations need to cooperate properly with the static
  5718 binding mechanism.  Basic parsers Args.XXX_typ/term/prop and
  5719 Attrib.XXX_thm etc. already do the right thing without further
  5720 intervention.  Only unusual applications -- such as "where" or "of"
  5721 (cf. src/Pure/Isar/attrib.ML), which process arguments depending both
  5722 on the context and the facts involved -- may have to assign parsed
  5723 values to argument tokens explicitly.
  5724 
  5725 * Changed parameter management in theorem generation for long goal
  5726 statements with 'includes'.  INCOMPATIBILITY: produces a different
  5727 theorem statement in rare situations.
  5728 
  5729 * Locale inspection command 'print_locale' omits notes elements.  Use
  5730 'print_locale!' to have them included in the output.
  5731 
  5732 
  5733 *** Provers ***
  5734 
  5735 * Provers/hypsubst.ML: improved version of the subst method, for
  5736 single-step rewriting: it now works in bound variable contexts. New is
  5737 'subst (asm)', for rewriting an assumption.  INCOMPATIBILITY: may
  5738 rewrite a different subterm than the original subst method, which is
  5739 still available as 'simplesubst'.
  5740 
  5741 * Provers/quasi.ML: new transitivity reasoners for transitivity only
  5742 and quasi orders.
  5743 
  5744 * Provers/trancl.ML: new transitivity reasoner for transitive and
  5745 reflexive-transitive closure of relations.
  5746 
  5747 * Provers/blast.ML: new reference depth_limit to make blast's depth
  5748 limit (previously hard-coded with a value of 20) user-definable.
  5749 
  5750 * Provers/simplifier.ML has been moved to Pure, where Simplifier.setup
  5751 is peformed already.  Object-logics merely need to finish their
  5752 initial simpset configuration as before.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5753 
  5754 
  5755 *** HOL ***
  5756 
  5757 * Symbolic syntax of Hilbert Choice Operator is now as follows:
  5758 
  5759   syntax (epsilon)
  5760     "_Eps" :: "[pttrn, bool] => 'a"    ("(3\<some>_./ _)" [0, 10] 10)
  5761 
  5762 The symbol \<some> is displayed as the alternative epsilon of LaTeX
  5763 and x-symbol; use option '-m epsilon' to get it actually printed.
  5764 Moreover, the mathematically important symbolic identifier \<epsilon>
  5765 becomes available as variable, constant etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  5766 
  5767 * "x > y" abbreviates "y < x" and "x >= y" abbreviates "y <= x".
  5768 Similarly for all quantifiers: "ALL x > y" etc.  The x-symbol for >=
  5769 is \<ge>. New transitivity rules have been added to HOL/Orderings.thy to
  5770 support corresponding Isar calculations.
  5771 
  5772 * "{x:A. P}" abbreviates "{x. x:A & P}", and similarly for "\<in>"
  5773 instead of ":".
  5774 
  5775 * theory SetInterval: changed the syntax for open intervals:
  5776 
  5777   Old       New
  5778   {..n(}    {..<n}
  5779   {)n..}    {n<..}
  5780   {m..n(}   {m..<n}
  5781   {)m..n}   {m<..n}
  5782   {)m..n(}  {m<..<n}
  5783 
  5784 The old syntax is still supported but will disappear in the next
  5785 release.  For conversion use the following Emacs search and replace
  5786 patterns (these are not perfect but work quite well):
  5787 
  5788   {)\([^\.]*\)\.\.  ->  {\1<\.\.}
  5789   \.\.\([^(}]*\)(}  ->  \.\.<\1}
  5790 
  5791 * Theory Commutative_Ring (in Library): method comm_ring for proving
  5792 equalities in commutative rings; method 'algebra' provides a generic
  5793 interface.
  5794 
  5795 * Theory Finite_Set: changed the syntax for 'setsum', summation over
  5796 finite sets: "setsum (%x. e) A", which used to be "\<Sum>x:A. e", is
  5797 now either "SUM x:A. e" or "\<Sum>x \<in> A. e". The bound variable can
  5798 be a tuple pattern.
  5799 
  5800 Some new syntax forms are available:
  5801 
  5802   "\<Sum>x | P. e"      for     "setsum (%x. e) {x. P}"
  5803   "\<Sum>x = a..b. e"   for     "setsum (%x. e) {a..b}"
  5804   "\<Sum>x = a..<b. e"  for     "setsum (%x. e) {a..<b}"
  5805   "\<Sum>x < k. e"      for     "setsum (%x. e) {..<k}"
  5806 
  5807 The latter form "\<Sum>x < k. e" used to be based on a separate
  5808 function "Summation", which has been discontinued.
  5809 
  5810 * theory Finite_Set: in structured induction proofs, the insert case
  5811 is now 'case (insert x F)' instead of the old counterintuitive 'case
  5812 (insert F x)'.
  5813 
  5814 * The 'refute' command has been extended to support a much larger
  5815 fragment of HOL, including axiomatic type classes, constdefs and
  5816 typedefs, inductive datatypes and recursion.
  5817 
  5818 * New tactics 'sat' and 'satx' to prove propositional tautologies.
  5819 Requires zChaff with proof generation to be installed.  See
  5820 HOL/ex/SAT_Examples.thy for examples.
  5821 
  5822 * Datatype induction via method 'induct' now preserves the name of the
  5823 induction variable. For example, when proving P(xs::'a list) by
  5824 induction on xs, the induction step is now P(xs) ==> P(a#xs) rather
  5825 than P(list) ==> P(a#list) as previously.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  5826 in unstructured proof scripts.
  5827 
  5828 * Reworked implementation of records.  Improved scalability for
  5829 records with many fields, avoiding performance problems for type
  5830 inference. Records are no longer composed of nested field types, but
  5831 of nested extension types. Therefore the record type only grows linear
  5832 in the number of extensions and not in the number of fields.  The
  5833 top-level (users) view on records is preserved.  Potential
  5834 INCOMPATIBILITY only in strange cases, where the theory depends on the
  5835 old record representation. The type generated for a record is called
  5836 <record_name>_ext_type.
  5837 
  5838 Flag record_quick_and_dirty_sensitive can be enabled to skip the
  5839 proofs triggered by a record definition or a simproc (if
  5840 quick_and_dirty is enabled).  Definitions of large records can take
  5841 quite long.
  5842 
  5843 New simproc record_upd_simproc for simplification of multiple record
  5844 updates enabled by default.  Moreover, trivial updates are also
  5845 removed: r(|x := x r|) = r.  INCOMPATIBILITY: old proofs break
  5846 occasionally, since simplification is more powerful by default.
  5847 
  5848 * typedef: proper support for polymorphic sets, which contain extra
  5849 type-variables in the term.
  5850 
  5851 * Simplifier: automatically reasons about transitivity chains
  5852 involving "trancl" (r^+) and "rtrancl" (r^*) by setting up tactics
  5853 provided by Provers/trancl.ML as additional solvers.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
  5854 old proofs break occasionally as simplification may now solve more
  5855 goals than previously.
  5856 
  5857 * Simplifier: converts x <= y into x = y if assumption y <= x is
  5858 present.  Works for all partial orders (class "order"), in particular
  5859 numbers and sets.  For linear orders (e.g. numbers) it treats ~ x < y
  5860 just like y <= x.
  5861 
  5862 * Simplifier: new simproc for "let x = a in f x".  If a is a free or
  5863 bound variable or a constant then the let is unfolded.  Otherwise
  5864 first a is simplified to b, and then f b is simplified to g. If
  5865 possible we abstract b from g arriving at "let x = b in h x",
  5866 otherwise we unfold the let and arrive at g.  The simproc can be
  5867 enabled/disabled by the reference use_let_simproc.  Potential
  5868 INCOMPATIBILITY since simplification is more powerful by default.
  5869 
  5870 * Classical reasoning: the meson method now accepts theorems as arguments.
  5871 
  5872 * Prover support: pre-release of the Isabelle-ATP linkup, which runs background
  5873 jobs to provide advice on the provability of subgoals.
  5874 
  5875 * Theory OrderedGroup and Ring_and_Field: various additions and
  5876 improvements to faciliate calculations involving equalities and
  5877 inequalities.
  5878 
  5879 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  5880 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  5881 
  5882   abs_eq             now named abs_of_nonneg
  5883   abs_of_ge_0        now named abs_of_nonneg
  5884   abs_minus_eq       now named abs_of_nonpos
  5885   imp_abs_id         now named abs_of_nonneg
  5886   imp_abs_neg_id     now named abs_of_nonpos
  5887   mult_pos           now named mult_pos_pos
  5888   mult_pos_le        now named mult_nonneg_nonneg
  5889   mult_pos_neg_le    now named mult_nonneg_nonpos
  5890   mult_pos_neg2_le   now named mult_nonneg_nonpos2
  5891   mult_neg           now named mult_neg_neg
  5892   mult_neg_le        now named mult_nonpos_nonpos
  5893 
  5894 * The following lemmas in Ring_and_Field have been added to the simplifier:
  5895      
  5896      zero_le_square
  5897      not_square_less_zero 
  5898 
  5899   The following lemmas have been deleted from Real/RealPow:
  5900   
  5901      realpow_zero_zero
  5902      realpow_two
  5903      realpow_less
  5904      zero_le_power
  5905      realpow_two_le
  5906      abs_realpow_two
  5907      realpow_two_abs     
  5908 
  5909 * Theory Parity: added rules for simplifying exponents.
  5910 
  5911 * Theory List:
  5912 
  5913 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  5914 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  5915 
  5916   list_all_Nil       now named list_all.simps(1)
  5917   list_all_Cons      now named list_all.simps(2)
  5918   list_all_conv      now named list_all_iff
  5919   set_mem_eq         now named mem_iff
  5920 
  5921 * Theories SetsAndFunctions and BigO (see HOL/Library) support
  5922 asymptotic "big O" calculations.  See the notes in BigO.thy.
  5923 
  5924 
  5925 *** HOL-Complex ***
  5926 
  5927 * Theory RealDef: better support for embedding natural numbers and
  5928 integers in the reals.
  5929 
  5930 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  5931 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  5932 
  5933   exp_ge_add_one_self  now requires no hypotheses
  5934   real_of_int_add      reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  5935   real_of_int_minus    reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  5936   real_of_int_diff     reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  5937   real_of_int_mult     reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  5938 
  5939 * Theory RComplete: expanded support for floor and ceiling functions.
  5940 
  5941 * Theory Ln is new, with properties of the natural logarithm
  5942 
  5943 * Hyperreal: There is a new type constructor "star" for making
  5944 nonstandard types.  The old type names are now type synonyms:
  5945 
  5946   hypreal = real star
  5947   hypnat = nat star
  5948   hcomplex = complex star
  5949 
  5950 * Hyperreal: Many groups of similarly-defined constants have been
  5951 replaced by polymorphic versions (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  5952 
  5953   star_of <-- hypreal_of_real, hypnat_of_nat, hcomplex_of_complex
  5954 
  5955   starset      <-- starsetNat, starsetC
  5956   *s*          <-- *sNat*, *sc*
  5957   starset_n    <-- starsetNat_n, starsetC_n
  5958   *sn*         <-- *sNatn*, *scn*
  5959   InternalSets <-- InternalNatSets, InternalCSets
  5960 
  5961   starfun      <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  5962   *f*          <-- *fNat*, *fNat2*, *fc*, *fRc*, *fcR*
  5963   starfun_n    <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_n
  5964   *fn*         <-- *fNatn*, *fNat2n*, *fcn*, *fRcn*, *fcRn*
  5965   InternalFuns <-- InternalNatFuns, InternalNatFuns2, Internal{C,RC,CR}Funs
  5966 
  5967 * Hyperreal: Many type-specific theorems have been removed in favor of
  5968 theorems specific to various axiomatic type classes (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  5969 
  5970   add_commute <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_commute
  5971   add_assoc   <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_assocs
  5972   OrderedGroup.add_0 <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_zero_left
  5973   OrderedGroup.add_0_right <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_add_zero_right
  5974   right_minus <-- hypreal_add_minus
  5975   left_minus <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_add_minus_left
  5976   mult_commute <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_mult_commute
  5977   mult_assoc <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_mult_assoc
  5978   mult_1_left <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_mult_1, hcomplex_mult_one_left
  5979   mult_1_right <-- hcomplex_mult_one_right
  5980   mult_zero_left <-- hcomplex_mult_zero_left
  5981   left_distrib <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_mult_distrib
  5982   right_distrib <-- hypnat_add_mult_distrib2
  5983   zero_neq_one <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_zero_not_eq_one
  5984   right_inverse <-- hypreal_mult_inverse
  5985   left_inverse <-- hypreal_mult_inverse_left, hcomplex_mult_inv_left
  5986   order_refl <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_refl
  5987   order_trans <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_trans
  5988   order_antisym <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_anti_sym
  5989   order_less_le <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_less_le
  5990   linorder_linear <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_linear
  5991   add_left_mono <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_add_left_mono
  5992   mult_strict_left_mono <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_mult_less_mono2
  5993   add_nonneg_nonneg <-- hypreal_le_add_order
  5994 
  5995 * Hyperreal: Separate theorems having to do with type-specific
  5996 versions of constants have been merged into theorems that apply to the
  5997 new polymorphic constants (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  5998 
  5999   STAR_UNIV_set <-- {STAR_real,NatStar_real,STARC_complex}_set
  6000   STAR_empty_set <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_empty_set
  6001   STAR_Un <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Un
  6002   STAR_Int <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Int
  6003   STAR_Compl <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Compl
  6004   STAR_subset <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_subset
  6005   STAR_mem <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_mem
  6006   STAR_mem_Compl <-- {STAR,STARC}_mem_Compl
  6007   STAR_diff <-- {STAR,STARC}_diff
  6008   STAR_star_of_image_subset <-- {STAR_hypreal_of_real, NatStar_hypreal_of_real,
  6009     STARC_hcomplex_of_complex}_image_subset
  6010   starset_n_Un <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Un
  6011   starset_n_Int <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Int
  6012   starset_n_Compl <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Compl
  6013   starset_n_diff <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_diff
  6014   InternalSets_Un <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Un
  6015   InternalSets_Int <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Int
  6016   InternalSets_Compl <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Compl
  6017   InternalSets_diff <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_diff
  6018   InternalSets_UNIV_diff <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_UNIV_diff
  6019   InternalSets_starset_n <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_starset{Nat,C}_n
  6020   starset_starset_n_eq <-- starset{Nat,C}_starset{Nat,C}_n_eq
  6021   starset_n_starset <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_starset{Nat,C}
  6022   starfun_n_starfun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_n_starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  6023   starfun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  6024   starfun_mult <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_mult
  6025   starfun_add <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_add
  6026   starfun_minus <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_minus
  6027   starfun_diff <-- starfun{C,RC,CR}_diff
  6028   starfun_o <-- starfun{NatNat2,Nat2,_stafunNat,C,C_starfunRC,_starfunCR}_o
  6029   starfun_o2 <-- starfun{NatNat2,_stafunNat,C,C_starfunRC,_starfunCR}_o2
  6030   starfun_const_fun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_const_fun
  6031   starfun_inverse <-- starfun{Nat,C,RC,CR}_inverse
  6032   starfun_eq <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_eq
  6033   starfun_eq_iff <-- starfun{C,RC,CR}_eq_iff
  6034   starfun_Id <-- starfunC_Id
  6035   starfun_approx <-- starfun{Nat,CR}_approx
  6036   starfun_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_capprox
  6037   starfun_abs <-- starfunNat_rabs
  6038   starfun_lambda_cancel <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_lambda_cancel
  6039   starfun_lambda_cancel2 <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_lambda_cancel2
  6040   starfun_mult_HFinite_approx <-- starfunCR_mult_HFinite_capprox
  6041   starfun_mult_CFinite_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_mult_CFinite_capprox
  6042   starfun_add_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_add_capprox
  6043   starfun_add_approx <-- starfunCR_add_approx
  6044   starfun_inverse_inverse <-- starfunC_inverse_inverse
  6045   starfun_divide <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_divide
  6046   starfun_n <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n
  6047   starfun_n_mult <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_mult
  6048   starfun_n_add <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_add
  6049   starfun_n_add_minus <-- starfunNat_n_add_minus
  6050   starfun_n_const_fun <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_const_fun
  6051   starfun_n_minus <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_minus
  6052   starfun_n_eq <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_eq
  6053 
  6054   star_n_add <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add
  6055   star_n_minus <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_minus
  6056   star_n_diff <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_diff
  6057   star_n_mult <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_mult
  6058   star_n_inverse <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_inverse
  6059   star_n_le <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le
  6060   star_n_less <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_less
  6061   star_n_zero_num <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_zero_num
  6062   star_n_one_num <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_one_num
  6063   star_n_abs <-- hypreal_hrabs
  6064   star_n_divide <-- hcomplex_divide
  6065 
  6066   star_of_add <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_add
  6067   star_of_minus <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_minus
  6068   star_of_diff <-- hypreal_of_real_diff
  6069   star_of_mult <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_mult
  6070   star_of_one <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_one
  6071   star_of_zero <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_zero
  6072   star_of_le <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat}_le_iff
  6073   star_of_less <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat}_less_iff
  6074   star_of_eq <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_eq_iff
  6075   star_of_inverse <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_inverse
  6076   star_of_divide <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_divide
  6077   star_of_of_nat <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_of_nat
  6078   star_of_of_int <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_of_int
  6079   star_of_number_of <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_number_of
  6080   star_of_number_less <-- number_of_less_hypreal_of_real_iff
  6081   star_of_number_le <-- number_of_le_hypreal_of_real_iff
  6082   star_of_eq_number <-- hypreal_of_real_eq_number_of_iff
  6083   star_of_less_number <-- hypreal_of_real_less_number_of_iff
  6084   star_of_le_number <-- hypreal_of_real_le_number_of_iff
  6085   star_of_power <-- hypreal_of_real_power
  6086   star_of_eq_0 <-- hcomplex_of_complex_zero_iff
  6087 
  6088 * Hyperreal: new method "transfer" that implements the transfer
  6089 principle of nonstandard analysis. With a subgoal that mentions
  6090 nonstandard types like "'a star", the command "apply transfer"
  6091 replaces it with an equivalent one that mentions only standard types.
  6092 To be successful, all free variables must have standard types; non-
  6093 standard variables must have explicit universal quantifiers.
  6094 
  6095 * Hyperreal: A theory of Taylor series.
  6096 
  6097 
  6098 *** HOLCF ***
  6099 
  6100 * Discontinued special version of 'constdefs' (which used to support
  6101 continuous functions) in favor of the general Pure one with full
  6102 type-inference.
  6103 
  6104 * New simplification procedure for solving continuity conditions; it
  6105 is much faster on terms with many nested lambda abstractions (cubic
  6106 instead of exponential time).
  6107 
  6108 * New syntax for domain package: selector names are now optional.
  6109 Parentheses should be omitted unless argument is lazy, for example:
  6110 
  6111   domain 'a stream = cons "'a" (lazy "'a stream")
  6112 
  6113 * New command 'fixrec' for defining recursive functions with pattern
  6114 matching; defining multiple functions with mutual recursion is also
  6115 supported.  Patterns may include the constants cpair, spair, up, sinl,
  6116 sinr, or any data constructor defined by the domain package. The given
  6117 equations are proven as rewrite rules. See HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  6118 syntax and examples.
  6119 
  6120 * New commands 'cpodef' and 'pcpodef' for defining predicate subtypes
  6121 of cpo and pcpo types. Syntax is exactly like the 'typedef' command,
  6122 but the proof obligation additionally includes an admissibility
  6123 requirement. The packages generate instances of class cpo or pcpo,
  6124 with continuity and strictness theorems for Rep and Abs.
  6125 
  6126 * HOLCF: Many theorems have been renamed according to a more standard naming
  6127 scheme (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  6128 
  6129   foo_inject:  "foo$x = foo$y ==> x = y"
  6130   foo_eq:      "(foo$x = foo$y) = (x = y)"
  6131   foo_less:    "(foo$x << foo$y) = (x << y)"
  6132   foo_strict:  "foo$UU = UU"
  6133   foo_defined: "... ==> foo$x ~= UU"
  6134   foo_defined_iff: "(foo$x = UU) = (x = UU)"
  6135 
  6136 
  6137 *** ZF ***
  6138 
  6139 * ZF/ex: theories Group and Ring provide examples in abstract algebra,
  6140 including the First Isomorphism Theorem (on quotienting by the kernel
  6141 of a homomorphism).
  6142 
  6143 * ZF/Simplifier: install second copy of type solver that actually
  6144 makes use of TC rules declared to Isar proof contexts (or locales);
  6145 the old version is still required for ML proof scripts.
  6146 
  6147 
  6148 *** Cube ***
  6149 
  6150 * Converted to Isar theory format; use locales instead of axiomatic
  6151 theories.
  6152 
  6153 
  6154 *** ML ***
  6155 
  6156 * Pure/library.ML: added ##>, ##>>, #>> -- higher-order counterparts
  6157 for ||>, ||>>, |>>,
  6158 
  6159 * Pure/library.ML no longer defines its own option datatype, but uses
  6160 that of the SML basis, which has constructors NONE and SOME instead of
  6161 None and Some, as well as exception Option.Option instead of OPTION.
  6162 The functions the, if_none, is_some, is_none have been adapted
  6163 accordingly, while Option.map replaces apsome.
  6164 
  6165 * Pure/library.ML: the exception LIST has been given up in favour of
  6166 the standard exceptions Empty and Subscript, as well as
  6167 Library.UnequalLengths.  Function like Library.hd and Library.tl are
  6168 superceded by the standard hd and tl functions etc.
  6169 
  6170 A number of basic list functions are no longer exported to the ML
  6171 toplevel, as they are variants of predefined functions.  The following
  6172 suggests how one can translate existing code:
  6173 
  6174     rev_append xs ys = List.revAppend (xs, ys)
  6175     nth_elem (i, xs) = List.nth (xs, i)
  6176     last_elem xs = List.last xs
  6177     flat xss = List.concat xss
  6178     seq fs = List.app fs
  6179     partition P xs = List.partition P xs
  6180     mapfilter f xs = List.mapPartial f xs
  6181 
  6182 * Pure/library.ML: several combinators for linear functional
  6183 transformations, notably reverse application and composition:
  6184 
  6185   x |> f                f #> g
  6186   (x, y) |-> f          f #-> g
  6187 
  6188 * Pure/library.ML: introduced/changed precedence of infix operators:
  6189 
  6190   infix 1 |> |-> ||> ||>> |>> |>>> #> #->;
  6191   infix 2 ?;
  6192   infix 3 o oo ooo oooo;
  6193   infix 4 ~~ upto downto;
  6194 
  6195 Maybe INCOMPATIBILITY when any of those is used in conjunction with other
  6196 infix operators.
  6197 
  6198 * Pure/library.ML: natural list combinators fold, fold_rev, and
  6199 fold_map support linear functional transformations and nesting.  For
  6200 example:
  6201 
  6202   fold f [x1, ..., xN] y =
  6203     y |> f x1 |> ... |> f xN
  6204 
  6205   (fold o fold) f [xs1, ..., xsN] y =
  6206     y |> fold f xs1 |> ... |> fold f xsN
  6207 
  6208   fold f [x1, ..., xN] =
  6209     f x1 #> ... #> f xN
  6210 
  6211   (fold o fold) f [xs1, ..., xsN] =
  6212     fold f xs1 #> ... #> fold f xsN
  6213 
  6214 * Pure/library.ML: the following selectors on type 'a option are
  6215 available:
  6216 
  6217   the:               'a option -> 'a  (*partial*)
  6218   these:             'a option -> 'a  where 'a = 'b list
  6219   the_default: 'a -> 'a option -> 'a
  6220   the_list:          'a option -> 'a list
  6221 
  6222 * Pure/General: structure AList (cf. Pure/General/alist.ML) provides
  6223 basic operations for association lists, following natural argument
  6224 order; moreover the explicit equality predicate passed here avoids
  6225 potentially expensive polymorphic runtime equality checks.
  6226 The old functions may be expressed as follows:
  6227 
  6228   assoc = uncurry (AList.lookup (op =))
  6229   assocs = these oo AList.lookup (op =)
  6230   overwrite = uncurry (AList.update (op =)) o swap
  6231 
  6232 * Pure/General: structure AList (cf. Pure/General/alist.ML) provides
  6233 
  6234   val make: ('a -> 'b) -> 'a list -> ('a * 'b) list
  6235   val find: ('a * 'b -> bool) -> ('c * 'b) list -> 'a -> 'c list
  6236 
  6237 replacing make_keylist and keyfilter (occassionally used)
  6238 Naive rewrites:
  6239 
  6240   make_keylist = AList.make
  6241   keyfilter = AList.find (op =)
  6242 
  6243 * eq_fst and eq_snd now take explicit equality parameter, thus
  6244   avoiding eqtypes. Naive rewrites:
  6245 
  6246     eq_fst = eq_fst (op =)
  6247     eq_snd = eq_snd (op =)
  6248 
  6249 * Removed deprecated apl and apr (rarely used).
  6250   Naive rewrites:
  6251 
  6252     apl (n, op) =>>= curry op n
  6253     apr (op, m) =>>= fn n => op (n, m)
  6254 
  6255 * Pure/General: structure OrdList (cf. Pure/General/ord_list.ML)
  6256 provides a reasonably efficient light-weight implementation of sets as
  6257 lists.
  6258 
  6259 * Pure/General: generic tables (cf. Pure/General/table.ML) provide a
  6260 few new operations; existing lookup and update are now curried to
  6261 follow natural argument order (for use with fold etc.);
  6262 INCOMPATIBILITY, use (uncurry Symtab.lookup) etc. as last resort.
  6263 
  6264 * Pure/General: output via the Isabelle channels of
  6265 writeln/warning/error etc. is now passed through Output.output, with a
  6266 hook for arbitrary transformations depending on the print_mode
  6267 (cf. Output.add_mode -- the first active mode that provides a output
  6268 function wins).  Already formatted output may be embedded into further
  6269 text via Output.raw; the result of Pretty.string_of/str_of and derived
  6270 functions (string_of_term/cterm/thm etc.) is already marked raw to
  6271 accommodate easy composition of diagnostic messages etc.  Programmers
  6272 rarely need to care about Output.output or Output.raw at all, with
  6273 some notable exceptions: Output.output is required when bypassing the
  6274 standard channels (writeln etc.), or in token translations to produce
  6275 properly formatted results; Output.raw is required when capturing
  6276 already output material that will eventually be presented to the user
  6277 a second time.  For the default print mode, both Output.output and
  6278 Output.raw have no effect.
  6279 
  6280 * Pure/General: Output.time_accumulator NAME creates an operator ('a
  6281 -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b to measure runtime and count invocations; the
  6282 cumulative results are displayed at the end of a batch session.
  6283 
  6284 * Pure/General: File.sysify_path and File.quote_sysify path have been
  6285 replaced by File.platform_path and File.shell_path (with appropriate
  6286 hooks).  This provides a clean interface for unusual systems where the
  6287 internal and external process view of file names are different.
  6288 
  6289 * Pure: more efficient orders for basic syntactic entities: added
  6290 fast_string_ord, fast_indexname_ord, fast_term_ord; changed sort_ord
  6291 and typ_ord to use fast_string_ord and fast_indexname_ord (term_ord is
  6292 NOT affected); structures Symtab, Vartab, Typtab, Termtab use the fast
  6293 orders now -- potential INCOMPATIBILITY for code that depends on a
  6294 particular order for Symtab.keys, Symtab.dest, etc. (consider using
  6295 Library.sort_strings on result).
  6296 
  6297 * Pure/term.ML: combinators fold_atyps, fold_aterms, fold_term_types,
  6298 fold_types traverse types/terms from left to right, observing natural
  6299 argument order.  Supercedes previous foldl_XXX versions, add_frees,
  6300 add_vars etc. have been adapted as well: INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6301 
  6302 * Pure: name spaces have been refined, with significant changes of the
  6303 internal interfaces -- INCOMPATIBILITY.  Renamed cond_extern(_table)
  6304 to extern(_table).  The plain name entry path is superceded by a
  6305 general 'naming' context, which also includes the 'policy' to produce
  6306 a fully qualified name and external accesses of a fully qualified
  6307 name; NameSpace.extend is superceded by context dependent
  6308 Sign.declare_name.  Several theory and proof context operations modify
  6309 the naming context.  Especially note Theory.restore_naming and
  6310 ProofContext.restore_naming to get back to a sane state; note that
  6311 Theory.add_path is no longer sufficient to recover from
  6312 Theory.absolute_path in particular.
  6313 
  6314 * Pure: new flags short_names (default false) and unique_names
  6315 (default true) for controlling output of qualified names.  If
  6316 short_names is set, names are printed unqualified.  If unique_names is
  6317 reset, the name prefix is reduced to the minimum required to achieve
  6318 the original result when interning again, even if there is an overlap
  6319 with earlier declarations.
  6320 
  6321 * Pure/TheoryDataFun: change of the argument structure; 'prep_ext' is
  6322 now 'extend', and 'merge' gets an additional Pretty.pp argument
  6323 (useful for printing error messages).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6324 
  6325 * Pure: major reorganization of the theory context.  Type Sign.sg and
  6326 Theory.theory are now identified, referring to the universal
  6327 Context.theory (see Pure/context.ML).  Actual signature and theory
  6328 content is managed as theory data.  The old code and interfaces were
  6329 spread over many files and structures; the new arrangement introduces
  6330 considerable INCOMPATIBILITY to gain more clarity:
  6331 
  6332   Context -- theory management operations (name, identity, inclusion,
  6333     parents, ancestors, merge, etc.), plus generic theory data;
  6334 
  6335   Sign -- logical signature and syntax operations (declaring consts,
  6336     types, etc.), plus certify/read for common entities;
  6337 
  6338   Theory -- logical theory operations (stating axioms, definitions,
  6339     oracles), plus a copy of logical signature operations (consts,
  6340     types, etc.); also a few basic management operations (Theory.copy,
  6341     Theory.merge, etc.)
  6342 
  6343 The most basic sign_of operations (Theory.sign_of, Thm.sign_of_thm
  6344 etc.) as well as the sign field in Thm.rep_thm etc. have been retained
  6345 for convenience -- they merely return the theory.
  6346 
  6347 * Pure: type Type.tsig is superceded by theory in most interfaces.
  6348 
  6349 * Pure: the Isar proof context type is already defined early in Pure
  6350 as Context.proof (note that ProofContext.context and Proof.context are
  6351 aliases, where the latter is the preferred name).  This enables other
  6352 Isabelle components to refer to that type even before Isar is present.
  6353 
  6354 * Pure/sign/theory: discontinued named name spaces (i.e. classK,
  6355 typeK, constK, axiomK, oracleK), but provide explicit operations for
  6356 any of these kinds.  For example, Sign.intern typeK is now
  6357 Sign.intern_type, Theory.hide_space Sign.typeK is now
  6358 Theory.hide_types.  Also note that former
  6359 Theory.hide_classes/types/consts are now
  6360 Theory.hide_classes_i/types_i/consts_i, while the non '_i' versions
  6361 internalize their arguments!  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6362 
  6363 * Pure: get_thm interface (of PureThy and ProofContext) expects
  6364 datatype thmref (with constructors Name and NameSelection) instead of
  6365 plain string -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  6366 
  6367 * Pure: cases produced by proof methods specify options, where NONE
  6368 means to remove case bindings -- INCOMPATIBILITY in
  6369 (RAW_)METHOD_CASES.
  6370 
  6371 * Pure: the following operations retrieve axioms or theorems from a
  6372 theory node or theory hierarchy, respectively:
  6373 
  6374   Theory.axioms_of: theory -> (string * term) list
  6375   Theory.all_axioms_of: theory -> (string * term) list
  6376   PureThy.thms_of: theory -> (string * thm) list
  6377   PureThy.all_thms_of: theory -> (string * thm) list
  6378 
  6379 * Pure: print_tac now outputs the goal through the trace channel.
  6380 
  6381 * Isar toplevel: improved diagnostics, mostly for Poly/ML only.
  6382 Reference Toplevel.debug (default false) controls detailed printing
  6383 and tracing of low-level exceptions; Toplevel.profiling (default 0)
  6384 controls execution profiling -- set to 1 for time and 2 for space
  6385 (both increase the runtime).
  6386 
  6387 * Isar session: The initial use of ROOT.ML is now always timed,
  6388 i.e. the log will show the actual process times, in contrast to the
  6389 elapsed wall-clock time that the outer shell wrapper produces.
  6390 
  6391 * Simplifier: improved handling of bound variables (nameless
  6392 representation, avoid allocating new strings).  Simprocs that invoke
  6393 the Simplifier recursively should use Simplifier.inherit_bounds to
  6394 avoid local name clashes.  Failure to do so produces warnings
  6395 "Simplifier: renamed bound variable ..."; set Simplifier.debug_bounds
  6396 for further details.
  6397 
  6398 * ML functions legacy_bindings and use_legacy_bindings produce ML fact
  6399 bindings for all theorems stored within a given theory; this may help
  6400 in porting non-Isar theories to Isar ones, while keeping ML proof
  6401 scripts for the time being.
  6402 
  6403 * ML operator HTML.with_charset specifies the charset begin used for
  6404 generated HTML files.  For example:
  6405 
  6406   HTML.with_charset "utf-8" use_thy "Hebrew";
  6407   HTML.with_charset "utf-8" use_thy "Chinese";
  6408 
  6409 
  6410 *** System ***
  6411 
  6412 * Allow symlinks to all proper Isabelle executables (Isabelle,
  6413 isabelle, isatool etc.).
  6414 
  6415 * ISABELLE_DOC_FORMAT setting specifies preferred document format (for
  6416 isatool doc, isatool mkdir, display_drafts etc.).
  6417 
  6418 * isatool usedir: option -f allows specification of the ML file to be
  6419 used by Isabelle; default is ROOT.ML.
  6420 
  6421 * New isatool version outputs the version identifier of the Isabelle
  6422 distribution being used.
  6423 
  6424 * HOL: new isatool dimacs2hol converts files in DIMACS CNF format
  6425 (containing Boolean satisfiability problems) into Isabelle/HOL
  6426 theories.
  6427 
  6428 
  6429 
  6430 New in Isabelle2004 (April 2004)
  6431 --------------------------------
  6432 
  6433 *** General ***
  6434 
  6435 * Provers/order.ML:  new efficient reasoner for partial and linear orders.
  6436   Replaces linorder.ML.
  6437 
  6438 * Pure: Greek letters (except small lambda, \<lambda>), as well as Gothic
  6439   (\<aa>...\<zz>\<AA>...\<ZZ>), calligraphic (\<A>...\<Z>), and Euler
  6440   (\<a>...\<z>), are now considered normal letters, and can therefore
  6441   be used anywhere where an ASCII letter (a...zA...Z) has until
  6442   now. COMPATIBILITY: This obviously changes the parsing of some
  6443   terms, especially where a symbol has been used as a binder, say
  6444   '\<Pi>x. ...', which is now a type error since \<Pi>x will be parsed
  6445   as an identifier.  Fix it by inserting a space around former
  6446   symbols.  Call 'isatool fixgreek' to try to fix parsing errors in
  6447   existing theory and ML files.
  6448 
  6449 * Pure: Macintosh and Windows line-breaks are now allowed in theory files.
  6450 
  6451 * Pure: single letter sub/superscripts (\<^isub> and \<^isup>) are now
  6452   allowed in identifiers. Similar to Greek letters \<^isub> is now considered
  6453   a normal (but invisible) letter. For multiple letter subscripts repeat
  6454   \<^isub> like this: x\<^isub>1\<^isub>2.
  6455 
  6456 * Pure: There are now sub-/superscripts that can span more than one
  6457   character. Text between \<^bsub> and \<^esub> is set in subscript in
  6458   ProofGeneral and LaTeX, text between \<^bsup> and \<^esup> in
  6459   superscript. The new control characters are not identifier parts.
  6460 
  6461 * Pure: Control-symbols of the form \<^raw:...> will literally print the
  6462   content of "..." to the latex file instead of \isacntrl... . The "..."
  6463   may consist of any printable characters excluding the end bracket >.
  6464 
  6465 * Pure: Using new Isar command "finalconsts" (or the ML functions
  6466   Theory.add_finals or Theory.add_finals_i) it is now possible to
  6467   declare constants "final", which prevents their being given a definition
  6468   later.  It is useful for constants whose behaviour is fixed axiomatically
  6469   rather than definitionally, such as the meta-logic connectives.
  6470 
  6471 * Pure: 'instance' now handles general arities with general sorts
  6472   (i.e. intersections of classes),
  6473 
  6474 * Presentation: generated HTML now uses a CSS style sheet to make layout
  6475   (somewhat) independent of content. It is copied from lib/html/isabelle.css.
  6476   It can be changed to alter the colors/layout of generated pages.
  6477 
  6478 
  6479 *** Isar ***
  6480 
  6481 * Tactic emulation methods rule_tac, erule_tac, drule_tac, frule_tac,
  6482   cut_tac, subgoal_tac and thin_tac:
  6483   - Now understand static (Isar) contexts.  As a consequence, users of Isar
  6484     locales are no longer forced to write Isar proof scripts.
  6485     For details see Isar Reference Manual, paragraph 4.3.2: Further tactic
  6486     emulations.
  6487   - INCOMPATIBILITY: names of variables to be instantiated may no
  6488     longer be enclosed in quotes.  Instead, precede variable name with `?'.
  6489     This is consistent with the instantiation attribute "where".
  6490 
  6491 * Attributes "where" and "of":
  6492   - Now take type variables of instantiated theorem into account when reading
  6493     the instantiation string.  This fixes a bug that caused instantiated
  6494     theorems to have too special types in some circumstances.
  6495   - "where" permits explicit instantiations of type variables.
  6496 
  6497 * Calculation commands "moreover" and "also" no longer interfere with
  6498   current facts ("this"), admitting arbitrary combinations with "then"
  6499   and derived forms.
  6500 
  6501 * Locales:
  6502   - Goal statements involving the context element "includes" no longer
  6503     generate theorems with internal delta predicates (those ending on
  6504     "_axioms") in the premise.
  6505     Resolve particular premise with <locale>.intro to obtain old form.
  6506   - Fixed bug in type inference ("unify_frozen") that prevented mix of target
  6507     specification and "includes" elements in goal statement.
  6508   - Rule sets <locale>.intro and <locale>.axioms no longer declared as
  6509     [intro?] and [elim?] (respectively) by default.
  6510   - Experimental command for instantiation of locales in proof contexts:
  6511         instantiate <label>[<attrs>]: <loc>
  6512     Instantiates locale <loc> and adds all its theorems to the current context
  6513     taking into account their attributes.  Label and attrs are optional
  6514     modifiers, like in theorem declarations.  If present, names of
  6515     instantiated theorems are qualified with <label>, and the attributes
  6516     <attrs> are applied after any attributes these theorems might have already.
  6517       If the locale has assumptions, a chained fact of the form
  6518     "<loc> t1 ... tn" is expected from which instantiations of the parameters
  6519     are derived.  The command does not support old-style locales declared
  6520     with "locale (open)".
  6521       A few (very simple) examples can be found in FOL/ex/LocaleInst.thy.
  6522 
  6523 * HOL: Tactic emulation methods induct_tac and case_tac understand static
  6524   (Isar) contexts.
  6525 
  6526 
  6527 *** HOL ***
  6528 
  6529 * Proof import: new image HOL4 contains the imported library from
  6530   the HOL4 system with about 2500 theorems. It is imported by
  6531   replaying proof terms produced by HOL4 in Isabelle. The HOL4 image
  6532   can be used like any other Isabelle image.  See
  6533   HOL/Import/HOL/README for more information.
  6534 
  6535 * Simplifier:
  6536   - Much improved handling of linear and partial orders.
  6537     Reasoners for linear and partial orders are set up for type classes
  6538     "linorder" and "order" respectively, and are added to the default simpset
  6539     as solvers.  This means that the simplifier can build transitivity chains
  6540     to solve goals from the assumptions.
  6541   - INCOMPATIBILITY: old proofs break occasionally.  Typically, applications
  6542     of blast or auto after simplification become unnecessary because the goal
  6543     is solved by simplification already.
  6544 
  6545 * Numerics: new theory Ring_and_Field contains over 250 basic numerical laws,
  6546     all proved in axiomatic type classes for semirings, rings and fields.
  6547 
  6548 * Numerics:
  6549   - Numeric types (nat, int, and in HOL-Complex rat, real, complex, etc.) are
  6550     now formalized using the Ring_and_Field theory mentioned above.
  6551   - INCOMPATIBILITY: simplification and arithmetic behaves somewhat differently
  6552     than before, because now they are set up once in a generic manner.
  6553   - INCOMPATIBILITY: many type-specific arithmetic laws have gone.
  6554     Look for the general versions in Ring_and_Field (and Power if they concern
  6555     exponentiation).
  6556 
  6557 * Type "rat" of the rational numbers is now available in HOL-Complex.
  6558 
  6559 * Records:
  6560   - Record types are now by default printed with their type abbreviation
  6561     instead of the list of all field types. This can be configured via
  6562     the reference "print_record_type_abbr".
  6563   - Simproc "record_upd_simproc" for simplification of multiple updates added
  6564     (not enabled by default).
  6565   - Simproc "record_ex_sel_eq_simproc" to simplify EX x. sel r = x resp.
  6566     EX x. x = sel r to True (not enabled by default).
  6567   - Tactic "record_split_simp_tac" to split and simplify records added.
  6568 
  6569 * 'specification' command added, allowing for definition by
  6570   specification.  There is also an 'ax_specification' command that
  6571   introduces the new constants axiomatically.
  6572 
  6573 * arith(_tac) is now able to generate counterexamples for reals as well.
  6574 
  6575 * HOL-Algebra: new locale "ring" for non-commutative rings.
  6576 
  6577 * HOL-ex: InductiveInvariant_examples illustrates advanced recursive function
  6578   definitions, thanks to Sava Krsti\'{c} and John Matthews.
  6579 
  6580 * HOL-Matrix: a first theory for matrices in HOL with an application of
  6581   matrix theory to linear programming.
  6582 
  6583 * Unions and Intersections:
  6584   The latex output syntax of UN and INT has been changed
  6585   from "\Union x \in A. B" to "\Union_{x \in A} B"
  6586   i.e. the index formulae has become a subscript.
  6587   Similarly for "\Union x. B", and for \Inter instead of \Union.
  6588 
  6589 * Unions and Intersections over Intervals:
  6590   There is new short syntax "UN i<=n. A" for "UN i:{0..n}. A". There is
  6591   also an x-symbol version with subscripts "\<Union>\<^bsub>i <= n\<^esub>. A"
  6592   like in normal math, and corresponding versions for < and for intersection.
  6593 
  6594 * HOL/List: Ordering "lexico" is renamed "lenlex" and the standard
  6595   lexicographic dictonary ordering has been added as "lexord".
  6596 
  6597 * ML: the legacy theory structures Int and List have been removed. They had
  6598   conflicted with ML Basis Library structures having the same names.
  6599 
  6600 * 'refute' command added to search for (finite) countermodels.  Only works
  6601   for a fragment of HOL.  The installation of an external SAT solver is
  6602   highly recommended.  See "HOL/Refute.thy" for details.
  6603 
  6604 * 'quickcheck' command: Allows to find counterexamples by evaluating
  6605   formulae under an assignment of free variables to random values.
  6606   In contrast to 'refute', it can deal with inductive datatypes,
  6607   but cannot handle quantifiers. See "HOL/ex/Quickcheck_Examples.thy"
  6608   for examples.
  6609 
  6610 
  6611 *** HOLCF ***
  6612 
  6613 * Streams now come with concatenation and are part of the HOLCF image
  6614 
  6615 
  6616 
  6617 New in Isabelle2003 (May 2003)
  6618 ------------------------------
  6619 
  6620 *** General ***
  6621 
  6622 * Provers/simplifier:
  6623 
  6624   - Completely reimplemented method simp (ML: Asm_full_simp_tac):
  6625     Assumptions are now subject to complete mutual simplification,
  6626     not just from left to right. The simplifier now preserves
  6627     the order of assumptions.
  6628 
  6629     Potential INCOMPATIBILITY:
  6630 
  6631     -- simp sometimes diverges where the old version did
  6632        not, e.g. invoking simp on the goal
  6633 
  6634         [| P (f x); y = x; f x = f y |] ==> Q
  6635 
  6636        now gives rise to the infinite reduction sequence
  6637 
  6638         P(f x) --(f x = f y)--> P(f y) --(y = x)--> P(f x) --(f x = f y)--> ...
  6639 
  6640        Using "simp (asm_lr)" (ML: Asm_lr_simp_tac) instead often solves this
  6641        kind of problem.
  6642 
  6643     -- Tactics combining classical reasoner and simplification (such as auto)
  6644        are also affected by this change, because many of them rely on
  6645        simp. They may sometimes diverge as well or yield a different numbers
  6646        of subgoals. Try to use e.g. force, fastsimp, or safe instead of auto
  6647        in case of problems. Sometimes subsequent calls to the classical
  6648        reasoner will fail because a preceeding call to the simplifier too
  6649        eagerly simplified the goal, e.g. deleted redundant premises.
  6650 
  6651   - The simplifier trace now shows the names of the applied rewrite rules
  6652 
  6653   - You can limit the number of recursive invocations of the simplifier
  6654     during conditional rewriting (where the simplifie tries to solve the
  6655     conditions before applying the rewrite rule):
  6656     ML "simp_depth_limit := n"
  6657     where n is an integer. Thus you can force termination where previously
  6658     the simplifier would diverge.
  6659 
  6660   - Accepts free variables as head terms in congruence rules.  Useful in Isar.
  6661 
  6662   - No longer aborts on failed congruence proof.  Instead, the
  6663     congruence is ignored.
  6664 
  6665 * Pure: New generic framework for extracting programs from constructive
  6666   proofs. See HOL/Extraction.thy for an example instantiation, as well
  6667   as HOL/Extraction for some case studies.
  6668 
  6669 * Pure: The main goal of the proof state is no longer shown by default, only
  6670 the subgoals. This behaviour is controlled by a new flag.
  6671    PG menu: Isabelle/Isar -> Settings -> Show Main Goal
  6672 (ML: Proof.show_main_goal).
  6673 
  6674 * Pure: You can find all matching introduction rules for subgoal 1, i.e. all
  6675 rules whose conclusion matches subgoal 1:
  6676       PG menu: Isabelle/Isar -> Show me -> matching rules
  6677 The rules are ordered by how closely they match the subgoal.
  6678 In particular, rules that solve a subgoal outright are displayed first
  6679 (or rather last, the way they are printed).
  6680 (ML: ProofGeneral.print_intros())
  6681 
  6682 * Pure: New flag trace_unify_fail causes unification to print
  6683 diagnostic information (PG: in trace buffer) when it fails. This is
  6684 useful for figuring out why single step proofs like rule, erule or
  6685 assumption failed.
  6686 
  6687 * Pure: Locale specifications now produce predicate definitions
  6688 according to the body of text (covering assumptions modulo local
  6689 definitions); predicate "loc_axioms" covers newly introduced text,
  6690 while "loc" is cumulative wrt. all included locale expressions; the
  6691 latter view is presented only on export into the global theory
  6692 context; potential INCOMPATIBILITY, use "(open)" option to fall back
  6693 on the old view without predicates;
  6694 
  6695 * Pure: predefined locales "var" and "struct" are useful for sharing
  6696 parameters (as in CASL, for example); just specify something like
  6697 ``var x + var y + struct M'' as import;
  6698 
  6699 * Pure: improved thms_containing: proper indexing of facts instead of
  6700 raw theorems; check validity of results wrt. current name space;
  6701 include local facts of proof configuration (also covers active
  6702 locales), cover fixed variables in index; may use "_" in term
  6703 specification; an optional limit for the number of printed facts may
  6704 be given (the default is 40);
  6705 
  6706 * Pure: disallow duplicate fact bindings within new-style theory files
  6707 (batch-mode only);
  6708 
  6709 * Provers: improved induct method: assumptions introduced by case
  6710 "foo" are split into "foo.hyps" (from the rule) and "foo.prems" (from
  6711 the goal statement); "foo" still refers to all facts collectively;
  6712 
  6713 * Provers: the function blast.overloaded has been removed: all constants
  6714 are regarded as potentially overloaded, which improves robustness in exchange
  6715 for slight decrease in efficiency;
  6716 
  6717 * Provers/linorder: New generic prover for transitivity reasoning over
  6718 linear orders.  Note: this prover is not efficient!
  6719 
  6720 * Isar: preview of problems to finish 'show' now produce an error
  6721 rather than just a warning (in interactive mode);
  6722 
  6723 
  6724 *** HOL ***
  6725 
  6726 * arith(_tac)
  6727 
  6728  - Produces a counter example if it cannot prove a goal.
  6729    Note that the counter example may be spurious if the goal is not a formula
  6730    of quantifier-free linear arithmetic.
  6731    In ProofGeneral the counter example appears in the trace buffer.
  6732 
  6733  - Knows about div k and mod k where k is a numeral of type nat or int.
  6734 
  6735  - Calls full Presburger arithmetic (by Amine Chaieb) if quantifier-free
  6736    linear arithmetic fails. This takes account of quantifiers and divisibility.
  6737    Presburger arithmetic can also be called explicitly via presburger(_tac).
  6738 
  6739 * simp's arithmetic capabilities have been enhanced a bit: it now
  6740 takes ~= in premises into account (by performing a case split);
  6741 
  6742 * simp reduces "m*(n div m) + n mod m" to n, even if the two summands
  6743 are distributed over a sum of terms;
  6744 
  6745 * New tactic "trans_tac" and method "trans" instantiate
  6746 Provers/linorder.ML for axclasses "order" and "linorder" (predicates
  6747 "<=", "<" and "=").
  6748 
  6749 * function INCOMPATIBILITIES: Pi-sets have been redefined and moved from main
  6750 HOL to Library/FuncSet; constant "Fun.op o" is now called "Fun.comp";
  6751 
  6752 * 'typedef' command has new option "open" to suppress the set
  6753 definition;
  6754 
  6755 * functions Min and Max on finite sets have been introduced (theory
  6756 Finite_Set);
  6757 
  6758 * attribute [symmetric] now works for relations as well; it turns
  6759 (x,y) : R^-1 into (y,x) : R, and vice versa;
  6760 
  6761 * induct over a !!-quantified statement (say !!x1..xn):
  6762   each "case" automatically performs "fix x1 .. xn" with exactly those names.
  6763 
  6764 * Map: `empty' is no longer a constant but a syntactic abbreviation for
  6765 %x. None. Warning: empty_def now refers to the previously hidden definition
  6766 of the empty set.
  6767 
  6768 * Algebra: formalization of classical algebra.  Intended as base for
  6769 any algebraic development in Isabelle.  Currently covers group theory
  6770 (up to Sylow's theorem) and ring theory (Universal Property of
  6771 Univariate Polynomials).  Contributions welcome;
  6772 
  6773 * GroupTheory: deleted, since its material has been moved to Algebra;
  6774 
  6775 * Complex: new directory of the complex numbers with numeric constants,
  6776 nonstandard complex numbers, and some complex analysis, standard and
  6777 nonstandard (Jacques Fleuriot);
  6778 
  6779 * HOL-Complex: new image for analysis, replacing HOL-Real and HOL-Hyperreal;
  6780 
  6781 * Hyperreal: introduced Gauge integration and hyperreal logarithms (Jacques
  6782 Fleuriot);
  6783 
  6784 * Real/HahnBanach: updated and adapted to locales;
  6785 
  6786 * NumberTheory: added Gauss's law of quadratic reciprocity (by Avigad,
  6787 Gray and Kramer);
  6788 
  6789 * UNITY: added the Meier-Sanders theory of progress sets;
  6790 
  6791 * MicroJava: bytecode verifier and lightweight bytecode verifier
  6792 as abstract algorithms, instantiated to the JVM;
  6793 
  6794 * Bali: Java source language formalization. Type system, operational
  6795 semantics, axiomatic semantics. Supported language features:
  6796 classes, interfaces, objects,virtual methods, static methods,
  6797 static/instance fields, arrays, access modifiers, definite
  6798 assignment, exceptions.
  6799 
  6800 
  6801 *** ZF ***
  6802 
  6803 * ZF/Constructible: consistency proof for AC (Gdel's constructible
  6804 universe, etc.);
  6805 
  6806 * Main ZF: virtually all theories converted to new-style format;
  6807 
  6808 
  6809 *** ML ***
  6810 
  6811 * Pure: Tactic.prove provides sane interface for internal proofs;
  6812 omits the infamous "standard" operation, so this is more appropriate
  6813 than prove_goalw_cterm in many situations (e.g. in simprocs);
  6814 
  6815 * Pure: improved error reporting of simprocs;
  6816 
  6817 * Provers: Simplifier.simproc(_i) provides sane interface for setting
  6818 up simprocs;
  6819 
  6820 
  6821 *** Document preparation ***
  6822 
  6823 * uses \par instead of \\ for line breaks in theory text. This may
  6824 shift some page breaks in large documents. To get the old behaviour
  6825 use \renewcommand{\isanewline}{\mbox{}\\\mbox{}} in root.tex.
  6826 
  6827 * minimized dependencies of isabelle.sty and isabellesym.sty on
  6828 other packages
  6829 
  6830 * \<euro> now needs package babel/greek instead of marvosym (which
  6831 broke \Rightarrow)
  6832 
  6833 * normal size for \<zero>...\<nine> (uses \mathbf instead of
  6834 textcomp package)
  6835 
  6836 
  6837 
  6838 New in Isabelle2002 (March 2002)
  6839 --------------------------------
  6840 
  6841 *** Document preparation ***
  6842 
  6843 * greatly simplified document preparation setup, including more
  6844 graceful interpretation of isatool usedir -i/-d/-D options, and more
  6845 instructive isatool mkdir; users should basically be able to get
  6846 started with "isatool mkdir HOL Test && isatool make"; alternatively,
  6847 users may run a separate document processing stage manually like this:
  6848 "isatool usedir -D output HOL Test && isatool document Test/output";
  6849 
  6850 * theory dependency graph may now be incorporated into documents;
  6851 isatool usedir -g true will produce session_graph.eps/.pdf for use
  6852 with \includegraphics of LaTeX;
  6853 
  6854 * proper spacing of consecutive markup elements, especially text
  6855 blocks after section headings;
  6856 
  6857 * support bold style (for single symbols only), input syntax is like
  6858 this: "\<^bold>\<alpha>" or "\<^bold>A";
  6859 
  6860 * \<bullet> is now output as bold \cdot by default, which looks much
  6861 better in printed text;
  6862 
  6863 * added default LaTeX bindings for \<tturnstile> and \<TTurnstile>;
  6864 note that these symbols are currently unavailable in Proof General /
  6865 X-Symbol; new symbols \<zero>, \<one>, ..., \<nine>, and \<euro>;
  6866 
  6867 * isatool latex no longer depends on changed TEXINPUTS, instead
  6868 isatool document copies the Isabelle style files to the target
  6869 location;
  6870 
  6871 
  6872 *** Isar ***
  6873 
  6874 * Pure/Provers: improved proof by cases and induction;
  6875   - 'case' command admits impromptu naming of parameters (such as
  6876     "case (Suc n)");
  6877   - 'induct' method divinates rule instantiation from the inductive
  6878     claim; no longer requires excessive ?P bindings for proper
  6879     instantiation of cases;
  6880   - 'induct' method properly enumerates all possibilities of set/type
  6881     rules; as a consequence facts may be also passed through *type*
  6882     rules without further ado;
  6883   - 'induct' method now derives symbolic cases from the *rulified*
  6884     rule (before it used to rulify cases stemming from the internal
  6885     atomized version); this means that the context of a non-atomic
  6886     statement becomes is included in the hypothesis, avoiding the
  6887     slightly cumbersome show "PROP ?case" form;
  6888   - 'induct' may now use elim-style induction rules without chaining
  6889     facts, using ``missing'' premises from the goal state; this allows
  6890     rules stemming from inductive sets to be applied in unstructured
  6891     scripts, while still benefitting from proper handling of non-atomic
  6892     statements; NB: major inductive premises need to be put first, all
  6893     the rest of the goal is passed through the induction;
  6894   - 'induct' proper support for mutual induction involving non-atomic
  6895     rule statements (uses the new concept of simultaneous goals, see
  6896     below);
  6897   - append all possible rule selections, but only use the first
  6898     success (no backtracking);
  6899   - removed obsolete "(simplified)" and "(stripped)" options of methods;
  6900   - undeclared rule case names default to numbers 1, 2, 3, ...;
  6901   - added 'print_induct_rules' (covered by help item in recent Proof
  6902     General versions);
  6903   - moved induct/cases attributes to Pure, methods to Provers;
  6904   - generic method setup instantiated for FOL and HOL;
  6905 
  6906 * Pure: support multiple simultaneous goal statements, for example
  6907 "have a: A and b: B" (same for 'theorem' etc.); being a pure
  6908 meta-level mechanism, this acts as if several individual goals had
  6909 been stated separately; in particular common proof methods need to be
  6910 repeated in order to cover all claims; note that a single elimination
  6911 step is *not* sufficient to establish the two conjunctions, so this
  6912 fails:
  6913 
  6914   assume "A & B" then have A and B ..   (*".." fails*)
  6915 
  6916 better use "obtain" in situations as above; alternative refer to
  6917 multi-step methods like 'auto', 'simp_all', 'blast+' etc.;
  6918 
  6919 * Pure: proper integration with ``locales''; unlike the original
  6920 version by Florian Kammller, Isar locales package high-level proof
  6921 contexts rather than raw logical ones (e.g. we admit to include
  6922 attributes everywhere); operations on locales include merge and
  6923 rename; support for implicit arguments (``structures''); simultaneous
  6924 type-inference over imports and text; see also HOL/ex/Locales.thy for
  6925 some examples;
  6926 
  6927 * Pure: the following commands have been ``localized'', supporting a
  6928 target locale specification "(in name)": 'lemma', 'theorem',
  6929 'corollary', 'lemmas', 'theorems', 'declare'; the results will be
  6930 stored both within the locale and at the theory level (exported and
  6931 qualified by the locale name);
  6932 
  6933 * Pure: theory goals may now be specified in ``long'' form, with
  6934 ad-hoc contexts consisting of arbitrary locale elements. for example
  6935 ``lemma foo: fixes x assumes "A x" shows "B x"'' (local syntax and
  6936 definitions may be given, too); the result is a meta-level rule with
  6937 the context elements being discharged in the obvious way;
  6938 
  6939 * Pure: new proof command 'using' allows to augment currently used
  6940 facts after a goal statement ('using' is syntactically analogous to
  6941 'apply', but acts on the goal's facts only); this allows chained facts
  6942 to be separated into parts given before and after a claim, as in
  6943 ``from a and b have C using d and e <proof>'';
  6944 
  6945 * Pure: renamed "antecedent" case to "rule_context";
  6946 
  6947 * Pure: new 'judgment' command records explicit information about the
  6948 object-logic embedding (used by several tools internally); no longer
  6949 use hard-wired "Trueprop";
  6950 
  6951 * Pure: added 'corollary' command;
  6952 
  6953 * Pure: fixed 'token_translation' command;
  6954 
  6955 * Pure: removed obsolete 'exported' attribute;
  6956 
  6957 * Pure: dummy pattern "_" in is/let is now automatically lifted over
  6958 bound variables: "ALL x. P x --> Q x" (is "ALL x. _ --> ?C x")
  6959 supersedes more cumbersome ... (is "ALL x. _ x --> ?C x");
  6960 
  6961 * Pure: method 'atomize' presents local goal premises as object-level
  6962 statements (atomic meta-level propositions); setup controlled via
  6963 rewrite rules declarations of 'atomize' attribute; example
  6964 application: 'induct' method with proper rule statements in improper
  6965 proof *scripts*;
  6966 
  6967 * Pure: emulation of instantiation tactics (rule_tac, cut_tac, etc.)
  6968 now consider the syntactic context of assumptions, giving a better
  6969 chance to get type-inference of the arguments right (this is
  6970 especially important for locales);
  6971 
  6972 * Pure: "sorry" no longer requires quick_and_dirty in interactive
  6973 mode;
  6974 
  6975 * Pure/obtain: the formal conclusion "thesis", being marked as
  6976 ``internal'', may no longer be reference directly in the text;
  6977 potential INCOMPATIBILITY, may need to use "?thesis" in rare
  6978 situations;
  6979 
  6980 * Pure: generic 'sym' attribute which declares a rule both as pure
  6981 'elim?' and for the 'symmetric' operation;
  6982 
  6983 * Pure: marginal comments ``--'' may now occur just anywhere in the
  6984 text; the fixed correlation with particular command syntax has been
  6985 discontinued;
  6986 
  6987 * Pure: new method 'rules' is particularly well-suited for proof
  6988 search in intuitionistic logic; a bit slower than 'blast' or 'fast',
  6989 but often produces more compact proof terms with less detours;
  6990 
  6991 * Pure/Provers/classical: simplified integration with pure rule
  6992 attributes and methods; the classical "intro?/elim?/dest?"
  6993 declarations coincide with the pure ones; the "rule" method no longer
  6994 includes classically swapped intros; "intro" and "elim" methods no
  6995 longer pick rules from the context; also got rid of ML declarations
  6996 AddXIs/AddXEs/AddXDs; all of this has some potential for
  6997 INCOMPATIBILITY;
  6998 
  6999 * Provers/classical: attribute 'swapped' produces classical inversions
  7000 of introduction rules;
  7001 
  7002 * Provers/simplifier: 'simplified' attribute may refer to explicit
  7003 rules instead of full simplifier context; 'iff' attribute handles
  7004 conditional rules;
  7005 
  7006 * HOL: 'typedef' now allows alternative names for Rep/Abs morphisms;
  7007 
  7008 * HOL: 'recdef' now fails on unfinished automated proofs, use
  7009 "(permissive)" option to recover old behavior;
  7010 
  7011 * HOL: 'inductive' no longer features separate (collective) attributes
  7012 for 'intros' (was found too confusing);
  7013 
  7014 * HOL: properly declared induction rules less_induct and
  7015 wf_induct_rule;
  7016 
  7017 
  7018 *** HOL ***
  7019 
  7020 * HOL: moved over to sane numeral syntax; the new policy is as
  7021 follows:
  7022 
  7023   - 0 and 1 are polymorphic constants, which are defined on any
  7024   numeric type (nat, int, real etc.);
  7025 
  7026   - 2, 3, 4, ... and -1, -2, -3, ... are polymorphic numerals, based
  7027   binary representation internally;
  7028 
  7029   - type nat has special constructor Suc, and generally prefers Suc 0
  7030   over 1::nat and Suc (Suc 0) over 2::nat;
  7031 
  7032 This change may cause significant problems of INCOMPATIBILITY; here
  7033 are some hints on converting existing sources:
  7034 
  7035   - due to the new "num" token, "-0" and "-1" etc. are now atomic
  7036   entities, so expressions involving "-" (unary or binary minus) need
  7037   to be spaced properly;
  7038 
  7039   - existing occurrences of "1" may need to be constraint "1::nat" or
  7040   even replaced by Suc 0; similar for old "2";
  7041 
  7042   - replace "#nnn" by "nnn", and "#-nnn" by "-nnn";
  7043 
  7044   - remove all special provisions on numerals in proofs;
  7045 
  7046 * HOL: simp rules nat_number expand numerals on nat to Suc/0
  7047 representation (depends on bin_arith_simps in the default context);
  7048 
  7049 * HOL: symbolic syntax for x^2 (numeral 2);
  7050 
  7051 * HOL: the class of all HOL types is now called "type" rather than
  7052 "term"; INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt references to this type class
  7053 in axclass/classes, instance/arities, and (usually rare) occurrences
  7054 in typings (of consts etc.); internally the class is called
  7055 "HOL.type", ML programs should refer to HOLogic.typeS;
  7056 
  7057 * HOL/record package improvements:
  7058   - new derived operations "fields" to build a partial record section,
  7059     "extend" to promote a fixed record to a record scheme, and
  7060     "truncate" for the reverse; cf. theorems "xxx.defs", which are *not*
  7061     declared as simp by default;
  7062   - shared operations ("more", "fields", etc.) now need to be always
  7063     qualified) --- potential INCOMPATIBILITY;
  7064   - removed "make_scheme" operations (use "make" with "extend") --
  7065     INCOMPATIBILITY;
  7066   - removed "more" class (simply use "term") -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  7067   - provides cases/induct rules for use with corresponding Isar
  7068     methods (for concrete records, record schemes, concrete more
  7069     parts, and schematic more parts -- in that order);
  7070   - internal definitions directly based on a light-weight abstract
  7071     theory of product types over typedef rather than datatype;
  7072 
  7073 * HOL: generic code generator for generating executable ML code from
  7074 specifications; specific support for HOL constructs such as inductive
  7075 datatypes and sets, as well as recursive functions; can be invoked
  7076 via 'generate_code' theory section;
  7077 
  7078 * HOL: canonical cases/induct rules for n-tuples (n = 3..7);
  7079 
  7080 * HOL: consolidated and renamed several theories.  In particular:
  7081         Ord.thy has been absorbed into HOL.thy
  7082         String.thy has been absorbed into List.thy
  7083 
  7084 * HOL: concrete setsum syntax "\<Sum>i:A. b" == "setsum (%i. b) A"
  7085 (beware of argument permutation!);
  7086 
  7087 * HOL: linorder_less_split superseded by linorder_cases;
  7088 
  7089 * HOL/List: "nodups" renamed to "distinct";
  7090 
  7091 * HOL: added "The" definite description operator; move Hilbert's "Eps"
  7092 to peripheral theory "Hilbert_Choice"; some INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  7093   - Ex_def has changed, now need to use some_eq_ex
  7094 
  7095 * HOL: made split_all_tac safe; EXISTING PROOFS MAY FAIL OR LOOP, so
  7096 in this (rare) case use:
  7097 
  7098   delSWrapper "split_all_tac"
  7099   addSbefore ("unsafe_split_all_tac", unsafe_split_all_tac)
  7100 
  7101 * HOL: added safe wrapper "split_conv_tac" to claset; EXISTING PROOFS
  7102 MAY FAIL;
  7103 
  7104 * HOL: introduced f^n = f o ... o f; warning: due to the limits of
  7105 Isabelle's type classes, ^ on functions and relations has too general
  7106 a domain, namely ('a * 'b) set and 'a => 'b; this means that it may be
  7107 necessary to attach explicit type constraints;
  7108 
  7109 * HOL/Relation: the prefix name of the infix "O" has been changed from
  7110 "comp" to "rel_comp"; INCOMPATIBILITY: a few theorems have been
  7111 renamed accordingly (eg "compI" -> "rel_compI").
  7112 
  7113 * HOL: syntax translations now work properly with numerals and records
  7114 expressions;
  7115 
  7116 * HOL: bounded abstraction now uses syntax "%" / "\<lambda>" instead
  7117 of "lam" -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  7118 
  7119 * HOL: got rid of some global declarations (potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  7120 for ML tools): const "()" renamed "Product_Type.Unity", type "unit"
  7121 renamed "Product_Type.unit";
  7122 
  7123 * HOL: renamed rtrancl_into_rtrancl2 to converse_rtrancl_into_rtrancl
  7124 
  7125 * HOL: removed obsolete theorem "optionE" (use "option.exhaust", or
  7126 the "cases" method);
  7127 
  7128 * HOL/GroupTheory: group theory examples including Sylow's theorem (by
  7129 Florian Kammller);
  7130 
  7131 * HOL/IMP: updated and converted to new-style theory format; several
  7132 parts turned into readable document, with proper Isar proof texts and
  7133 some explanations (by Gerwin Klein);
  7134 
  7135 * HOL-Real: added Complex_Numbers (by Gertrud Bauer);
  7136 
  7137 * HOL-Hyperreal is now a logic image;
  7138 
  7139 
  7140 *** HOLCF ***
  7141 
  7142 * Isar: consts/constdefs supports mixfix syntax for continuous
  7143 operations;
  7144 
  7145 * Isar: domain package adapted to new-style theory format, e.g. see
  7146 HOLCF/ex/Dnat.thy;
  7147 
  7148 * theory Lift: proper use of rep_datatype lift instead of ML hacks --
  7149 potential INCOMPATIBILITY; now use plain induct_tac instead of former
  7150 lift.induct_tac, always use UU instead of Undef;
  7151 
  7152 * HOLCF/IMP: updated and converted to new-style theory;
  7153 
  7154 
  7155 *** ZF ***
  7156 
  7157 * Isar: proper integration of logic-specific tools and packages,
  7158 including theory commands '(co)inductive', '(co)datatype',
  7159 'rep_datatype', 'inductive_cases', as well as methods 'ind_cases',
  7160 'induct_tac', 'case_tac', and 'typecheck' (with attribute 'TC');
  7161 
  7162 * theory Main no longer includes AC; for the Axiom of Choice, base
  7163 your theory on Main_ZFC;
  7164 
  7165 * the integer library now covers quotients and remainders, with many
  7166 laws relating division to addition, multiplication, etc.;
  7167 
  7168 * ZF/UNITY: Chandy and Misra's UNITY is now available in ZF, giving a
  7169 typeless version of the formalism;
  7170 
  7171 * ZF/AC, Coind, IMP, Resid: updated and converted to new-style theory
  7172 format;
  7173 
  7174 * ZF/Induct: new directory for examples of inductive definitions,
  7175 including theory Multiset for multiset orderings; converted to
  7176 new-style theory format;
  7177 
  7178 * ZF: many new theorems about lists, ordinals, etc.;
  7179 
  7180 
  7181 *** General ***
  7182 
  7183 * Pure/kernel: meta-level proof terms (by Stefan Berghofer); reference
  7184 variable proof controls level of detail: 0 = no proofs (only oracle
  7185 dependencies), 1 = lemma dependencies, 2 = compact proof terms; see
  7186 also ref manual for further ML interfaces;
  7187 
  7188 * Pure/axclass: removed obsolete ML interface
  7189 goal_subclass/goal_arity;
  7190 
  7191 * Pure/syntax: new token syntax "num" for plain numerals (without "#"
  7192 of "xnum"); potential INCOMPATIBILITY, since -0, -1 etc. are now
  7193 separate tokens, so expressions involving minus need to be spaced
  7194 properly;
  7195 
  7196 * Pure/syntax: support non-oriented infixes, using keyword "infix"
  7197 rather than "infixl" or "infixr";
  7198 
  7199 * Pure/syntax: concrete syntax for dummy type variables admits genuine
  7200 sort constraint specifications in type inference; e.g. "x::_::foo"
  7201 ensures that the type of "x" is of sort "foo" (but not necessarily a
  7202 type variable);
  7203 
  7204 * Pure/syntax: print modes "type_brackets" and "no_type_brackets"
  7205 control output of nested => (types); the default behavior is
  7206 "type_brackets";
  7207 
  7208 * Pure/syntax: builtin parse translation for "_constify" turns valued
  7209 tokens into AST constants;
  7210 
  7211 * Pure/syntax: prefer later declarations of translations and print
  7212 translation functions; potential INCOMPATIBILITY: need to reverse
  7213 multiple declarations for same syntax element constant;
  7214 
  7215 * Pure/show_hyps reset by default (in accordance to existing Isar
  7216 practice);
  7217 
  7218 * Provers/classical: renamed addaltern to addafter, addSaltern to
  7219 addSafter;
  7220 
  7221 * Provers/clasimp: ``iff'' declarations now handle conditional rules
  7222 as well;
  7223 
  7224 * system: tested support for MacOS X; should be able to get Isabelle +
  7225 Proof General to work in a plain Terminal after installing Poly/ML
  7226 (e.g. from the Isabelle distribution area) and GNU bash alone
  7227 (e.g. from http://www.apple.com); full X11, XEmacs and X-Symbol
  7228 support requires further installations, e.g. from
  7229 http://fink.sourceforge.net/);
  7230 
  7231 * system: support Poly/ML 4.1.1 (able to manage larger heaps);
  7232 
  7233 * system: reduced base memory usage by Poly/ML (approx. 20 MB instead
  7234 of 40 MB), cf. ML_OPTIONS;
  7235 
  7236 * system: Proof General keywords specification is now part of the
  7237 Isabelle distribution (see etc/isar-keywords.el);
  7238 
  7239 * system: support for persistent Proof General sessions (refrain from
  7240 outdating all loaded theories on startup); user may create writable
  7241 logic images like this: ``isabelle -q HOL Test'';
  7242 
  7243 * system: smart selection of Isabelle process versus Isabelle
  7244 interface, accommodates case-insensitive file systems (e.g. HFS+); may
  7245 run both "isabelle" and "Isabelle" even if file names are badly
  7246 damaged (executable inspects the case of the first letter of its own
  7247 name); added separate "isabelle-process" and "isabelle-interface";
  7248 
  7249 * system: refrain from any attempt at filtering input streams; no
  7250 longer support ``8bit'' encoding of old isabelle font, instead proper
  7251 iso-latin characters may now be used; the related isatools
  7252 "symbolinput" and "nonascii" have disappeared as well;
  7253 
  7254 * system: removed old "xterm" interface (the print modes "xterm" and
  7255 "xterm_color" are still available for direct use in a suitable
  7256 terminal);
  7257 
  7258 
  7259 
  7260 New in Isabelle99-2 (February 2001)
  7261 -----------------------------------
  7262 
  7263 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES ***
  7264 
  7265 * HOL: please note that theories in the Library and elsewhere often use the
  7266 new-style (Isar) format; to refer to their theorems in an ML script you must
  7267 bind them to ML identifers by e.g.      val thm_name = thm "thm_name";
  7268 
  7269 * HOL: inductive package no longer splits induction rule aggressively,
  7270 but only as far as specified by the introductions given; the old
  7271 format may be recovered via ML function complete_split_rule or attribute
  7272 'split_rule (complete)';
  7273 
  7274 * HOL: induct renamed to lfp_induct, lfp_Tarski to lfp_unfold,
  7275 gfp_Tarski to gfp_unfold;
  7276 
  7277 * HOL: contrapos, contrapos2 renamed to contrapos_nn, contrapos_pp;
  7278 
  7279 * HOL: infix "dvd" now has priority 50 rather than 70 (because it is a
  7280 relation); infix "^^" has been renamed "``"; infix "``" has been
  7281 renamed "`"; "univalent" has been renamed "single_valued";
  7282 
  7283 * HOL/Real: "rinv" and "hrinv" replaced by overloaded "inverse"
  7284 operation;
  7285 
  7286 * HOLCF: infix "`" has been renamed "$"; the symbol syntax is \<cdot>;
  7287 
  7288 * Isar: 'obtain' no longer declares "that" fact as simp/intro;
  7289 
  7290 * Isar/HOL: method 'induct' now handles non-atomic goals; as a
  7291 consequence, it is no longer monotonic wrt. the local goal context
  7292 (which is now passed through the inductive cases);
  7293 
  7294 * Document preparation: renamed standard symbols \<ll> to \<lless> and
  7295 \<gg> to \<ggreater>;
  7296 
  7297 
  7298 *** Document preparation ***
  7299 
  7300 * \isabellestyle{NAME} selects version of Isabelle output (currently
  7301 available: are "it" for near math-mode best-style output, "sl" for
  7302 slanted text style, and "tt" for plain type-writer; if no
  7303 \isabellestyle command is given, output is according to slanted
  7304 type-writer);
  7305 
  7306 * support sub/super scripts (for single symbols only), input syntax is
  7307 like this: "A\<^sup>*" or "A\<^sup>\<star>";
  7308 
  7309 * some more standard symbols; see Appendix A of the system manual for
  7310 the complete list of symbols defined in isabellesym.sty;
  7311 
  7312 * improved isabelle style files; more abstract symbol implementation
  7313 (should now use \isamath{...} and \isatext{...} in custom symbol
  7314 definitions);
  7315 
  7316 * antiquotation @{goals} and @{subgoals} for output of *dynamic* goals
  7317 state; Note that presentation of goal states does not conform to
  7318 actual human-readable proof documents.  Please do not include goal
  7319 states into document output unless you really know what you are doing!
  7320 
  7321 * proper indentation of antiquoted output with proportional LaTeX
  7322 fonts;
  7323 
  7324 * no_document ML operator temporarily disables LaTeX document
  7325 generation;
  7326 
  7327 * isatool unsymbolize tunes sources for plain ASCII communication;
  7328 
  7329 
  7330 *** Isar ***
  7331 
  7332 * Pure: Isar now suffers initial goal statements to contain unbound
  7333 schematic variables (this does not conform to actual readable proof
  7334 documents, due to unpredictable outcome and non-compositional proof
  7335 checking); users who know what they are doing may use schematic goals
  7336 for Prolog-style synthesis of proven results;
  7337 
  7338 * Pure: assumption method (an implicit finishing) now handles actual
  7339 rules as well;
  7340 
  7341 * Pure: improved 'obtain' --- moved to Pure, insert "that" into
  7342 initial goal, declare "that" only as Pure intro (only for single
  7343 steps); the "that" rule assumption may now be involved in implicit
  7344 finishing, thus ".." becomes a feasible for trivial obtains;
  7345 
  7346 * Pure: default proof step now includes 'intro_classes'; thus trivial
  7347 instance proofs may be performed by "..";
  7348 
  7349 * Pure: ?thesis / ?this / "..." now work for pure meta-level
  7350 statements as well;
  7351 
  7352 * Pure: more robust selection of calculational rules;
  7353 
  7354 * Pure: the builtin notion of 'finished' goal now includes the ==-refl
  7355 rule (as well as the assumption rule);
  7356 
  7357 * Pure: 'thm_deps' command visualizes dependencies of theorems and
  7358 lemmas, using the graph browser tool;
  7359 
  7360 * Pure: predict failure of "show" in interactive mode;
  7361 
  7362 * Pure: 'thms_containing' now takes actual terms as arguments;
  7363 
  7364 * HOL: improved method 'induct' --- now handles non-atomic goals
  7365 (potential INCOMPATIBILITY); tuned error handling;
  7366 
  7367 * HOL: cases and induct rules now provide explicit hints about the
  7368 number of facts to be consumed (0 for "type" and 1 for "set" rules);
  7369 any remaining facts are inserted into the goal verbatim;
  7370 
  7371 * HOL: local contexts (aka cases) may now contain term bindings as
  7372 well; the 'cases' and 'induct' methods new provide a ?case binding for
  7373 the result to be shown in each case;
  7374 
  7375 * HOL: added 'recdef_tc' command;
  7376 
  7377 * isatool convert assists in eliminating legacy ML scripts;
  7378 
  7379 
  7380 *** HOL ***
  7381 
  7382 * HOL/Library: a collection of generic theories to be used together
  7383 with main HOL; the theory loader path already includes this directory
  7384 by default; the following existing theories have been moved here:
  7385 HOL/Induct/Multiset, HOL/Induct/Acc (as Accessible_Part), HOL/While
  7386 (as While_Combinator), HOL/Lex/Prefix (as List_Prefix);
  7387 
  7388 * HOL/Unix: "Some aspects of Unix file-system security", a typical
  7389 modelling and verification task performed in Isabelle/HOL +
  7390 Isabelle/Isar + Isabelle document preparation (by Markus Wenzel).
  7391 
  7392 * HOL/Algebra: special summation operator SUM no longer exists, it has
  7393 been replaced by setsum; infix 'assoc' now has priority 50 (like
  7394 'dvd'); axiom 'one_not_zero' has been moved from axclass 'ring' to
  7395 'domain', this makes the theory consistent with mathematical
  7396 literature;
  7397 
  7398 * HOL basics: added overloaded operations "inverse" and "divide"
  7399 (infix "/"), syntax for generic "abs" operation, generic summation
  7400 operator \<Sum>;
  7401 
  7402 * HOL/typedef: simplified package, provide more useful rules (see also
  7403 HOL/subset.thy);
  7404 
  7405 * HOL/datatype: induction rule for arbitrarily branching datatypes is
  7406 now expressed as a proper nested rule (old-style tactic scripts may
  7407 require atomize_strip_tac to cope with non-atomic premises);
  7408 
  7409 * HOL: renamed theory "Prod" to "Product_Type", renamed "split" rule
  7410 to "split_conv" (old name still available for compatibility);
  7411 
  7412 * HOL: improved concrete syntax for strings (e.g. allows translation
  7413 rules with string literals);
  7414 
  7415 * HOL-Real-Hyperreal: this extends HOL-Real with the hyperreals
  7416  and Fleuriot's mechanization of analysis, including the transcendental
  7417  functions for the reals;
  7418 
  7419 * HOL/Real, HOL/Hyperreal: improved arithmetic simplification;
  7420 
  7421 
  7422 *** CTT ***
  7423 
  7424 * CTT: x-symbol support for Pi, Sigma, -->, : (membership); note that
  7425 "lam" is displayed as TWO lambda-symbols
  7426 
  7427 * CTT: theory Main now available, containing everything (that is, Bool
  7428 and Arith);
  7429 
  7430 
  7431 *** General ***
  7432 
  7433 * Pure: the Simplifier has been implemented properly as a derived rule
  7434 outside of the actual kernel (at last!); the overall performance
  7435 penalty in practical applications is about 50%, while reliability of
  7436 the Isabelle inference kernel has been greatly improved;
  7437 
  7438 * print modes "brackets" and "no_brackets" control output of nested =>
  7439 (types) and ==> (props); the default behaviour is "brackets";
  7440 
  7441 * Provers: fast_tac (and friends) now handle actual object-logic rules
  7442 as assumptions as well;
  7443 
  7444 * system: support Poly/ML 4.0;
  7445 
  7446 * system: isatool install handles KDE version 1 or 2;
  7447 
  7448 
  7449 
  7450 New in Isabelle99-1 (October 2000)
  7451 ----------------------------------
  7452 
  7453 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES ***
  7454 
  7455 * HOL: simplification of natural numbers is much changed; to partly
  7456 recover the old behaviour (e.g. to prevent n+n rewriting to #2*n)
  7457 issue the following ML commands:
  7458 
  7459   Delsimprocs Nat_Numeral_Simprocs.cancel_numerals;
  7460   Delsimprocs [Nat_Numeral_Simprocs.combine_numerals];
  7461 
  7462 * HOL: simplification no longer dives into case-expressions; this is
  7463 controlled by "t.weak_case_cong" for each datatype t;
  7464 
  7465 * HOL: nat_less_induct renamed to less_induct;
  7466 
  7467 * HOL: systematic renaming of the SOME (Eps) rules, may use isatool
  7468 fixsome to patch .thy and .ML sources automatically;
  7469 
  7470   select_equality  -> some_equality
  7471   select_eq_Ex     -> some_eq_ex
  7472   selectI2EX       -> someI2_ex
  7473   selectI2         -> someI2
  7474   selectI          -> someI
  7475   select1_equality -> some1_equality
  7476   Eps_sym_eq       -> some_sym_eq_trivial
  7477   Eps_eq           -> some_eq_trivial
  7478 
  7479 * HOL: exhaust_tac on datatypes superceded by new generic case_tac;
  7480 
  7481 * HOL: removed obsolete theorem binding expand_if (refer to split_if
  7482 instead);
  7483 
  7484 * HOL: the recursion equations generated by 'recdef' are now called
  7485 f.simps instead of f.rules;
  7486 
  7487 * HOL: qed_spec_mp now also handles bounded ALL as well;
  7488 
  7489 * HOL: 0 is now overloaded, so the type constraint ":: nat" may
  7490 sometimes be needed;
  7491 
  7492 * HOL: the constant for "f``x" is now "image" rather than "op ``";
  7493 
  7494 * HOL: the constant for "f-``x" is now "vimage" rather than "op -``";
  7495 
  7496 * HOL: the disjoint sum is now "<+>" instead of "Plus"; the cartesian
  7497 product is now "<*>" instead of "Times"; the lexicographic product is
  7498 now "<*lex*>" instead of "**";
  7499 
  7500 * HOL: theory Sexp is now in HOL/Induct examples (it used to be part
  7501 of main HOL, but was unused); better use HOL's datatype package;
  7502 
  7503 * HOL: removed "symbols" syntax for constant "override" of theory Map;
  7504 the old syntax may be recovered as follows:
  7505 
  7506   syntax (symbols)
  7507     override  :: "('a ~=> 'b) => ('a ~=> 'b) => ('a ~=> 'b)"
  7508       (infixl "\\<oplus>" 100)
  7509 
  7510 * HOL/Real: "rabs" replaced by overloaded "abs" function;
  7511 
  7512 * HOL/ML: even fewer consts are declared as global (see theories Ord,
  7513 Lfp, Gfp, WF); this only affects ML packages that refer to const names
  7514 internally;
  7515 
  7516 * HOL and ZF: syntax for quotienting wrt an equivalence relation
  7517 changed from A/r to A//r;
  7518 
  7519 * ZF: new treatment of arithmetic (nat & int) may break some old
  7520 proofs;
  7521 
  7522 * Isar: renamed some attributes (RS -> THEN, simplify -> simplified,
  7523 rulify -> rule_format, elimify -> elim_format, ...);
  7524 
  7525 * Isar/Provers: intro/elim/dest attributes changed; renamed
  7526 intro/intro!/intro!! flags to intro!/intro/intro? (in most cases, one
  7527 should have to change intro!! to intro? only); replaced "delrule" by
  7528 "rule del";
  7529 
  7530 * Isar/HOL: renamed "intrs" to "intros" in inductive definitions;
  7531 
  7532 * Provers: strengthened force_tac by using new first_best_tac;
  7533 
  7534 * LaTeX document preparation: several changes of isabelle.sty (see
  7535 lib/texinputs);
  7536 
  7537 
  7538 *** Document preparation ***
  7539 
  7540 * formal comments (text blocks etc.) in new-style theories may now
  7541 contain antiquotations of thm/prop/term/typ/text to be presented
  7542 according to latex print mode; concrete syntax is like this:
  7543 @{term[show_types] "f(x) = a + x"};
  7544 
  7545 * isatool mkdir provides easy setup of Isabelle session directories,
  7546 including proper document sources;
  7547 
  7548 * generated LaTeX sources are now deleted after successful run
  7549 (isatool document -c); may retain a copy somewhere else via -D option
  7550 of isatool usedir;
  7551 
  7552 * isatool usedir -D now lets isatool latex -o sty update the Isabelle
  7553 style files, achieving self-contained LaTeX sources and simplifying
  7554 LaTeX debugging;
  7555 
  7556 * old-style theories now produce (crude) LaTeX output as well;
  7557 
  7558 * browser info session directories are now self-contained (may be put
  7559 on WWW server seperately); improved graphs of nested sessions; removed
  7560 graph for 'all sessions';
  7561 
  7562 * several improvements in isabelle style files; \isabellestyle{it}
  7563 produces fake math mode output; \isamarkupheader is now \section by
  7564 default; see lib/texinputs/isabelle.sty etc.;
  7565 
  7566 
  7567 *** Isar ***
  7568 
  7569 * Isar/Pure: local results and corresponding term bindings are now
  7570 subject to Hindley-Milner polymorphism (similar to ML); this
  7571 accommodates incremental type-inference very nicely;
  7572 
  7573 * Isar/Pure: new derived language element 'obtain' supports
  7574 generalized existence reasoning;
  7575 
  7576 * Isar/Pure: new calculational elements 'moreover' and 'ultimately'
  7577 support accumulation of results, without applying any rules yet;
  7578 useful to collect intermediate results without explicit name
  7579 references, and for use with transitivity rules with more than 2
  7580 premises;
  7581 
  7582 * Isar/Pure: scalable support for case-analysis type proofs: new
  7583 'case' language element refers to local contexts symbolically, as
  7584 produced by certain proof methods; internally, case names are attached
  7585 to theorems as "tags";
  7586 
  7587 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'hide' removes declarations from
  7588 class/type/const name spaces;
  7589 
  7590 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'defs' supports option "(overloaded)" to
  7591 indicate potential overloading;
  7592 
  7593 * Isar/Pure: changed syntax of local blocks from {{ }} to { };
  7594 
  7595 * Isar/Pure: syntax of sorts made 'inner', i.e. have to write
  7596 "{a,b,c}" instead of {a,b,c};
  7597 
  7598 * Isar/Pure now provides its own version of intro/elim/dest
  7599 attributes; useful for building new logics, but beware of confusion
  7600 with the version in Provers/classical;
  7601 
  7602 * Isar/Pure: the local context of (non-atomic) goals is provided via
  7603 case name 'antecedent';
  7604 
  7605 * Isar/Pure: removed obsolete 'transfer' attribute (transfer of thms
  7606 to the current context is now done automatically);
  7607 
  7608 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'method_setup' provides a simple interface
  7609 for definining proof methods in ML;
  7610 
  7611 * Isar/Provers: intro/elim/dest attributes changed; renamed
  7612 intro/intro!/intro!! flags to intro!/intro/intro? (INCOMPATIBILITY, in
  7613 most cases, one should have to change intro!! to intro? only);
  7614 replaced "delrule" by "rule del";
  7615 
  7616 * Isar/Provers: new 'hypsubst' method, plain 'subst' method and
  7617 'symmetric' attribute (the latter supercedes [RS sym]);
  7618 
  7619 * Isar/Provers: splitter support (via 'split' attribute and 'simp'
  7620 method modifier); 'simp' method: 'only:' modifier removes loopers as
  7621 well (including splits);
  7622 
  7623 * Isar/Provers: Simplifier and Classical methods now support all kind
  7624 of modifiers used in the past, including 'cong', 'iff', etc.
  7625 
  7626 * Isar/Provers: added 'fastsimp' and 'clarsimp' methods (combination
  7627 of Simplifier and Classical reasoner);
  7628 
  7629 * Isar/HOL: new proof method 'cases' and improved version of 'induct'
  7630 now support named cases; major packages (inductive, datatype, primrec,
  7631 recdef) support case names and properly name parameters;
  7632 
  7633 * Isar/HOL: new transitivity rules for substitution in inequalities --
  7634 monotonicity conditions are extracted to be proven at end of
  7635 calculations;
  7636 
  7637 * Isar/HOL: removed 'case_split' thm binding, should use 'cases' proof
  7638 method anyway;
  7639 
  7640 * Isar/HOL: removed old expand_if = split_if; theorems if_splits =
  7641 split_if split_if_asm; datatype package provides theorems foo.splits =
  7642 foo.split foo.split_asm for each datatype;
  7643 
  7644 * Isar/HOL: tuned inductive package, rename "intrs" to "intros"
  7645 (potential INCOMPATIBILITY), emulation of mk_cases feature for proof
  7646 scripts: new 'inductive_cases' command and 'ind_cases' method; (Note:
  7647 use "(cases (simplified))" method in proper proof texts);
  7648 
  7649 * Isar/HOL: added global 'arith_split' attribute for 'arith' method;
  7650 
  7651 * Isar: names of theorems etc. may be natural numbers as well;
  7652 
  7653 * Isar: 'pr' command: optional arguments for goals_limit and
  7654 ProofContext.prems_limit; no longer prints theory contexts, but only
  7655 proof states;
  7656 
  7657 * Isar: diagnostic commands 'pr', 'thm', 'prop', 'term', 'typ' admit
  7658 additional print modes to be specified; e.g. "pr(latex)" will print
  7659 proof state according to the Isabelle LaTeX style;
  7660 
  7661 * Isar: improved support for emulating tactic scripts, including proof
  7662 methods 'rule_tac' etc., 'cut_tac', 'thin_tac', 'subgoal_tac',
  7663 'rename_tac', 'rotate_tac', 'tactic', and 'case_tac' / 'induct_tac'
  7664 (for HOL datatypes);
  7665 
  7666 * Isar: simplified (more robust) goal selection of proof methods: 1st
  7667 goal, all goals, or explicit goal specifier (tactic emulation); thus
  7668 'proof method scripts' have to be in depth-first order;
  7669 
  7670 * Isar: tuned 'let' syntax: replaced 'as' keyword by 'and';
  7671 
  7672 * Isar: removed 'help' command, which hasn't been too helpful anyway;
  7673 should instead use individual commands for printing items
  7674 (print_commands, print_methods etc.);
  7675 
  7676 * Isar: added 'nothing' --- the empty list of theorems;
  7677 
  7678 
  7679 *** HOL ***
  7680 
  7681 * HOL/MicroJava: formalization of a fragment of Java, together with a
  7682 corresponding virtual machine and a specification of its bytecode
  7683 verifier and a lightweight bytecode verifier, including proofs of
  7684 type-safety; by Gerwin Klein, Tobias Nipkow, David von Oheimb, and
  7685 Cornelia Pusch (see also the homepage of project Bali at
  7686 http://isabelle.in.tum.de/Bali/);
  7687 
  7688 * HOL/Algebra: new theory of rings and univariate polynomials, by
  7689 Clemens Ballarin;
  7690 
  7691 * HOL/NumberTheory: fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Chinese
  7692 Remainder Theorem, Fermat/Euler Theorem, Wilson's Theorem, by Thomas M
  7693 Rasmussen;
  7694 
  7695 * HOL/Lattice: fundamental concepts of lattice theory and order
  7696 structures, including duals, properties of bounds versus algebraic
  7697 laws, lattice operations versus set-theoretic ones, the Knaster-Tarski
  7698 Theorem for complete lattices etc.; may also serve as a demonstration
  7699 for abstract algebraic reasoning using axiomatic type classes, and
  7700 mathematics-style proof in Isabelle/Isar; by Markus Wenzel;
  7701 
  7702 * HOL/Prolog: a (bare-bones) implementation of Lambda-Prolog, by David
  7703 von Oheimb;
  7704 
  7705 * HOL/IMPP: extension of IMP with local variables and mutually
  7706 recursive procedures, by David von Oheimb;
  7707 
  7708 * HOL/Lambda: converted into new-style theory and document;
  7709 
  7710 * HOL/ex/Multiquote: example of multiple nested quotations and
  7711 anti-quotations -- basically a generalized version of de-Bruijn
  7712 representation; very useful in avoiding lifting of operations;
  7713 
  7714 * HOL/record: added general record equality rule to simpset; fixed
  7715 select-update simplification procedure to handle extended records as
  7716 well; admit "r" as field name;
  7717 
  7718 * HOL: 0 is now overloaded over the new sort "zero", allowing its use with
  7719 other numeric types and also as the identity of groups, rings, etc.;
  7720 
  7721 * HOL: new axclass plus_ac0 for addition with the AC-laws and 0 as identity.
  7722 Types nat and int belong to this axclass;
  7723 
  7724 * HOL: greatly improved simplification involving numerals of type nat, int, real:
  7725    (i + #8 + j) = Suc k simplifies to  #7 + (i + j) = k
  7726    i*j + k + j*#3*i     simplifies to  #4*(i*j) + k
  7727   two terms #m*u and #n*u are replaced by #(m+n)*u
  7728     (where #m, #n and u can implicitly be 1; this is simproc combine_numerals)
  7729   and the term/formula #m*u+x ~~ #n*u+y simplifies simplifies to #(m-n)+x ~~ y
  7730     or x ~~ #(n-m)+y, where ~~ is one of = < <= or - (simproc cancel_numerals);
  7731 
  7732 * HOL: meson_tac is available (previously in ex/meson.ML); it is a
  7733 powerful prover for predicate logic but knows nothing of clasets; see
  7734 ex/mesontest.ML and ex/mesontest2.ML for example applications;
  7735 
  7736 * HOL: new version of "case_tac" subsumes both boolean case split and
  7737 "exhaust_tac" on datatypes; INCOMPATIBILITY: exhaust_tac no longer
  7738 exists, may define val exhaust_tac = case_tac for ad-hoc portability;
  7739 
  7740 * HOL: simplification no longer dives into case-expressions: only the
  7741 selector expression is simplified, but not the remaining arms; to
  7742 enable full simplification of case-expressions for datatype t, you may
  7743 remove t.weak_case_cong from the simpset, either globally (Delcongs
  7744 [thm"t.weak_case_cong"];) or locally (delcongs [...]).
  7745 
  7746 * HOL/recdef: the recursion equations generated by 'recdef' for
  7747 function 'f' are now called f.simps instead of f.rules; if all
  7748 termination conditions are proved automatically, these simplification
  7749 rules are added to the simpset, as in primrec; rules may be named
  7750 individually as well, resulting in a separate list of theorems for
  7751 each equation;
  7752 
  7753 * HOL/While is a new theory that provides a while-combinator. It
  7754 permits the definition of tail-recursive functions without the
  7755 provision of a termination measure. The latter is necessary once the
  7756 invariant proof rule for while is applied.
  7757 
  7758 * HOL: new (overloaded) notation for the set of elements below/above
  7759 some element: {..u}, {..u(}, {l..}, {)l..}. See theory SetInterval.
  7760 
  7761 * HOL: theorems impI, allI, ballI bound as "strip";
  7762 
  7763 * HOL: new tactic induct_thm_tac: thm -> string -> int -> tactic
  7764 induct_tac th "x1 ... xn" expects th to have a conclusion of the form
  7765 P v1 ... vn and abbreviates res_inst_tac [("v1","x1"),...,("vn","xn")] th;
  7766 
  7767 * HOL/Real: "rabs" replaced by overloaded "abs" function;
  7768 
  7769 * HOL: theory Sexp now in HOL/Induct examples (it used to be part of
  7770 main HOL, but was unused);
  7771 
  7772 * HOL: fewer consts declared as global (e.g. have to refer to
  7773 "Lfp.lfp" instead of "lfp" internally; affects ML packages only);
  7774 
  7775 * HOL: tuned AST representation of nested pairs, avoiding bogus output
  7776 in case of overlap with user translations (e.g. judgements over
  7777 tuples); (note that the underlying logical represenation is still
  7778 bogus);
  7779 
  7780 
  7781 *** ZF ***
  7782 
  7783 * ZF: simplification automatically cancels common terms in arithmetic
  7784 expressions over nat and int;
  7785 
  7786 * ZF: new treatment of nat to minimize type-checking: all operators
  7787 coerce their operands to a natural number using the function natify,
  7788 making the algebraic laws unconditional;
  7789 
  7790 * ZF: as above, for int: operators coerce their operands to an integer
  7791 using the function intify;
  7792 
  7793 * ZF: the integer library now contains many of the usual laws for the
  7794 orderings, including $<=, and monotonicity laws for $+ and $*;
  7795 
  7796 * ZF: new example ZF/ex/NatSum to demonstrate integer arithmetic
  7797 simplification;
  7798 
  7799 * FOL and ZF: AddIffs now available, giving theorems of the form P<->Q
  7800 to the simplifier and classical reasoner simultaneously;
  7801 
  7802 
  7803 *** General ***
  7804 
  7805 * Provers: blast_tac now handles actual object-logic rules as
  7806 assumptions; note that auto_tac uses blast_tac internally as well;
  7807 
  7808 * Provers: new functions rulify/rulify_no_asm: thm -> thm for turning
  7809 outer -->/All/Ball into ==>/!!; qed_spec_mp now uses rulify_no_asm;
  7810 
  7811 * Provers: delrules now handles destruct rules as well (no longer need
  7812 explicit make_elim);
  7813 
  7814 * Provers: Blast_tac now warns of and ignores "weak elimination rules" e.g.
  7815   [| inj ?f;          ?f ?x = ?f ?y; ?x = ?y ==> ?W |] ==> ?W
  7816 use instead the strong form,
  7817   [| inj ?f; ~ ?W ==> ?f ?x = ?f ?y; ?x = ?y ==> ?W |] ==> ?W
  7818 in HOL, FOL and ZF the function cla_make_elim will create such rules
  7819 from destruct-rules;
  7820 
  7821 * Provers: Simplifier.easy_setup provides a fast path to basic
  7822 Simplifier setup for new object-logics;
  7823 
  7824 * Pure: AST translation rules no longer require constant head on LHS;
  7825 
  7826 * Pure: improved name spaces: ambiguous output is qualified; support
  7827 for hiding of names;
  7828 
  7829 * system: smart setup of canonical ML_HOME, ISABELLE_INTERFACE, and
  7830 XSYMBOL_HOME; no longer need to do manual configuration in most
  7831 situations;
  7832 
  7833 * system: compression of ML heaps images may now be controlled via -c
  7834 option of isabelle and isatool usedir (currently only observed by
  7835 Poly/ML);
  7836 
  7837 * system: isatool installfonts may handle X-Symbol fonts as well (very
  7838 useful for remote X11);
  7839 
  7840 * system: provide TAGS file for Isabelle sources;
  7841 
  7842 * ML: infix 'OF' is a version of 'MRS' with more appropriate argument
  7843 order;
  7844 
  7845 * ML: renamed flags Syntax.trace_norm_ast to Syntax.trace_ast; global
  7846 timing flag supersedes proof_timing and Toplevel.trace;
  7847 
  7848 * ML: new combinators |>> and |>>> for incremental transformations
  7849 with secondary results (e.g. certain theory extensions):
  7850 
  7851 * ML: PureThy.add_defs gets additional argument to indicate potential
  7852 overloading (usually false);
  7853 
  7854 * ML: PureThy.add_thms/add_axioms/add_defs now return theorems as
  7855 results;
  7856 
  7857 
  7858 
  7859 New in Isabelle99 (October 1999)
  7860 --------------------------------
  7861 
  7862 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
  7863 
  7864 * HOL: The THEN and ELSE parts of conditional expressions (if P then x else y)
  7865 are no longer simplified.  (This allows the simplifier to unfold recursive
  7866 functional programs.)  To restore the old behaviour, declare
  7867 
  7868     Delcongs [if_weak_cong];
  7869 
  7870 * HOL: Removed the obsolete syntax "Compl A"; use -A for set
  7871 complement;
  7872 
  7873 * HOL: the predicate "inj" is now defined by translation to "inj_on";
  7874 
  7875 * HOL/datatype: mutual_induct_tac no longer exists --
  7876   use induct_tac "x_1 ... x_n" instead of mutual_induct_tac ["x_1", ..., "x_n"]
  7877 
  7878 * HOL/typedef: fixed type inference for representing set; type
  7879 arguments now have to occur explicitly on the rhs as type constraints;
  7880 
  7881 * ZF: The con_defs part of an inductive definition may no longer refer
  7882 to constants declared in the same theory;
  7883 
  7884 * HOL, ZF: the function mk_cases, generated by the inductive
  7885 definition package, has lost an argument.  To simplify its result, it
  7886 uses the default simpset instead of a supplied list of theorems.
  7887 
  7888 * HOL/List: the constructors of type list are now Nil and Cons;
  7889 
  7890 * Simplifier: the type of the infix ML functions
  7891         setSSolver addSSolver setSolver addSolver
  7892 is now  simpset * solver -> simpset  where `solver' is a new abstract type
  7893 for packaging solvers. A solver is created via
  7894         mk_solver: string -> (thm list -> int -> tactic) -> solver
  7895 where the string argument is only a comment.
  7896 
  7897 
  7898 *** Proof tools ***
  7899 
  7900 * Provers/Arith/fast_lin_arith.ML contains a functor for creating a
  7901 decision procedure for linear arithmetic. Currently it is used for
  7902 types `nat', `int', and `real' in HOL (see below); it can, should and
  7903 will be instantiated for other types and logics as well.
  7904 
  7905 * The simplifier now accepts rewrite rules with flexible heads, eg
  7906      hom ?f ==> ?f(?x+?y) = ?f ?x + ?f ?y
  7907   They are applied like any rule with a non-pattern lhs, i.e. by first-order
  7908   matching.
  7909 
  7910 
  7911 *** General ***
  7912 
  7913 * New Isabelle/Isar subsystem provides an alternative to traditional
  7914 tactical theorem proving; together with the ProofGeneral/isar user
  7915 interface it offers an interactive environment for developing human
  7916 readable proof documents (Isar == Intelligible semi-automated
  7917 reasoning); for further information see isatool doc isar-ref,
  7918 src/HOL/Isar_examples and http://isabelle.in.tum.de/Isar/
  7919 
  7920 * improved and simplified presentation of theories: better HTML markup
  7921 (including colors), graph views in several sizes; isatool usedir now
  7922 provides a proper interface for user theories (via -P option); actual
  7923 document preparation based on (PDF)LaTeX is available as well (for
  7924 new-style theories only); see isatool doc system for more information;
  7925 
  7926 * native support for Proof General, both for classic Isabelle and
  7927 Isabelle/Isar;
  7928 
  7929 * ML function thm_deps visualizes dependencies of theorems and lemmas,
  7930 using the graph browser tool;
  7931 
  7932 * Isabelle manuals now also available as PDF;
  7933 
  7934 * theory loader rewritten from scratch (may not be fully
  7935 bug-compatible); old loadpath variable has been replaced by show_path,
  7936 add_path, del_path, reset_path functions; new operations such as
  7937 update_thy, touch_thy, remove_thy, use/update_thy_only (see also
  7938 isatool doc ref);
  7939 
  7940 * improved isatool install: option -k creates KDE application icon,
  7941 option -p DIR installs standalone binaries;
  7942 
  7943 * added ML_PLATFORM setting (useful for cross-platform installations);
  7944 more robust handling of platform specific ML images for SML/NJ;
  7945 
  7946 * the settings environment is now statically scoped, i.e. it is never
  7947 created again in sub-processes invoked from isabelle, isatool, or
  7948 Isabelle;
  7949 
  7950 * path element specification '~~' refers to '$ISABELLE_HOME';
  7951 
  7952 * in locales, the "assumes" and "defines" parts may be omitted if
  7953 empty;
  7954 
  7955 * new print_mode "xsymbols" for extended symbol support (e.g. genuine
  7956 long arrows);
  7957 
  7958 * new print_mode "HTML";
  7959 
  7960 * new flag show_tags controls display of tags of theorems (which are
  7961 basically just comments that may be attached by some tools);
  7962 
  7963 * Isamode 2.6 requires patch to accomodate change of Isabelle font
  7964 mode and goal output format:
  7965 
  7966 diff -r Isamode-2.6/elisp/isa-load.el Isamode/elisp/isa-load.el
  7967 244c244
  7968 <       (list (isa-getenv "ISABELLE") "-msymbols" logic-name)
  7969 ---
  7970 >       (list (isa-getenv "ISABELLE") "-misabelle_font" "-msymbols" logic-name)
  7971 diff -r Isabelle-2.6/elisp/isa-proofstate.el Isamode/elisp/isa-proofstate.el
  7972 181c181
  7973 < (defconst proofstate-proofstart-regexp "^Level [0-9]+$"
  7974 ---
  7975 > (defconst proofstate-proofstart-regexp "^Level [0-9]+"
  7976 
  7977 * function bind_thms stores lists of theorems (cf. bind_thm);
  7978 
  7979 * new shorthand tactics ftac, eatac, datac, fatac;
  7980 
  7981 * qed (and friends) now accept "" as result name; in that case the
  7982 theorem is not stored, but proper checks and presentation of the
  7983 result still apply;
  7984 
  7985 * theorem database now also indexes constants "Trueprop", "all",
  7986 "==>", "=="; thus thms_containing, findI etc. may retrieve more rules;
  7987 
  7988 
  7989 *** HOL ***
  7990 
  7991 ** HOL arithmetic **
  7992 
  7993 * There are now decision procedures for linear arithmetic over nat and
  7994 int:
  7995 
  7996 1. arith_tac copes with arbitrary formulae involving `=', `<', `<=',
  7997 `+', `-', `Suc', `min', `max' and numerical constants; other subterms
  7998 are treated as atomic; subformulae not involving type `nat' or `int'
  7999 are ignored; quantified subformulae are ignored unless they are
  8000 positive universal or negative existential. The tactic has to be
  8001 invoked by hand and can be a little bit slow. In particular, the
  8002 running time is exponential in the number of occurrences of `min' and
  8003 `max', and `-' on `nat'.
  8004 
  8005 2. fast_arith_tac is a cut-down version of arith_tac: it only takes
  8006 (negated) (in)equalities among the premises and the conclusion into
  8007 account (i.e. no compound formulae) and does not know about `min' and
  8008 `max', and `-' on `nat'. It is fast and is used automatically by the
  8009 simplifier.
  8010 
  8011 NB: At the moment, these decision procedures do not cope with mixed
  8012 nat/int formulae where the two parts interact, such as `m < n ==>
  8013 int(m) < int(n)'.
  8014 
  8015 * HOL/Numeral provides a generic theory of numerals (encoded
  8016 efficiently as bit strings); setup for types nat/int/real is in place;
  8017 INCOMPATIBILITY: since numeral syntax is now polymorphic, rather than
  8018 int, existing theories and proof scripts may require a few additional
  8019 type constraints;
  8020 
  8021 * integer division and remainder can now be performed on constant
  8022 arguments;
  8023 
  8024 * many properties of integer multiplication, division and remainder
  8025 are now available;
  8026 
  8027 * An interface to the Stanford Validity Checker (SVC) is available through the
  8028 tactic svc_tac.  Propositional tautologies and theorems of linear arithmetic
  8029 are proved automatically.  SVC must be installed separately, and its results
  8030 must be TAKEN ON TRUST (Isabelle does not check the proofs, but tags any
  8031 invocation of the underlying oracle).  For SVC see
  8032   http://verify.stanford.edu/SVC
  8033 
  8034 * IsaMakefile: the HOL-Real target now builds an actual image;
  8035 
  8036 
  8037 ** HOL misc **
  8038 
  8039 * HOL/Real/HahnBanach: the Hahn-Banach theorem for real vector spaces
  8040 (in Isabelle/Isar) -- by Gertrud Bauer;
  8041 
  8042 * HOL/BCV: generic model of bytecode verification, i.e. data-flow
  8043 analysis for assembly languages with subtypes;
  8044 
  8045 * HOL/TLA (Lamport's Temporal Logic of Actions): major reorganization
  8046 -- avoids syntactic ambiguities and treats state, transition, and
  8047 temporal levels more uniformly; introduces INCOMPATIBILITIES due to
  8048 changed syntax and (many) tactics;
  8049 
  8050 * HOL/inductive: Now also handles more general introduction rules such
  8051   as "ALL y. (y, x) : r --> y : acc r ==> x : acc r"; monotonicity
  8052   theorems are now maintained within the theory (maintained via the
  8053   "mono" attribute);
  8054 
  8055 * HOL/datatype: Now also handles arbitrarily branching datatypes
  8056   (using function types) such as
  8057 
  8058   datatype 'a tree = Atom 'a | Branch "nat => 'a tree"
  8059 
  8060 * HOL/record: record_simproc (part of the default simpset) takes care
  8061 of selectors applied to updated records; record_split_tac is no longer
  8062 part of the default claset; update_defs may now be removed from the
  8063 simpset in many cases; COMPATIBILITY: old behavior achieved by
  8064 
  8065   claset_ref () := claset() addSWrapper record_split_wrapper;
  8066   Delsimprocs [record_simproc]
  8067 
  8068 * HOL/typedef: fixed type inference for representing set; type
  8069 arguments now have to occur explicitly on the rhs as type constraints;
  8070 
  8071 * HOL/recdef (TFL): 'congs' syntax now expects comma separated list of theorem
  8072 names rather than an ML expression;
  8073 
  8074 * HOL/defer_recdef (TFL): like recdef but the well-founded relation can be
  8075 supplied later.  Program schemes can be defined, such as
  8076     "While B C s = (if B s then While B C (C s) else s)"
  8077 where the well-founded relation can be chosen after B and C have been given.
  8078 
  8079 * HOL/List: the constructors of type list are now Nil and Cons;
  8080 INCOMPATIBILITY: while [] and infix # syntax is still there, of
  8081 course, ML tools referring to List.list.op # etc. have to be adapted;
  8082 
  8083 * HOL_quantifiers flag superseded by "HOL" print mode, which is
  8084 disabled by default; run isabelle with option -m HOL to get back to
  8085 the original Gordon/HOL-style output;
  8086 
  8087 * HOL/Ord.thy: new bounded quantifier syntax (input only): ALL x<y. P,
  8088 ALL x<=y. P, EX x<y. P, EX x<=y. P;
  8089 
  8090 * HOL basic syntax simplified (more orthogonal): all variants of
  8091 All/Ex now support plain / symbolic / HOL notation; plain syntax for
  8092 Eps operator is provided as well: "SOME x. P[x]";
  8093 
  8094 * HOL/Sum.thy: sum_case has been moved to HOL/Datatype;
  8095 
  8096 * HOL/Univ.thy: infix syntax <*>, <+>, <**>, <+> eliminated and made
  8097 thus available for user theories;
  8098 
  8099 * HOLCF/IOA/Sequents: renamed 'Cons' to 'Consq' to avoid clash with
  8100 HOL/List; hardly an INCOMPATIBILITY since '>>' syntax is used all the
  8101 time;
  8102 
  8103 * HOL: new tactic smp_tac: int -> int -> tactic, which applies spec
  8104 several times and then mp;
  8105 
  8106 
  8107 *** LK ***
  8108 
  8109 * the notation <<...>> is now available as a notation for sequences of
  8110 formulas;
  8111 
  8112 * the simplifier is now installed
  8113 
  8114 * the axiom system has been generalized (thanks to Soren Heilmann)
  8115 
  8116 * the classical reasoner now has a default rule database
  8117 
  8118 
  8119 *** ZF ***
  8120 
  8121 * new primrec section allows primitive recursive functions to be given
  8122 directly (as in HOL) over datatypes and the natural numbers;
  8123 
  8124 * new tactics induct_tac and exhaust_tac for induction (or case
  8125 analysis) over datatypes and the natural numbers;
  8126 
  8127 * the datatype declaration of type T now defines the recursor T_rec;
  8128 
  8129 * simplification automatically does freeness reasoning for datatype
  8130 constructors;
  8131 
  8132 * automatic type-inference, with AddTCs command to insert new
  8133 type-checking rules;
  8134 
  8135 * datatype introduction rules are now added as Safe Introduction rules
  8136 to the claset;
  8137 
  8138 * the syntax "if P then x else y" is now available in addition to
  8139 if(P,x,y);
  8140 
  8141 
  8142 *** Internal programming interfaces ***
  8143 
  8144 * tuned simplifier trace output; new flag debug_simp;
  8145 
  8146 * structures Vartab / Termtab (instances of TableFun) offer efficient
  8147 tables indexed by indexname_ord / term_ord (compatible with aconv);
  8148 
  8149 * AxClass.axclass_tac lost the theory argument;
  8150 
  8151 * tuned current_goals_markers semantics: begin / end goal avoids
  8152 printing empty lines;
  8153 
  8154 * removed prs and prs_fn hook, which was broken because it did not
  8155 include \n in its semantics, forcing writeln to add one
  8156 uncoditionally; replaced prs_fn by writeln_fn; consider std_output:
  8157 string -> unit if you really want to output text without newline;
  8158 
  8159 * Symbol.output subject to print mode; INCOMPATIBILITY: defaults to
  8160 plain output, interface builders may have to enable 'isabelle_font'
  8161 mode to get Isabelle font glyphs as before;
  8162 
  8163 * refined token_translation interface; INCOMPATIBILITY: output length
  8164 now of type real instead of int;
  8165 
  8166 * theory loader actions may be traced via new ThyInfo.add_hook
  8167 interface (see src/Pure/Thy/thy_info.ML); example application: keep
  8168 your own database of information attached to *whole* theories -- as
  8169 opposed to intra-theory data slots offered via TheoryDataFun;
  8170 
  8171 * proper handling of dangling sort hypotheses (at last!);
  8172 Thm.strip_shyps and Drule.strip_shyps_warning take care of removing
  8173 extra sort hypotheses that can be witnessed from the type signature;
  8174 the force_strip_shyps flag is gone, any remaining shyps are simply
  8175 left in the theorem (with a warning issued by strip_shyps_warning);
  8176 
  8177 
  8178 
  8179 New in Isabelle98-1 (October 1998)
  8180 ----------------------------------
  8181 
  8182 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
  8183 
  8184 * several changes of automated proof tools;
  8185 
  8186 * HOL: major changes to the inductive and datatype packages, including
  8187 some minor incompatibilities of theory syntax;
  8188 
  8189 * HOL: renamed r^-1 to 'converse' from 'inverse'; 'inj_onto' is now
  8190 called `inj_on';
  8191 
  8192 * HOL: removed duplicate thms in Arith:
  8193   less_imp_add_less  should be replaced by  trans_less_add1
  8194   le_imp_add_le      should be replaced by  trans_le_add1
  8195 
  8196 * HOL: unary minus is now overloaded (new type constraints may be
  8197 required);
  8198 
  8199 * HOL and ZF: unary minus for integers is now #- instead of #~.  In
  8200 ZF, expressions such as n#-1 must be changed to n#- 1, since #-1 is
  8201 now taken as an integer constant.
  8202 
  8203 * Pure: ML function 'theory_of' renamed to 'theory';
  8204 
  8205 
  8206 *** Proof tools ***
  8207 
  8208 * Simplifier:
  8209   1. Asm_full_simp_tac is now more aggressive.
  8210      1. It will sometimes reorient premises if that increases their power to
  8211         simplify.
  8212      2. It does no longer proceed strictly from left to right but may also
  8213         rotate premises to achieve further simplification.
  8214      For compatibility reasons there is now Asm_lr_simp_tac which is like the
  8215      old Asm_full_simp_tac in that it does not rotate premises.
  8216   2. The simplifier now knows a little bit about nat-arithmetic.
  8217 
  8218 * Classical reasoner: wrapper mechanism for the classical reasoner now
  8219 allows for selected deletion of wrappers, by introduction of names for
  8220 wrapper functionals.  This implies that addbefore, addSbefore,
  8221 addaltern, and addSaltern now take a pair (name, tactic) as argument,
  8222 and that adding two tactics with the same name overwrites the first
  8223 one (emitting a warning).
  8224   type wrapper = (int -> tactic) -> (int -> tactic)
  8225   setWrapper, setSWrapper, compWrapper and compSWrapper are replaced by
  8226   addWrapper, addSWrapper: claset * (string * wrapper) -> claset
  8227   delWrapper, delSWrapper: claset *  string            -> claset
  8228   getWrapper is renamed to appWrappers, getSWrapper to appSWrappers;
  8229 
  8230 * Classical reasoner: addbefore/addSbefore now have APPEND/ORELSE
  8231 semantics; addbefore now affects only the unsafe part of step_tac
  8232 etc.; this affects addss/auto_tac/force_tac, so EXISTING PROOFS MAY
  8233 FAIL, but proofs should be fixable easily, e.g. by replacing Auto_tac
  8234 by Force_tac;
  8235 
  8236 * Classical reasoner: setwrapper to setWrapper and compwrapper to
  8237 compWrapper; added safe wrapper (and access functions for it);
  8238 
  8239 * HOL/split_all_tac is now much faster and fails if there is nothing
  8240 to split.  Some EXISTING PROOFS MAY REQUIRE ADAPTION because the order
  8241 and the names of the automatically generated variables have changed.
  8242 split_all_tac has moved within claset() from unsafe wrappers to safe
  8243 wrappers, which means that !!-bound variables are split much more
  8244 aggressively, and safe_tac and clarify_tac now split such variables.
  8245 If this splitting is not appropriate, use delSWrapper "split_all_tac".
  8246 Note: the same holds for record_split_tac, which does the job of
  8247 split_all_tac for record fields.
  8248 
  8249 * HOL/Simplifier: Rewrite rules for case distinctions can now be added
  8250 permanently to the default simpset using Addsplits just like
  8251 Addsimps. They can be removed via Delsplits just like
  8252 Delsimps. Lower-case versions are also available.
  8253 
  8254 * HOL/Simplifier: The rule split_if is now part of the default
  8255 simpset. This means that the simplifier will eliminate all occurrences
  8256 of if-then-else in the conclusion of a goal. To prevent this, you can
  8257 either remove split_if completely from the default simpset by
  8258 `Delsplits [split_if]' or remove it in a specific call of the
  8259 simplifier using `... delsplits [split_if]'.  You can also add/delete
  8260 other case splitting rules to/from the default simpset: every datatype
  8261 generates suitable rules `split_t_case' and `split_t_case_asm' (where
  8262 t is the name of the datatype).
  8263 
  8264 * Classical reasoner / Simplifier combination: new force_tac (and
  8265 derivatives Force_tac, force) combines rewriting and classical
  8266 reasoning (and whatever other tools) similarly to auto_tac, but is
  8267 aimed to solve the given subgoal completely.
  8268 
  8269 
  8270 *** General ***
  8271 
  8272 * new top-level commands `Goal' and `Goalw' that improve upon `goal'
  8273 and `goalw': the theory is no longer needed as an explicit argument -
  8274 the current theory context is used; assumptions are no longer returned
  8275 at the ML-level unless one of them starts with ==> or !!; it is
  8276 recommended to convert to these new commands using isatool fixgoal
  8277 (backup your sources first!);
  8278 
  8279 * new top-level commands 'thm' and 'thms' for retrieving theorems from
  8280 the current theory context, and 'theory' to lookup stored theories;
  8281 
  8282 * new theory section 'locale' for declaring constants, assumptions and
  8283 definitions that have local scope;
  8284 
  8285 * new theory section 'nonterminals' for purely syntactic types;
  8286 
  8287 * new theory section 'setup' for generic ML setup functions
  8288 (e.g. package initialization);
  8289 
  8290 * the distribution now includes Isabelle icons: see
  8291 lib/logo/isabelle-{small,tiny}.xpm;
  8292 
  8293 * isatool install - install binaries with absolute references to
  8294 ISABELLE_HOME/bin;
  8295 
  8296 * isatool logo -- create instances of the Isabelle logo (as EPS);
  8297 
  8298 * print mode 'emacs' reserved for Isamode;
  8299 
  8300 * support multiple print (ast) translations per constant name;
  8301 
  8302 * theorems involving oracles are now printed with a suffixed [!];
  8303 
  8304 
  8305 *** HOL ***
  8306 
  8307 * there is now a tutorial on Isabelle/HOL (do 'isatool doc tutorial');
  8308 
  8309 * HOL/inductive package reorganized and improved: now supports mutual
  8310 definitions such as
  8311 
  8312   inductive EVEN ODD
  8313     intrs
  8314       null "0 : EVEN"
  8315       oddI "n : EVEN ==> Suc n : ODD"
  8316       evenI "n : ODD ==> Suc n : EVEN"
  8317 
  8318 new theorem list "elims" contains an elimination rule for each of the
  8319 recursive sets; inductive definitions now handle disjunctive premises
  8320 correctly (also ZF);
  8321 
  8322 INCOMPATIBILITIES: requires Inductive as an ancestor; component
  8323 "mutual_induct" no longer exists - the induction rule is always
  8324 contained in "induct";
  8325 
  8326 
  8327 * HOL/datatype package re-implemented and greatly improved: now
  8328 supports mutually recursive datatypes such as
  8329 
  8330   datatype
  8331     'a aexp = IF_THEN_ELSE ('a bexp) ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
  8332             | SUM ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
  8333             | DIFF ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
  8334             | NUM 'a
  8335   and
  8336     'a bexp = LESS ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
  8337             | AND ('a bexp) ('a bexp)
  8338             | OR ('a bexp) ('a bexp)
  8339 
  8340 as well as indirectly recursive datatypes such as
  8341 
  8342   datatype
  8343     ('a, 'b) term = Var 'a
  8344                   | App 'b ((('a, 'b) term) list)
  8345 
  8346 The new tactic  mutual_induct_tac [<var_1>, ..., <var_n>] i  performs
  8347 induction on mutually / indirectly recursive datatypes.
  8348 
  8349 Primrec equations are now stored in theory and can be accessed via
  8350 <function_name>.simps.
  8351 
  8352 INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  8353 
  8354   - Theories using datatypes must now have theory Datatype as an
  8355     ancestor.
  8356   - The specific <typename>.induct_tac no longer exists - use the
  8357     generic induct_tac instead.
  8358   - natE has been renamed to nat.exhaust - use exhaust_tac
  8359     instead of res_inst_tac ... natE. Note that the variable
  8360     names in nat.exhaust differ from the names in natE, this
  8361     may cause some "fragile" proofs to fail.
  8362   - The theorems split_<typename>_case and split_<typename>_case_asm
  8363     have been renamed to <typename>.split and <typename>.split_asm.
  8364   - Since default sorts of type variables are now handled correctly,
  8365     some datatype definitions may have to be annotated with explicit
  8366     sort constraints.
  8367   - Primrec definitions no longer require function name and type
  8368     of recursive argument.
  8369 
  8370 Consider using isatool fixdatatype to adapt your theories and proof
  8371 scripts to the new package (backup your sources first!).
  8372 
  8373 
  8374 * HOL/record package: considerably improved implementation; now
  8375 includes concrete syntax for record types, terms, updates; theorems
  8376 for surjective pairing and splitting !!-bound record variables; proof
  8377 support is as follows:
  8378 
  8379   1) standard conversions (selectors or updates applied to record
  8380 constructor terms) are part of the standard simpset;
  8381 
  8382   2) inject equations of the form ((x, y) = (x', y')) == x=x' & y=y' are
  8383 made part of standard simpset and claset via addIffs;
  8384 
  8385   3) a tactic for record field splitting (record_split_tac) is part of
  8386 the standard claset (addSWrapper);
  8387 
  8388 To get a better idea about these rules you may retrieve them via
  8389 something like 'thms "foo.simps"' or 'thms "foo.iffs"', where "foo" is
  8390 the name of your record type.
  8391 
  8392 The split tactic 3) conceptually simplifies by the following rule:
  8393 
  8394   "(!!x. PROP ?P x) == (!!a b. PROP ?P (a, b))"
  8395 
  8396 Thus any record variable that is bound by meta-all will automatically
  8397 blow up into some record constructor term, consequently the
  8398 simplifications of 1), 2) apply.  Thus force_tac, auto_tac etc. shall
  8399 solve record problems automatically.
  8400 
  8401 
  8402 * reorganized the main HOL image: HOL/Integ and String loaded by
  8403 default; theory Main includes everything;
  8404 
  8405 * automatic simplification of integer sums and comparisons, using cancellation;
  8406 
  8407 * added option_map_eq_Some and not_Some_eq to the default simpset and claset;
  8408 
  8409 * added disj_not1 = "(~P | Q) = (P --> Q)" to the default simpset;
  8410 
  8411 * many new identities for unions, intersections, set difference, etc.;
  8412 
  8413 * expand_if, expand_split, expand_sum_case and expand_nat_case are now
  8414 called split_if, split_split, split_sum_case and split_nat_case (to go
  8415 with add/delsplits);
  8416 
  8417 * HOL/Prod introduces simplification procedure unit_eq_proc rewriting
  8418 (?x::unit) = (); this is made part of the default simpset, which COULD
  8419 MAKE EXISTING PROOFS FAIL under rare circumstances (consider
  8420 'Delsimprocs [unit_eq_proc];' as last resort); also note that
  8421 unit_abs_eta_conv is added in order to counter the effect of
  8422 unit_eq_proc on (%u::unit. f u), replacing it by f rather than by
  8423 %u.f();
  8424 
  8425 * HOL/Fun INCOMPATIBILITY: `inj_onto' is now called `inj_on' (which
  8426 makes more sense);
  8427 
  8428 * HOL/Set INCOMPATIBILITY: rule `equals0D' is now a well-formed destruct rule;
  8429   It and 'sym RS equals0D' are now in the default  claset, giving automatic
  8430   disjointness reasoning but breaking a few old proofs.
  8431 
  8432 * HOL/Relation INCOMPATIBILITY: renamed the relational operator r^-1
  8433 to 'converse' from 'inverse' (for compatibility with ZF and some
  8434 literature);
  8435 
  8436 * HOL/recdef can now declare non-recursive functions, with {} supplied as
  8437 the well-founded relation;
  8438 
  8439 * HOL/Set INCOMPATIBILITY: the complement of set A is now written -A instead of
  8440     Compl A.  The "Compl" syntax remains available as input syntax for this
  8441     release ONLY.
  8442 
  8443 * HOL/Update: new theory of function updates:
  8444     f(a:=b) == %x. if x=a then b else f x
  8445 may also be iterated as in f(a:=b,c:=d,...);
  8446 
  8447 * HOL/Vimage: new theory for inverse image of a function, syntax f-``B;
  8448 
  8449 * HOL/List:
  8450   - new function list_update written xs[i:=v] that updates the i-th
  8451     list position. May also be iterated as in xs[i:=a,j:=b,...].
  8452   - new function `upt' written [i..j(] which generates the list
  8453     [i,i+1,...,j-1], i.e. the upper bound is excluded. To include the upper
  8454     bound write [i..j], which is a shorthand for [i..j+1(].
  8455   - new lexicographic orderings and corresponding wellfoundedness theorems.
  8456 
  8457 * HOL/Arith:
  8458   - removed 'pred' (predecessor) function;
  8459   - generalized some theorems about n-1;
  8460   - many new laws about "div" and "mod";
  8461   - new laws about greatest common divisors (see theory ex/Primes);
  8462 
  8463 * HOL/Relation: renamed the relational operator r^-1 "converse"
  8464 instead of "inverse";
  8465 
  8466 * HOL/Induct/Multiset: a theory of multisets, including the wellfoundedness
  8467   of the multiset ordering;
  8468 
  8469 * directory HOL/Real: a construction of the reals using Dedekind cuts
  8470   (not included by default);
  8471 
  8472 * directory HOL/UNITY: Chandy and Misra's UNITY formalism;
  8473 
  8474 * directory HOL/Hoare: a new version of Hoare logic which permits many-sorted
  8475   programs, i.e. different program variables may have different types.
  8476 
  8477 * calling (stac rew i) now fails if "rew" has no effect on the goal
  8478   [previously, this check worked only if the rewrite rule was unconditional]
  8479   Now rew can involve either definitions or equalities (either == or =).
  8480 
  8481 
  8482 *** ZF ***
  8483 
  8484 * theory Main includes everything; INCOMPATIBILITY: theory ZF.thy contains
  8485   only the theorems proved on ZF.ML;
  8486 
  8487 * ZF INCOMPATIBILITY: rule `equals0D' is now a well-formed destruct rule;
  8488   It and 'sym RS equals0D' are now in the default  claset, giving automatic
  8489   disjointness reasoning but breaking a few old proofs.
  8490 
  8491 * ZF/Update: new theory of function updates
  8492     with default rewrite rule  f(x:=y) ` z = if(z=x, y, f`z)
  8493   may also be iterated as in f(a:=b,c:=d,...);
  8494 
  8495 * in  let x=t in u(x), neither t nor u(x) has to be an FOL term.
  8496 
  8497 * calling (stac rew i) now fails if "rew" has no effect on the goal
  8498   [previously, this check worked only if the rewrite rule was unconditional]
  8499   Now rew can involve either definitions or equalities (either == or =).
  8500 
  8501 * case_tac provided for compatibility with HOL
  8502     (like the old excluded_middle_tac, but with subgoals swapped)
  8503 
  8504 
  8505 *** Internal programming interfaces ***
  8506 
  8507 * Pure: several new basic modules made available for general use, see
  8508 also src/Pure/README;
  8509 
  8510 * improved the theory data mechanism to support encapsulation (data
  8511 kind name replaced by private Object.kind, acting as authorization
  8512 key); new type-safe user interface via functor TheoryDataFun; generic
  8513 print_data function becomes basically useless;
  8514 
  8515 * removed global_names compatibility flag -- all theory declarations
  8516 are qualified by default;
  8517 
  8518 * module Pure/Syntax now offers quote / antiquote translation
  8519 functions (useful for Hoare logic etc. with implicit dependencies);
  8520 see HOL/ex/Antiquote for an example use;
  8521 
  8522 * Simplifier now offers conversions (asm_)(full_)rewrite: simpset ->
  8523 cterm -> thm;
  8524 
  8525 * new tactical CHANGED_GOAL for checking that a tactic modifies a
  8526 subgoal;
  8527 
  8528 * Display.print_goals function moved to Locale.print_goals;
  8529 
  8530 * standard print function for goals supports current_goals_markers
  8531 variable for marking begin of proof, end of proof, start of goal; the
  8532 default is ("", "", ""); setting current_goals_markers := ("<proof>",
  8533 "</proof>", "<goal>") causes SGML like tagged proof state printing,
  8534 for example;
  8535 
  8536 
  8537 
  8538 New in Isabelle98 (January 1998)
  8539 --------------------------------
  8540 
  8541 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
  8542 
  8543 * changed lexical syntax of terms / types: dots made part of long
  8544 identifiers, e.g. "%x.x" no longer possible, should be "%x. x";
  8545 
  8546 * simpset (and claset) reference variable replaced by functions
  8547 simpset / simpset_ref;
  8548 
  8549 * no longer supports theory aliases (via merge) and non-trivial
  8550 implicit merge of thms' signatures;
  8551 
  8552 * most internal names of constants changed due to qualified names;
  8553 
  8554 * changed Pure/Sequence interface (see Pure/seq.ML);
  8555 
  8556 
  8557 *** General Changes ***
  8558 
  8559 * hierachically structured name spaces (for consts, types, axms, thms
  8560 etc.); new lexical class 'longid' (e.g. Foo.bar.x) may render much of
  8561 old input syntactically incorrect (e.g. "%x.x"); COMPATIBILITY:
  8562 isatool fixdots ensures space after dots (e.g. "%x. x"); set
  8563 long_names for fully qualified output names; NOTE: ML programs
  8564 (special tactics, packages etc.) referring to internal names may have
  8565 to be adapted to cope with fully qualified names; in case of severe
  8566 backward campatibility problems try setting 'global_names' at compile
  8567 time to have enrything declared within a flat name space; one may also
  8568 fine tune name declarations in theories via the 'global' and 'local'
  8569 section;
  8570 
  8571 * reimplemented the implicit simpset and claset using the new anytype
  8572 data filed in signatures; references simpset:simpset ref etc. are
  8573 replaced by functions simpset:unit->simpset and
  8574 simpset_ref:unit->simpset ref; COMPATIBILITY: use isatool fixclasimp
  8575 to patch your ML files accordingly;
  8576 
  8577 * HTML output now includes theory graph data for display with Java
  8578 applet or isatool browser; data generated automatically via isatool
  8579 usedir (see -i option, ISABELLE_USEDIR_OPTIONS);
  8580 
  8581 * defs may now be conditional; improved rewrite_goals_tac to handle
  8582 conditional equations;
  8583 
  8584 * defs now admits additional type arguments, using TYPE('a) syntax;
  8585 
  8586 * theory aliases via merge (e.g. M=A+B+C) no longer supported, always
  8587 creates a new theory node; implicit merge of thms' signatures is
  8588 restricted to 'trivial' ones; COMPATIBILITY: one may have to use
  8589 transfer:theory->thm->thm in (rare) cases;
  8590 
  8591 * improved handling of draft signatures / theories; draft thms (and
  8592 ctyps, cterms) are automatically promoted to real ones;
  8593 
  8594 * slightly changed interfaces for oracles: admit many per theory, named
  8595 (e.g. oracle foo = mlfun), additional name argument for invoke_oracle;
  8596 
  8597 * print_goals: optional output of const types (set show_consts and
  8598 show_types);
  8599 
  8600 * improved output of warnings (###) and errors (***);
  8601 
  8602 * subgoal_tac displays a warning if the new subgoal has type variables;
  8603 
  8604 * removed old README and Makefiles;
  8605 
  8606 * replaced print_goals_ref hook by print_current_goals_fn and result_error_fn;
  8607 
  8608 * removed obsolete init_pps and init_database;
  8609 
  8610 * deleted the obsolete tactical STATE, which was declared by
  8611     fun STATE tacfun st = tacfun st st;
  8612 
  8613 * cd and use now support path variables, e.g. $ISABELLE_HOME, or ~
  8614 (which abbreviates $HOME);
  8615 
  8616 * changed Pure/Sequence interface (see Pure/seq.ML); COMPATIBILITY:
  8617 use isatool fixseq to adapt your ML programs (this works for fully
  8618 qualified references to the Sequence structure only!);
  8619 
  8620 * use_thy no longer requires writable current directory; it always
  8621 reloads .ML *and* .thy file, if either one is out of date;
  8622 
  8623 
  8624 *** Classical Reasoner ***
  8625 
  8626 * Clarify_tac, clarify_tac, clarify_step_tac, Clarify_step_tac: new
  8627 tactics that use classical reasoning to simplify a subgoal without
  8628 splitting it into several subgoals;
  8629 
  8630 * Safe_tac: like safe_tac but uses the default claset;
  8631 
  8632 
  8633 *** Simplifier ***
  8634 
  8635 * added simplification meta rules:
  8636     (asm_)(full_)simplify: simpset -> thm -> thm;
  8637 
  8638 * simplifier.ML no longer part of Pure -- has to be loaded by object
  8639 logics (again);
  8640 
  8641 * added prems argument to simplification procedures;
  8642 
  8643 * HOL, FOL, ZF: added infix function `addsplits':
  8644   instead of `<simpset> setloop (split_tac <thms>)'
  8645   you can simply write `<simpset> addsplits <thms>'
  8646 
  8647 
  8648 *** Syntax ***
  8649 
  8650 * TYPE('a) syntax for type reflection terms;
  8651 
  8652 * no longer handles consts with name "" -- declare as 'syntax' instead;
  8653 
  8654 * pretty printer: changed order of mixfix annotation preference (again!);
  8655 
  8656 * Pure: fixed idt/idts vs. pttrn/pttrns syntactic categories;
  8657 
  8658 
  8659 *** HOL ***
  8660 
  8661 * HOL: there is a new splitter `split_asm_tac' that can be used e.g.
  8662   with `addloop' of the simplifier to faciliate case splitting in premises.
  8663 
  8664 * HOL/TLA: Stephan Merz's formalization of Lamport's Temporal Logic of Actions;
  8665 
  8666 * HOL/Auth: new protocol proofs including some for the Internet
  8667   protocol TLS;
  8668 
  8669 * HOL/Map: new theory of `maps' a la VDM;
  8670 
  8671 * HOL/simplifier: simplification procedures nat_cancel_sums for
  8672 cancelling out common nat summands from =, <, <= (in)equalities, or
  8673 differences; simplification procedures nat_cancel_factor for
  8674 cancelling common factor from =, <, <= (in)equalities over natural
  8675 sums; nat_cancel contains both kinds of procedures, it is installed by
  8676 default in Arith.thy -- this COULD MAKE EXISTING PROOFS FAIL;
  8677 
  8678 * HOL/simplifier: terms of the form
  8679   `? x. P1(x) & ... & Pn(x) & x=t & Q1(x) & ... Qn(x)'  (or t=x)
  8680   are rewritten to
  8681   `P1(t) & ... & Pn(t) & Q1(t) & ... Qn(t)',
  8682   and those of the form
  8683   `! x. P1(x) & ... & Pn(x) & x=t & Q1(x) & ... Qn(x) --> R(x)'  (or t=x)
  8684   are rewritten to
  8685   `P1(t) & ... & Pn(t) & Q1(t) & ... Qn(t) --> R(t)',
  8686 
  8687 * HOL/datatype
  8688   Each datatype `t' now comes with a theorem `split_t_case' of the form
  8689 
  8690   P(t_case f1 ... fn x) =
  8691      ( (!y1 ... ym1. x = C1 y1 ... ym1 --> P(f1 y1 ... ym1)) &
  8692         ...
  8693        (!y1 ... ymn. x = Cn y1 ... ymn --> P(f1 y1 ... ymn))
  8694      )
  8695 
  8696   and a theorem `split_t_case_asm' of the form
  8697 
  8698   P(t_case f1 ... fn x) =
  8699     ~( (? y1 ... ym1. x = C1 y1 ... ym1 & ~P(f1 y1 ... ym1)) |
  8700         ...
  8701        (? y1 ... ymn. x = Cn y1 ... ymn & ~P(f1 y1 ... ymn))
  8702      )
  8703   which can be added to a simpset via `addsplits'. The existing theorems
  8704   expand_list_case and expand_option_case have been renamed to
  8705   split_list_case and split_option_case.
  8706 
  8707 * HOL/Arithmetic:
  8708   - `pred n' is automatically converted to `n-1'.
  8709     Users are strongly encouraged not to use `pred' any longer,
  8710     because it will disappear altogether at some point.
  8711   - Users are strongly encouraged to write "0 < n" rather than
  8712     "n ~= 0". Theorems and proof tools have been modified towards this
  8713     `standard'.
  8714 
  8715 * HOL/Lists:
  8716   the function "set_of_list" has been renamed "set" (and its theorems too);
  8717   the function "nth" now takes its arguments in the reverse order and
  8718   has acquired the infix notation "!" as in "xs!n".
  8719 
  8720 * HOL/Set: UNIV is now a constant and is no longer translated to Compl{};
  8721 
  8722 * HOL/Set: The operator (UN x.B x) now abbreviates (UN x:UNIV. B x) and its
  8723   specialist theorems (like UN1_I) are gone.  Similarly for (INT x.B x);
  8724 
  8725 * HOL/record: extensible records with schematic structural subtyping
  8726 (single inheritance); EXPERIMENTAL version demonstrating the encoding,
  8727 still lacks various theorems and concrete record syntax;
  8728 
  8729 
  8730 *** HOLCF ***
  8731 
  8732 * removed "axioms" and "generated by" sections;
  8733 
  8734 * replaced "ops" section by extended "consts" section, which is capable of
  8735   handling the continuous function space "->" directly;
  8736 
  8737 * domain package:
  8738   . proves theorems immediately and stores them in the theory,
  8739   . creates hierachical name space,
  8740   . now uses normal mixfix annotations (instead of cinfix...),
  8741   . minor changes to some names and values (for consistency),
  8742   . e.g. cases -> casedist, dists_eq -> dist_eqs, [take_lemma] -> take_lemmas,
  8743   . separator between mutual domain defs: changed "," to "and",
  8744   . improved handling of sort constraints;  now they have to
  8745     appear on the left-hand side of the equations only;
  8746 
  8747 * fixed LAM <x,y,zs>.b syntax;
  8748 
  8749 * added extended adm_tac to simplifier in HOLCF -- can now discharge
  8750 adm (%x. P (t x)), where P is chainfinite and t continuous;
  8751 
  8752 
  8753 *** FOL and ZF ***
  8754 
  8755 * FOL: there is a new splitter `split_asm_tac' that can be used e.g.
  8756   with `addloop' of the simplifier to faciliate case splitting in premises.
  8757 
  8758 * qed_spec_mp, qed_goal_spec_mp, qed_goalw_spec_mp are available, as
  8759 in HOL, they strip ALL and --> from proved theorems;
  8760 
  8761 
  8762 
  8763 New in Isabelle94-8 (May 1997)
  8764 ------------------------------
  8765 
  8766 *** General Changes ***
  8767 
  8768 * new utilities to build / run / maintain Isabelle etc. (in parts
  8769 still somewhat experimental); old Makefiles etc. still functional;
  8770 
  8771 * new 'Isabelle System Manual';
  8772 
  8773 * INSTALL text, together with ./configure and ./build scripts;
  8774 
  8775 * reimplemented type inference for greater efficiency, better error
  8776 messages and clean internal interface;
  8777 
  8778 * prlim command for dealing with lots of subgoals (an easier way of
  8779 setting goals_limit);
  8780 
  8781 
  8782 *** Syntax ***
  8783 
  8784 * supports alternative (named) syntax tables (parser and pretty
  8785 printer); internal interface is provided by add_modesyntax(_i);
  8786 
  8787 * Pure, FOL, ZF, HOL, HOLCF now support symbolic input and output; to
  8788 be used in conjunction with the Isabelle symbol font; uses the
  8789 "symbols" syntax table;
  8790 
  8791 * added token_translation interface (may translate name tokens in
  8792 arbitrary ways, dependent on their type (free, bound, tfree, ...) and
  8793 the current print_mode); IMPORTANT: user print translation functions
  8794 are responsible for marking newly introduced bounds
  8795 (Syntax.mark_boundT);
  8796 
  8797 * token translations for modes "xterm" and "xterm_color" that display
  8798 names in bold, underline etc. or colors (which requires a color
  8799 version of xterm);
  8800 
  8801 * infixes may now be declared with names independent of their syntax;
  8802 
  8803 * added typed_print_translation (like print_translation, but may
  8804 access type of constant);
  8805 
  8806 
  8807 *** Classical Reasoner ***
  8808 
  8809 Blast_tac: a new tactic!  It is often more powerful than fast_tac, but has
  8810 some limitations.  Blast_tac...
  8811   + ignores addss, addbefore, addafter; this restriction is intrinsic
  8812   + ignores elimination rules that don't have the correct format
  8813         (the conclusion MUST be a formula variable)
  8814   + ignores types, which can make HOL proofs fail
  8815   + rules must not require higher-order unification, e.g. apply_type in ZF
  8816     [message "Function Var's argument not a bound variable" relates to this]
  8817   + its proof strategy is more general but can actually be slower
  8818 
  8819 * substitution with equality assumptions no longer permutes other
  8820 assumptions;
  8821 
  8822 * minor changes in semantics of addafter (now called addaltern); renamed
  8823 setwrapper to setWrapper and compwrapper to compWrapper; added safe wrapper
  8824 (and access functions for it);
  8825 
  8826 * improved combination of classical reasoner and simplifier:
  8827   + functions for handling clasimpsets
  8828   + improvement of addss: now the simplifier is called _after_ the
  8829     safe steps.
  8830   + safe variant of addss called addSss: uses safe simplifications
  8831     _during_ the safe steps. It is more complete as it allows multiple
  8832     instantiations of unknowns (e.g. with slow_tac).
  8833 
  8834 *** Simplifier ***
  8835 
  8836 * added interface for simplification procedures (functions that
  8837 produce *proven* rewrite rules on the fly, depending on current
  8838 redex);
  8839 
  8840 * ordering on terms as parameter (used for ordered rewriting);
  8841 
  8842 * new functions delcongs, deleqcongs, and Delcongs. richer rep_ss;
  8843 
  8844 * the solver is now split into a safe and an unsafe part.
  8845 This should be invisible for the normal user, except that the
  8846 functions setsolver and addsolver have been renamed to setSolver and
  8847 addSolver; added safe_asm_full_simp_tac;
  8848 
  8849 
  8850 *** HOL ***
  8851 
  8852 * a generic induction tactic `induct_tac' which works for all datatypes and
  8853 also for type `nat';
  8854 
  8855 * a generic case distinction tactic `exhaust_tac' which works for all
  8856 datatypes and also for type `nat';
  8857 
  8858 * each datatype comes with a function `size';
  8859 
  8860 * patterns in case expressions allow tuple patterns as arguments to
  8861 constructors, for example `case x of [] => ... | (x,y,z)#ps => ...';
  8862 
  8863 * primrec now also works with type nat;
  8864 
  8865 * recdef: a new declaration form, allows general recursive functions to be
  8866 defined in theory files.  See HOL/ex/Fib, HOL/ex/Primes, HOL/Subst/Unify.
  8867 
  8868 * the constant for negation has been renamed from "not" to "Not" to
  8869 harmonize with FOL, ZF, LK, etc.;
  8870 
  8871 * HOL/ex/LFilter theory of a corecursive "filter" functional for
  8872 infinite lists;
  8873 
  8874 * HOL/Modelcheck demonstrates invocation of model checker oracle;
  8875 
  8876 * HOL/ex/Ring.thy declares cring_simp, which solves equational
  8877 problems in commutative rings, using axiomatic type classes for + and *;
  8878 
  8879 * more examples in HOL/MiniML and HOL/Auth;
  8880 
  8881 * more default rewrite rules for quantifiers, union/intersection;
  8882 
  8883 * a new constant `arbitrary == @x.False';
  8884 
  8885 * HOLCF/IOA replaces old HOL/IOA;
  8886 
  8887 * HOLCF changes: derived all rules and arities
  8888   + axiomatic type classes instead of classes
  8889   + typedef instead of faking type definitions
  8890   + eliminated the internal constants less_fun, less_cfun, UU_fun, UU_cfun etc.
  8891   + new axclasses cpo, chfin, flat with flat < chfin < pcpo < cpo < po
  8892   + eliminated the types void, one, tr
  8893   + use unit lift and bool lift (with translations) instead of one and tr
  8894   + eliminated blift from Lift3.thy (use Def instead of blift)
  8895   all eliminated rules are derived as theorems --> no visible changes ;
  8896 
  8897 
  8898 *** ZF ***
  8899 
  8900 * ZF now has Fast_tac, Simp_tac and Auto_tac.  Union_iff is a now a default
  8901 rewrite rule; this may affect some proofs.  eq_cs is gone but can be put back
  8902 as ZF_cs addSIs [equalityI];
  8903 
  8904 
  8905 
  8906 New in Isabelle94-7 (November 96)
  8907 ---------------------------------
  8908 
  8909 * allowing negative levels (as offsets) in prlev and choplev;
  8910 
  8911 * super-linear speedup for large simplifications;
  8912 
  8913 * FOL, ZF and HOL now use miniscoping: rewriting pushes
  8914 quantifications in as far as possible (COULD MAKE EXISTING PROOFS
  8915 FAIL); can suppress it using the command Delsimps (ex_simps @
  8916 all_simps); De Morgan laws are also now included, by default;
  8917 
  8918 * improved printing of ==>  :  ~:
  8919 
  8920 * new object-logic "Sequents" adds linear logic, while replacing LK
  8921 and Modal (thanks to Sara Kalvala);
  8922 
  8923 * HOL/Auth: correctness proofs for authentication protocols;
  8924 
  8925 * HOL: new auto_tac combines rewriting and classical reasoning (many
  8926 examples on HOL/Auth);
  8927 
  8928 * HOL: new command AddIffs for declaring theorems of the form P=Q to
  8929 the rewriter and classical reasoner simultaneously;
  8930 
  8931 * function uresult no longer returns theorems in "standard" format;
  8932 regain previous version by: val uresult = standard o uresult;
  8933 
  8934 
  8935 
  8936 New in Isabelle94-6
  8937 -------------------
  8938 
  8939 * oracles -- these establish an interface between Isabelle and trusted
  8940 external reasoners, which may deliver results as theorems;
  8941 
  8942 * proof objects (in particular record all uses of oracles);
  8943 
  8944 * Simp_tac, Fast_tac, etc. that refer to implicit simpset / claset;
  8945 
  8946 * "constdefs" section in theory files;
  8947 
  8948 * "primrec" section (HOL) no longer requires names;
  8949 
  8950 * internal type "tactic" now simply "thm -> thm Sequence.seq";
  8951 
  8952 
  8953 
  8954 New in Isabelle94-5
  8955 -------------------
  8956 
  8957 * reduced space requirements;
  8958 
  8959 * automatic HTML generation from theories;
  8960 
  8961 * theory files no longer require "..." (quotes) around most types;
  8962 
  8963 * new examples, including two proofs of the Church-Rosser theorem;
  8964 
  8965 * non-curried (1994) version of HOL is no longer distributed;
  8966 
  8967 
  8968 
  8969 New in Isabelle94-4
  8970 -------------------
  8971 
  8972 * greatly reduced space requirements;
  8973 
  8974 * theory files (.thy) no longer require \...\ escapes at line breaks;
  8975 
  8976 * searchable theorem database (see the section "Retrieving theorems" on
  8977 page 8 of the Reference Manual);
  8978 
  8979 * new examples, including Grabczewski's monumental case study of the
  8980 Axiom of Choice;
  8981 
  8982 * The previous version of HOL renamed to Old_HOL;
  8983 
  8984 * The new version of HOL (previously called CHOL) uses a curried syntax
  8985 for functions.  Application looks like f a b instead of f(a,b);
  8986 
  8987 * Mutually recursive inductive definitions finally work in HOL;
  8988 
  8989 * In ZF, pattern-matching on tuples is now available in all abstractions and
  8990 translates to the operator "split";
  8991 
  8992 
  8993 
  8994 New in Isabelle94-3
  8995 -------------------
  8996 
  8997 * new infix operator, addss, allowing the classical reasoner to
  8998 perform simplification at each step of its search.  Example:
  8999         fast_tac (cs addss ss)
  9000 
  9001 * a new logic, CHOL, the same as HOL, but with a curried syntax
  9002 for functions.  Application looks like f a b instead of f(a,b).  Also pairs
  9003 look like (a,b) instead of <a,b>;
  9004 
  9005 * PLEASE NOTE: CHOL will eventually replace HOL!
  9006 
  9007 * In CHOL, pattern-matching on tuples is now available in all abstractions.
  9008 It translates to the operator "split".  A new theory of integers is available;
  9009 
  9010 * In ZF, integer numerals now denote two's-complement binary integers.
  9011 Arithmetic operations can be performed by rewriting.  See ZF/ex/Bin.ML;
  9012 
  9013 * Many new examples: I/O automata, Church-Rosser theorem, equivalents
  9014 of the Axiom of Choice;
  9015 
  9016 
  9017 
  9018 New in Isabelle94-2
  9019 -------------------
  9020 
  9021 * Significantly faster resolution;
  9022 
  9023 * the different sections in a .thy file can now be mixed and repeated
  9024 freely;
  9025 
  9026 * Database of theorems for FOL, HOL and ZF.  New
  9027 commands including qed, qed_goal and bind_thm store theorems in the database.
  9028 
  9029 * Simple database queries: return a named theorem (get_thm) or all theorems of
  9030 a given theory (thms_of), or find out what theory a theorem was proved in
  9031 (theory_of_thm);
  9032 
  9033 * Bugs fixed in the inductive definition and datatype packages;
  9034 
  9035 * The classical reasoner provides deepen_tac and depth_tac, making FOL_dup_cs
  9036 and HOL_dup_cs obsolete;
  9037 
  9038 * Syntactic ambiguities caused by the new treatment of syntax in Isabelle94-1
  9039 have been removed;
  9040 
  9041 * Simpler definition of function space in ZF;
  9042 
  9043 * new results about cardinal and ordinal arithmetic in ZF;
  9044 
  9045 * 'subtype' facility in HOL for introducing new types as subsets of existing
  9046 types;
  9047 
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