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