NEWS
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     1 Isabelle NEWS -- history user-relevant changes
     2 ==============================================
     3 
     4 New in this Isabelle version
     5 ----------------------------
     6 
     7 *** Prover IDE -- Isabelle/Scala/jEdit ***
     8 
     9 * Auxiliary files ('ML_file' etc.) are managed by the Prover IDE.
    10 Open text buffers take precedence over copies within the file-system.
    11 
    12 
    13 *** HOL ***
    14 
    15 * Qualified constant names Wellfounded.acc, Wellfounded.accp.
    16 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    17 
    18 * Fact generalization and consolidation:
    19     neq_one_mod_two, mod_2_not_eq_zero_eq_one_int ~> not_mod_2_eq_0_eq_1
    20 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    21 
    22 * Purely algebraic definition of even.  Fact generalization and consolidation:
    23     nat_even_iff_2_dvd, int_even_iff_2_dvd ~> even_iff_2_dvd
    24     even_zero_(nat|int) ~> even_zero
    25 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    26 
    27 * Abolished neg_numeral.
    28   * Canonical representation for minus one is "- 1".
    29   * Canonical representation for other negative numbers is "- (numeral _)".
    30   * When devising rule sets for number calculation, consider the
    31     following canonical cases: 0, 1, numeral _, - 1, - numeral _.
    32   * HOLogic.dest_number also recognizes numerals in non-canonical forms
    33     like "numeral One", "- numeral One", "- 0" and even "- … - _".
    34   * Syntax for negative numerals is mere input syntax.
    35 INCOMPATBILITY.
    36 
    37 * Elimination of fact duplicates:
    38     equals_zero_I ~> minus_unique
    39     diff_eq_0_iff_eq ~> right_minus_eq
    40     nat_infinite ~> infinite_UNIV_nat
    41     int_infinite ~> infinite_UNIV_int
    42 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    43 
    44 * Fact name consolidation:
    45     diff_def, diff_minus, ab_diff_minus ~> diff_conv_add_uminus
    46     minus_le_self_iff ~> neg_less_eq_nonneg
    47     le_minus_self_iff ~> less_eq_neg_nonpos
    48     neg_less_nonneg ~> neg_less_pos
    49     less_minus_self_iff ~> less_neg_neg [simp]
    50 INCOMPATIBILITY.
    51 
    52 * More simplification rules on unary and binary minus:
    53 add_diff_cancel, add_diff_cancel_left, add_le_same_cancel1,
    54 add_le_same_cancel2, add_less_same_cancel1, add_less_same_cancel2,
    55 add_minus_cancel, diff_add_cancel, le_add_same_cancel1,
    56 le_add_same_cancel2, less_add_same_cancel1, less_add_same_cancel2,
    57 minus_add_cancel, uminus_add_conv_diff.  These correspondingly
    58 have been taken away from fact collections algebra_simps and
    59 field_simps.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
    60 
    61 To restore proofs, the following patterns are helpful:
    62 
    63 a) Arbitrary failing proof not involving "diff_def":
    64 Consider simplification with algebra_simps or field_simps.
    65 
    66 b) Lifting rules from addition to subtraction:
    67 Try with "using <rule for addition> of [… "- _" …]" by simp".
    68 
    69 c) Simplification with "diff_def": just drop "diff_def".
    70 Consider simplification with algebra_simps or field_simps;
    71 or the brute way with
    72 "simp add: diff_conv_add_uminus del: add_uminus_conv_diff".
    73 
    74 * SUP and INF generalized to conditionally_complete_lattice
    75 
    76 * Theory Lubs moved HOL image to HOL-Library. It is replaced by
    77 Conditionally_Complete_Lattices.   INCOMPATIBILITY.
    78 
    79 * Introduce bdd_above and bdd_below in Conditionally_Complete_Lattices, use them
    80 instead of explicitly stating boundedness of sets.
    81 
    82 * ccpo.admissible quantifies only over non-empty chains to allow
    83 more syntax-directed proof rules; the case of the empty chain
    84 shows up as additional case in fixpoint induction proofs.
    85 INCOMPATIBILITY
    86 
    87 *** ML ***
    88 
    89 * Toplevel function "use" refers to raw ML bootstrap environment,
    90 without Isar context nor antiquotations.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
    91 Note that 'ML_file' is the canonical command to load ML files into the
    92 formal context.
    93 
    94 
    95 
    96 New in Isabelle2013-2 (December 2013)
    97 -------------------------------------
    98 
    99 *** Prover IDE -- Isabelle/Scala/jEdit ***
   100 
   101 * More robust editing of running commands with internal forks,
   102 e.g. non-terminating 'by' steps.
   103 
   104 * More relaxed Sledgehammer panel: avoid repeated application of query
   105 after edits surrounding the command location.
   106 
   107 * More status information about commands that are interrupted
   108 accidentally (via physical event or Poly/ML runtime system signal,
   109 e.g. out-of-memory).
   110 
   111 
   112 *** System ***
   113 
   114 * More robust termination of external processes managed by
   115 Isabelle/ML: support cancellation of tasks within the range of
   116 milliseconds, as required for PIDE document editing with automatically
   117 tried tools (e.g. Sledgehammer).
   118 
   119 * Reactivated Isabelle/Scala kill command for external processes on
   120 Mac OS X, which was accidentally broken in Isabelle2013-1 due to a
   121 workaround for some Debian/Ubuntu Linux versions from 2013.
   122 
   123 
   124 
   125 New in Isabelle2013-1 (November 2013)
   126 -------------------------------------
   127 
   128 *** General ***
   129 
   130 * Discontinued obsolete 'uses' within theory header.  Note that
   131 commands like 'ML_file' work without separate declaration of file
   132 dependencies.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   133 
   134 * Discontinued redundant 'use' command, which was superseded by
   135 'ML_file' in Isabelle2013.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   136 
   137 * Simplified subscripts within identifiers, using plain \<^sub>
   138 instead of the second copy \<^isub> and \<^isup>.  Superscripts are
   139 only for literal tokens within notation; explicit mixfix annotations
   140 for consts or fixed variables may be used as fall-back for unusual
   141 names.  Obsolete \<twosuperior> has been expanded to \<^sup>2 in
   142 Isabelle/HOL.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use "isabelle update_sub_sup" to
   143 standardize symbols as a starting point for further manual cleanup.
   144 The ML reference variable "legacy_isub_isup" may be set as temporary
   145 workaround, to make the prover accept a subset of the old identifier
   146 syntax.
   147 
   148 * Document antiquotations: term style "isub" has been renamed to
   149 "sub".  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   150 
   151 * Uniform management of "quick_and_dirty" as system option (see also
   152 "isabelle options"), configuration option within the context (see also
   153 Config.get in Isabelle/ML), and attribute in Isabelle/Isar.  Minor
   154 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to use more official Isabelle means to access
   155 quick_and_dirty, instead of historical poking into mutable reference.
   156 
   157 * Renamed command 'print_configs' to 'print_options'.  Minor
   158 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   159 
   160 * Proper diagnostic command 'print_state'.  Old 'pr' (with its
   161 implicit change of some global references) is retained for now as
   162 control command, e.g. for ProofGeneral 3.7.x.
   163 
   164 * Discontinued 'print_drafts' command with its old-fashioned PS output
   165 and Unix command-line print spooling.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY: use
   166 'display_drafts' instead and print via the regular document viewer.
   167 
   168 * Updated and extended "isar-ref" and "implementation" manual,
   169 eliminated old "ref" manual.
   170 
   171 
   172 *** Prover IDE -- Isabelle/Scala/jEdit ***
   173 
   174 * New manual "jedit" for Isabelle/jEdit, see isabelle doc or
   175 Documentation panel.
   176 
   177 * Dockable window "Documentation" provides access to Isabelle
   178 documentation.
   179 
   180 * Dockable window "Find" provides query operations for formal entities
   181 (GUI front-end to 'find_theorems' command).
   182 
   183 * Dockable window "Sledgehammer" manages asynchronous / parallel
   184 sledgehammer runs over existing document sources, independently of
   185 normal editing and checking process.
   186 
   187 * Dockable window "Timing" provides an overview of relevant command
   188 timing information, depending on option jedit_timing_threshold.  The
   189 same timing information is shown in the extended tooltip of the
   190 command keyword, when hovering the mouse over it while the CONTROL or
   191 COMMAND modifier is pressed.
   192 
   193 * Improved dockable window "Theories": Continuous checking of proof
   194 document (visible and required parts) may be controlled explicitly,
   195 using check box or shortcut "C+e ENTER".  Individual theory nodes may
   196 be marked explicitly as required and checked in full, using check box
   197 or shortcut "C+e SPACE".
   198 
   199 * Improved completion mechanism, which is now managed by the
   200 Isabelle/jEdit plugin instead of SideKick.  Refined table of Isabelle
   201 symbol abbreviations (see $ISABELLE_HOME/etc/symbols).
   202 
   203 * Standard jEdit keyboard shortcut C+b complete-word is remapped to
   204 isabelle.complete for explicit completion in Isabelle sources.
   205 INCOMPATIBILITY wrt. jEdit defaults, may have to invent new shortcuts
   206 to resolve conflict.
   207 
   208 * Improved support of various "minor modes" for Isabelle NEWS,
   209 options, session ROOT etc., with completion and SideKick tree view.
   210 
   211 * Strictly monotonic document update, without premature cancellation of
   212 running transactions that are still needed: avoid reset/restart of
   213 such command executions while editing.
   214 
   215 * Support for asynchronous print functions, as overlay to existing
   216 document content.
   217 
   218 * Support for automatic tools in HOL, which try to prove or disprove
   219 toplevel theorem statements.
   220 
   221 * Action isabelle.reset-font-size resets main text area font size
   222 according to Isabelle/Scala plugin option "jedit_font_reset_size" (see
   223 also "Plugin Options / Isabelle / General").  It can be bound to some
   224 keyboard shortcut by the user (e.g. C+0 and/or C+NUMPAD0).
   225 
   226 * File specifications in jEdit (e.g. file browser) may refer to
   227 $ISABELLE_HOME and $ISABELLE_HOME_USER on all platforms.  Discontinued
   228 obsolete $ISABELLE_HOME_WINDOWS variable.
   229 
   230 * Improved support for Linux look-and-feel "GTK+", see also "Utilities
   231 / Global Options / Appearance".
   232 
   233 * Improved support of native Mac OS X functionality via "MacOSX"
   234 plugin, which is now enabled by default.
   235 
   236 
   237 *** Pure ***
   238 
   239 * Commands 'interpretation' and 'sublocale' are now target-sensitive.
   240 In particular, 'interpretation' allows for non-persistent
   241 interpretation within "context ... begin ... end" blocks offering a
   242 light-weight alternative to 'sublocale'.  See "isar-ref" manual for
   243 details.
   244 
   245 * Improved locales diagnostic command 'print_dependencies'.
   246 
   247 * Discontinued obsolete 'axioms' command, which has been marked as
   248 legacy since Isabelle2009-2.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use 'axiomatization'
   249 instead, while observing its uniform scope for polymorphism.
   250 
   251 * Discontinued empty name bindings in 'axiomatization'.
   252 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   253 
   254 * System option "proofs" has been discontinued.  Instead the global
   255 state of Proofterm.proofs is persistently compiled into logic images
   256 as required, notably HOL-Proofs.  Users no longer need to change
   257 Proofterm.proofs dynamically.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   258 
   259 * Syntax translation functions (print_translation etc.) always depend
   260 on Proof.context.  Discontinued former "(advanced)" option -- this is
   261 now the default.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   262 
   263 * Former global reference trace_unify_fail is now available as
   264 configuration option "unify_trace_failure" (global context only).
   265 
   266 * SELECT_GOAL now retains the syntactic context of the overall goal
   267 state (schematic variables etc.).  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY in rare
   268 situations.
   269 
   270 
   271 *** HOL ***
   272 
   273 * Stronger precedence of syntax for big intersection and union on
   274 sets, in accordance with corresponding lattice operations.
   275 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   276 
   277 * Notation "{p:A. P}" now allows tuple patterns as well.
   278 
   279 * Nested case expressions are now translated in a separate check phase
   280 rather than during parsing. The data for case combinators is separated
   281 from the datatype package. The declaration attribute
   282 "case_translation" can be used to register new case combinators:
   283 
   284   declare [[case_translation case_combinator constructor1 ... constructorN]]
   285 
   286 * Code generator:
   287   - 'code_printing' unifies 'code_const' / 'code_type' / 'code_class' /
   288     'code_instance'.
   289   - 'code_identifier' declares name hints for arbitrary identifiers in
   290     generated code, subsuming 'code_modulename'.
   291 
   292 See the isar-ref manual for syntax diagrams, and the HOL theories for
   293 examples.
   294 
   295 * Attibute 'code': 'code' now declares concrete and abstract code
   296 equations uniformly.  Use explicit 'code equation' and 'code abstract'
   297 to distinguish both when desired.
   298 
   299 * Discontinued theories Code_Integer and Efficient_Nat by a more
   300 fine-grain stack of theories Code_Target_Int, Code_Binary_Nat,
   301 Code_Target_Nat and Code_Target_Numeral.  See the tutorial on code
   302 generation for details.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   303 
   304 * Numeric types are mapped by default to target language numerals:
   305 natural (replaces former code_numeral) and integer (replaces former
   306 code_int).  Conversions are available as integer_of_natural /
   307 natural_of_integer / integer_of_nat / nat_of_integer (in HOL) and
   308 Code_Numeral.integer_of_natural / Code_Numeral.natural_of_integer (in
   309 ML).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   310 
   311 * Function package: For mutually recursive functions f and g, separate
   312 cases rules f.cases and g.cases are generated instead of unusable
   313 f_g.cases which exposed internal sum types. Potential INCOMPATIBILITY,
   314 in the case that the unusable rule was used nevertheless.
   315 
   316 * Function package: For each function f, new rules f.elims are
   317 generated, which eliminate equalities of the form "f x = t".
   318 
   319 * New command 'fun_cases' derives ad-hoc elimination rules for
   320 function equations as simplified instances of f.elims, analogous to
   321 inductive_cases.  See ~~/src/HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy for some examples.
   322 
   323 * Lifting:
   324   - parametrized correspondence relations are now supported:
   325     + parametricity theorems for the raw term can be specified in
   326       the command lift_definition, which allow us to generate stronger
   327       transfer rules
   328     + setup_lifting generates stronger transfer rules if parametric
   329       correspondence relation can be generated
   330     + various new properties of the relator must be specified to support
   331       parametricity
   332     + parametricity theorem for the Quotient relation can be specified
   333   - setup_lifting generates domain rules for the Transfer package
   334   - stronger reflexivity prover of respectfulness theorems for type
   335     copies
   336   - ===> and --> are now local. The symbols can be introduced
   337     by interpreting the locale lifting_syntax (typically in an
   338     anonymous context)
   339   - Lifting/Transfer relevant parts of Library/Quotient_* are now in
   340     Main. Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
   341   - new commands for restoring and deleting Lifting/Transfer context:
   342     lifting_forget, lifting_update
   343   - the command print_quotmaps was renamed to print_quot_maps.
   344     INCOMPATIBILITY
   345 
   346 * Transfer:
   347   - better support for domains in Transfer: replace Domainp T
   348     by the actual invariant in a transferred goal
   349   - transfer rules can have as assumptions other transfer rules
   350   - Experimental support for transferring from the raw level to the
   351     abstract level: Transfer.transferred attribute
   352   - Attribute version of the transfer method: untransferred attribute
   353 
   354 * Reification and reflection:
   355   - Reification is now directly available in HOL-Main in structure
   356     "Reification".
   357   - Reflection now handles multiple lists with variables also.
   358   - The whole reflection stack has been decomposed into conversions.
   359 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   360 
   361 * Revised devices for recursive definitions over finite sets:
   362   - Only one fundamental fold combinator on finite set remains:
   363     Finite_Set.fold :: ('a => 'b => 'b) => 'b => 'a set => 'b
   364     This is now identity on infinite sets.
   365   - Locales ("mini packages") for fundamental definitions with
   366     Finite_Set.fold: folding, folding_idem.
   367   - Locales comm_monoid_set, semilattice_order_set and
   368     semilattice_neutr_order_set for big operators on sets.
   369     See theory Big_Operators for canonical examples.
   370     Note that foundational constants comm_monoid_set.F and
   371     semilattice_set.F correspond to former combinators fold_image
   372     and fold1 respectively.  These are now gone.  You may use
   373     those foundational constants as substitutes, but it is
   374     preferable to interpret the above locales accordingly.
   375   - Dropped class ab_semigroup_idem_mult (special case of lattice,
   376     no longer needed in connection with Finite_Set.fold etc.)
   377   - Fact renames:
   378       card.union_inter ~> card_Un_Int [symmetric]
   379       card.union_disjoint ~> card_Un_disjoint
   380 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   381 
   382 * Locale hierarchy for abstract orderings and (semi)lattices.
   383 
   384 * Complete_Partial_Order.admissible is defined outside the type class
   385 ccpo, but with mandatory prefix ccpo. Admissibility theorems lose the
   386 class predicate assumption or sort constraint when possible.
   387 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   388 
   389 * Introduce type class "conditionally_complete_lattice": Like a
   390 complete lattice but does not assume the existence of the top and
   391 bottom elements.  Allows to generalize some lemmas about reals and
   392 extended reals.  Removed SupInf and replaced it by the instantiation
   393 of conditionally_complete_lattice for real. Renamed lemmas about
   394 conditionally-complete lattice from Sup_... to cSup_... and from
   395 Inf_...  to cInf_... to avoid hidding of similar complete lattice
   396 lemmas.
   397 
   398 * Introduce type class linear_continuum as combination of
   399 conditionally-complete lattices and inner dense linorders which have
   400 more than one element.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   401 
   402 * Introduced type classes order_top and order_bot. The old classes top
   403 and bot only contain the syntax without assumptions.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
   404 Rename bot -> order_bot, top -> order_top
   405 
   406 * Introduce type classes "no_top" and "no_bot" for orderings without
   407 top and bottom elements.
   408 
   409 * Split dense_linorder into inner_dense_order and no_top, no_bot.
   410 
   411 * Complex_Main: Unify and move various concepts from
   412 HOL-Multivariate_Analysis to HOL-Complex_Main.
   413 
   414  - Introduce type class (lin)order_topology and
   415    linear_continuum_topology.  Allows to generalize theorems about
   416    limits and order.  Instances are reals and extended reals.
   417 
   418  - continuous and continuos_on from Multivariate_Analysis:
   419    "continuous" is the continuity of a function at a filter.  "isCont"
   420    is now an abbrevitation: "isCont x f == continuous (at _) f".
   421 
   422    Generalized continuity lemmas from isCont to continuous on an
   423    arbitrary filter.
   424 
   425  - compact from Multivariate_Analysis. Use Bolzano's lemma to prove
   426    compactness of closed intervals on reals. Continuous functions
   427    attain infimum and supremum on compact sets. The inverse of a
   428    continuous function is continuous, when the function is continuous
   429    on a compact set.
   430 
   431  - connected from Multivariate_Analysis. Use it to prove the
   432    intermediate value theorem. Show connectedness of intervals on
   433    linear_continuum_topology).
   434 
   435  - first_countable_topology from Multivariate_Analysis. Is used to
   436    show equivalence of properties on the neighbourhood filter of x and
   437    on all sequences converging to x.
   438 
   439  - FDERIV: Definition of has_derivative moved to Deriv.thy. Moved
   440    theorems from Library/FDERIV.thy to Deriv.thy and base the
   441    definition of DERIV on FDERIV. Add variants of DERIV and FDERIV
   442    which are restricted to sets, i.e. to represent derivatives from
   443    left or right.
   444 
   445  - Removed the within-filter. It is replaced by the principal filter:
   446 
   447      F within X = inf F (principal X)
   448 
   449  - Introduce "at x within U" as a single constant, "at x" is now an
   450    abbreviation for "at x within UNIV"
   451 
   452  - Introduce named theorem collections tendsto_intros,
   453    continuous_intros, continuous_on_intros and FDERIV_intros. Theorems
   454    in tendsto_intros (or FDERIV_intros) are also available as
   455    tendsto_eq_intros (or FDERIV_eq_intros) where the right-hand side
   456    is replaced by a congruence rule. This allows to apply them as
   457    intro rules and then proving equivalence by the simplifier.
   458 
   459  - Restructured theories in HOL-Complex_Main:
   460 
   461    + Moved RealDef and RComplete into Real
   462 
   463    + Introduced Topological_Spaces and moved theorems about
   464      topological spaces, filters, limits and continuity to it
   465 
   466    + Renamed RealVector to Real_Vector_Spaces
   467 
   468    + Split Lim, SEQ, Series into Topological_Spaces,
   469      Real_Vector_Spaces, and Limits
   470 
   471    + Moved Ln and Log to Transcendental
   472 
   473    + Moved theorems about continuity from Deriv to Topological_Spaces
   474 
   475  - Remove various auxiliary lemmas.
   476 
   477 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   478 
   479 * Nitpick:
   480   - Added option "spy"
   481   - Reduce incidence of "too high arity" errors
   482 
   483 * Sledgehammer:
   484   - Renamed option:
   485       isar_shrink ~> isar_compress
   486     INCOMPATIBILITY.
   487   - Added options "isar_try0", "spy"
   488   - Better support for "isar_proofs"
   489   - MaSh has been fined-tuned and now runs as a local server
   490 
   491 * Improved support for ad hoc overloading of constants (see also
   492 isar-ref manual and ~~/src/HOL/ex/Adhoc_Overloading_Examples.thy).
   493 
   494 * Library/Polynomial.thy:
   495   - Use lifting for primitive definitions.
   496   - Explicit conversions from and to lists of coefficients, used for
   497     generated code.
   498   - Replaced recursion operator poly_rec by fold_coeffs.
   499   - Prefer pre-existing gcd operation for gcd.
   500   - Fact renames:
   501     poly_eq_iff ~> poly_eq_poly_eq_iff
   502     poly_ext ~> poly_eqI
   503     expand_poly_eq ~> poly_eq_iff
   504 IMCOMPATIBILITY.
   505 
   506 * New Library/Simps_Case_Conv.thy: Provides commands simps_of_case and
   507 case_of_simps to convert function definitions between a list of
   508 equations with patterns on the lhs and a single equation with case
   509 expressions on the rhs. See also Ex/Simps_Case_Conv_Examples.thy.
   510 
   511 * New Library/FSet.thy: type of finite sets defined as a subtype of
   512 sets defined by Lifting/Transfer.
   513 
   514 * Discontinued theory src/HOL/Library/Eval_Witness.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   515 
   516 * Consolidation of library theories on product orders:
   517 
   518     Product_Lattice ~> Product_Order -- pointwise order on products
   519     Product_ord ~> Product_Lexorder -- lexicographic order on products
   520 
   521 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   522 
   523 * Imperative-HOL: The MREC combinator is considered legacy and no
   524 longer included by default. INCOMPATIBILITY, use partial_function
   525 instead, or import theory Legacy_Mrec as a fallback.
   526 
   527 * HOL-Algebra: Discontinued theories ~~/src/HOL/Algebra/abstract and
   528 ~~/src/HOL/Algebra/poly.  Existing theories should be based on
   529 ~~/src/HOL/Library/Polynomial instead.  The latter provides
   530 integration with HOL's type classes for rings.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   531 
   532 * HOL-BNF:
   533   - Various improvements to BNF-based (co)datatype package, including
   534     new commands "primrec_new", "primcorec", and
   535     "datatype_new_compat", as well as documentation. See
   536     "datatypes.pdf" for details.
   537   - New "coinduction" method to avoid some boilerplate (compared to
   538     coinduct).
   539   - Renamed keywords:
   540     data ~> datatype_new
   541     codata ~> codatatype
   542     bnf_def ~> bnf
   543   - Renamed many generated theorems, including
   544     discs ~> disc
   545     map_comp' ~> map_comp
   546     map_id' ~> map_id
   547     sels ~> sel
   548     set_map' ~> set_map
   549     sets ~> set
   550 IMCOMPATIBILITY.
   551 
   552 * Nitpick:
   553   - Fixed soundness bug whereby mutually recursive datatypes could take
   554     infinite values.
   555 
   556 
   557 *** ML ***
   558 
   559 * Spec_Check is a Quickcheck tool for Isabelle/ML.  The ML function
   560 "check_property" allows to check specifications of the form "ALL x y
   561 z. prop x y z".  See also ~~/src/Tools/Spec_Check/ with its
   562 Examples.thy in particular.
   563 
   564 * Improved printing of exception trace in Poly/ML 5.5.1, with regular
   565 tracing output in the command transaction context instead of physical
   566 stdout.  See also Toplevel.debug, Toplevel.debugging and
   567 ML_Compiler.exn_trace.
   568 
   569 * ML type "theory" is now immutable, without any special treatment of
   570 drafts or linear updates (which could lead to "stale theory" errors in
   571 the past).  Discontinued obsolete operations like Theory.copy,
   572 Theory.checkpoint, and the auxiliary type theory_ref.  Minor
   573 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   574 
   575 * More uniform naming of goal functions for skipped proofs:
   576 
   577     Skip_Proof.prove  ~>  Goal.prove_sorry
   578     Skip_Proof.prove_global  ~>  Goal.prove_sorry_global
   579 
   580 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   581 
   582 * Simplifier tactics and tools use proper Proof.context instead of
   583 historic type simpset.  Old-style declarations like addsimps,
   584 addsimprocs etc. operate directly on Proof.context.  Raw type simpset
   585 retains its use as snapshot of the main Simplifier context, using
   586 simpset_of and put_simpset on Proof.context.  INCOMPATIBILITY -- port
   587 old tools by making them depend on (ctxt : Proof.context) instead of
   588 (ss : simpset), then turn (simpset_of ctxt) into ctxt.
   589 
   590 * Modifiers for classical wrappers (e.g. addWrapper, delWrapper)
   591 operate on Proof.context instead of claset, for uniformity with addIs,
   592 addEs, addDs etc. Note that claset_of and put_claset allow to manage
   593 clasets separately from the context.
   594 
   595 * Discontinued obsolete ML antiquotations @{claset} and @{simpset}.
   596 INCOMPATIBILITY, use @{context} instead.
   597 
   598 * Antiquotation @{theory_context A} is similar to @{theory A}, but
   599 presents the result as initial Proof.context.
   600 
   601 
   602 *** System ***
   603 
   604 * Discontinued obsolete isabelle usedir, mkdir, make -- superseded by
   605 "isabelle build" in Isabelle2013.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   606 
   607 * Discontinued obsolete isabelle-process options -f and -u (former
   608 administrative aliases of option -e).  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
   609 
   610 * Discontinued obsolete isabelle print tool, and PRINT_COMMAND
   611 settings variable.
   612 
   613 * Discontinued ISABELLE_DOC_FORMAT settings variable and historic
   614 document formats: dvi.gz, ps, ps.gz -- the default document format is
   615 always pdf.
   616 
   617 * Isabelle settings variable ISABELLE_BUILD_JAVA_OPTIONS allows to
   618 specify global resources of the JVM process run by isabelle build.
   619 
   620 * Toplevel executable $ISABELLE_HOME/bin/isabelle_scala_script allows
   621 to run Isabelle/Scala source files as standalone programs.
   622 
   623 * Improved "isabelle keywords" tool (for old-style ProofGeneral
   624 keyword tables): use Isabelle/Scala operations, which inspect outer
   625 syntax without requiring to build sessions first.
   626 
   627 * Sessions may be organized via 'chapter' specifications in the ROOT
   628 file, which determines a two-level hierarchy of browser info.  The old
   629 tree-like organization via implicit sub-session relation (with its
   630 tendency towards erratic fluctuation of URLs) has been discontinued.
   631 The default chapter is called "Unsorted".  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
   632 for HTML presentation of theories.
   633 
   634 
   635 
   636 New in Isabelle2013 (February 2013)
   637 -----------------------------------
   638 
   639 *** General ***
   640 
   641 * Theorem status about oracles and unfinished/failed future proofs is
   642 no longer printed by default, since it is incompatible with
   643 incremental / parallel checking of the persistent document model.  ML
   644 function Thm.peek_status may be used to inspect a snapshot of the
   645 ongoing evaluation process.  Note that in batch mode --- notably
   646 isabelle build --- the system ensures that future proofs of all
   647 accessible theorems in the theory context are finished (as before).
   648 
   649 * Configuration option show_markup controls direct inlining of markup
   650 into the printed representation of formal entities --- notably type
   651 and sort constraints.  This enables Prover IDE users to retrieve that
   652 information via tooltips in the output window, for example.
   653 
   654 * Command 'ML_file' evaluates ML text from a file directly within the
   655 theory, without any predeclaration via 'uses' in the theory header.
   656 
   657 * Old command 'use' command and corresponding keyword 'uses' in the
   658 theory header are legacy features and will be discontinued soon.
   659 Tools that load their additional source files may imitate the
   660 'ML_file' implementation, such that the system can take care of
   661 dependencies properly.
   662 
   663 * Discontinued obsolete method fastsimp / tactic fast_simp_tac, which
   664 is called fastforce / fast_force_tac already since Isabelle2011-1.
   665 
   666 * Updated and extended "isar-ref" and "implementation" manual, reduced
   667 remaining material in old "ref" manual.
   668 
   669 * Improved support for auxiliary contexts that indicate block structure
   670 for specifications.  Nesting of "context fixes ... context assumes ..."
   671 and "class ... context ...".
   672 
   673 * Attribute "consumes" allows a negative value as well, which is
   674 interpreted relatively to the total number of premises of the rule in
   675 the target context.  This form of declaration is stable when exported
   676 from a nested 'context' with additional assumptions.  It is the
   677 preferred form for definitional packages, notably cases/rules produced
   678 in HOL/inductive and HOL/function.
   679 
   680 * More informative error messages for Isar proof commands involving
   681 lazy enumerations (method applications etc.).
   682 
   683 * Refined 'help' command to retrieve outer syntax commands according
   684 to name patterns (with clickable results).
   685 
   686 
   687 *** Prover IDE -- Isabelle/Scala/jEdit ***
   688 
   689 * Parallel terminal proofs ('by') are enabled by default, likewise
   690 proofs that are built into packages like 'datatype', 'function'.  This
   691 allows to "run ahead" checking the theory specifications on the
   692 surface, while the prover is still crunching on internal
   693 justifications.  Unfinished / cancelled proofs are restarted as
   694 required to complete full proof checking eventually.
   695 
   696 * Improved output panel with tooltips, hyperlinks etc. based on the
   697 same Rich_Text_Area as regular Isabelle/jEdit buffers.  Activation of
   698 tooltips leads to some window that supports the same recursively,
   699 which can lead to stacks of tooltips as the semantic document content
   700 is explored.  ESCAPE closes the whole stack, individual windows may be
   701 closed separately, or detached to become independent jEdit dockables.
   702 
   703 * Improved support for commands that produce graph output: the text
   704 message contains a clickable area to open a new instance of the graph
   705 browser on demand.
   706 
   707 * More robust incremental parsing of outer syntax (partial comments,
   708 malformed symbols).  Changing the balance of open/close quotes and
   709 comment delimiters works more conveniently with unfinished situations
   710 that frequently occur in user interaction.
   711 
   712 * More efficient painting and improved reactivity when editing large
   713 files.  More scalable management of formal document content.
   714 
   715 * Smarter handling of tracing messages: prover process pauses after
   716 certain number of messages per command transaction, with some user
   717 dialog to stop or continue.  This avoids swamping the front-end with
   718 potentially infinite message streams.
   719 
   720 * More plugin options and preferences, based on Isabelle/Scala.  The
   721 jEdit plugin option panel provides access to some Isabelle/Scala
   722 options, including tuning parameters for editor reactivity and color
   723 schemes.
   724 
   725 * Dockable window "Symbols" provides some editing support for Isabelle
   726 symbols.
   727 
   728 * Dockable window "Monitor" shows ML runtime statistics.  Note that
   729 continuous display of the chart slows down the system.
   730 
   731 * Improved editing support for control styles: subscript, superscript,
   732 bold, reset of style -- operating on single symbols or text
   733 selections.  Cf. keyboard shortcuts C+e DOWN/UP/RIGHT/LEFT.
   734 
   735 * Actions isabelle.increase-font-size and isabelle.decrease-font-size
   736 adjust the main text area font size, and its derivatives for output,
   737 tooltips etc.  Cf. keyboard shortcuts C-PLUS and C-MINUS, which often
   738 need to be adapted to local keyboard layouts.
   739 
   740 * More reactive completion popup by default: use \t (TAB) instead of
   741 \n (NEWLINE) to minimize intrusion into regular flow of editing.  See
   742 also "Plugin Options / SideKick / General / Code Completion Options".
   743 
   744 * Implicit check and build dialog of the specified logic session
   745 image.  For example, HOL, HOLCF, HOL-Nominal can be produced on
   746 demand, without bundling big platform-dependent heap images in the
   747 Isabelle distribution.
   748 
   749 * Uniform Java 7 platform on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows: recent updates
   750 from Oracle provide better multi-platform experience.  This version is
   751 now bundled exclusively with Isabelle.
   752 
   753 
   754 *** Pure ***
   755 
   756 * Code generation for Haskell: restrict unqualified imports from
   757 Haskell Prelude to a small set of fundamental operations.
   758 
   759 * Command 'export_code': relative file names are interpreted
   760 relatively to master directory of current theory rather than the
   761 rather arbitrary current working directory.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   762 
   763 * Discontinued obsolete attribute "COMP".  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY,
   764 use regular rule composition via "OF" / "THEN", or explicit proof
   765 structure instead.  Note that Isabelle/ML provides a variety of
   766 operators like COMP, INCR_COMP, COMP_INCR, which need to be applied
   767 with some care where this is really required.
   768 
   769 * Command 'typ' supports an additional variant with explicit sort
   770 constraint, to infer and check the most general type conforming to a
   771 given sort.  Example (in HOL):
   772 
   773   typ "_ * _ * bool * unit" :: finite
   774 
   775 * Command 'locale_deps' visualizes all locales and their relations as
   776 a Hasse diagram.
   777 
   778 
   779 *** HOL ***
   780 
   781 * Sledgehammer:
   782 
   783   - Added MaSh relevance filter based on machine-learning; see the
   784     Sledgehammer manual for details.
   785   - Polished Isar proofs generated with "isar_proofs" option.
   786   - Rationalized type encodings ("type_enc" option).
   787   - Renamed "kill_provers" subcommand to "kill_all".
   788   - Renamed options:
   789       isar_proof ~> isar_proofs
   790       isar_shrink_factor ~> isar_shrink
   791       max_relevant ~> max_facts
   792       relevance_thresholds ~> fact_thresholds
   793 
   794 * Quickcheck: added an optimisation for equality premises.  It is
   795 switched on by default, and can be switched off by setting the
   796 configuration quickcheck_optimise_equality to false.
   797 
   798 * Quotient: only one quotient can be defined by quotient_type
   799 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   800 
   801 * Lifting:
   802   - generation of an abstraction function equation in lift_definition
   803   - quot_del attribute
   804   - renamed no_abs_code -> no_code (INCOMPATIBILITY.)
   805 
   806 * Simproc "finite_Collect" rewrites set comprehensions into pointfree
   807 expressions.
   808 
   809 * Preprocessing of the code generator rewrites set comprehensions into
   810 pointfree expressions.
   811 
   812 * The SMT solver Z3 has now by default a restricted set of directly
   813 supported features. For the full set of features (div/mod, nonlinear
   814 arithmetic, datatypes/records) with potential proof reconstruction
   815 failures, enable the configuration option "z3_with_extensions".  Minor
   816 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   817 
   818 * Simplified 'typedef' specifications: historical options for implicit
   819 set definition and alternative name have been discontinued.  The
   820 former behavior of "typedef (open) t = A" is now the default, but
   821 written just "typedef t = A".  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt theories
   822 accordingly.
   823 
   824 * Removed constant "chars"; prefer "Enum.enum" on type "char"
   825 directly.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   826 
   827 * Moved operation product, sublists and n_lists from theory Enum to
   828 List.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   829 
   830 * Theorem UN_o generalized to SUP_comp.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
   831 
   832 * Class "comm_monoid_diff" formalises properties of bounded
   833 subtraction, with natural numbers and multisets as typical instances.
   834 
   835 * Added combinator "Option.these" with type "'a option set => 'a set".
   836 
   837 * Theory "Transitive_Closure": renamed lemmas
   838 
   839   reflcl_tranclp -> reflclp_tranclp
   840   rtranclp_reflcl -> rtranclp_reflclp
   841 
   842 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   843 
   844 * Theory "Rings": renamed lemmas (in class semiring)
   845 
   846   left_distrib ~> distrib_right
   847   right_distrib ~> distrib_left
   848 
   849 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   850 
   851 * Generalized the definition of limits:
   852 
   853   - Introduced the predicate filterlim (LIM x F. f x :> G) which
   854     expresses that when the input values x converge to F then the
   855     output f x converges to G.
   856 
   857   - Added filters for convergence to positive (at_top) and negative
   858     infinity (at_bot).
   859 
   860   - Moved infinity in the norm (at_infinity) from
   861     Multivariate_Analysis to Complex_Main.
   862 
   863   - Removed real_tendsto_inf, it is superseded by "LIM x F. f x :>
   864     at_top".
   865 
   866 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   867 
   868 * Theory "Library/Option_ord" provides instantiation of option type to
   869 lattice type classes.
   870 
   871 * Theory "Library/Multiset": renamed
   872 
   873     constant fold_mset ~> Multiset.fold
   874     fact fold_mset_commute ~> fold_mset_comm
   875 
   876 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   877 
   878 * Renamed theory Library/List_Prefix to Library/Sublist, with related
   879 changes as follows.
   880 
   881   - Renamed constants (and related lemmas)
   882 
   883       prefix ~> prefixeq
   884       strict_prefix ~> prefix
   885 
   886   - Replaced constant "postfix" by "suffixeq" with swapped argument
   887     order (i.e., "postfix xs ys" is now "suffixeq ys xs") and dropped
   888     old infix syntax "xs >>= ys"; use "suffixeq ys xs" instead.
   889     Renamed lemmas accordingly.
   890 
   891   - Added constant "list_hembeq" for homeomorphic embedding on
   892     lists. Added abbreviation "sublisteq" for special case
   893     "list_hembeq (op =)".
   894 
   895   - Theory Library/Sublist no longer provides "order" and "bot" type
   896     class instances for the prefix order (merely corresponding locale
   897     interpretations). The type class instances are now in theory
   898     Library/Prefix_Order.
   899 
   900   - The sublist relation of theory Library/Sublist_Order is now based
   901     on "Sublist.sublisteq".  Renamed lemmas accordingly:
   902 
   903       le_list_append_le_same_iff ~> Sublist.sublisteq_append_le_same_iff
   904       le_list_append_mono ~> Sublist.list_hembeq_append_mono
   905       le_list_below_empty ~> Sublist.list_hembeq_Nil, Sublist.list_hembeq_Nil2
   906       le_list_Cons_EX ~> Sublist.list_hembeq_ConsD
   907       le_list_drop_Cons2 ~> Sublist.sublisteq_Cons2'
   908       le_list_drop_Cons_neq ~> Sublist.sublisteq_Cons2_neq
   909       le_list_drop_Cons ~> Sublist.sublisteq_Cons'
   910       le_list_drop_many ~> Sublist.sublisteq_drop_many
   911       le_list_filter_left ~> Sublist.sublisteq_filter_left
   912       le_list_rev_drop_many ~> Sublist.sublisteq_rev_drop_many
   913       le_list_rev_take_iff ~> Sublist.sublisteq_append
   914       le_list_same_length ~> Sublist.sublisteq_same_length
   915       le_list_take_many_iff ~> Sublist.sublisteq_append'
   916       less_eq_list.drop ~> less_eq_list_drop
   917       less_eq_list.induct ~> less_eq_list_induct
   918       not_le_list_length ~> Sublist.not_sublisteq_length
   919 
   920 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   921 
   922 * New theory Library/Countable_Set.
   923 
   924 * Theory Library/Debug and Library/Parallel provide debugging and
   925 parallel execution for code generated towards Isabelle/ML.
   926 
   927 * Theory Library/FuncSet: Extended support for Pi and extensional and
   928 introduce the extensional dependent function space "PiE". Replaced
   929 extensional_funcset by an abbreviation, and renamed lemmas from
   930 extensional_funcset to PiE as follows:
   931 
   932   extensional_empty  ~>  PiE_empty
   933   extensional_funcset_empty_domain  ~>  PiE_empty_domain
   934   extensional_funcset_empty_range  ~>  PiE_empty_range
   935   extensional_funcset_arb  ~>  PiE_arb
   936   extensional_funcset_mem  ~>  PiE_mem
   937   extensional_funcset_extend_domainI  ~>  PiE_fun_upd
   938   extensional_funcset_restrict_domain  ~>  fun_upd_in_PiE
   939   extensional_funcset_extend_domain_eq  ~>  PiE_insert_eq
   940   card_extensional_funcset  ~>  card_PiE
   941   finite_extensional_funcset  ~>  finite_PiE
   942 
   943 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   944 
   945 * Theory Library/FinFun: theory of almost everywhere constant
   946 functions (supersedes the AFP entry "Code Generation for Functions as
   947 Data").
   948 
   949 * Theory Library/Phantom: generic phantom type to make a type
   950 parameter appear in a constant's type.  This alternative to adding
   951 TYPE('a) as another parameter avoids unnecessary closures in generated
   952 code.
   953 
   954 * Theory Library/RBT_Impl: efficient construction of red-black trees
   955 from sorted associative lists. Merging two trees with rbt_union may
   956 return a structurally different tree than before.  Potential
   957 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   958 
   959 * Theory Library/IArray: immutable arrays with code generation.
   960 
   961 * Theory Library/Finite_Lattice: theory of finite lattices.
   962 
   963 * HOL/Multivariate_Analysis: replaced
   964 
   965   "basis :: 'a::euclidean_space => nat => real"
   966   "\<Chi>\<Chi> :: (nat => real) => 'a::euclidean_space"
   967 
   968 on euclidean spaces by using the inner product "_ \<bullet> _" with
   969 vectors from the Basis set: "\<Chi>\<Chi> i. f i" is superseded by
   970 "SUM i : Basis. f i * r i".
   971 
   972   With this change the following constants are also changed or removed:
   973 
   974     DIM('a) :: nat  ~>  card (Basis :: 'a set)   (is an abbreviation)
   975     a $$ i  ~>  inner a i  (where i : Basis)
   976     cart_base i  removed
   977     \<pi>, \<pi>'  removed
   978 
   979   Theorems about these constants where removed.
   980 
   981   Renamed lemmas:
   982 
   983     component_le_norm  ~>  Basis_le_norm
   984     euclidean_eq  ~>  euclidean_eq_iff
   985     differential_zero_maxmin_component  ~>  differential_zero_maxmin_cart
   986     euclidean_simps  ~>  inner_simps
   987     independent_basis  ~>  independent_Basis
   988     span_basis  ~>  span_Basis
   989     in_span_basis  ~>  in_span_Basis
   990     norm_bound_component_le  ~>  norm_boound_Basis_le
   991     norm_bound_component_lt  ~>  norm_boound_Basis_lt
   992     component_le_infnorm  ~>  Basis_le_infnorm
   993 
   994 INCOMPATIBILITY.
   995 
   996 * HOL/Probability:
   997 
   998   - Added simproc "measurable" to automatically prove measurability.
   999 
  1000   - Added induction rules for sigma sets with disjoint union
  1001     (sigma_sets_induct_disjoint) and for Borel-measurable functions
  1002     (borel_measurable_induct).
  1003 
  1004   - Added the Daniell-Kolmogorov theorem (the existence the limit of a
  1005     projective family).
  1006 
  1007 * HOL/Cardinals: Theories of ordinals and cardinals (supersedes the
  1008 AFP entry "Ordinals_and_Cardinals").
  1009 
  1010 * HOL/BNF: New (co)datatype package based on bounded natural functors
  1011 with support for mixed, nested recursion and interesting non-free
  1012 datatypes.
  1013 
  1014 * HOL/Finite_Set and Relation: added new set and relation operations
  1015 expressed by Finite_Set.fold.
  1016 
  1017 * New theory HOL/Library/RBT_Set: implementation of sets by red-black
  1018 trees for the code generator.
  1019 
  1020 * HOL/Library/RBT and HOL/Library/Mapping have been converted to
  1021 Lifting/Transfer.
  1022 possible INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1023 
  1024 * HOL/Set: renamed Set.project -> Set.filter
  1025 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1026 
  1027 
  1028 *** Document preparation ***
  1029 
  1030 * Dropped legacy antiquotations "term_style" and "thm_style", since
  1031 styles may be given as arguments to "term" and "thm" already.
  1032 Discontinued legacy styles "prem1" .. "prem19".
  1033 
  1034 * Default LaTeX rendering for \<euro> is now based on eurosym package,
  1035 instead of slightly exotic babel/greek.
  1036 
  1037 * Document variant NAME may use different LaTeX entry point
  1038 document/root_NAME.tex if that file exists, instead of the common
  1039 document/root.tex.
  1040 
  1041 * Simplified custom document/build script, instead of old-style
  1042 document/IsaMakefile.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1043 
  1044 
  1045 *** ML ***
  1046 
  1047 * The default limit for maximum number of worker threads is now 8,
  1048 instead of 4, in correspondence to capabilities of contemporary
  1049 hardware and Poly/ML runtime system.
  1050 
  1051 * Type Seq.results and related operations support embedded error
  1052 messages within lazy enumerations, and thus allow to provide
  1053 informative errors in the absence of any usable results.
  1054 
  1055 * Renamed Position.str_of to Position.here to emphasize that this is a
  1056 formal device to inline positions into message text, but not
  1057 necessarily printing visible text.
  1058 
  1059 
  1060 *** System ***
  1061 
  1062 * Advanced support for Isabelle sessions and build management, see
  1063 "system" manual for the chapter of that name, especially the "isabelle
  1064 build" tool and its examples.  The "isabelle mkroot" tool prepares
  1065 session root directories for use with "isabelle build", similar to
  1066 former "isabelle mkdir" for "isabelle usedir".  Note that this affects
  1067 document preparation as well.  INCOMPATIBILITY, isabelle usedir /
  1068 mkdir / make are rendered obsolete.
  1069 
  1070 * Discontinued obsolete Isabelle/build script, it is superseded by the
  1071 regular isabelle build tool.  For example:
  1072 
  1073   isabelle build -s -b HOL
  1074 
  1075 * Discontinued obsolete "isabelle makeall".
  1076 
  1077 * Discontinued obsolete IsaMakefile and ROOT.ML files from the
  1078 Isabelle distribution, except for rudimentary src/HOL/IsaMakefile that
  1079 provides some traditional targets that invoke "isabelle build".  Note
  1080 that this is inefficient!  Applications of Isabelle/HOL involving
  1081 "isabelle make" should be upgraded to use "isabelle build" directly.
  1082 
  1083 * The "isabelle options" tool prints Isabelle system options, as
  1084 required for "isabelle build", for example.
  1085 
  1086 * The "isabelle logo" tool produces EPS and PDF format simultaneously.
  1087 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY in command-line options.
  1088 
  1089 * The "isabelle install" tool has now a simpler command-line.  Minor
  1090 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1091 
  1092 * The "isabelle components" tool helps to resolve add-on components
  1093 that are not bundled, or referenced from a bare-bones repository
  1094 version of Isabelle.
  1095 
  1096 * Settings variable ISABELLE_PLATFORM_FAMILY refers to the general
  1097 platform family: "linux", "macos", "windows".
  1098 
  1099 * The ML system is configured as regular component, and no longer
  1100 picked up from some surrounding directory.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  1101 for home-made settings.
  1102 
  1103 * Improved ML runtime statistics (heap, threads, future tasks etc.).
  1104 
  1105 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.2.1, which was the last version
  1106 without exception positions and advanced ML compiler/toplevel
  1107 configuration.
  1108 
  1109 * Discontinued special treatment of Proof General -- no longer guess
  1110 PROOFGENERAL_HOME based on accidental file-system layout.  Minor
  1111 INCOMPATIBILITY: provide PROOFGENERAL_HOME and PROOFGENERAL_OPTIONS
  1112 settings manually, or use a Proof General version that has been
  1113 bundled as Isabelle component.
  1114 
  1115 
  1116 
  1117 New in Isabelle2012 (May 2012)
  1118 ------------------------------
  1119 
  1120 *** General ***
  1121 
  1122 * Prover IDE (PIDE) improvements:
  1123 
  1124   - more robust Sledgehammer integration (as before the sledgehammer
  1125     command-line needs to be typed into the source buffer)
  1126   - markup for bound variables
  1127   - markup for types of term variables (displayed as tooltips)
  1128   - support for user-defined Isar commands within the running session
  1129   - improved support for Unicode outside original 16bit range
  1130     e.g. glyph for \<A> (thanks to jEdit 4.5.1)
  1131 
  1132 * Forward declaration of outer syntax keywords within the theory
  1133 header -- minor INCOMPATIBILITY for user-defined commands.  Allow new
  1134 commands to be used in the same theory where defined.
  1135 
  1136 * Auxiliary contexts indicate block structure for specifications with
  1137 additional parameters and assumptions.  Such unnamed contexts may be
  1138 nested within other targets, like 'theory', 'locale', 'class',
  1139 'instantiation' etc.  Results from the local context are generalized
  1140 accordingly and applied to the enclosing target context.  Example:
  1141 
  1142   context
  1143     fixes x y z :: 'a
  1144     assumes xy: "x = y" and yz: "y = z"
  1145   begin
  1146 
  1147   lemma my_trans: "x = z" using xy yz by simp
  1148 
  1149   end
  1150 
  1151   thm my_trans
  1152 
  1153 The most basic application is to factor-out context elements of
  1154 several fixes/assumes/shows theorem statements, e.g. see
  1155 ~~/src/HOL/Isar_Examples/Group_Context.thy
  1156 
  1157 Any other local theory specification element works within the "context
  1158 ... begin ... end" block as well.
  1159 
  1160 * Bundled declarations associate attributed fact expressions with a
  1161 given name in the context.  These may be later included in other
  1162 contexts.  This allows to manage context extensions casually, without
  1163 the logical dependencies of locales and locale interpretation.  See
  1164 commands 'bundle', 'include', 'including' etc. in the isar-ref manual.
  1165 
  1166 * Commands 'lemmas' and 'theorems' allow local variables using 'for'
  1167 declaration, and results are standardized before being stored.  Thus
  1168 old-style "standard" after instantiation or composition of facts
  1169 becomes obsolete.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, due to potential change of
  1170 indices of schematic variables.
  1171 
  1172 * Rule attributes in local theory declarations (e.g. locale or class)
  1173 are now statically evaluated: the resulting theorem is stored instead
  1174 of the original expression.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, where
  1175 the historic accident of dynamic re-evaluation in interpretations
  1176 etc. was exploited.
  1177 
  1178 * New tutorial "Programming and Proving in Isabelle/HOL"
  1179 ("prog-prove").  It completely supersedes "A Tutorial Introduction to
  1180 Structured Isar Proofs" ("isar-overview"), which has been removed.  It
  1181 also supersedes "Isabelle/HOL, A Proof Assistant for Higher-Order
  1182 Logic" as the recommended beginners tutorial, but does not cover all
  1183 of the material of that old tutorial.
  1184 
  1185 * Updated and extended reference manuals: "isar-ref",
  1186 "implementation", "system"; reduced remaining material in old "ref"
  1187 manual.
  1188 
  1189 
  1190 *** Pure ***
  1191 
  1192 * Command 'definition' no longer exports the foundational "raw_def"
  1193 into the user context.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, may use the regular
  1194 "def" result with attribute "abs_def" to imitate the old version.
  1195 
  1196 * Attribute "abs_def" turns an equation of the form "f x y == t" into
  1197 "f == %x y. t", which ensures that "simp" or "unfold" steps always
  1198 expand it.  This also works for object-logic equality.  (Formerly
  1199 undocumented feature.)
  1200 
  1201 * Sort constraints are now propagated in simultaneous statements, just
  1202 like type constraints.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, where
  1203 distinct sorts used to be assigned accidentally.  For example:
  1204 
  1205   lemma "P (x::'a::foo)" and "Q (y::'a::bar)"  -- "now illegal"
  1206 
  1207   lemma "P (x::'a)" and "Q (y::'a::bar)"
  1208     -- "now uniform 'a::bar instead of default sort for first occurrence (!)"
  1209 
  1210 * Rule composition via attribute "OF" (or ML functions OF/MRS) is more
  1211 tolerant against multiple unifiers, as long as the final result is
  1212 unique.  (As before, rules are composed in canonical right-to-left
  1213 order to accommodate newly introduced premises.)
  1214 
  1215 * Renamed some inner syntax categories:
  1216 
  1217     num ~> num_token
  1218     xnum ~> xnum_token
  1219     xstr ~> str_token
  1220 
  1221 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.  Note that in practice "num_const" or
  1222 "num_position" etc. are mainly used instead (which also include
  1223 position information via constraints).
  1224 
  1225 * Simplified configuration options for syntax ambiguity: see
  1226 "syntax_ambiguity_warning" and "syntax_ambiguity_limit" in isar-ref
  1227 manual.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1228 
  1229 * Discontinued configuration option "syntax_positions": atomic terms
  1230 in parse trees are always annotated by position constraints.
  1231 
  1232 * Old code generator for SML and its commands 'code_module',
  1233 'code_library', 'consts_code', 'types_code' have been discontinued.
  1234 Use commands of the generic code generator instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1235 
  1236 * Redundant attribute "code_inline" has been discontinued. Use
  1237 "code_unfold" instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1238 
  1239 * Dropped attribute "code_unfold_post" in favor of the its dual
  1240 "code_abbrev", which yields a common pattern in definitions like
  1241 
  1242   definition [code_abbrev]: "f = t"
  1243 
  1244 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1245 
  1246 * Obsolete 'types' command has been discontinued.  Use 'type_synonym'
  1247 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1248 
  1249 * Discontinued old "prems" fact, which used to refer to the accidental
  1250 collection of foundational premises in the context (already marked as
  1251 legacy since Isabelle2011).
  1252 
  1253 
  1254 *** HOL ***
  1255 
  1256 * Type 'a set is now a proper type constructor (just as before
  1257 Isabelle2008).  Definitions mem_def and Collect_def have disappeared.
  1258 Non-trivial INCOMPATIBILITY.  For developments keeping predicates and
  1259 sets separate, it is often sufficient to rephrase some set S that has
  1260 been accidentally used as predicates by "%x. x : S", and some
  1261 predicate P that has been accidentally used as set by "{x. P x}".
  1262 Corresponding proofs in a first step should be pruned from any
  1263 tinkering with former theorems mem_def and Collect_def as far as
  1264 possible.
  1265 
  1266 For developments which deliberately mix predicates and sets, a
  1267 planning step is necessary to determine what should become a predicate
  1268 and what a set.  It can be helpful to carry out that step in
  1269 Isabelle2011-1 before jumping right into the current release.
  1270 
  1271 * Code generation by default implements sets as container type rather
  1272 than predicates.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1273 
  1274 * New type synonym 'a rel = ('a * 'a) set
  1275 
  1276 * The representation of numerals has changed.  Datatype "num"
  1277 represents strictly positive binary numerals, along with functions
  1278 "numeral :: num => 'a" and "neg_numeral :: num => 'a" to represent
  1279 positive and negated numeric literals, respectively.  See also
  1280 definitions in ~~/src/HOL/Num.thy.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, some
  1281 user theories may require adaptations as follows:
  1282 
  1283   - Theorems with number_ring or number_semiring constraints: These
  1284     classes are gone; use comm_ring_1 or comm_semiring_1 instead.
  1285 
  1286   - Theories defining numeric types: Remove number, number_semiring,
  1287     and number_ring instances. Defer all theorems about numerals until
  1288     after classes one and semigroup_add have been instantiated.
  1289 
  1290   - Numeral-only simp rules: Replace each rule having a "number_of v"
  1291     pattern with two copies, one for numeral and one for neg_numeral.
  1292 
  1293   - Theorems about subclasses of semiring_1 or ring_1: These classes
  1294     automatically support numerals now, so more simp rules and
  1295     simprocs may now apply within the proof.
  1296 
  1297   - Definitions and theorems using old constructors Pls/Min/Bit0/Bit1:
  1298     Redefine using other integer operations.
  1299 
  1300 * Transfer: New package intended to generalize the existing
  1301 "descending" method and related theorem attributes from the Quotient
  1302 package.  (Not all functionality is implemented yet, but future
  1303 development will focus on Transfer as an eventual replacement for the
  1304 corresponding parts of the Quotient package.)
  1305 
  1306   - transfer_rule attribute: Maintains a collection of transfer rules,
  1307     which relate constants at two different types. Transfer rules may
  1308     relate different type instances of the same polymorphic constant,
  1309     or they may relate an operation on a raw type to a corresponding
  1310     operation on an abstract type (quotient or subtype). For example:
  1311 
  1312     ((A ===> B) ===> list_all2 A ===> list_all2 B) map map
  1313     (cr_int ===> cr_int ===> cr_int) (%(x,y) (u,v). (x+u, y+v)) plus_int
  1314 
  1315   - transfer method: Replaces a subgoal on abstract types with an
  1316     equivalent subgoal on the corresponding raw types. Constants are
  1317     replaced with corresponding ones according to the transfer rules.
  1318     Goals are generalized over all free variables by default; this is
  1319     necessary for variables whose types change, but can be overridden
  1320     for specific variables with e.g. "transfer fixing: x y z".  The
  1321     variant transfer' method allows replacing a subgoal with one that
  1322     is logically stronger (rather than equivalent).
  1323 
  1324   - relator_eq attribute: Collects identity laws for relators of
  1325     various type constructors, e.g. "list_all2 (op =) = (op =)".  The
  1326     transfer method uses these lemmas to infer transfer rules for
  1327     non-polymorphic constants on the fly.
  1328 
  1329   - transfer_prover method: Assists with proving a transfer rule for a
  1330     new constant, provided the constant is defined in terms of other
  1331     constants that already have transfer rules. It should be applied
  1332     after unfolding the constant definitions.
  1333 
  1334   - HOL/ex/Transfer_Int_Nat.thy: Example theory demonstrating transfer
  1335     from type nat to type int.
  1336 
  1337 * Lifting: New package intended to generalize the quotient_definition
  1338 facility of the Quotient package; designed to work with Transfer.
  1339 
  1340   - lift_definition command: Defines operations on an abstract type in
  1341     terms of a corresponding operation on a representation
  1342     type.  Example syntax:
  1343 
  1344     lift_definition dlist_insert :: "'a => 'a dlist => 'a dlist"
  1345       is List.insert
  1346 
  1347     Users must discharge a respectfulness proof obligation when each
  1348     constant is defined. (For a type copy, i.e. a typedef with UNIV,
  1349     the proof is discharged automatically.) The obligation is
  1350     presented in a user-friendly, readable form; a respectfulness
  1351     theorem in the standard format and a transfer rule are generated
  1352     by the package.
  1353 
  1354   - Integration with code_abstype: For typedefs (e.g. subtypes
  1355     corresponding to a datatype invariant, such as dlist),
  1356     lift_definition generates a code certificate theorem and sets up
  1357     code generation for each constant.
  1358 
  1359   - setup_lifting command: Sets up the Lifting package to work with a
  1360     user-defined type. The user must provide either a quotient theorem
  1361     or a type_definition theorem.  The package configures transfer
  1362     rules for equality and quantifiers on the type, and sets up the
  1363     lift_definition command to work with the type.
  1364 
  1365   - Usage examples: See Quotient_Examples/Lift_DList.thy,
  1366     Quotient_Examples/Lift_RBT.thy, Quotient_Examples/Lift_FSet.thy,
  1367     Word/Word.thy and Library/Float.thy.
  1368 
  1369 * Quotient package:
  1370 
  1371   - The 'quotient_type' command now supports a 'morphisms' option with
  1372     rep and abs functions, similar to typedef.
  1373 
  1374   - 'quotient_type' sets up new types to work with the Lifting and
  1375     Transfer packages, as with 'setup_lifting'.
  1376 
  1377   - The 'quotient_definition' command now requires the user to prove a
  1378     respectfulness property at the point where the constant is
  1379     defined, similar to lift_definition; INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1380 
  1381   - Renamed predicate 'Quotient' to 'Quotient3', and renamed theorems
  1382     accordingly, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1383 
  1384 * New diagnostic command 'find_unused_assms' to find potentially
  1385 superfluous assumptions in theorems using Quickcheck.
  1386 
  1387 * Quickcheck:
  1388 
  1389   - Quickcheck returns variable assignments as counterexamples, which
  1390     allows to reveal the underspecification of functions under test.
  1391     For example, refuting "hd xs = x", it presents the variable
  1392     assignment xs = [] and x = a1 as a counterexample, assuming that
  1393     any property is false whenever "hd []" occurs in it.
  1394 
  1395     These counterexample are marked as potentially spurious, as
  1396     Quickcheck also returns "xs = []" as a counterexample to the
  1397     obvious theorem "hd xs = hd xs".
  1398 
  1399     After finding a potentially spurious counterexample, Quickcheck
  1400     continues searching for genuine ones.
  1401 
  1402     By default, Quickcheck shows potentially spurious and genuine
  1403     counterexamples. The option "genuine_only" sets quickcheck to only
  1404     show genuine counterexamples.
  1405 
  1406   - The command 'quickcheck_generator' creates random and exhaustive
  1407     value generators for a given type and operations.
  1408 
  1409     It generates values by using the operations as if they were
  1410     constructors of that type.
  1411 
  1412   - Support for multisets.
  1413 
  1414   - Added "use_subtype" options.
  1415 
  1416   - Added "quickcheck_locale" configuration to specify how to process
  1417     conjectures in a locale context.
  1418 
  1419 * Nitpick: Fixed infinite loop caused by the 'peephole_optim' option
  1420 and affecting 'rat' and 'real'.
  1421 
  1422 * Sledgehammer:
  1423   - Integrated more tightly with SPASS, as described in the ITP 2012
  1424     paper "More SPASS with Isabelle".
  1425   - Made it try "smt" as a fallback if "metis" fails or times out.
  1426   - Added support for the following provers: Alt-Ergo (via Why3 and
  1427     TFF1), iProver, iProver-Eq.
  1428   - Sped up the minimizer.
  1429   - Added "lam_trans", "uncurry_aliases", and "minimize" options.
  1430   - Renamed "slicing" ("no_slicing") option to "slice" ("dont_slice").
  1431   - Renamed "sound" option to "strict".
  1432 
  1433 * Metis: Added possibility to specify lambda translations scheme as a
  1434 parenthesized argument (e.g., "by (metis (lifting) ...)").
  1435 
  1436 * SMT: Renamed "smt_fixed" option to "smt_read_only_certificates".
  1437 
  1438 * Command 'try0': Renamed from 'try_methods'. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1439 
  1440 * New "case_product" attribute to generate a case rule doing multiple
  1441 case distinctions at the same time.  E.g.
  1442 
  1443   list.exhaust [case_product nat.exhaust]
  1444 
  1445 produces a rule which can be used to perform case distinction on both
  1446 a list and a nat.
  1447 
  1448 * New "eventually_elim" method as a generalized variant of the
  1449 eventually_elim* rules.  Supports structured proofs.
  1450 
  1451 * Typedef with implicit set definition is considered legacy.  Use
  1452 "typedef (open)" form instead, which will eventually become the
  1453 default.
  1454 
  1455 * Record: code generation can be switched off manually with
  1456 
  1457   declare [[record_coden = false]]  -- "default true"
  1458 
  1459 * Datatype: type parameters allow explicit sort constraints.
  1460 
  1461 * Concrete syntax for case expressions includes constraints for source
  1462 positions, and thus produces Prover IDE markup for its bindings.
  1463 INCOMPATIBILITY for old-style syntax translations that augment the
  1464 pattern notation; e.g. see src/HOL/HOLCF/One.thy for translations of
  1465 one_case.
  1466 
  1467 * Clarified attribute "mono_set": pure declaration without modifying
  1468 the result of the fact expression.
  1469 
  1470 * More default pred/set conversions on a couple of relation operations
  1471 and predicates.  Added powers of predicate relations.  Consolidation
  1472 of some relation theorems:
  1473 
  1474   converse_def ~> converse_unfold
  1475   rel_comp_def ~> relcomp_unfold
  1476   symp_def ~> (modified, use symp_def and sym_def instead)
  1477   transp_def ~> transp_trans
  1478   Domain_def ~> Domain_unfold
  1479   Range_def ~> Domain_converse [symmetric]
  1480 
  1481 Generalized theorems INF_INT_eq, INF_INT_eq2, SUP_UN_eq, SUP_UN_eq2.
  1482 
  1483 See theory "Relation" for examples for making use of pred/set
  1484 conversions by means of attributes "to_set" and "to_pred".
  1485 
  1486 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1487 
  1488 * Renamed facts about the power operation on relations, i.e., relpow
  1489 to match the constant's name:
  1490 
  1491   rel_pow_1 ~> relpow_1
  1492   rel_pow_0_I ~> relpow_0_I
  1493   rel_pow_Suc_I ~> relpow_Suc_I
  1494   rel_pow_Suc_I2 ~> relpow_Suc_I2
  1495   rel_pow_0_E ~> relpow_0_E
  1496   rel_pow_Suc_E ~> relpow_Suc_E
  1497   rel_pow_E ~> relpow_E
  1498   rel_pow_Suc_D2 ~> relpow_Suc_D2
  1499   rel_pow_Suc_E2 ~> relpow_Suc_E2
  1500   rel_pow_Suc_D2' ~> relpow_Suc_D2'
  1501   rel_pow_E2 ~> relpow_E2
  1502   rel_pow_add ~> relpow_add
  1503   rel_pow_commute ~> relpow
  1504   rel_pow_empty ~> relpow_empty:
  1505   rtrancl_imp_UN_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_imp_UN_relpow
  1506   rel_pow_imp_rtrancl ~> relpow_imp_rtrancl
  1507   rtrancl_is_UN_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_is_UN_relpow
  1508   rtrancl_imp_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_imp_relpow
  1509   rel_pow_fun_conv ~> relpow_fun_conv
  1510   rel_pow_finite_bounded1 ~> relpow_finite_bounded1
  1511   rel_pow_finite_bounded ~> relpow_finite_bounded
  1512   rtrancl_finite_eq_rel_pow ~> rtrancl_finite_eq_relpow
  1513   trancl_finite_eq_rel_pow ~> trancl_finite_eq_relpow
  1514   single_valued_rel_pow ~> single_valued_relpow
  1515 
  1516 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1517 
  1518 * Theory Relation: Consolidated constant name for relation composition
  1519 and corresponding theorem names:
  1520 
  1521   - Renamed constant rel_comp to relcomp.
  1522 
  1523   - Dropped abbreviation pred_comp. Use relcompp instead.
  1524 
  1525   - Renamed theorems:
  1526 
  1527     rel_compI ~> relcompI
  1528     rel_compEpair ~> relcompEpair
  1529     rel_compE ~> relcompE
  1530     pred_comp_rel_comp_eq ~> relcompp_relcomp_eq
  1531     rel_comp_empty1 ~> relcomp_empty1
  1532     rel_comp_mono ~> relcomp_mono
  1533     rel_comp_subset_Sigma ~> relcomp_subset_Sigma
  1534     rel_comp_distrib ~> relcomp_distrib
  1535     rel_comp_distrib2 ~> relcomp_distrib2
  1536     rel_comp_UNION_distrib ~> relcomp_UNION_distrib
  1537     rel_comp_UNION_distrib2 ~> relcomp_UNION_distrib2
  1538     single_valued_rel_comp ~> single_valued_relcomp
  1539     rel_comp_def ~> relcomp_unfold
  1540     converse_rel_comp ~> converse_relcomp
  1541     pred_compI ~> relcomppI
  1542     pred_compE ~> relcomppE
  1543     pred_comp_bot1 ~> relcompp_bot1
  1544     pred_comp_bot2 ~> relcompp_bot2
  1545     transp_pred_comp_less_eq ~> transp_relcompp_less_eq
  1546     pred_comp_mono ~> relcompp_mono
  1547     pred_comp_distrib ~> relcompp_distrib
  1548     pred_comp_distrib2 ~> relcompp_distrib2
  1549     converse_pred_comp ~> converse_relcompp
  1550 
  1551     finite_rel_comp ~> finite_relcomp
  1552 
  1553     set_rel_comp ~> set_relcomp
  1554 
  1555 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1556 
  1557 * Theory Divides: Discontinued redundant theorems about div and mod.
  1558 INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems instead.
  1559 
  1560   DIVISION_BY_ZERO ~> div_by_0, mod_by_0
  1561   zdiv_self ~> div_self
  1562   zmod_self ~> mod_self
  1563   zdiv_zero ~> div_0
  1564   zmod_zero ~> mod_0
  1565   zdiv_zmod_equality ~> div_mod_equality2
  1566   zdiv_zmod_equality2 ~> div_mod_equality
  1567   zmod_zdiv_trivial ~> mod_div_trivial
  1568   zdiv_zminus_zminus ~> div_minus_minus
  1569   zmod_zminus_zminus ~> mod_minus_minus
  1570   zdiv_zminus2 ~> div_minus_right
  1571   zmod_zminus2 ~> mod_minus_right
  1572   zdiv_minus1_right ~> div_minus1_right
  1573   zmod_minus1_right ~> mod_minus1_right
  1574   zdvd_mult_div_cancel ~> dvd_mult_div_cancel
  1575   zmod_zmult1_eq ~> mod_mult_right_eq
  1576   zpower_zmod ~> power_mod
  1577   zdvd_zmod ~> dvd_mod
  1578   zdvd_zmod_imp_zdvd ~> dvd_mod_imp_dvd
  1579   mod_mult_distrib ~> mult_mod_left
  1580   mod_mult_distrib2 ~> mult_mod_right
  1581 
  1582 * Removed redundant theorems nat_mult_2 and nat_mult_2_right; use
  1583 generic mult_2 and mult_2_right instead. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1584 
  1585 * Finite_Set.fold now qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1586 
  1587 * Consolidated theorem names concerning fold combinators:
  1588 
  1589   inf_INFI_fold_inf ~> inf_INF_fold_inf
  1590   sup_SUPR_fold_sup ~> sup_SUP_fold_sup
  1591   INFI_fold_inf ~> INF_fold_inf
  1592   SUPR_fold_sup ~> SUP_fold_sup
  1593   union_set ~> union_set_fold
  1594   minus_set ~> minus_set_fold
  1595   INFI_set_fold ~> INF_set_fold
  1596   SUPR_set_fold ~> SUP_set_fold
  1597   INF_code ~> INF_set_foldr
  1598   SUP_code ~> SUP_set_foldr
  1599   foldr.simps ~> foldr.simps (in point-free formulation)
  1600   foldr_fold_rev ~> foldr_conv_fold
  1601   foldl_fold ~> foldl_conv_fold
  1602   foldr_foldr ~> foldr_conv_foldl
  1603   foldl_foldr ~> foldl_conv_foldr
  1604   fold_set_remdups ~> fold_set_fold_remdups
  1605   fold_set ~> fold_set_fold
  1606   fold1_set ~> fold1_set_fold
  1607 
  1608 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1609 
  1610 * Dropped rarely useful theorems concerning fold combinators:
  1611 foldl_apply, foldl_fun_comm, foldl_rev, fold_weak_invariant,
  1612 rev_foldl_cons, fold_set_remdups, fold_set, fold_set1,
  1613 concat_conv_foldl, foldl_weak_invariant, foldl_invariant,
  1614 foldr_invariant, foldl_absorb0, foldl_foldr1_lemma, foldl_foldr1,
  1615 listsum_conv_fold, listsum_foldl, sort_foldl_insort, foldl_assoc,
  1616 foldr_conv_foldl, start_le_sum, elem_le_sum, sum_eq_0_conv.
  1617 INCOMPATIBILITY.  For the common phrases "%xs. List.foldr plus xs 0"
  1618 and "List.foldl plus 0", prefer "List.listsum".  Otherwise it can be
  1619 useful to boil down "List.foldr" and "List.foldl" to "List.fold" by
  1620 unfolding "foldr_conv_fold" and "foldl_conv_fold".
  1621 
  1622 * Dropped lemmas minus_set_foldr, union_set_foldr, union_coset_foldr,
  1623 inter_coset_foldr, Inf_fin_set_foldr, Sup_fin_set_foldr,
  1624 Min_fin_set_foldr, Max_fin_set_foldr, Inf_set_foldr, Sup_set_foldr,
  1625 INF_set_foldr, SUP_set_foldr.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Prefer corresponding
  1626 lemmas over fold rather than foldr, or make use of lemmas
  1627 fold_conv_foldr and fold_rev.
  1628 
  1629 * Congruence rules Option.map_cong and Option.bind_cong for recursion
  1630 through option types.
  1631 
  1632 * "Transitive_Closure.ntrancl": bounded transitive closure on
  1633 relations.
  1634 
  1635 * Constant "Set.not_member" now qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1636 
  1637 * Theory Int: Discontinued many legacy theorems specific to type int.
  1638 INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems instead.
  1639 
  1640   zminus_zminus ~> minus_minus
  1641   zminus_0 ~> minus_zero
  1642   zminus_zadd_distrib ~> minus_add_distrib
  1643   zadd_commute ~> add_commute
  1644   zadd_assoc ~> add_assoc
  1645   zadd_left_commute ~> add_left_commute
  1646   zadd_ac ~> add_ac
  1647   zmult_ac ~> mult_ac
  1648   zadd_0 ~> add_0_left
  1649   zadd_0_right ~> add_0_right
  1650   zadd_zminus_inverse2 ~> left_minus
  1651   zmult_zminus ~> mult_minus_left
  1652   zmult_commute ~> mult_commute
  1653   zmult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
  1654   zadd_zmult_distrib ~> left_distrib
  1655   zadd_zmult_distrib2 ~> right_distrib
  1656   zdiff_zmult_distrib ~> left_diff_distrib
  1657   zdiff_zmult_distrib2 ~> right_diff_distrib
  1658   zmult_1 ~> mult_1_left
  1659   zmult_1_right ~> mult_1_right
  1660   zle_refl ~> order_refl
  1661   zle_trans ~> order_trans
  1662   zle_antisym ~> order_antisym
  1663   zle_linear ~> linorder_linear
  1664   zless_linear ~> linorder_less_linear
  1665   zadd_left_mono ~> add_left_mono
  1666   zadd_strict_right_mono ~> add_strict_right_mono
  1667   zadd_zless_mono ~> add_less_le_mono
  1668   int_0_less_1 ~> zero_less_one
  1669   int_0_neq_1 ~> zero_neq_one
  1670   zless_le ~> less_le
  1671   zpower_zadd_distrib ~> power_add
  1672   zero_less_zpower_abs_iff ~> zero_less_power_abs_iff
  1673   zero_le_zpower_abs ~> zero_le_power_abs
  1674 
  1675 * Theory Deriv: Renamed
  1676 
  1677   DERIV_nonneg_imp_nonincreasing ~> DERIV_nonneg_imp_nondecreasing
  1678 
  1679 * Theory Library/Multiset: Improved code generation of multisets.
  1680 
  1681 * Theory HOL/Library/Set_Algebras: Addition and multiplication on sets
  1682 are expressed via type classes again. The special syntax
  1683 \<oplus>/\<otimes> has been replaced by plain +/*. Removed constant
  1684 setsum_set, which is now subsumed by Big_Operators.setsum.
  1685 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1686 
  1687 * Theory HOL/Library/Diagonalize has been removed. INCOMPATIBILITY,
  1688 use theory HOL/Library/Nat_Bijection instead.
  1689 
  1690 * Theory HOL/Library/RBT_Impl: Backing implementation of red-black
  1691 trees is now inside a type class context.  Names of affected
  1692 operations and lemmas have been prefixed by rbt_.  INCOMPATIBILITY for
  1693 theories working directly with raw red-black trees, adapt the names as
  1694 follows:
  1695 
  1696   Operations:
  1697   bulkload -> rbt_bulkload
  1698   del_from_left -> rbt_del_from_left
  1699   del_from_right -> rbt_del_from_right
  1700   del -> rbt_del
  1701   delete -> rbt_delete
  1702   ins -> rbt_ins
  1703   insert -> rbt_insert
  1704   insertw -> rbt_insert_with
  1705   insert_with_key -> rbt_insert_with_key
  1706   map_entry -> rbt_map_entry
  1707   lookup -> rbt_lookup
  1708   sorted -> rbt_sorted
  1709   tree_greater -> rbt_greater
  1710   tree_less -> rbt_less
  1711   tree_less_symbol -> rbt_less_symbol
  1712   union -> rbt_union
  1713   union_with -> rbt_union_with
  1714   union_with_key -> rbt_union_with_key
  1715 
  1716   Lemmas:
  1717   balance_left_sorted -> balance_left_rbt_sorted
  1718   balance_left_tree_greater -> balance_left_rbt_greater
  1719   balance_left_tree_less -> balance_left_rbt_less
  1720   balance_right_sorted -> balance_right_rbt_sorted
  1721   balance_right_tree_greater -> balance_right_rbt_greater
  1722   balance_right_tree_less -> balance_right_rbt_less
  1723   balance_sorted -> balance_rbt_sorted
  1724   balance_tree_greater -> balance_rbt_greater
  1725   balance_tree_less -> balance_rbt_less
  1726   bulkload_is_rbt -> rbt_bulkload_is_rbt
  1727   combine_sorted -> combine_rbt_sorted
  1728   combine_tree_greater -> combine_rbt_greater
  1729   combine_tree_less -> combine_rbt_less
  1730   delete_in_tree -> rbt_delete_in_tree
  1731   delete_is_rbt -> rbt_delete_is_rbt
  1732   del_from_left_tree_greater -> rbt_del_from_left_rbt_greater
  1733   del_from_left_tree_less -> rbt_del_from_left_rbt_less
  1734   del_from_right_tree_greater -> rbt_del_from_right_rbt_greater
  1735   del_from_right_tree_less -> rbt_del_from_right_rbt_less
  1736   del_in_tree -> rbt_del_in_tree
  1737   del_inv1_inv2 -> rbt_del_inv1_inv2
  1738   del_sorted -> rbt_del_rbt_sorted
  1739   del_tree_greater -> rbt_del_rbt_greater
  1740   del_tree_less -> rbt_del_rbt_less
  1741   dom_lookup_Branch -> dom_rbt_lookup_Branch
  1742   entries_lookup -> entries_rbt_lookup
  1743   finite_dom_lookup -> finite_dom_rbt_lookup
  1744   insert_sorted -> rbt_insert_rbt_sorted
  1745   insertw_is_rbt -> rbt_insertw_is_rbt
  1746   insertwk_is_rbt -> rbt_insertwk_is_rbt
  1747   insertwk_sorted -> rbt_insertwk_rbt_sorted
  1748   insertw_sorted -> rbt_insertw_rbt_sorted
  1749   ins_sorted -> ins_rbt_sorted
  1750   ins_tree_greater -> ins_rbt_greater
  1751   ins_tree_less -> ins_rbt_less
  1752   is_rbt_sorted -> is_rbt_rbt_sorted
  1753   lookup_balance -> rbt_lookup_balance
  1754   lookup_bulkload -> rbt_lookup_rbt_bulkload
  1755   lookup_delete -> rbt_lookup_rbt_delete
  1756   lookup_Empty -> rbt_lookup_Empty
  1757   lookup_from_in_tree -> rbt_lookup_from_in_tree
  1758   lookup_in_tree -> rbt_lookup_in_tree
  1759   lookup_ins -> rbt_lookup_ins
  1760   lookup_insert -> rbt_lookup_rbt_insert
  1761   lookup_insertw -> rbt_lookup_rbt_insertw
  1762   lookup_insertwk -> rbt_lookup_rbt_insertwk
  1763   lookup_keys -> rbt_lookup_keys
  1764   lookup_map -> rbt_lookup_map
  1765   lookup_map_entry -> rbt_lookup_rbt_map_entry
  1766   lookup_tree_greater -> rbt_lookup_rbt_greater
  1767   lookup_tree_less -> rbt_lookup_rbt_less
  1768   lookup_union -> rbt_lookup_rbt_union
  1769   map_entry_color_of -> rbt_map_entry_color_of
  1770   map_entry_inv1 -> rbt_map_entry_inv1
  1771   map_entry_inv2 -> rbt_map_entry_inv2
  1772   map_entry_is_rbt -> rbt_map_entry_is_rbt
  1773   map_entry_sorted -> rbt_map_entry_rbt_sorted
  1774   map_entry_tree_greater -> rbt_map_entry_rbt_greater
  1775   map_entry_tree_less -> rbt_map_entry_rbt_less
  1776   map_tree_greater -> map_rbt_greater
  1777   map_tree_less -> map_rbt_less
  1778   map_sorted -> map_rbt_sorted
  1779   paint_sorted -> paint_rbt_sorted
  1780   paint_lookup -> paint_rbt_lookup
  1781   paint_tree_greater -> paint_rbt_greater
  1782   paint_tree_less -> paint_rbt_less
  1783   sorted_entries -> rbt_sorted_entries
  1784   tree_greater_eq_trans -> rbt_greater_eq_trans
  1785   tree_greater_nit -> rbt_greater_nit
  1786   tree_greater_prop -> rbt_greater_prop
  1787   tree_greater_simps -> rbt_greater_simps
  1788   tree_greater_trans -> rbt_greater_trans
  1789   tree_less_eq_trans -> rbt_less_eq_trans
  1790   tree_less_nit -> rbt_less_nit
  1791   tree_less_prop -> rbt_less_prop
  1792   tree_less_simps -> rbt_less_simps
  1793   tree_less_trans -> rbt_less_trans
  1794   tree_ord_props -> rbt_ord_props
  1795   union_Branch -> rbt_union_Branch
  1796   union_is_rbt -> rbt_union_is_rbt
  1797   unionw_is_rbt -> rbt_unionw_is_rbt
  1798   unionwk_is_rbt -> rbt_unionwk_is_rbt
  1799   unionwk_sorted -> rbt_unionwk_rbt_sorted
  1800 
  1801 * Theory HOL/Library/Float: Floating point numbers are now defined as
  1802 a subset of the real numbers.  All operations are defined using the
  1803 lifing-framework and proofs use the transfer method.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1804 
  1805   Changed Operations:
  1806   float_abs -> abs
  1807   float_nprt -> nprt
  1808   float_pprt -> pprt
  1809   pow2 -> use powr
  1810   round_down -> float_round_down
  1811   round_up -> float_round_up
  1812   scale -> exponent
  1813 
  1814   Removed Operations:
  1815   ceiling_fl, lb_mult, lb_mod, ub_mult, ub_mod
  1816 
  1817   Renamed Lemmas:
  1818   abs_float_def -> Float.compute_float_abs
  1819   bitlen_ge0 -> bitlen_nonneg
  1820   bitlen.simps -> Float.compute_bitlen
  1821   float_components -> Float_mantissa_exponent
  1822   float_divl.simps -> Float.compute_float_divl
  1823   float_divr.simps -> Float.compute_float_divr
  1824   float_eq_odd -> mult_powr_eq_mult_powr_iff
  1825   float_power -> real_of_float_power
  1826   lapprox_posrat_def -> Float.compute_lapprox_posrat
  1827   lapprox_rat.simps -> Float.compute_lapprox_rat
  1828   le_float_def' -> Float.compute_float_le
  1829   le_float_def -> less_eq_float.rep_eq
  1830   less_float_def' -> Float.compute_float_less
  1831   less_float_def -> less_float.rep_eq
  1832   normfloat_def -> Float.compute_normfloat
  1833   normfloat_imp_odd_or_zero -> mantissa_not_dvd and mantissa_noteq_0
  1834   normfloat -> normfloat_def
  1835   normfloat_unique -> use normfloat_def
  1836   number_of_float_Float -> Float.compute_float_numeral, Float.compute_float_neg_numeral
  1837   one_float_def -> Float.compute_float_one
  1838   plus_float_def -> Float.compute_float_plus
  1839   rapprox_posrat_def -> Float.compute_rapprox_posrat
  1840   rapprox_rat.simps -> Float.compute_rapprox_rat
  1841   real_of_float_0 -> zero_float.rep_eq
  1842   real_of_float_1 -> one_float.rep_eq
  1843   real_of_float_abs -> abs_float.rep_eq
  1844   real_of_float_add -> plus_float.rep_eq
  1845   real_of_float_minus -> uminus_float.rep_eq
  1846   real_of_float_mult -> times_float.rep_eq
  1847   real_of_float_simp -> Float.rep_eq
  1848   real_of_float_sub -> minus_float.rep_eq
  1849   round_down.simps -> Float.compute_float_round_down
  1850   round_up.simps -> Float.compute_float_round_up
  1851   times_float_def -> Float.compute_float_times
  1852   uminus_float_def -> Float.compute_float_uminus
  1853   zero_float_def -> Float.compute_float_zero
  1854 
  1855   Lemmas not necessary anymore, use the transfer method:
  1856   bitlen_B0, bitlen_B1, bitlen_ge1, bitlen_Min, bitlen_Pls, float_divl,
  1857   float_divr, float_le_simp, float_less1_mantissa_bound,
  1858   float_less_simp, float_less_zero, float_le_zero,
  1859   float_pos_less1_e_neg, float_pos_m_pos, float_split, float_split2,
  1860   floor_pos_exp, lapprox_posrat, lapprox_posrat_bottom, lapprox_rat,
  1861   lapprox_rat_bottom, normalized_float, rapprox_posrat,
  1862   rapprox_posrat_le1, rapprox_rat, real_of_float_ge0_exp,
  1863   real_of_float_neg_exp, real_of_float_nge0_exp, round_down floor_fl,
  1864   round_up, zero_le_float, zero_less_float
  1865 
  1866 * New theory HOL/Library/DAList provides an abstract type for
  1867 association lists with distinct keys.
  1868 
  1869 * Session HOL/IMP: Added new theory of abstract interpretation of
  1870 annotated commands.
  1871 
  1872 * Session HOL-Import: Re-implementation from scratch is faster,
  1873 simpler, and more scalable.  Requires a proof bundle, which is
  1874 available as an external component.  Discontinued old (and mostly
  1875 dead) Importer for HOL4 and HOL Light.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1876 
  1877 * Session HOL-Word: Discontinued many redundant theorems specific to
  1878 type 'a word. INCOMPATIBILITY, use the corresponding generic theorems
  1879 instead.
  1880 
  1881   word_sub_alt ~> word_sub_wi
  1882   word_add_alt ~> word_add_def
  1883   word_mult_alt ~> word_mult_def
  1884   word_minus_alt ~> word_minus_def
  1885   word_0_alt ~> word_0_wi
  1886   word_1_alt ~> word_1_wi
  1887   word_add_0 ~> add_0_left
  1888   word_add_0_right ~> add_0_right
  1889   word_mult_1 ~> mult_1_left
  1890   word_mult_1_right ~> mult_1_right
  1891   word_add_commute ~> add_commute
  1892   word_add_assoc ~> add_assoc
  1893   word_add_left_commute ~> add_left_commute
  1894   word_mult_commute ~> mult_commute
  1895   word_mult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
  1896   word_mult_left_commute ~> mult_left_commute
  1897   word_left_distrib ~> left_distrib
  1898   word_right_distrib ~> right_distrib
  1899   word_left_minus ~> left_minus
  1900   word_diff_0_right ~> diff_0_right
  1901   word_diff_self ~> diff_self
  1902   word_sub_def ~> diff_minus
  1903   word_diff_minus ~> diff_minus
  1904   word_add_ac ~> add_ac
  1905   word_mult_ac ~> mult_ac
  1906   word_plus_ac0 ~> add_0_left add_0_right add_ac
  1907   word_times_ac1 ~> mult_1_left mult_1_right mult_ac
  1908   word_order_trans ~> order_trans
  1909   word_order_refl ~> order_refl
  1910   word_order_antisym ~> order_antisym
  1911   word_order_linear ~> linorder_linear
  1912   lenw1_zero_neq_one ~> zero_neq_one
  1913   word_number_of_eq ~> number_of_eq
  1914   word_of_int_add_hom ~> wi_hom_add
  1915   word_of_int_sub_hom ~> wi_hom_sub
  1916   word_of_int_mult_hom ~> wi_hom_mult
  1917   word_of_int_minus_hom ~> wi_hom_neg
  1918   word_of_int_succ_hom ~> wi_hom_succ
  1919   word_of_int_pred_hom ~> wi_hom_pred
  1920   word_of_int_0_hom ~> word_0_wi
  1921   word_of_int_1_hom ~> word_1_wi
  1922 
  1923 * Session HOL-Word: New proof method "word_bitwise" for splitting
  1924 machine word equalities and inequalities into logical circuits,
  1925 defined in HOL/Word/WordBitwise.thy.  Supports addition, subtraction,
  1926 multiplication, shifting by constants, bitwise operators and numeric
  1927 constants.  Requires fixed-length word types, not 'a word.  Solves
  1928 many standard word identities outright and converts more into first
  1929 order problems amenable to blast or similar.  See also examples in
  1930 HOL/Word/Examples/WordExamples.thy.
  1931 
  1932 * Session HOL-Probability: Introduced the type "'a measure" to
  1933 represent measures, this replaces the records 'a algebra and 'a
  1934 measure_space.  The locales based on subset_class now have two
  1935 locale-parameters the space \<Omega> and the set of measurable sets M.
  1936 The product of probability spaces uses now the same constant as the
  1937 finite product of sigma-finite measure spaces "PiM :: ('i => 'a)
  1938 measure".  Most constants are defined now outside of locales and gain
  1939 an additional parameter, like null_sets, almost_eventually or \<mu>'.
  1940 Measure space constructions for distributions and densities now got
  1941 their own constants distr and density.  Instead of using locales to
  1942 describe measure spaces with a finite space, the measure count_space
  1943 and point_measure is introduced.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  1944 
  1945   Renamed constants:
  1946   measure -> emeasure
  1947   finite_measure.\<mu>' -> measure
  1948   product_algebra_generator -> prod_algebra
  1949   product_prob_space.emb -> prod_emb
  1950   product_prob_space.infprod_algebra -> PiM
  1951 
  1952   Removed locales:
  1953   completeable_measure_space
  1954   finite_measure_space
  1955   finite_prob_space
  1956   finite_product_finite_prob_space
  1957   finite_product_sigma_algebra
  1958   finite_sigma_algebra
  1959   measure_space
  1960   pair_finite_prob_space
  1961   pair_finite_sigma_algebra
  1962   pair_finite_space
  1963   pair_sigma_algebra
  1964   product_sigma_algebra
  1965 
  1966   Removed constants:
  1967   conditional_space
  1968   distribution -> use distr measure, or distributed predicate
  1969   image_space
  1970   joint_distribution -> use distr measure, or distributed predicate
  1971   pair_measure_generator
  1972   product_prob_space.infprod_algebra -> use PiM
  1973   subvimage
  1974 
  1975   Replacement theorems:
  1976   finite_additivity_sufficient -> ring_of_sets.countably_additiveI_finite
  1977   finite_measure.empty_measure -> measure_empty
  1978   finite_measure.finite_continuity_from_above -> finite_measure.finite_Lim_measure_decseq
  1979   finite_measure.finite_continuity_from_below -> finite_measure.finite_Lim_measure_incseq
  1980   finite_measure.finite_measure_countably_subadditive -> finite_measure.finite_measure_subadditive_countably
  1981   finite_measure.finite_measure_eq -> finite_measure.emeasure_eq_measure
  1982   finite_measure.finite_measure -> finite_measure.emeasure_finite
  1983   finite_measure.finite_measure_finite_singleton -> finite_measure.finite_measure_eq_setsum_singleton
  1984   finite_measure.positive_measure' -> measure_nonneg
  1985   finite_measure.real_measure -> finite_measure.emeasure_real
  1986   finite_product_prob_space.finite_measure_times -> finite_product_prob_space.finite_measure_PiM_emb
  1987   finite_product_sigma_algebra.in_P -> sets_PiM_I_finite
  1988   finite_product_sigma_algebra.P_empty -> space_PiM_empty, sets_PiM_empty
  1989   information_space.conditional_entropy_eq -> information_space.conditional_entropy_simple_distributed
  1990   information_space.conditional_entropy_positive -> information_space.conditional_entropy_nonneg_simple
  1991   information_space.conditional_mutual_information_eq_mutual_information -> information_space.conditional_mutual_information_eq_mutual_information_simple
  1992   information_space.conditional_mutual_information_generic_positive -> information_space.conditional_mutual_information_nonneg_simple
  1993   information_space.conditional_mutual_information_positive -> information_space.conditional_mutual_information_nonneg_simple
  1994   information_space.entropy_commute -> information_space.entropy_commute_simple
  1995   information_space.entropy_eq -> information_space.entropy_simple_distributed
  1996   information_space.entropy_generic_eq -> information_space.entropy_simple_distributed
  1997   information_space.entropy_positive -> information_space.entropy_nonneg_simple
  1998   information_space.entropy_uniform_max -> information_space.entropy_uniform
  1999   information_space.KL_eq_0_imp -> information_space.KL_eq_0_iff_eq
  2000   information_space.KL_eq_0 -> information_space.KL_same_eq_0
  2001   information_space.KL_ge_0 -> information_space.KL_nonneg
  2002   information_space.mutual_information_eq -> information_space.mutual_information_simple_distributed
  2003   information_space.mutual_information_positive -> information_space.mutual_information_nonneg_simple
  2004   Int_stable_cuboids -> Int_stable_atLeastAtMost
  2005   Int_stable_product_algebra_generator -> positive_integral
  2006   measure_preserving -> equality "distr M N f = N" "f : measurable M N"
  2007   measure_space.additive -> emeasure_additive
  2008   measure_space.AE_iff_null_set -> AE_iff_null
  2009   measure_space.almost_everywhere_def -> eventually_ae_filter
  2010   measure_space.almost_everywhere_vimage -> AE_distrD
  2011   measure_space.continuity_from_above -> INF_emeasure_decseq
  2012   measure_space.continuity_from_above_Lim -> Lim_emeasure_decseq
  2013   measure_space.continuity_from_below_Lim -> Lim_emeasure_incseq
  2014   measure_space.continuity_from_below -> SUP_emeasure_incseq
  2015   measure_space_density -> emeasure_density
  2016   measure_space.density_is_absolutely_continuous -> absolutely_continuousI_density
  2017   measure_space.integrable_vimage -> integrable_distr
  2018   measure_space.integral_translated_density -> integral_density
  2019   measure_space.integral_vimage -> integral_distr
  2020   measure_space.measure_additive -> plus_emeasure
  2021   measure_space.measure_compl -> emeasure_compl
  2022   measure_space.measure_countable_increasing -> emeasure_countable_increasing
  2023   measure_space.measure_countably_subadditive -> emeasure_subadditive_countably
  2024   measure_space.measure_decseq -> decseq_emeasure
  2025   measure_space.measure_Diff -> emeasure_Diff
  2026   measure_space.measure_Diff_null_set -> emeasure_Diff_null_set
  2027   measure_space.measure_eq_0 -> emeasure_eq_0
  2028   measure_space.measure_finitely_subadditive -> emeasure_subadditive_finite
  2029   measure_space.measure_finite_singleton -> emeasure_eq_setsum_singleton
  2030   measure_space.measure_incseq -> incseq_emeasure
  2031   measure_space.measure_insert -> emeasure_insert
  2032   measure_space.measure_mono -> emeasure_mono
  2033   measure_space.measure_not_negative -> emeasure_not_MInf
  2034   measure_space.measure_preserving_Int_stable -> measure_eqI_generator_eq
  2035   measure_space.measure_setsum -> setsum_emeasure
  2036   measure_space.measure_setsum_split -> setsum_emeasure_cover
  2037   measure_space.measure_space_vimage -> emeasure_distr
  2038   measure_space.measure_subadditive_finite -> emeasure_subadditive_finite
  2039   measure_space.measure_subadditive -> subadditive
  2040   measure_space.measure_top -> emeasure_space
  2041   measure_space.measure_UN_eq_0 -> emeasure_UN_eq_0
  2042   measure_space.measure_Un_null_set -> emeasure_Un_null_set
  2043   measure_space.positive_integral_translated_density -> positive_integral_density
  2044   measure_space.positive_integral_vimage -> positive_integral_distr
  2045   measure_space.real_continuity_from_above -> Lim_measure_decseq
  2046   measure_space.real_continuity_from_below -> Lim_measure_incseq
  2047   measure_space.real_measure_countably_subadditive -> measure_subadditive_countably
  2048   measure_space.real_measure_Diff -> measure_Diff
  2049   measure_space.real_measure_finite_Union -> measure_finite_Union
  2050   measure_space.real_measure_setsum_singleton -> measure_eq_setsum_singleton
  2051   measure_space.real_measure_subadditive -> measure_subadditive
  2052   measure_space.real_measure_Union -> measure_Union
  2053   measure_space.real_measure_UNION -> measure_UNION
  2054   measure_space.simple_function_vimage -> simple_function_comp
  2055   measure_space.simple_integral_vimage -> simple_integral_distr
  2056   measure_space.simple_integral_vimage -> simple_integral_distr
  2057   measure_unique_Int_stable -> measure_eqI_generator_eq
  2058   measure_unique_Int_stable_vimage -> measure_eqI_generator_eq
  2059   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_cut_fst -> sets_Pair1
  2060   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_cut_snd -> sets_Pair2
  2061   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_pair_image_fst -> measurable_Pair1
  2062   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_pair_image_snd -> measurable_Pair2
  2063   pair_sigma_algebra.measurable_product_swap -> measurable_pair_swap_iff
  2064   pair_sigma_algebra.pair_sigma_algebra_measurable -> measurable_pair_swap
  2065   pair_sigma_algebra.pair_sigma_algebra_swap_measurable -> measurable_pair_swap'
  2066   pair_sigma_algebra.sets_swap -> sets_pair_swap
  2067   pair_sigma_finite.measure_cut_measurable_fst -> pair_sigma_finite.measurable_emeasure_Pair1
  2068   pair_sigma_finite.measure_cut_measurable_snd -> pair_sigma_finite.measurable_emeasure_Pair2
  2069   pair_sigma_finite.measure_preserving_swap -> pair_sigma_finite.distr_pair_swap
  2070   pair_sigma_finite.pair_measure_alt2 -> pair_sigma_finite.emeasure_pair_measure_alt2
  2071   pair_sigma_finite.pair_measure_alt -> pair_sigma_finite.emeasure_pair_measure_alt
  2072   pair_sigma_finite.pair_measure_times -> pair_sigma_finite.emeasure_pair_measure_Times
  2073   prob_space.indep_distribution_eq_measure -> prob_space.indep_vars_iff_distr_eq_PiM
  2074   prob_space.indep_var_distributionD -> prob_space.indep_var_distribution_eq
  2075   prob_space.measure_space_1 -> prob_space.emeasure_space_1
  2076   prob_space.prob_space_vimage -> prob_space_distr
  2077   prob_space.random_variable_restrict -> measurable_restrict
  2078   prob_space_unique_Int_stable -> measure_eqI_prob_space
  2079   product_algebraE -> prod_algebraE_all
  2080   product_algebra_generator_der -> prod_algebra_eq_finite
  2081   product_algebra_generator_into_space -> prod_algebra_sets_into_space
  2082   product_algebraI -> sets_PiM_I_finite
  2083   product_measure_exists -> product_sigma_finite.sigma_finite
  2084   product_prob_space.finite_index_eq_finite_product -> product_prob_space.sets_PiM_generator
  2085   product_prob_space.finite_measure_infprod_emb_Pi -> product_prob_space.measure_PiM_emb
  2086   product_prob_space.infprod_spec -> product_prob_space.emeasure_PiM_emb_not_empty
  2087   product_prob_space.measurable_component -> measurable_component_singleton
  2088   product_prob_space.measurable_emb -> measurable_prod_emb
  2089   product_prob_space.measurable_into_infprod_algebra -> measurable_PiM_single
  2090   product_prob_space.measurable_singleton_infprod -> measurable_component_singleton
  2091   product_prob_space.measure_emb -> emeasure_prod_emb
  2092   product_prob_space.measure_preserving_restrict -> product_prob_space.distr_restrict
  2093   product_sigma_algebra.product_algebra_into_space -> space_closed
  2094   product_sigma_finite.measure_fold -> product_sigma_finite.distr_merge
  2095   product_sigma_finite.measure_preserving_component_singelton -> product_sigma_finite.distr_singleton
  2096   product_sigma_finite.measure_preserving_merge -> product_sigma_finite.distr_merge
  2097   sequence_space.measure_infprod -> sequence_space.measure_PiM_countable
  2098   sets_product_algebra -> sets_PiM
  2099   sigma_algebra.measurable_sigma -> measurable_measure_of
  2100   sigma_finite_measure.disjoint_sigma_finite -> sigma_finite_disjoint
  2101   sigma_finite_measure.RN_deriv_vimage -> sigma_finite_measure.RN_deriv_distr
  2102   sigma_product_algebra_sigma_eq -> sigma_prod_algebra_sigma_eq
  2103   space_product_algebra -> space_PiM
  2104 
  2105 * Session HOL-TPTP: support to parse and import TPTP problems (all
  2106 languages) into Isabelle/HOL.
  2107 
  2108 
  2109 *** FOL ***
  2110 
  2111 * New "case_product" attribute (see HOL).
  2112 
  2113 
  2114 *** ZF ***
  2115 
  2116 * Greater support for structured proofs involving induction or case
  2117 analysis.
  2118 
  2119 * Much greater use of mathematical symbols.
  2120 
  2121 * Removal of many ML theorem bindings.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2122 
  2123 
  2124 *** ML ***
  2125 
  2126 * Antiquotation @{keyword "name"} produces a parser for outer syntax
  2127 from a minor keyword introduced via theory header declaration.
  2128 
  2129 * Antiquotation @{command_spec "name"} produces the
  2130 Outer_Syntax.command_spec from a major keyword introduced via theory
  2131 header declaration; it can be passed to Outer_Syntax.command etc.
  2132 
  2133 * Local_Theory.define no longer hard-wires default theorem name
  2134 "foo_def", but retains the binding as given.  If that is Binding.empty
  2135 / Attrib.empty_binding, the result is not registered as user-level
  2136 fact.  The Local_Theory.define_internal variant allows to specify a
  2137 non-empty name (used for the foundation in the background theory),
  2138 while omitting the fact binding in the user-context.  Potential
  2139 INCOMPATIBILITY for derived definitional packages: need to specify
  2140 naming policy for primitive definitions more explicitly.
  2141 
  2142 * Renamed Thm.capply to Thm.apply, and Thm.cabs to Thm.lambda in
  2143 conformance with similar operations in structure Term and Logic.
  2144 
  2145 * Antiquotation @{attributes [...]} embeds attribute source
  2146 representation into the ML text, which is particularly useful with
  2147 declarations like Local_Theory.note.
  2148 
  2149 * Structure Proof_Context follows standard naming scheme.  Old
  2150 ProofContext has been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2151 
  2152 * Refined Local_Theory.declaration {syntax, pervasive}, with subtle
  2153 change of semantics: update is applied to auxiliary local theory
  2154 context as well.
  2155 
  2156 * Modernized some old-style infix operations:
  2157 
  2158   addeqcongs    ~> Simplifier.add_eqcong
  2159   deleqcongs    ~> Simplifier.del_eqcong
  2160   addcongs      ~> Simplifier.add_cong
  2161   delcongs      ~> Simplifier.del_cong
  2162   setmksimps    ~> Simplifier.set_mksimps
  2163   setmkcong     ~> Simplifier.set_mkcong
  2164   setmksym      ~> Simplifier.set_mksym
  2165   setmkeqTrue   ~> Simplifier.set_mkeqTrue
  2166   settermless   ~> Simplifier.set_termless
  2167   setsubgoaler  ~> Simplifier.set_subgoaler
  2168   addsplits     ~> Splitter.add_split
  2169   delsplits     ~> Splitter.del_split
  2170 
  2171 
  2172 *** System ***
  2173 
  2174 * USER_HOME settings variable points to cross-platform user home
  2175 directory, which coincides with HOME on POSIX systems only.  Likewise,
  2176 the Isabelle path specification "~" now expands to $USER_HOME, instead
  2177 of former $HOME.  A different default for USER_HOME may be set
  2178 explicitly in shell environment, before Isabelle settings are
  2179 evaluated.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY: need to adapt Isabelle path where
  2180 the generic user home was intended.
  2181 
  2182 * ISABELLE_HOME_WINDOWS refers to ISABELLE_HOME in windows file name
  2183 notation, which is useful for the jEdit file browser, for example.
  2184 
  2185 * ISABELLE_JDK_HOME settings variable points to JDK with javac and jar
  2186 (not just JRE).
  2187 
  2188 
  2189 
  2190 New in Isabelle2011-1 (October 2011)
  2191 ------------------------------------
  2192 
  2193 *** General ***
  2194 
  2195 * Improved Isabelle/jEdit Prover IDE (PIDE), which can be invoked as
  2196 "isabelle jedit" or "ISABELLE_HOME/Isabelle" on the command line.
  2197 
  2198   - Management of multiple theory files directly from the editor
  2199     buffer store -- bypassing the file-system (no requirement to save
  2200     files for checking).
  2201 
  2202   - Markup of formal entities within the text buffer, with semantic
  2203     highlighting, tooltips and hyperlinks to jump to defining source
  2204     positions.
  2205 
  2206   - Improved text rendering, with sub/superscripts in the source
  2207     buffer (including support for copy/paste wrt. output panel, HTML
  2208     theory output and other non-Isabelle text boxes).
  2209 
  2210   - Refined scheduling of proof checking and printing of results,
  2211     based on interactive editor view.  (Note: jEdit folding and
  2212     narrowing allows to restrict buffer perspectives explicitly.)
  2213 
  2214   - Reduced CPU performance requirements, usable on machines with few
  2215     cores.
  2216 
  2217   - Reduced memory requirements due to pruning of unused document
  2218     versions (garbage collection).
  2219 
  2220 See also ~~/src/Tools/jEdit/README.html for further information,
  2221 including some remaining limitations.
  2222 
  2223 * Theory loader: source files are exclusively located via the master
  2224 directory of each theory node (where the .thy file itself resides).
  2225 The global load path (such as src/HOL/Library) has been discontinued.
  2226 Note that the path element ~~ may be used to reference theories in the
  2227 Isabelle home folder -- for instance, "~~/src/HOL/Library/FuncSet".
  2228 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2229 
  2230 * Theory loader: source files are identified by content via SHA1
  2231 digests.  Discontinued former path/modtime identification and optional
  2232 ISABELLE_FILE_IDENT plugin scripts.
  2233 
  2234 * Parallelization of nested Isar proofs is subject to
  2235 Goal.parallel_proofs_threshold (default 100).  See also isabelle
  2236 usedir option -Q.
  2237 
  2238 * Name space: former unsynchronized references are now proper
  2239 configuration options, with more conventional names:
  2240 
  2241   long_names   ~> names_long
  2242   short_names  ~> names_short
  2243   unique_names ~> names_unique
  2244 
  2245 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, need to declare options in context like this:
  2246 
  2247   declare [[names_unique = false]]
  2248 
  2249 * Literal facts `prop` may contain dummy patterns, e.g. `_ = _`.  Note
  2250 that the result needs to be unique, which means fact specifications
  2251 may have to be refined after enriching a proof context.
  2252 
  2253 * Attribute "case_names" has been refined: the assumptions in each case
  2254 can be named now by following the case name with [name1 name2 ...].
  2255 
  2256 * Isabelle/Isar reference manual has been updated and extended:
  2257   - "Synopsis" provides a catalog of main Isar language concepts.
  2258   - Formal references in syntax diagrams, via @{rail} antiquotation.
  2259   - Updated material from classic "ref" manual, notably about
  2260     "Classical Reasoner".
  2261 
  2262 
  2263 *** HOL ***
  2264 
  2265 * Class bot and top require underlying partial order rather than
  2266 preorder: uniqueness of bot and top is guaranteed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2267 
  2268 * Class complete_lattice: generalized a couple of lemmas from sets;
  2269 generalized theorems INF_cong and SUP_cong.  New type classes for
  2270 complete boolean algebras and complete linear orders.  Lemmas
  2271 Inf_less_iff, less_Sup_iff, INF_less_iff, less_SUP_iff now reside in
  2272 class complete_linorder.
  2273 
  2274 Changed proposition of lemmas Inf_bool_def, Sup_bool_def, Inf_fun_def,
  2275 Sup_fun_def, Inf_apply, Sup_apply.
  2276 
  2277 Removed redundant lemmas (the right hand side gives hints how to
  2278 replace them for (metis ...), or (simp only: ...) proofs):
  2279 
  2280   Inf_singleton ~> Inf_insert [where A="{}", unfolded Inf_empty inf_top_right]
  2281   Sup_singleton ~> Sup_insert [where A="{}", unfolded Sup_empty sup_bot_right]
  2282   Inf_binary ~> Inf_insert, Inf_empty, and inf_top_right
  2283   Sup_binary ~> Sup_insert, Sup_empty, and sup_bot_right
  2284   Int_eq_Inter ~> Inf_insert, Inf_empty, and inf_top_right
  2285   Un_eq_Union ~> Sup_insert, Sup_empty, and sup_bot_right
  2286   Inter_def ~> INF_def, image_def
  2287   Union_def ~> SUP_def, image_def
  2288   INT_eq ~> INF_def, and image_def
  2289   UN_eq ~> SUP_def, and image_def
  2290   INF_subset ~> INF_superset_mono [OF _ order_refl]
  2291 
  2292 More consistent and comprehensive names:
  2293 
  2294   INTER_eq_Inter_image ~> INF_def
  2295   UNION_eq_Union_image ~> SUP_def
  2296   INFI_def ~> INF_def
  2297   SUPR_def ~> SUP_def
  2298   INF_leI ~> INF_lower
  2299   INF_leI2 ~> INF_lower2
  2300   le_INFI ~> INF_greatest
  2301   le_SUPI ~> SUP_upper
  2302   le_SUPI2 ~> SUP_upper2
  2303   SUP_leI ~> SUP_least
  2304   INFI_bool_eq ~> INF_bool_eq
  2305   SUPR_bool_eq ~> SUP_bool_eq
  2306   INFI_apply ~> INF_apply
  2307   SUPR_apply ~> SUP_apply
  2308   INTER_def ~> INTER_eq
  2309   UNION_def ~> UNION_eq
  2310 
  2311 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2312 
  2313 * Renamed theory Complete_Lattice to Complete_Lattices.
  2314 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2315 
  2316 * Theory Complete_Lattices: lemmas Inf_eq_top_iff, INF_eq_top_iff,
  2317 INF_image, Inf_insert, INF_top, Inf_top_conv, INF_top_conv, SUP_bot,
  2318 Sup_bot_conv, SUP_bot_conv, Sup_eq_top_iff, SUP_eq_top_iff, SUP_image,
  2319 Sup_insert are now declared as [simp].  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2320 
  2321 * Theory Lattice: lemmas compl_inf_bot, compl_le_comp_iff,
  2322 compl_sup_top, inf_idem, inf_left_idem, inf_sup_absorb, sup_idem,
  2323 sup_inf_absob, sup_left_idem are now declared as [simp].  Minor
  2324 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2325 
  2326 * Added syntactic classes "inf" and "sup" for the respective
  2327 constants.  INCOMPATIBILITY: Changes in the argument order of the
  2328 (mostly internal) locale predicates for some derived classes.
  2329 
  2330 * Theorem collections ball_simps and bex_simps do not contain theorems
  2331 referring to UNION any longer; these have been moved to collection
  2332 UN_ball_bex_simps.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2333 
  2334 * Theory Archimedean_Field: floor now is defined as parameter of a
  2335 separate type class floor_ceiling.
  2336 
  2337 * Theory Finite_Set: more coherent development of fold_set locales:
  2338 
  2339     locale fun_left_comm ~> locale comp_fun_commute
  2340     locale fun_left_comm_idem ~> locale comp_fun_idem
  2341 
  2342 Both use point-free characterization; interpretation proofs may need
  2343 adjustment.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2344 
  2345 * Theory Limits: Type "'a net" has been renamed to "'a filter", in
  2346 accordance with standard mathematical terminology. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2347 
  2348 * Theory Complex_Main: The locale interpretations for the
  2349 bounded_linear and bounded_bilinear locales have been removed, in
  2350 order to reduce the number of duplicate lemmas. Users must use the
  2351 original names for distributivity theorems, potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2352 
  2353   divide.add ~> add_divide_distrib
  2354   divide.diff ~> diff_divide_distrib
  2355   divide.setsum ~> setsum_divide_distrib
  2356   mult.add_right ~> right_distrib
  2357   mult.diff_right ~> right_diff_distrib
  2358   mult_right.setsum ~> setsum_right_distrib
  2359   mult_left.diff ~> left_diff_distrib
  2360 
  2361 * Theory Complex_Main: Several redundant theorems have been removed or
  2362 replaced by more general versions. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2363 
  2364   real_diff_def ~> minus_real_def
  2365   real_divide_def ~> divide_real_def
  2366   real_less_def ~> less_le
  2367   real_abs_def ~> abs_real_def
  2368   real_sgn_def ~> sgn_real_def
  2369   real_mult_commute ~> mult_commute
  2370   real_mult_assoc ~> mult_assoc
  2371   real_mult_1 ~> mult_1_left
  2372   real_add_mult_distrib ~> left_distrib
  2373   real_zero_not_eq_one ~> zero_neq_one
  2374   real_mult_inverse_left ~> left_inverse
  2375   INVERSE_ZERO ~> inverse_zero
  2376   real_le_refl ~> order_refl
  2377   real_le_antisym ~> order_antisym
  2378   real_le_trans ~> order_trans
  2379   real_le_linear ~> linear
  2380   real_le_eq_diff ~> le_iff_diff_le_0
  2381   real_add_left_mono ~> add_left_mono
  2382   real_mult_order ~> mult_pos_pos
  2383   real_mult_less_mono2 ~> mult_strict_left_mono
  2384   real_of_int_real_of_nat ~> real_of_int_of_nat_eq
  2385   real_0_le_divide_iff ~> zero_le_divide_iff
  2386   realpow_two_disj ~> power2_eq_iff
  2387   real_squared_diff_one_factored ~> square_diff_one_factored
  2388   realpow_two_diff ~> square_diff_square_factored
  2389   reals_complete2 ~> complete_real
  2390   real_sum_squared_expand ~> power2_sum
  2391   exp_ln_eq ~> ln_unique
  2392   expi_add ~> exp_add
  2393   expi_zero ~> exp_zero
  2394   lemma_DERIV_subst ~> DERIV_cong
  2395   LIMSEQ_Zfun_iff ~> tendsto_Zfun_iff
  2396   LIMSEQ_const ~> tendsto_const
  2397   LIMSEQ_norm ~> tendsto_norm
  2398   LIMSEQ_add ~> tendsto_add
  2399   LIMSEQ_minus ~> tendsto_minus
  2400   LIMSEQ_minus_cancel ~> tendsto_minus_cancel
  2401   LIMSEQ_diff ~> tendsto_diff
  2402   bounded_linear.LIMSEQ ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
  2403   bounded_bilinear.LIMSEQ ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto
  2404   LIMSEQ_mult ~> tendsto_mult
  2405   LIMSEQ_inverse ~> tendsto_inverse
  2406   LIMSEQ_divide ~> tendsto_divide
  2407   LIMSEQ_pow ~> tendsto_power
  2408   LIMSEQ_setsum ~> tendsto_setsum
  2409   LIMSEQ_setprod ~> tendsto_setprod
  2410   LIMSEQ_norm_zero ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff
  2411   LIMSEQ_rabs_zero ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_iff
  2412   LIMSEQ_imp_rabs ~> tendsto_rabs
  2413   LIMSEQ_add_minus ~> tendsto_add [OF _ tendsto_minus]
  2414   LIMSEQ_add_const ~> tendsto_add [OF _ tendsto_const]
  2415   LIMSEQ_diff_const ~> tendsto_diff [OF _ tendsto_const]
  2416   LIMSEQ_Complex ~> tendsto_Complex
  2417   LIM_ident ~> tendsto_ident_at
  2418   LIM_const ~> tendsto_const
  2419   LIM_add ~> tendsto_add
  2420   LIM_add_zero ~> tendsto_add_zero
  2421   LIM_minus ~> tendsto_minus
  2422   LIM_diff ~> tendsto_diff
  2423   LIM_norm ~> tendsto_norm
  2424   LIM_norm_zero ~> tendsto_norm_zero
  2425   LIM_norm_zero_cancel ~> tendsto_norm_zero_cancel
  2426   LIM_norm_zero_iff ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff
  2427   LIM_rabs ~> tendsto_rabs
  2428   LIM_rabs_zero ~> tendsto_rabs_zero
  2429   LIM_rabs_zero_cancel ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_cancel
  2430   LIM_rabs_zero_iff ~> tendsto_rabs_zero_iff
  2431   LIM_compose ~> tendsto_compose
  2432   LIM_mult ~> tendsto_mult
  2433   LIM_scaleR ~> tendsto_scaleR
  2434   LIM_of_real ~> tendsto_of_real
  2435   LIM_power ~> tendsto_power
  2436   LIM_inverse ~> tendsto_inverse
  2437   LIM_sgn ~> tendsto_sgn
  2438   isCont_LIM_compose ~> isCont_tendsto_compose
  2439   bounded_linear.LIM ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
  2440   bounded_linear.LIM_zero ~> bounded_linear.tendsto_zero
  2441   bounded_bilinear.LIM ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto
  2442   bounded_bilinear.LIM_prod_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_zero
  2443   bounded_bilinear.LIM_left_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_left_zero
  2444   bounded_bilinear.LIM_right_zero ~> bounded_bilinear.tendsto_right_zero
  2445   LIM_inverse_fun ~> tendsto_inverse [OF tendsto_ident_at]
  2446 
  2447 * Theory Complex_Main: The definition of infinite series was
  2448 generalized.  Now it is defined on the type class {topological_space,
  2449 comm_monoid_add}.  Hence it is useable also for extended real numbers.
  2450 
  2451 * Theory Complex_Main: The complex exponential function "expi" is now
  2452 a type-constrained abbreviation for "exp :: complex => complex"; thus
  2453 several polymorphic lemmas about "exp" are now applicable to "expi".
  2454 
  2455 * Code generation:
  2456 
  2457   - Theory Library/Code_Char_ord provides native ordering of
  2458     characters in the target language.
  2459 
  2460   - Commands code_module and code_library are legacy, use export_code
  2461     instead.
  2462 
  2463   - Method "evaluation" is legacy, use method "eval" instead.
  2464 
  2465   - Legacy evaluator "SML" is deactivated by default.  May be
  2466     reactivated by the following theory command:
  2467 
  2468       setup {* Value.add_evaluator ("SML", Codegen.eval_term) *}
  2469 
  2470 * Declare ext [intro] by default.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2471 
  2472 * New proof method "induction" that gives induction hypotheses the
  2473 name "IH", thus distinguishing them from further hypotheses that come
  2474 from rule induction.  The latter are still called "hyps".  Method
  2475 "induction" is a thin wrapper around "induct" and follows the same
  2476 syntax.
  2477 
  2478 * Method "fastsimp" has been renamed to "fastforce", but "fastsimp" is
  2479 still available as a legacy feature for some time.
  2480 
  2481 * Nitpick:
  2482   - Added "need" and "total_consts" options.
  2483   - Reintroduced "show_skolems" option by popular demand.
  2484   - Renamed attribute: nitpick_def ~> nitpick_unfold.
  2485     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2486 
  2487 * Sledgehammer:
  2488   - Use quasi-sound (and efficient) translations by default.
  2489   - Added support for the following provers: E-ToFoF, LEO-II,
  2490     Satallax, SNARK, Waldmeister, and Z3 with TPTP syntax.
  2491   - Automatically preplay and minimize proofs before showing them if
  2492     this can be done within reasonable time.
  2493   - sledgehammer available_provers ~> sledgehammer supported_provers.
  2494     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2495   - Added "preplay_timeout", "slicing", "type_enc", "sound",
  2496     "max_mono_iters", and "max_new_mono_instances" options.
  2497   - Removed "explicit_apply" and "full_types" options as well as "Full
  2498     Types" Proof General menu item. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2499 
  2500 * Metis:
  2501   - Removed "metisF" -- use "metis" instead. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2502   - Obsoleted "metisFT" -- use "metis (full_types)" instead.
  2503     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2504 
  2505 * Command 'try':
  2506   - Renamed 'try_methods' and added "simp:", "intro:", "dest:", and
  2507     "elim:" options. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2508   - Introduced 'try' that not only runs 'try_methods' but also
  2509     'solve_direct', 'sledgehammer', 'quickcheck', and 'nitpick'.
  2510 
  2511 * Quickcheck:
  2512   - Added "eval" option to evaluate terms for the found counterexample
  2513     (currently only supported by the default (exhaustive) tester).
  2514   - Added post-processing of terms to obtain readable counterexamples
  2515     (currently only supported by the default (exhaustive) tester).
  2516   - New counterexample generator quickcheck[narrowing] enables
  2517     narrowing-based testing.  Requires the Glasgow Haskell compiler
  2518     with its installation location defined in the Isabelle settings
  2519     environment as ISABELLE_GHC.
  2520   - Removed quickcheck tester "SML" based on the SML code generator
  2521     (formly in HOL/Library).
  2522 
  2523 * Function package: discontinued option "tailrec".  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  2524 use 'partial_function' instead.
  2525 
  2526 * Theory Library/Extended_Reals replaces now the positive extended
  2527 reals found in probability theory. This file is extended by
  2528 Multivariate_Analysis/Extended_Real_Limits.
  2529 
  2530 * Theory Library/Old_Recdef: old 'recdef' package has been moved here,
  2531 from where it must be imported explicitly if it is really required.
  2532 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2533 
  2534 * Theory Library/Wfrec: well-founded recursion combinator "wfrec" has
  2535 been moved here.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2536 
  2537 * Theory Library/Saturated provides type of numbers with saturated
  2538 arithmetic.
  2539 
  2540 * Theory Library/Product_Lattice defines a pointwise ordering for the
  2541 product type 'a * 'b, and provides instance proofs for various order
  2542 and lattice type classes.
  2543 
  2544 * Theory Library/Countable now provides the "countable_datatype" proof
  2545 method for proving "countable" class instances for datatypes.
  2546 
  2547 * Theory Library/Cset_Monad allows do notation for computable sets
  2548 (cset) via the generic monad ad-hoc overloading facility.
  2549 
  2550 * Library: Theories of common data structures are split into theories
  2551 for implementation, an invariant-ensuring type, and connection to an
  2552 abstract type. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2553 
  2554   - RBT is split into RBT and RBT_Mapping.
  2555   - AssocList is split and renamed into AList and AList_Mapping.
  2556   - DList is split into DList_Impl, DList, and DList_Cset.
  2557   - Cset is split into Cset and List_Cset.
  2558 
  2559 * Theory Library/Nat_Infinity has been renamed to
  2560 Library/Extended_Nat, with name changes of the following types and
  2561 constants:
  2562 
  2563   type inat   ~> type enat
  2564   Fin         ~> enat
  2565   Infty       ~> infinity (overloaded)
  2566   iSuc        ~> eSuc
  2567   the_Fin     ~> the_enat
  2568 
  2569 Every theorem name containing "inat", "Fin", "Infty", or "iSuc" has
  2570 been renamed accordingly. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2571 
  2572 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: The euclidean_space type class now
  2573 fixes a constant "Basis :: 'a set" consisting of the standard
  2574 orthonormal basis for the type. Users now have the option of
  2575 quantifying over this set instead of using the "basis" function, e.g.
  2576 "ALL x:Basis. P x" vs "ALL i<DIM('a). P (basis i)".
  2577 
  2578 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: Type "('a, 'b) cart" has been renamed
  2579 to "('a, 'b) vec" (the syntax "'a ^ 'b" remains unaffected). Constants
  2580 "Cart_nth" and "Cart_lambda" have been respectively renamed to
  2581 "vec_nth" and "vec_lambda"; theorems mentioning those names have
  2582 changed to match. Definition theorems for overloaded constants now use
  2583 the standard "foo_vec_def" naming scheme. A few other theorems have
  2584 been renamed as follows (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  2585 
  2586   Cart_eq          ~> vec_eq_iff
  2587   dist_nth_le_cart ~> dist_vec_nth_le
  2588   tendsto_vector   ~> vec_tendstoI
  2589   Cauchy_vector    ~> vec_CauchyI
  2590 
  2591 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: Several duplicate theorems have been
  2592 removed, and other theorems have been renamed or replaced with more
  2593 general versions. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2594 
  2595   finite_choice ~> finite_set_choice
  2596   eventually_conjI ~> eventually_conj
  2597   eventually_and ~> eventually_conj_iff
  2598   eventually_false ~> eventually_False
  2599   setsum_norm ~> norm_setsum
  2600   Lim_sequentially ~> LIMSEQ_def
  2601   Lim_ident_at ~> LIM_ident
  2602   Lim_const ~> tendsto_const
  2603   Lim_cmul ~> tendsto_scaleR [OF tendsto_const]
  2604   Lim_neg ~> tendsto_minus
  2605   Lim_add ~> tendsto_add
  2606   Lim_sub ~> tendsto_diff
  2607   Lim_mul ~> tendsto_scaleR
  2608   Lim_vmul ~> tendsto_scaleR [OF _ tendsto_const]
  2609   Lim_null_norm ~> tendsto_norm_zero_iff [symmetric]
  2610   Lim_linear ~> bounded_linear.tendsto
  2611   Lim_component ~> tendsto_euclidean_component
  2612   Lim_component_cart ~> tendsto_vec_nth
  2613   Lim_inner ~> tendsto_inner [OF tendsto_const]
  2614   dot_lsum ~> inner_setsum_left
  2615   dot_rsum ~> inner_setsum_right
  2616   continuous_cmul ~> continuous_scaleR [OF continuous_const]
  2617   continuous_neg ~> continuous_minus
  2618   continuous_sub ~> continuous_diff
  2619   continuous_vmul ~> continuous_scaleR [OF _ continuous_const]
  2620   continuous_mul ~> continuous_scaleR
  2621   continuous_inv ~> continuous_inverse
  2622   continuous_at_within_inv ~> continuous_at_within_inverse
  2623   continuous_at_inv ~> continuous_at_inverse
  2624   continuous_at_norm ~> continuous_norm [OF continuous_at_id]
  2625   continuous_at_infnorm ~> continuous_infnorm [OF continuous_at_id]
  2626   continuous_at_component ~> continuous_component [OF continuous_at_id]
  2627   continuous_on_neg ~> continuous_on_minus
  2628   continuous_on_sub ~> continuous_on_diff
  2629   continuous_on_cmul ~> continuous_on_scaleR [OF continuous_on_const]
  2630   continuous_on_vmul ~> continuous_on_scaleR [OF _ continuous_on_const]
  2631   continuous_on_mul ~> continuous_on_scaleR
  2632   continuous_on_mul_real ~> continuous_on_mult
  2633   continuous_on_inner ~> continuous_on_inner [OF continuous_on_const]
  2634   continuous_on_norm ~> continuous_on_norm [OF continuous_on_id]
  2635   continuous_on_inverse ~> continuous_on_inv
  2636   uniformly_continuous_on_neg ~> uniformly_continuous_on_minus
  2637   uniformly_continuous_on_sub ~> uniformly_continuous_on_diff
  2638   subset_interior ~> interior_mono
  2639   subset_closure ~> closure_mono
  2640   closure_univ ~> closure_UNIV
  2641   real_arch_lt ~> reals_Archimedean2
  2642   real_arch ~> reals_Archimedean3
  2643   real_abs_norm ~> abs_norm_cancel
  2644   real_abs_sub_norm ~> norm_triangle_ineq3
  2645   norm_cauchy_schwarz_abs ~> Cauchy_Schwarz_ineq2
  2646 
  2647 * Session HOL-Probability:
  2648   - Caratheodory's extension lemma is now proved for ring_of_sets.
  2649   - Infinite products of probability measures are now available.
  2650   - Sigma closure is independent, if the generator is independent
  2651   - Use extended reals instead of positive extended
  2652     reals. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2653 
  2654 * Session HOLCF: Discontinued legacy theorem names, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2655 
  2656   expand_fun_below ~> fun_below_iff
  2657   below_fun_ext ~> fun_belowI
  2658   expand_cfun_eq ~> cfun_eq_iff
  2659   ext_cfun ~> cfun_eqI
  2660   expand_cfun_below ~> cfun_below_iff
  2661   below_cfun_ext ~> cfun_belowI
  2662   monofun_fun_fun ~> fun_belowD
  2663   monofun_fun_arg ~> monofunE
  2664   monofun_lub_fun ~> adm_monofun [THEN admD]
  2665   cont_lub_fun ~> adm_cont [THEN admD]
  2666   cont2cont_Rep_CFun ~> cont2cont_APP
  2667   cont_Rep_CFun_app ~> cont_APP_app
  2668   cont_Rep_CFun_app_app ~> cont_APP_app_app
  2669   cont_cfun_fun ~> cont_Rep_cfun1 [THEN contE]
  2670   cont_cfun_arg ~> cont_Rep_cfun2 [THEN contE]
  2671   contlub_cfun ~> lub_APP [symmetric]
  2672   contlub_LAM ~> lub_LAM [symmetric]
  2673   thelubI ~> lub_eqI
  2674   UU_I ~> bottomI
  2675   lift_distinct1 ~> lift.distinct(1)
  2676   lift_distinct2 ~> lift.distinct(2)
  2677   Def_not_UU ~> lift.distinct(2)
  2678   Def_inject ~> lift.inject
  2679   below_UU_iff ~> below_bottom_iff
  2680   eq_UU_iff ~> eq_bottom_iff
  2681 
  2682 
  2683 *** Document preparation ***
  2684 
  2685 * Antiquotation @{rail} layouts railroad syntax diagrams, see also
  2686 isar-ref manual, both for description and actual application of the
  2687 same.
  2688 
  2689 * Antiquotation @{value} evaluates the given term and presents its
  2690 result.
  2691 
  2692 * Antiquotations: term style "isub" provides ad-hoc conversion of
  2693 variables x1, y23 into subscripted form x\<^isub>1,
  2694 y\<^isub>2\<^isub>3.
  2695 
  2696 * Predefined LaTeX macros for Isabelle symbols \<bind> and \<then>
  2697 (e.g. see ~~/src/HOL/Library/Monad_Syntax.thy).
  2698 
  2699 * Localized \isabellestyle switch can be used within blocks or groups
  2700 like this:
  2701 
  2702   \isabellestyle{it}  %preferred default
  2703   {\isabellestylett @{text "typewriter stuff"}}
  2704 
  2705 * Discontinued special treatment of hard tabulators.  Implicit
  2706 tab-width is now defined as 1.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY for visual
  2707 layouts.
  2708 
  2709 
  2710 *** ML ***
  2711 
  2712 * The inner syntax of sort/type/term/prop supports inlined YXML
  2713 representations within quoted string tokens.  By encoding logical
  2714 entities via Term_XML (in ML or Scala) concrete syntax can be
  2715 bypassed, which is particularly useful for producing bits of text
  2716 under external program control.
  2717 
  2718 * Antiquotations for ML and document preparation are managed as theory
  2719 data, which requires explicit setup.
  2720 
  2721 * Isabelle_Process.is_active allows tools to check if the official
  2722 process wrapper is running (Isabelle/Scala/jEdit) or the old TTY loop
  2723 (better known as Proof General).
  2724 
  2725 * Structure Proof_Context follows standard naming scheme.  Old
  2726 ProofContext is still available for some time as legacy alias.
  2727 
  2728 * Structure Timing provides various operations for timing; supersedes
  2729 former start_timing/end_timing etc.
  2730 
  2731 * Path.print is the official way to show file-system paths to users
  2732 (including quotes etc.).
  2733 
  2734 * Inner syntax: identifiers in parse trees of generic categories
  2735 "logic", "aprop", "idt" etc. carry position information (disguised as
  2736 type constraints).  Occasional INCOMPATIBILITY with non-compliant
  2737 translations that choke on unexpected type constraints.  Positions can
  2738 be stripped in ML translations via Syntax.strip_positions /
  2739 Syntax.strip_positions_ast, or via the syntax constant
  2740 "_strip_positions" within parse trees.  As last resort, positions can
  2741 be disabled via the configuration option Syntax.positions, which is
  2742 called "syntax_positions" in Isar attribute syntax.
  2743 
  2744 * Discontinued special status of various ML structures that contribute
  2745 to structure Syntax (Ast, Lexicon, Mixfix, Parser, Printer etc.): less
  2746 pervasive content, no inclusion in structure Syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  2747 refer directly to Ast.Constant, Lexicon.is_identifier,
  2748 Syntax_Trans.mk_binder_tr etc.
  2749 
  2750 * Typed print translation: discontinued show_sorts argument, which is
  2751 already available via context of "advanced" translation.
  2752 
  2753 * Refined PARALLEL_GOALS tactical: degrades gracefully for schematic
  2754 goal states; body tactic needs to address all subgoals uniformly.
  2755 
  2756 * Slightly more special eq_list/eq_set, with shortcut involving
  2757 pointer equality (assumes that eq relation is reflexive).
  2758 
  2759 * Classical tactics use proper Proof.context instead of historic types
  2760 claset/clasimpset.  Old-style declarations like addIs, addEs, addDs
  2761 operate directly on Proof.context.  Raw type claset retains its use as
  2762 snapshot of the classical context, which can be recovered via
  2763 (put_claset HOL_cs) etc.  Type clasimpset has been discontinued.
  2764 INCOMPATIBILITY, classical tactics and derived proof methods require
  2765 proper Proof.context.
  2766 
  2767 
  2768 *** System ***
  2769 
  2770 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.2, which was the last version
  2771 without proper multithreading and TimeLimit implementation.
  2772 
  2773 * Discontinued old lib/scripts/polyml-platform, which has been
  2774 obsolete since Isabelle2009-2.
  2775 
  2776 * Various optional external tools are referenced more robustly and
  2777 uniformly by explicit Isabelle settings as follows:
  2778 
  2779   ISABELLE_CSDP   (formerly CSDP_EXE)
  2780   ISABELLE_GHC    (formerly EXEC_GHC or GHC_PATH)
  2781   ISABELLE_OCAML  (formerly EXEC_OCAML)
  2782   ISABELLE_SWIPL  (formerly EXEC_SWIPL)
  2783   ISABELLE_YAP    (formerly EXEC_YAP)
  2784 
  2785 Note that automated detection from the file-system or search path has
  2786 been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2787 
  2788 * Scala layer provides JVM method invocation service for static
  2789 methods of type (String)String, see Invoke_Scala.method in ML.  For
  2790 example:
  2791 
  2792   Invoke_Scala.method "java.lang.System.getProperty" "java.home"
  2793 
  2794 Together with YXML.string_of_body/parse_body and XML.Encode/Decode
  2795 this allows to pass structured values between ML and Scala.
  2796 
  2797 * The IsabelleText fonts includes some further glyphs to support the
  2798 Prover IDE.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY: users who happen to have
  2799 installed a local copy (which is normally *not* required) need to
  2800 delete or update it from ~~/lib/fonts/.
  2801 
  2802 
  2803 
  2804 New in Isabelle2011 (January 2011)
  2805 ----------------------------------
  2806 
  2807 *** General ***
  2808 
  2809 * Experimental Prover IDE based on Isabelle/Scala and jEdit (see
  2810 src/Tools/jEdit).  This also serves as IDE for Isabelle/ML, with
  2811 useful tooltips and hyperlinks produced from its static analysis.  The
  2812 bundled component provides an executable Isabelle tool that can be run
  2813 like this:
  2814 
  2815   Isabelle2011/bin/isabelle jedit
  2816 
  2817 * Significantly improved Isabelle/Isar implementation manual.
  2818 
  2819 * System settings: ISABELLE_HOME_USER now includes ISABELLE_IDENTIFIER
  2820 (and thus refers to something like $HOME/.isabelle/Isabelle2011),
  2821 while the default heap location within that directory lacks that extra
  2822 suffix.  This isolates multiple Isabelle installations from each
  2823 other, avoiding problems with old settings in new versions.
  2824 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to copy/upgrade old user settings manually.
  2825 
  2826 * Source files are always encoded as UTF-8, instead of old-fashioned
  2827 ISO-Latin-1.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Isabelle LaTeX documents might require
  2828 the following package declarations:
  2829 
  2830   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  2831   \usepackage{textcomp}
  2832 
  2833 * Explicit treatment of UTF-8 sequences as Isabelle symbols, such that
  2834 a Unicode character is treated as a single symbol, not a sequence of
  2835 non-ASCII bytes as before.  Since Isabelle/ML string literals may
  2836 contain symbols without further backslash escapes, Unicode can now be
  2837 used here as well.  Recall that Symbol.explode in ML provides a
  2838 consistent view on symbols, while raw explode (or String.explode)
  2839 merely give a byte-oriented representation.
  2840 
  2841 * Theory loader: source files are primarily located via the master
  2842 directory of each theory node (where the .thy file itself resides).
  2843 The global load path is still partially available as legacy feature.
  2844 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY due to subtle change in file lookup: use
  2845 explicit paths, relatively to the theory.
  2846 
  2847 * Special treatment of ML file names has been discontinued.
  2848 Historically, optional extensions .ML or .sml were added on demand --
  2849 at the cost of clarity of file dependencies.  Recall that Isabelle/ML
  2850 files exclusively use the .ML extension.  Minor INCOMPATIBILTY.
  2851 
  2852 * Various options that affect pretty printing etc. are now properly
  2853 handled within the context via configuration options, instead of
  2854 unsynchronized references or print modes.  There are both ML Config.T
  2855 entities and Isar declaration attributes to access these.
  2856 
  2857   ML (Config.T)                 Isar (attribute)
  2858 
  2859   eta_contract                  eta_contract
  2860   show_brackets                 show_brackets
  2861   show_sorts                    show_sorts
  2862   show_types                    show_types
  2863   show_question_marks           show_question_marks
  2864   show_consts                   show_consts
  2865   show_abbrevs                  show_abbrevs
  2866 
  2867   Syntax.ast_trace              syntax_ast_trace
  2868   Syntax.ast_stat               syntax_ast_stat
  2869   Syntax.ambiguity_level        syntax_ambiguity_level
  2870 
  2871   Goal_Display.goals_limit      goals_limit
  2872   Goal_Display.show_main_goal   show_main_goal
  2873 
  2874   Method.rule_trace             rule_trace
  2875 
  2876   Thy_Output.display            thy_output_display
  2877   Thy_Output.quotes             thy_output_quotes
  2878   Thy_Output.indent             thy_output_indent
  2879   Thy_Output.source             thy_output_source
  2880   Thy_Output.break              thy_output_break
  2881 
  2882 Note that corresponding "..._default" references in ML may only be
  2883 changed globally at the ROOT session setup, but *not* within a theory.
  2884 The option "show_abbrevs" supersedes the former print mode
  2885 "no_abbrevs" with inverted meaning.
  2886 
  2887 * More systematic naming of some configuration options.
  2888 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2889 
  2890   trace_simp  ~>  simp_trace
  2891   debug_simp  ~>  simp_debug
  2892 
  2893 * Support for real valued configuration options, using simplistic
  2894 floating-point notation that coincides with the inner syntax for
  2895 float_token.
  2896 
  2897 * Support for real valued preferences (with approximative PGIP type):
  2898 front-ends need to accept "pgint" values in float notation.
  2899 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2900 
  2901 * The IsabelleText font now includes Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic from
  2902 DejaVu Sans.
  2903 
  2904 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 5.0 and 5.1 versions.
  2905 
  2906 
  2907 *** Pure ***
  2908 
  2909 * Command 'type_synonym' (with single argument) replaces somewhat
  2910 outdated 'types', which is still available as legacy feature for some
  2911 time.
  2912 
  2913 * Command 'nonterminal' (with 'and' separated list of arguments)
  2914 replaces somewhat outdated 'nonterminals'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2915 
  2916 * Command 'notepad' replaces former 'example_proof' for
  2917 experimentation in Isar without any result.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2918 
  2919 * Locale interpretation commands 'interpret' and 'sublocale' accept
  2920 lists of equations to map definitions in a locale to appropriate
  2921 entities in the context of the interpretation.  The 'interpretation'
  2922 command already provided this functionality.
  2923 
  2924 * Diagnostic command 'print_dependencies' prints the locale instances
  2925 that would be activated if the specified expression was interpreted in
  2926 the current context.  Variant "print_dependencies!" assumes a context
  2927 without interpretations.
  2928 
  2929 * Diagnostic command 'print_interps' prints interpretations in proofs
  2930 in addition to interpretations in theories.
  2931 
  2932 * Discontinued obsolete 'global' and 'local' commands to manipulate
  2933 the theory name space.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.  The ML functions
  2934 Sign.root_path and Sign.local_path may be applied directly where this
  2935 feature is still required for historical reasons.
  2936 
  2937 * Discontinued obsolete 'constdefs' command.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  2938 'definition' instead.
  2939 
  2940 * The "prems" fact, which refers to the accidental collection of
  2941 foundational premises in the context, is now explicitly marked as
  2942 legacy feature and will be discontinued soon.  Consider using "assms"
  2943 of the head statement or reference facts by explicit names.
  2944 
  2945 * Document antiquotations @{class} and @{type} print classes and type
  2946 constructors.
  2947 
  2948 * Document antiquotation @{file} checks file/directory entries within
  2949 the local file system.
  2950 
  2951 
  2952 *** HOL ***
  2953 
  2954 * Coercive subtyping: functions can be declared as coercions and type
  2955 inference will add them as necessary upon input of a term.  Theory
  2956 Complex_Main declares real :: nat => real and real :: int => real as
  2957 coercions. A coercion function f is declared like this:
  2958 
  2959   declare [[coercion f]]
  2960 
  2961 To lift coercions through type constructors (e.g. from nat => real to
  2962 nat list => real list), map functions can be declared, e.g.
  2963 
  2964   declare [[coercion_map map]]
  2965 
  2966 Currently coercion inference is activated only in theories including
  2967 real numbers, i.e. descendants of Complex_Main.  This is controlled by
  2968 the configuration option "coercion_enabled", e.g. it can be enabled in
  2969 other theories like this:
  2970 
  2971   declare [[coercion_enabled]]
  2972 
  2973 * Command 'partial_function' provides basic support for recursive
  2974 function definitions over complete partial orders.  Concrete instances
  2975 are provided for i) the option type, ii) tail recursion on arbitrary
  2976 types, and iii) the heap monad of Imperative_HOL.  See
  2977 src/HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy and src/HOL/Imperative_HOL/ex/Linked_Lists.thy
  2978 for examples.
  2979 
  2980 * Function package: f.psimps rules are no longer implicitly declared
  2981 as [simp].  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  2982 
  2983 * Datatype package: theorems generated for executable equality (class
  2984 "eq") carry proper names and are treated as default code equations.
  2985 
  2986 * Inductive package: now offers command 'inductive_simps' to
  2987 automatically derive instantiated and simplified equations for
  2988 inductive predicates, similar to 'inductive_cases'.
  2989 
  2990 * Command 'enriched_type' allows to register properties of the
  2991 functorial structure of types.
  2992 
  2993 * Improved infrastructure for term evaluation using code generator
  2994 techniques, in particular static evaluation conversions.
  2995 
  2996 * Code generator: Scala (2.8 or higher) has been added to the target
  2997 languages.
  2998 
  2999 * Code generator: globbing constant expressions "*" and "Theory.*"
  3000 have been replaced by the more idiomatic "_" and "Theory._".
  3001 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3002 
  3003 * Code generator: export_code without explicit file declaration prints
  3004 to standard output.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3005 
  3006 * Code generator: do not print function definitions for case
  3007 combinators any longer.
  3008 
  3009 * Code generator: simplification with rules determined with
  3010 src/Tools/Code/code_simp.ML and method "code_simp".
  3011 
  3012 * Code generator for records: more idiomatic representation of record
  3013 types.  Warning: records are not covered by ancient SML code
  3014 generation any longer.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  In cases of need, a suitable
  3015 rep_datatype declaration helps to succeed then:
  3016 
  3017   record 'a foo = ...
  3018   ...
  3019   rep_datatype foo_ext ...
  3020 
  3021 * Records: logical foundation type for records does not carry a
  3022 '_type' suffix any longer (obsolete due to authentic syntax).
  3023 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3024 
  3025 * Quickcheck now by default uses exhaustive testing instead of random
  3026 testing.  Random testing can be invoked by "quickcheck [random]",
  3027 exhaustive testing by "quickcheck [exhaustive]".
  3028 
  3029 * Quickcheck instantiates polymorphic types with small finite
  3030 datatypes by default. This enables a simple execution mechanism to
  3031 handle quantifiers and function equality over the finite datatypes.
  3032 
  3033 * Quickcheck random generator has been renamed from "code" to
  3034 "random".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3035 
  3036 * Quickcheck now has a configurable time limit which is set to 30
  3037 seconds by default. This can be changed by adding [timeout = n] to the
  3038 quickcheck command. The time limit for Auto Quickcheck is still set
  3039 independently.
  3040 
  3041 * Quickcheck in locales considers interpretations of that locale for
  3042 counter example search.
  3043 
  3044 * Sledgehammer:
  3045   - Added "smt" and "remote_smt" provers based on the "smt" proof
  3046     method. See the Sledgehammer manual for details ("isabelle doc
  3047     sledgehammer").
  3048   - Renamed commands:
  3049     sledgehammer atp_info ~> sledgehammer running_provers
  3050     sledgehammer atp_kill ~> sledgehammer kill_provers
  3051     sledgehammer available_atps ~> sledgehammer available_provers
  3052     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3053   - Renamed options:
  3054     sledgehammer [atps = ...] ~> sledgehammer [provers = ...]
  3055     sledgehammer [atp = ...] ~> sledgehammer [prover = ...]
  3056     sledgehammer [timeout = 77 s] ~> sledgehammer [timeout = 77]
  3057     (and "ms" and "min" are no longer supported)
  3058     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3059 
  3060 * Nitpick:
  3061   - Renamed options:
  3062     nitpick [timeout = 77 s] ~> nitpick [timeout = 77]
  3063     nitpick [tac_timeout = 777 ms] ~> nitpick [tac_timeout = 0.777]
  3064     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3065   - Added support for partial quotient types.
  3066   - Added local versions of the "Nitpick.register_xxx" functions.
  3067   - Added "whack" option.
  3068   - Allow registration of quotient types as codatatypes.
  3069   - Improved "merge_type_vars" option to merge more types.
  3070   - Removed unsound "fast_descrs" option.
  3071   - Added custom symmetry breaking for datatypes, making it possible to reach
  3072     higher cardinalities.
  3073   - Prevent the expansion of too large definitions.
  3074 
  3075 * Proof methods "metis" and "meson" now have configuration options
  3076 "meson_trace", "metis_trace", and "metis_verbose" that can be enabled
  3077 to diagnose these tools. E.g.
  3078 
  3079     using [[metis_trace = true]]
  3080 
  3081 * Auto Solve: Renamed "Auto Solve Direct".  The tool is now available
  3082 manually as command 'solve_direct'.
  3083 
  3084 * The default SMT solver Z3 must be enabled explicitly (due to
  3085 licensing issues) by setting the environment variable
  3086 Z3_NON_COMMERCIAL in etc/settings of the component, for example.  For
  3087 commercial applications, the SMT solver CVC3 is provided as fall-back;
  3088 changing the SMT solver is done via the configuration option
  3089 "smt_solver".
  3090 
  3091 * Remote SMT solvers need to be referred to by the "remote_" prefix,
  3092 i.e. "remote_cvc3" and "remote_z3".
  3093 
  3094 * Added basic SMT support for datatypes, records, and typedefs using
  3095 the oracle mode (no proofs).  Direct support of pairs has been dropped
  3096 in exchange (pass theorems fst_conv snd_conv pair_collapse to the SMT
  3097 support for a similar behavior).  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3098 
  3099 * Changed SMT configuration options:
  3100   - Renamed:
  3101     z3_proofs ~> smt_oracle (with inverted meaning)
  3102     z3_trace_assms ~> smt_trace_used_facts
  3103     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3104   - Added:
  3105     smt_verbose
  3106     smt_random_seed
  3107     smt_datatypes
  3108     smt_infer_triggers
  3109     smt_monomorph_limit
  3110     cvc3_options
  3111     remote_cvc3_options
  3112     remote_z3_options
  3113     yices_options
  3114 
  3115 * Boogie output files (.b2i files) need to be declared in the theory
  3116 header.
  3117 
  3118 * Simplification procedure "list_to_set_comprehension" rewrites list
  3119 comprehensions applied to List.set to set comprehensions.  Occasional
  3120 INCOMPATIBILITY, may be deactivated like this:
  3121 
  3122   declare [[simproc del: list_to_set_comprehension]]
  3123 
  3124 * Removed old version of primrec package.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3125 
  3126 * Removed simplifier congruence rule of "prod_case", as has for long
  3127 been the case with "split".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3128 
  3129 * String.literal is a type, but not a datatype.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3130 
  3131 * Removed [split_format ... and ... and ...] version of
  3132 [split_format].  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3133 
  3134 * Predicate "sorted" now defined inductively, with nice induction
  3135 rules.  INCOMPATIBILITY: former sorted.simps now named sorted_simps.
  3136 
  3137 * Constant "contents" renamed to "the_elem", to free the generic name
  3138 contents for other uses.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3139 
  3140 * Renamed class eq and constant eq (for code generation) to class
  3141 equal and constant equal, plus renaming of related facts and various
  3142 tuning.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3143 
  3144 * Dropped type classes mult_mono and mult_mono1.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3145 
  3146 * Removed output syntax "'a ~=> 'b" for "'a => 'b option".
  3147 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3148 
  3149 * Renamed theory Fset to Cset, type Fset.fset to Cset.set, in order to
  3150 avoid confusion with finite sets.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3151 
  3152 * Abandoned locales equiv, congruent and congruent2 for equivalence
  3153 relations.  INCOMPATIBILITY: use equivI rather than equiv_intro (same
  3154 for congruent(2)).
  3155 
  3156 * Some previously unqualified names have been qualified:
  3157 
  3158   types
  3159     bool ~> HOL.bool
  3160     nat ~> Nat.nat
  3161 
  3162   constants
  3163     Trueprop ~> HOL.Trueprop
  3164     True ~> HOL.True
  3165     False ~> HOL.False
  3166     op & ~> HOL.conj
  3167     op | ~> HOL.disj
  3168     op --> ~> HOL.implies
  3169     op = ~> HOL.eq
  3170     Not ~> HOL.Not
  3171     The ~> HOL.The
  3172     All ~> HOL.All
  3173     Ex ~> HOL.Ex
  3174     Ex1 ~> HOL.Ex1
  3175     Let ~> HOL.Let
  3176     If ~> HOL.If
  3177     Ball ~> Set.Ball
  3178     Bex ~> Set.Bex
  3179     Suc ~> Nat.Suc
  3180     Pair ~> Product_Type.Pair
  3181     fst ~> Product_Type.fst
  3182     snd ~> Product_Type.snd
  3183     curry ~> Product_Type.curry
  3184     op : ~> Set.member
  3185     Collect ~> Set.Collect
  3186 
  3187 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3188 
  3189 * More canonical naming convention for some fundamental definitions:
  3190 
  3191     bot_bool_eq ~> bot_bool_def
  3192     top_bool_eq ~> top_bool_def
  3193     inf_bool_eq ~> inf_bool_def
  3194     sup_bool_eq ~> sup_bool_def
  3195     bot_fun_eq  ~> bot_fun_def
  3196     top_fun_eq  ~> top_fun_def
  3197     inf_fun_eq  ~> inf_fun_def
  3198     sup_fun_eq  ~> sup_fun_def
  3199 
  3200 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3201 
  3202 * More stylized fact names:
  3203 
  3204   expand_fun_eq ~> fun_eq_iff
  3205   expand_set_eq ~> set_eq_iff
  3206   set_ext       ~> set_eqI
  3207   nat_number    ~> eval_nat_numeral
  3208 
  3209 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3210 
  3211 * Refactoring of code-generation specific operations in theory List:
  3212 
  3213   constants
  3214     null ~> List.null
  3215 
  3216   facts
  3217     mem_iff ~> member_def
  3218     null_empty ~> null_def
  3219 
  3220 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Note that these were not supposed to be used
  3221 regularly unless for striking reasons; their main purpose was code
  3222 generation.
  3223 
  3224 Various operations from the Haskell prelude are used for generating
  3225 Haskell code.
  3226 
  3227 * Term "bij f" is now an abbreviation of "bij_betw f UNIV UNIV".  Term
  3228 "surj f" is now an abbreviation of "range f = UNIV".  The theorems
  3229 bij_def and surj_def are unchanged.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3230 
  3231 * Abolished some non-alphabetic type names: "prod" and "sum" replace
  3232 "*" and "+" respectively.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3233 
  3234 * Name "Plus" of disjoint sum operator "<+>" is now hidden.  Write
  3235 "Sum_Type.Plus" instead.
  3236 
  3237 * Constant "split" has been merged with constant "prod_case"; names of
  3238 ML functions, facts etc. involving split have been retained so far,
  3239 though.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3240 
  3241 * Dropped old infix syntax "_ mem _" for List.member; use "_ : set _"
  3242 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3243 
  3244 * Removed lemma "Option.is_none_none" which duplicates "is_none_def".
  3245 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3246 
  3247 * Former theory Library/Enum is now part of the HOL-Main image.
  3248 INCOMPATIBILITY: all constants of the Enum theory now have to be
  3249 referred to by its qualified name.
  3250 
  3251   enum    ~>  Enum.enum
  3252   nlists  ~>  Enum.nlists
  3253   product ~>  Enum.product
  3254 
  3255 * Theory Library/Monad_Syntax provides do-syntax for monad types.
  3256 Syntax in Library/State_Monad has been changed to avoid ambiguities.
  3257 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3258 
  3259 * Theory Library/SetsAndFunctions has been split into
  3260 Library/Function_Algebras and Library/Set_Algebras; canonical names
  3261 for instance definitions for functions; various improvements.
  3262 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3263 
  3264 * Theory Library/Multiset provides stable quicksort implementation of
  3265 sort_key.
  3266 
  3267 * Theory Library/Multiset: renamed empty_idemp ~> empty_neutral.
  3268 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3269 
  3270 * Session Multivariate_Analysis: introduced a type class for euclidean
  3271 space.  Most theorems are now stated in terms of euclidean spaces
  3272 instead of finite cartesian products.
  3273 
  3274   types
  3275     real ^ 'n ~>  'a::real_vector
  3276               ~>  'a::euclidean_space
  3277               ~>  'a::ordered_euclidean_space
  3278         (depends on your needs)
  3279 
  3280   constants
  3281      _ $ _        ~> _ $$ _
  3282      \<chi> x. _  ~> \<chi>\<chi> x. _
  3283      CARD('n)     ~> DIM('a)
  3284 
  3285 Also note that the indices are now natural numbers and not from some
  3286 finite type. Finite cartesian products of euclidean spaces, products
  3287 of euclidean spaces the real and complex numbers are instantiated to
  3288 be euclidean_spaces.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3289 
  3290 * Session Probability: introduced pextreal as positive extended real
  3291 numbers.  Use pextreal as value for measures.  Introduce the
  3292 Radon-Nikodym derivative, product spaces and Fubini's theorem for
  3293 arbitrary sigma finite measures.  Introduces Lebesgue measure based on
  3294 the integral in Multivariate Analysis.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3295 
  3296 * Session Imperative_HOL: revamped, corrected dozens of inadequacies.
  3297 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3298 
  3299 * Session SPARK (with image HOL-SPARK) provides commands to load and
  3300 prove verification conditions generated by the SPARK Ada program
  3301 verifier.  See also src/HOL/SPARK and src/HOL/SPARK/Examples.
  3302 
  3303 
  3304 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  3305 
  3306 * Theorems for additive ring operations (locale abelian_monoid and
  3307 descendants) are generated by interpretation from their multiplicative
  3308 counterparts.  Names (in particular theorem names) have the mandatory
  3309 qualifier 'add'.  Previous theorem names are redeclared for
  3310 compatibility.
  3311 
  3312 * Structure "int_ring" is now an abbreviation (previously a
  3313 definition).  This fits more natural with advanced interpretations.
  3314 
  3315 
  3316 *** HOLCF ***
  3317 
  3318 * The domain package now runs in definitional mode by default: The
  3319 former command 'new_domain' is now called 'domain'.  To use the domain
  3320 package in its original axiomatic mode, use 'domain (unsafe)'.
  3321 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3322 
  3323 * The new class "domain" is now the default sort.  Class "predomain"
  3324 is an unpointed version of "domain". Theories can be updated by
  3325 replacing sort annotations as shown below.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3326 
  3327   'a::type ~> 'a::countable
  3328   'a::cpo  ~> 'a::predomain
  3329   'a::pcpo ~> 'a::domain
  3330 
  3331 * The old type class "rep" has been superseded by class "domain".
  3332 Accordingly, users of the definitional package must remove any
  3333 "default_sort rep" declarations.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3334 
  3335 * The domain package (definitional mode) now supports unpointed
  3336 predomain argument types, as long as they are marked 'lazy'. (Strict
  3337 arguments must be in class "domain".) For example, the following
  3338 domain definition now works:
  3339 
  3340   domain natlist = nil | cons (lazy "nat discr") (lazy "natlist")
  3341 
  3342 * Theory HOLCF/Library/HOL_Cpo provides cpo and predomain class
  3343 instances for types from main HOL: bool, nat, int, char, 'a + 'b,
  3344 'a option, and 'a list.  Additionally, it configures fixrec and the
  3345 domain package to work with these types.  For example:
  3346 
  3347   fixrec isInl :: "('a + 'b) u -> tr"
  3348     where "isInl$(up$(Inl x)) = TT" | "isInl$(up$(Inr y)) = FF"
  3349 
  3350   domain V = VFun (lazy "V -> V") | VCon (lazy "nat") (lazy "V list")
  3351 
  3352 * The "(permissive)" option of fixrec has been replaced with a
  3353 per-equation "(unchecked)" option. See
  3354 src/HOL/HOLCF/Tutorial/Fixrec_ex.thy for examples. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3355 
  3356 * The "bifinite" class no longer fixes a constant "approx"; the class
  3357 now just asserts that such a function exists.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3358 
  3359 * Former type "alg_defl" has been renamed to "defl".  HOLCF no longer
  3360 defines an embedding of type 'a defl into udom by default; instances
  3361 of "bifinite" and "domain" classes are available in
  3362 src/HOL/HOLCF/Library/Defl_Bifinite.thy.
  3363 
  3364 * The syntax "REP('a)" has been replaced with "DEFL('a)".
  3365 
  3366 * The predicate "directed" has been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3367 
  3368 * The type class "finite_po" has been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3369 
  3370 * The function "cprod_map" has been renamed to "prod_map".
  3371 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3372 
  3373 * The monadic bind operator on each powerdomain has new binder syntax
  3374 similar to sets, e.g. "\<Union>\<sharp>x\<in>xs. t" represents
  3375 "upper_bind\<cdot>xs\<cdot>(\<Lambda> x. t)".
  3376 
  3377 * The infix syntax for binary union on each powerdomain has changed
  3378 from e.g. "+\<sharp>" to "\<union>\<sharp>", for consistency with set
  3379 syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3380 
  3381 * The constant "UU" has been renamed to "bottom".  The syntax "UU" is
  3382 still supported as an input translation.
  3383 
  3384 * Renamed some theorems (the original names are also still available).
  3385 
  3386   expand_fun_below   ~> fun_below_iff
  3387   below_fun_ext      ~> fun_belowI
  3388   expand_cfun_eq     ~> cfun_eq_iff
  3389   ext_cfun           ~> cfun_eqI
  3390   expand_cfun_below  ~> cfun_below_iff
  3391   below_cfun_ext     ~> cfun_belowI
  3392   cont2cont_Rep_CFun ~> cont2cont_APP
  3393 
  3394 * The Abs and Rep functions for various types have changed names.
  3395 Related theorem names have also changed to match. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3396 
  3397   Rep_CFun  ~> Rep_cfun
  3398   Abs_CFun  ~> Abs_cfun
  3399   Rep_Sprod ~> Rep_sprod
  3400   Abs_Sprod ~> Abs_sprod
  3401   Rep_Ssum  ~> Rep_ssum
  3402   Abs_Ssum  ~> Abs_ssum
  3403 
  3404 * Lemmas with names of the form *_defined_iff or *_strict_iff have
  3405 been renamed to *_bottom_iff.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3406 
  3407 * Various changes to bisimulation/coinduction with domain package:
  3408 
  3409   - Definitions of "bisim" constants no longer mention definedness.
  3410   - With mutual recursion, "bisim" predicate is now curried.
  3411   - With mutual recursion, each type gets a separate coind theorem.
  3412   - Variable names in bisim_def and coinduct rules have changed.
  3413 
  3414 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3415 
  3416 * Case combinators generated by the domain package for type "foo" are
  3417 now named "foo_case" instead of "foo_when".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3418 
  3419 * Several theorems have been renamed to more accurately reflect the
  3420 names of constants and types involved.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3421 
  3422   thelub_const    ~> lub_const
  3423   lub_const       ~> is_lub_const
  3424   thelubI         ~> lub_eqI
  3425   is_lub_lub      ~> is_lubD2
  3426   lubI            ~> is_lub_lub
  3427   unique_lub      ~> is_lub_unique
  3428   is_ub_lub       ~> is_lub_rangeD1
  3429   lub_bin_chain   ~> is_lub_bin_chain
  3430   lub_fun         ~> is_lub_fun
  3431   thelub_fun      ~> lub_fun
  3432   thelub_cfun     ~> lub_cfun
  3433   thelub_Pair     ~> lub_Pair
  3434   lub_cprod       ~> is_lub_prod
  3435   thelub_cprod    ~> lub_prod
  3436   minimal_cprod   ~> minimal_prod
  3437   inst_cprod_pcpo ~> inst_prod_pcpo
  3438   UU_I            ~> bottomI
  3439   compact_UU      ~> compact_bottom
  3440   deflation_UU    ~> deflation_bottom
  3441   finite_deflation_UU ~> finite_deflation_bottom
  3442 
  3443 * Many legacy theorem names have been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3444 
  3445   sq_ord_less_eq_trans ~> below_eq_trans
  3446   sq_ord_eq_less_trans ~> eq_below_trans
  3447   refl_less            ~> below_refl
  3448   trans_less           ~> below_trans
  3449   antisym_less         ~> below_antisym
  3450   antisym_less_inverse ~> po_eq_conv [THEN iffD1]
  3451   box_less             ~> box_below
  3452   rev_trans_less       ~> rev_below_trans
  3453   not_less2not_eq      ~> not_below2not_eq
  3454   less_UU_iff          ~> below_UU_iff
  3455   flat_less_iff        ~> flat_below_iff
  3456   adm_less             ~> adm_below
  3457   adm_not_less         ~> adm_not_below
  3458   adm_compact_not_less ~> adm_compact_not_below
  3459   less_fun_def         ~> below_fun_def
  3460   expand_fun_less      ~> fun_below_iff
  3461   less_fun_ext         ~> fun_belowI
  3462   less_discr_def       ~> below_discr_def
  3463   discr_less_eq        ~> discr_below_eq
  3464   less_unit_def        ~> below_unit_def
  3465   less_cprod_def       ~> below_prod_def
  3466   prod_lessI           ~> prod_belowI
  3467   Pair_less_iff        ~> Pair_below_iff
  3468   fst_less_iff         ~> fst_below_iff
  3469   snd_less_iff         ~> snd_below_iff
  3470   expand_cfun_less     ~> cfun_below_iff
  3471   less_cfun_ext        ~> cfun_belowI
  3472   injection_less       ~> injection_below
  3473   less_up_def          ~> below_up_def
  3474   not_Iup_less         ~> not_Iup_below
  3475   Iup_less             ~> Iup_below
  3476   up_less              ~> up_below
  3477   Def_inject_less_eq   ~> Def_below_Def
  3478   Def_less_is_eq       ~> Def_below_iff
  3479   spair_less_iff       ~> spair_below_iff
  3480   less_sprod           ~> below_sprod
  3481   spair_less           ~> spair_below
  3482   sfst_less_iff        ~> sfst_below_iff
  3483   ssnd_less_iff        ~> ssnd_below_iff
  3484   fix_least_less       ~> fix_least_below
  3485   dist_less_one        ~> dist_below_one
  3486   less_ONE             ~> below_ONE
  3487   ONE_less_iff         ~> ONE_below_iff
  3488   less_sinlD           ~> below_sinlD
  3489   less_sinrD           ~> below_sinrD
  3490 
  3491 
  3492 *** FOL and ZF ***
  3493 
  3494 * All constant names are now qualified internally and use proper
  3495 identifiers, e.g. "IFOL.eq" instead of "op =".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3496 
  3497 
  3498 *** ML ***
  3499 
  3500 * Antiquotation @{assert} inlines a function bool -> unit that raises
  3501 Fail if the argument is false.  Due to inlining the source position of
  3502 failed assertions is included in the error output.
  3503 
  3504 * Discontinued antiquotation @{theory_ref}, which is obsolete since ML
  3505 text is in practice always evaluated with a stable theory checkpoint.
  3506 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, use (Theory.check_thy @{theory}) instead.
  3507 
  3508 * Antiquotation @{theory A} refers to theory A from the ancestry of
  3509 the current context, not any accidental theory loader state as before.
  3510 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, subtle change in semantics.
  3511 
  3512 * Syntax.pretty_priority (default 0) configures the required priority
  3513 of pretty-printed output and thus affects insertion of parentheses.
  3514 
  3515 * Syntax.default_root (default "any") configures the inner syntax
  3516 category (nonterminal symbol) for parsing of terms.
  3517 
  3518 * Former exception Library.UnequalLengths now coincides with
  3519 ListPair.UnequalLengths.
  3520 
  3521 * Renamed structure MetaSimplifier to Raw_Simplifier.  Note that the
  3522 main functionality is provided by structure Simplifier.
  3523 
  3524 * Renamed raw "explode" function to "raw_explode" to emphasize its
  3525 meaning.  Note that internally to Isabelle, Symbol.explode is used in
  3526 almost all situations.
  3527 
  3528 * Discontinued obsolete function sys_error and exception SYS_ERROR.
  3529 See implementation manual for further details on exceptions in
  3530 Isabelle/ML.
  3531 
  3532 * Renamed setmp_noncritical to Unsynchronized.setmp to emphasize its
  3533 meaning.
  3534 
  3535 * Renamed structure PureThy to Pure_Thy and moved most of its
  3536 operations to structure Global_Theory, to emphasize that this is
  3537 rarely-used global-only stuff.
  3538 
  3539 * Discontinued Output.debug.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY, use plain writeln
  3540 instead (or tracing for high-volume output).
  3541 
  3542 * Configuration option show_question_marks only affects regular pretty
  3543 printing of types and terms, not raw Term.string_of_vname.
  3544 
  3545 * ML_Context.thm and ML_Context.thms are no longer pervasive.  Rare
  3546 INCOMPATIBILITY, superseded by static antiquotations @{thm} and
  3547 @{thms} for most purposes.
  3548 
  3549 * ML structure Unsynchronized is never opened, not even in Isar
  3550 interaction mode as before.  Old Unsynchronized.set etc. have been
  3551 discontinued -- use plain := instead.  This should be *rare* anyway,
  3552 since modern tools always work via official context data, notably
  3553 configuration options.
  3554 
  3555 * Parallel and asynchronous execution requires special care concerning
  3556 interrupts.  Structure Exn provides some convenience functions that
  3557 avoid working directly with raw Interrupt.  User code must not absorb
  3558 interrupts -- intermediate handling (for cleanup etc.) needs to be
  3559 followed by re-raising of the original exception.  Another common
  3560 source of mistakes are "handle _" patterns, which make the meaning of
  3561 the program subject to physical effects of the environment.
  3562 
  3563 
  3564 
  3565 New in Isabelle2009-2 (June 2010)
  3566 ---------------------------------
  3567 
  3568 *** General ***
  3569 
  3570 * Authentic syntax for *all* logical entities (type classes, type
  3571 constructors, term constants): provides simple and robust
  3572 correspondence between formal entities and concrete syntax.  Within
  3573 the parse tree / AST representations, "constants" are decorated by
  3574 their category (class, type, const) and spelled out explicitly with
  3575 their full internal name.
  3576 
  3577 Substantial INCOMPATIBILITY concerning low-level syntax declarations
  3578 and translations (translation rules and translation functions in ML).
  3579 Some hints on upgrading:
  3580 
  3581   - Many existing uses of 'syntax' and 'translations' can be replaced
  3582     by more modern 'type_notation', 'notation' and 'abbreviation',
  3583     which are independent of this issue.
  3584 
  3585   - 'translations' require markup within the AST; the term syntax
  3586     provides the following special forms:
  3587 
  3588       CONST c   -- produces syntax version of constant c from context
  3589       XCONST c  -- literally c, checked as constant from context
  3590       c         -- literally c, if declared by 'syntax'
  3591 
  3592     Plain identifiers are treated as AST variables -- occasionally the
  3593     system indicates accidental variables via the error "rhs contains
  3594     extra variables".
  3595 
  3596     Type classes and type constructors are marked according to their
  3597     concrete syntax.  Some old translations rules need to be written
  3598     for the "type" category, using type constructor application
  3599     instead of pseudo-term application of the default category
  3600     "logic".
  3601 
  3602   - 'parse_translation' etc. in ML may use the following
  3603     antiquotations:
  3604 
  3605       @{class_syntax c}   -- type class c within parse tree / AST
  3606       @{term_syntax c}    -- type constructor c within parse tree / AST
  3607       @{const_syntax c}   -- ML version of "CONST c" above
  3608       @{syntax_const c}   -- literally c (checked wrt. 'syntax' declarations)
  3609 
  3610   - Literal types within 'typed_print_translations', i.e. those *not*
  3611     represented as pseudo-terms are represented verbatim.  Use @{class
  3612     c} or @{type_name c} here instead of the above syntax
  3613     antiquotations.
  3614 
  3615 Note that old non-authentic syntax was based on unqualified base
  3616 names, so all of the above "constant" names would coincide.  Recall
  3617 that 'print_syntax' and ML_command "set Syntax.trace_ast" help to
  3618 diagnose syntax problems.
  3619 
  3620 * Type constructors admit general mixfix syntax, not just infix.
  3621 
  3622 * Concrete syntax may be attached to local entities without a proof
  3623 body, too.  This works via regular mixfix annotations for 'fix',
  3624 'def', 'obtain' etc. or via the explicit 'write' command, which is
  3625 similar to the 'notation' command in theory specifications.
  3626 
  3627 * Discontinued unnamed infix syntax (legacy feature for many years) --
  3628 need to specify constant name and syntax separately.  Internal ML
  3629 datatype constructors have been renamed from InfixName to Infix etc.
  3630 Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3631 
  3632 * Schematic theorem statements need to be explicitly markup as such,
  3633 via commands 'schematic_lemma', 'schematic_theorem',
  3634 'schematic_corollary'.  Thus the relevance of the proof is made
  3635 syntactically clear, which impacts performance in a parallel or
  3636 asynchronous interactive environment.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3637 
  3638 * Use of cumulative prems via "!" in some proof methods has been
  3639 discontinued (old legacy feature).
  3640 
  3641 * References 'trace_simp' and 'debug_simp' have been replaced by
  3642 configuration options stored in the context. Enabling tracing (the
  3643 case of debugging is similar) in proofs works via
  3644 
  3645   using [[trace_simp = true]]
  3646 
  3647 Tracing is then active for all invocations of the simplifier in
  3648 subsequent goal refinement steps. Tracing may also still be enabled or
  3649 disabled via the ProofGeneral settings menu.
  3650 
  3651 * Separate commands 'hide_class', 'hide_type', 'hide_const',
  3652 'hide_fact' replace the former 'hide' KIND command.  Minor
  3653 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3654 
  3655 * Improved parallelism of proof term normalization: usedir -p2 -q0 is
  3656 more efficient than combinations with -q1 or -q2.
  3657 
  3658 
  3659 *** Pure ***
  3660 
  3661 * Proofterms record type-class reasoning explicitly, using the
  3662 "unconstrain" operation internally.  This eliminates all sort
  3663 constraints from a theorem and proof, introducing explicit
  3664 OFCLASS-premises.  On the proof term level, this operation is
  3665 automatically applied at theorem boundaries, such that closed proofs
  3666 are always free of sort constraints.  INCOMPATIBILITY for tools that
  3667 inspect proof terms.
  3668 
  3669 * Local theory specifications may depend on extra type variables that
  3670 are not present in the result type -- arguments TYPE('a) :: 'a itself
  3671 are added internally.  For example:
  3672 
  3673   definition unitary :: bool where "unitary = (ALL (x::'a) y. x = y)"
  3674 
  3675 * Predicates of locales introduced by classes carry a mandatory
  3676 "class" prefix.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3677 
  3678 * Vacuous class specifications observe default sort.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3679 
  3680 * Old 'axclass' command has been discontinued.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  3681 'class' instead.
  3682 
  3683 * Command 'code_reflect' allows to incorporate generated ML code into
  3684 runtime environment; replaces immature code_datatype antiquotation.
  3685 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3686 
  3687 * Code generator: simple concept for abstract datatypes obeying
  3688 invariants.
  3689 
  3690 * Code generator: details of internal data cache have no impact on the
  3691 user space functionality any longer.
  3692 
  3693 * Methods "unfold_locales" and "intro_locales" ignore non-locale
  3694 subgoals.  This is more appropriate for interpretations with 'where'.
  3695 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3696 
  3697 * Command 'example_proof' opens an empty proof body.  This allows to
  3698 experiment with Isar, without producing any persistent result.
  3699 
  3700 * Commands 'type_notation' and 'no_type_notation' declare type syntax
  3701 within a local theory context, with explicit checking of the
  3702 constructors involved (in contrast to the raw 'syntax' versions).
  3703 
  3704 * Commands 'types' and 'typedecl' now work within a local theory
  3705 context -- without introducing dependencies on parameters or
  3706 assumptions, which is not possible in Isabelle/Pure.
  3707 
  3708 * Command 'defaultsort' has been renamed to 'default_sort', it works
  3709 within a local theory context.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3710 
  3711 
  3712 *** HOL ***
  3713 
  3714 * Command 'typedef' now works within a local theory context -- without
  3715 introducing dependencies on parameters or assumptions, which is not
  3716 possible in Isabelle/Pure/HOL.  Note that the logical environment may
  3717 contain multiple interpretations of local typedefs (with different
  3718 non-emptiness proofs), even in a global theory context.
  3719 
  3720 * New package for quotient types.  Commands 'quotient_type' and
  3721 'quotient_definition' may be used for defining types and constants by
  3722 quotient constructions.  An example is the type of integers created by
  3723 quotienting pairs of natural numbers:
  3724 
  3725   fun
  3726     intrel :: "(nat * nat) => (nat * nat) => bool"
  3727   where
  3728     "intrel (x, y) (u, v) = (x + v = u + y)"
  3729 
  3730   quotient_type int = "nat * nat" / intrel
  3731     by (auto simp add: equivp_def expand_fun_eq)
  3732 
  3733   quotient_definition
  3734     "0::int" is "(0::nat, 0::nat)"
  3735 
  3736 The method "lifting" can be used to lift of theorems from the
  3737 underlying "raw" type to the quotient type.  The example
  3738 src/HOL/Quotient_Examples/FSet.thy includes such a quotient
  3739 construction and provides a reasoning infrastructure for finite sets.
  3740 
  3741 * Renamed Library/Quotient.thy to Library/Quotient_Type.thy to avoid
  3742 clash with new theory Quotient in Main HOL.
  3743 
  3744 * Moved the SMT binding into the main HOL session, eliminating
  3745 separate HOL-SMT session.
  3746 
  3747 * List membership infix mem operation is only an input abbreviation.
  3748 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3749 
  3750 * Theory Library/Word.thy has been removed.  Use library Word/Word.thy
  3751 for future developements; former Library/Word.thy is still present in
  3752 the AFP entry RSAPPS.
  3753 
  3754 * Theorem Int.int_induct renamed to Int.int_of_nat_induct and is no
  3755 longer shadowed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3756 
  3757 * Dropped theorem duplicate comp_arith; use semiring_norm instead.
  3758 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3759 
  3760 * Dropped theorem RealPow.real_sq_order; use power2_le_imp_le instead.
  3761 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3762 
  3763 * Dropped normalizing_semiring etc; use the facts in semiring classes
  3764 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3765 
  3766 * Dropped several real-specific versions of lemmas about floor and
  3767 ceiling; use the generic lemmas from theory "Archimedean_Field"
  3768 instead.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3769 
  3770   floor_number_of_eq         ~> floor_number_of
  3771   le_floor_eq_number_of      ~> number_of_le_floor
  3772   le_floor_eq_zero           ~> zero_le_floor
  3773   le_floor_eq_one            ~> one_le_floor
  3774   floor_less_eq_number_of    ~> floor_less_number_of
  3775   floor_less_eq_zero         ~> floor_less_zero
  3776   floor_less_eq_one          ~> floor_less_one
  3777   less_floor_eq_number_of    ~> number_of_less_floor
  3778   less_floor_eq_zero         ~> zero_less_floor
  3779   less_floor_eq_one          ~> one_less_floor
  3780   floor_le_eq_number_of      ~> floor_le_number_of
  3781   floor_le_eq_zero           ~> floor_le_zero
  3782   floor_le_eq_one            ~> floor_le_one
  3783   floor_subtract_number_of   ~> floor_diff_number_of
  3784   floor_subtract_one         ~> floor_diff_one
  3785   ceiling_number_of_eq       ~> ceiling_number_of
  3786   ceiling_le_eq_number_of    ~> ceiling_le_number_of
  3787   ceiling_le_zero_eq         ~> ceiling_le_zero
  3788   ceiling_le_eq_one          ~> ceiling_le_one
  3789   less_ceiling_eq_number_of  ~> number_of_less_ceiling
  3790   less_ceiling_eq_zero       ~> zero_less_ceiling
  3791   less_ceiling_eq_one        ~> one_less_ceiling
  3792   ceiling_less_eq_number_of  ~> ceiling_less_number_of
  3793   ceiling_less_eq_zero       ~> ceiling_less_zero
  3794   ceiling_less_eq_one        ~> ceiling_less_one
  3795   le_ceiling_eq_number_of    ~> number_of_le_ceiling
  3796   le_ceiling_eq_zero         ~> zero_le_ceiling
  3797   le_ceiling_eq_one          ~> one_le_ceiling
  3798   ceiling_subtract_number_of ~> ceiling_diff_number_of
  3799   ceiling_subtract_one       ~> ceiling_diff_one
  3800 
  3801 * Theory "Finite_Set": various folding_XXX locales facilitate the
  3802 application of the various fold combinators on finite sets.
  3803 
  3804 * Library theory "RBT" renamed to "RBT_Impl"; new library theory "RBT"
  3805 provides abstract red-black tree type which is backed by "RBT_Impl" as
  3806 implementation.  INCOMPATIBILTY.
  3807 
  3808 * Theory Library/Coinductive_List has been removed -- superseded by
  3809 AFP/thys/Coinductive.
  3810 
  3811 * Theory PReal, including the type "preal" and related operations, has
  3812 been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3813 
  3814 * Real: new development using Cauchy Sequences.
  3815 
  3816 * Split off theory "Big_Operators" containing setsum, setprod,
  3817 Inf_fin, Sup_fin, Min, Max from theory Finite_Set.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3818 
  3819 * Theory "Rational" renamed to "Rat", for consistency with "Nat",
  3820 "Int" etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3821 
  3822 * Constant Rat.normalize needs to be qualified.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3823 
  3824 * New set of rules "ac_simps" provides combined assoc / commute
  3825 rewrites for all interpretations of the appropriate generic locales.
  3826 
  3827 * Renamed theory "OrderedGroup" to "Groups" and split theory
  3828 "Ring_and_Field" into theories "Rings" and "Fields"; for more
  3829 appropriate and more consistent names suitable for name prefixes
  3830 within the HOL theories.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3831 
  3832 * Some generic constants have been put to appropriate theories:
  3833   - less_eq, less: Orderings
  3834   - zero, one, plus, minus, uminus, times, abs, sgn: Groups
  3835   - inverse, divide: Rings
  3836 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3837 
  3838 * More consistent naming of type classes involving orderings (and
  3839 lattices):
  3840 
  3841     lower_semilattice                   ~> semilattice_inf
  3842     upper_semilattice                   ~> semilattice_sup
  3843 
  3844     dense_linear_order                  ~> dense_linorder
  3845 
  3846     pordered_ab_group_add               ~> ordered_ab_group_add
  3847     pordered_ab_group_add_abs           ~> ordered_ab_group_add_abs
  3848     pordered_ab_semigroup_add           ~> ordered_ab_semigroup_add
  3849     pordered_ab_semigroup_add_imp_le    ~> ordered_ab_semigroup_add_imp_le
  3850     pordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add    ~> ordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add
  3851     pordered_cancel_comm_semiring       ~> ordered_cancel_comm_semiring
  3852     pordered_cancel_semiring            ~> ordered_cancel_semiring
  3853     pordered_comm_monoid_add            ~> ordered_comm_monoid_add
  3854     pordered_comm_ring                  ~> ordered_comm_ring
  3855     pordered_comm_semiring              ~> ordered_comm_semiring
  3856     pordered_ring                       ~> ordered_ring
  3857     pordered_ring_abs                   ~> ordered_ring_abs
  3858     pordered_semiring                   ~> ordered_semiring
  3859 
  3860     ordered_ab_group_add                ~> linordered_ab_group_add
  3861     ordered_ab_semigroup_add            ~> linordered_ab_semigroup_add
  3862     ordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add     ~> linordered_cancel_ab_semigroup_add
  3863     ordered_comm_semiring_strict        ~> linordered_comm_semiring_strict
  3864     ordered_field                       ~> linordered_field
  3865     ordered_field_no_lb                 ~> linordered_field_no_lb
  3866     ordered_field_no_ub                 ~> linordered_field_no_ub
  3867     ordered_field_dense_linear_order    ~> dense_linordered_field
  3868     ordered_idom                        ~> linordered_idom
  3869     ordered_ring                        ~> linordered_ring
  3870     ordered_ring_le_cancel_factor       ~> linordered_ring_le_cancel_factor
  3871     ordered_ring_less_cancel_factor     ~> linordered_ring_less_cancel_factor
  3872     ordered_ring_strict                 ~> linordered_ring_strict
  3873     ordered_semidom                     ~> linordered_semidom
  3874     ordered_semiring                    ~> linordered_semiring
  3875     ordered_semiring_1                  ~> linordered_semiring_1
  3876     ordered_semiring_1_strict           ~> linordered_semiring_1_strict
  3877     ordered_semiring_strict             ~> linordered_semiring_strict
  3878 
  3879   The following slightly odd type classes have been moved to a
  3880   separate theory Library/Lattice_Algebras:
  3881 
  3882     lordered_ab_group_add               ~> lattice_ab_group_add
  3883     lordered_ab_group_add_abs           ~> lattice_ab_group_add_abs
  3884     lordered_ab_group_add_meet          ~> semilattice_inf_ab_group_add
  3885     lordered_ab_group_add_join          ~> semilattice_sup_ab_group_add
  3886     lordered_ring                       ~> lattice_ring
  3887 
  3888 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3889 
  3890 * Refined field classes:
  3891   - classes division_ring_inverse_zero, field_inverse_zero,
  3892     linordered_field_inverse_zero include rule inverse 0 = 0 --
  3893     subsumes former division_by_zero class;
  3894   - numerous lemmas have been ported from field to division_ring.
  3895 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3896 
  3897 * Refined algebra theorem collections:
  3898   - dropped theorem group group_simps, use algebra_simps instead;
  3899   - dropped theorem group ring_simps, use field_simps instead;
  3900   - proper theorem collection field_simps subsumes former theorem
  3901     groups field_eq_simps and field_simps;
  3902   - dropped lemma eq_minus_self_iff which is a duplicate for
  3903     equal_neg_zero.
  3904 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3905 
  3906 * Theory Finite_Set and List: some lemmas have been generalized from
  3907 sets to lattices:
  3908 
  3909   fun_left_comm_idem_inter      ~> fun_left_comm_idem_inf
  3910   fun_left_comm_idem_union      ~> fun_left_comm_idem_sup
  3911   inter_Inter_fold_inter        ~> inf_Inf_fold_inf
  3912   union_Union_fold_union        ~> sup_Sup_fold_sup
  3913   Inter_fold_inter              ~> Inf_fold_inf
  3914   Union_fold_union              ~> Sup_fold_sup
  3915   inter_INTER_fold_inter        ~> inf_INFI_fold_inf
  3916   union_UNION_fold_union        ~> sup_SUPR_fold_sup
  3917   INTER_fold_inter              ~> INFI_fold_inf
  3918   UNION_fold_union              ~> SUPR_fold_sup
  3919 
  3920 * Theory "Complete_Lattice": lemmas top_def and bot_def have been
  3921 replaced by the more convenient lemmas Inf_empty and Sup_empty.
  3922 Dropped lemmas Inf_insert_simp and Sup_insert_simp, which are subsumed
  3923 by Inf_insert and Sup_insert.  Lemmas Inf_UNIV and Sup_UNIV replace
  3924 former Inf_Univ and Sup_Univ.  Lemmas inf_top_right and sup_bot_right
  3925 subsume inf_top and sup_bot respectively.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3926 
  3927 * Reorganized theory Multiset: swapped notation of pointwise and
  3928 multiset order:
  3929 
  3930   - pointwise ordering is instance of class order with standard syntax
  3931     <= and <;
  3932   - multiset ordering has syntax <=# and <#; partial order properties
  3933     are provided by means of interpretation with prefix
  3934     multiset_order;
  3935   - less duplication, less historical organization of sections,
  3936     conversion from associations lists to multisets, rudimentary code
  3937     generation;
  3938   - use insert_DiffM2 [symmetric] instead of elem_imp_eq_diff_union,
  3939     if needed.
  3940 
  3941 Renamed:
  3942 
  3943   multiset_eq_conv_count_eq  ~>  multiset_ext_iff
  3944   multi_count_ext  ~>  multiset_ext
  3945   diff_union_inverse2  ~>  diff_union_cancelR
  3946 
  3947 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3948 
  3949 * Theory Permutation: replaced local "remove" by List.remove1.
  3950 
  3951 * Code generation: ML and OCaml code is decorated with signatures.
  3952 
  3953 * Theory List: added transpose.
  3954 
  3955 * Library/Nat_Bijection.thy is a collection of bijective functions
  3956 between nat and other types, which supersedes the older libraries
  3957 Library/Nat_Int_Bij.thy and HOLCF/NatIso.thy.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3958 
  3959   Constants:
  3960   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat         ~> prod_encode
  3961   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2         ~> prod_decode
  3962   Nat_Int_Bij.int_to_nat_bij      ~> int_encode
  3963   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_int_bij      ~> int_decode
  3964   Countable.pair_encode           ~> prod_encode
  3965   NatIso.prod2nat                 ~> prod_encode
  3966   NatIso.nat2prod                 ~> prod_decode
  3967   NatIso.sum2nat                  ~> sum_encode
  3968   NatIso.nat2sum                  ~> sum_decode
  3969   NatIso.list2nat                 ~> list_encode
  3970   NatIso.nat2list                 ~> list_decode
  3971   NatIso.set2nat                  ~> set_encode
  3972   NatIso.nat2set                  ~> set_decode
  3973 
  3974   Lemmas:
  3975   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_nat_to_int_bij  ~> bij_int_decode
  3976   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat_inj     ~> inj_prod_encode
  3977   Nat_Int_Bij.nat2_to_nat_surj    ~> surj_prod_encode
  3978   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2_inj     ~> inj_prod_decode
  3979   Nat_Int_Bij.nat_to_nat2_surj    ~> surj_prod_decode
  3980   Nat_Int_Bij.i2n_n2i_id          ~> int_encode_inverse
  3981   Nat_Int_Bij.n2i_i2n_id          ~> int_decode_inverse
  3982   Nat_Int_Bij.surj_nat_to_int_bij ~> surj_int_encode
  3983   Nat_Int_Bij.surj_int_to_nat_bij ~> surj_int_decode
  3984   Nat_Int_Bij.inj_nat_to_int_bij  ~> inj_int_encode
  3985   Nat_Int_Bij.inj_int_to_nat_bij  ~> inj_int_decode
  3986   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_nat_to_int_bij  ~> bij_int_encode
  3987   Nat_Int_Bij.bij_int_to_nat_bij  ~> bij_int_decode
  3988 
  3989 * Sledgehammer:
  3990   - Renamed ATP commands:
  3991     atp_info     ~> sledgehammer running_atps
  3992     atp_kill     ~> sledgehammer kill_atps
  3993     atp_messages ~> sledgehammer messages
  3994     atp_minimize ~> sledgehammer minimize
  3995     print_atps   ~> sledgehammer available_atps
  3996     INCOMPATIBILITY.
  3997   - Added user's manual ("isabelle doc sledgehammer").
  3998   - Added option syntax and "sledgehammer_params" to customize
  3999     Sledgehammer's behavior.  See the manual for details.
  4000   - Modified the Isar proof reconstruction code so that it produces
  4001     direct proofs rather than proofs by contradiction.  (This feature
  4002     is still experimental.)
  4003   - Made Isar proof reconstruction work for SPASS, remote ATPs, and in
  4004     full-typed mode.
  4005   - Added support for TPTP syntax for SPASS via the "spass_tptp" ATP.
  4006 
  4007 * Nitpick:
  4008   - Added and implemented "binary_ints" and "bits" options.
  4009   - Added "std" option and implemented support for nonstandard models.
  4010   - Added and implemented "finitize" option to improve the precision
  4011     of infinite datatypes based on a monotonicity analysis.
  4012   - Added support for quotient types.
  4013   - Added support for "specification" and "ax_specification"
  4014     constructs.
  4015   - Added support for local definitions (for "function" and
  4016     "termination" proofs).
  4017   - Added support for term postprocessors.
  4018   - Optimized "Multiset.multiset" and "FinFun.finfun".
  4019   - Improved efficiency of "destroy_constrs" optimization.
  4020   - Fixed soundness bugs related to "destroy_constrs" optimization and
  4021     record getters.
  4022   - Fixed soundness bug related to higher-order constructors.
  4023   - Fixed soundness bug when "full_descrs" is enabled.
  4024   - Improved precision of set constructs.
  4025   - Added "atoms" option.
  4026   - Added cache to speed up repeated Kodkod invocations on the same
  4027     problems.
  4028   - Renamed "MiniSatJNI", "zChaffJNI", "BerkMinAlloy", and
  4029     "SAT4JLight" to "MiniSat_JNI", "zChaff_JNI", "BerkMin_Alloy", and
  4030     "SAT4J_Light".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4031   - Removed "skolemize", "uncurry", "sym_break", "flatten_prop",
  4032     "sharing_depth", and "show_skolems" options.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4033   - Removed "nitpick_intro" attribute.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4034 
  4035 * Method "induct" now takes instantiations of the form t, where t is not
  4036   a variable, as a shorthand for "x == t", where x is a fresh variable.
  4037   If this is not intended, t has to be enclosed in parentheses.
  4038   By default, the equalities generated by definitional instantiations
  4039   are pre-simplified, which may cause parameters of inductive cases
  4040   to disappear, or may even delete some of the inductive cases.
  4041   Use "induct (no_simp)" instead of "induct" to restore the old
  4042   behaviour. The (no_simp) option is also understood by the "cases"
  4043   and "nominal_induct" methods, which now perform pre-simplification, too.
  4044   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4045 
  4046 
  4047 *** HOLCF ***
  4048 
  4049 * Variable names in lemmas generated by the domain package have
  4050 changed; the naming scheme is now consistent with the HOL datatype
  4051 package.  Some proof scripts may be affected, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4052 
  4053 * The domain package no longer defines the function "foo_copy" for
  4054 recursive domain "foo".  The reach lemma is now stated directly in
  4055 terms of "foo_take".  Lemmas and proofs that mention "foo_copy" must
  4056 be reformulated in terms of "foo_take", INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4057 
  4058 * Most definedness lemmas generated by the domain package (previously
  4059 of the form "x ~= UU ==> foo$x ~= UU") now have an if-and-only-if form
  4060 like "foo$x = UU <-> x = UU", which works better as a simp rule.
  4061 Proofs that used definedness lemmas as intro rules may break,
  4062 potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4063 
  4064 * Induction and casedist rules generated by the domain package now
  4065 declare proper case_names (one called "bottom", and one named for each
  4066 constructor).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4067 
  4068 * For mutually-recursive domains, separate "reach" and "take_lemma"
  4069 rules are generated for each domain, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4070 
  4071   foo_bar.reach       ~> foo.reach  bar.reach
  4072   foo_bar.take_lemmas ~> foo.take_lemma  bar.take_lemma
  4073 
  4074 * Some lemmas generated by the domain package have been renamed for
  4075 consistency with the datatype package, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4076 
  4077   foo.ind        ~> foo.induct
  4078   foo.finite_ind ~> foo.finite_induct
  4079   foo.coind      ~> foo.coinduct
  4080   foo.casedist   ~> foo.exhaust
  4081   foo.exhaust    ~> foo.nchotomy
  4082 
  4083 * For consistency with other definition packages, the fixrec package
  4084 now generates qualified theorem names, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4085 
  4086   foo_simps  ~> foo.simps
  4087   foo_unfold ~> foo.unfold
  4088   foo_induct ~> foo.induct
  4089 
  4090 * The "fixrec_simp" attribute has been removed.  The "fixrec_simp"
  4091 method and internal fixrec proofs now use the default simpset instead.
  4092 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4093 
  4094 * The "contlub" predicate has been removed.  Proof scripts should use
  4095 lemma contI2 in place of monocontlub2cont, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4096 
  4097 * The "admw" predicate has been removed, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4098 
  4099 * The constants cpair, cfst, and csnd have been removed in favor of
  4100 Pair, fst, and snd from Isabelle/HOL, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4101 
  4102 
  4103 *** ML ***
  4104 
  4105 * Antiquotations for basic formal entities:
  4106 
  4107     @{class NAME}         -- type class
  4108     @{class_syntax NAME}  -- syntax representation of the above
  4109 
  4110     @{type_name NAME}     -- logical type
  4111     @{type_abbrev NAME}   -- type abbreviation
  4112     @{nonterminal NAME}   -- type of concrete syntactic category
  4113     @{type_syntax NAME}   -- syntax representation of any of the above
  4114 
  4115     @{const_name NAME}    -- logical constant (INCOMPATIBILITY)
  4116     @{const_abbrev NAME}  -- abbreviated constant
  4117     @{const_syntax NAME}  -- syntax representation of any of the above
  4118 
  4119 * Antiquotation @{syntax_const NAME} ensures that NAME refers to a raw
  4120 syntax constant (cf. 'syntax' command).
  4121 
  4122 * Antiquotation @{make_string} inlines a function to print arbitrary
  4123 values similar to the ML toplevel.  The result is compiler dependent
  4124 and may fall back on "?" in certain situations.
  4125 
  4126 * Diagnostic commands 'ML_val' and 'ML_command' may refer to
  4127 antiquotations @{Isar.state} and @{Isar.goal}.  This replaces impure
  4128 Isar.state() and Isar.goal(), which belong to the old TTY loop and do
  4129 not work with the asynchronous Isar document model.
  4130 
  4131 * Configuration options now admit dynamic default values, depending on
  4132 the context or even global references.
  4133 
  4134 * SHA1.digest digests strings according to SHA-1 (see RFC 3174).  It
  4135 uses an efficient external library if available (for Poly/ML).
  4136 
  4137 * Renamed some important ML structures, while keeping the old names
  4138 for some time as aliases within the structure Legacy:
  4139 
  4140   OuterKeyword  ~>  Keyword
  4141   OuterLex      ~>  Token
  4142   OuterParse    ~>  Parse
  4143   OuterSyntax   ~>  Outer_Syntax
  4144   PrintMode     ~>  Print_Mode
  4145   SpecParse     ~>  Parse_Spec
  4146   ThyInfo       ~>  Thy_Info
  4147   ThyLoad       ~>  Thy_Load
  4148   ThyOutput     ~>  Thy_Output
  4149   TypeInfer     ~>  Type_Infer
  4150 
  4151 Note that "open Legacy" simplifies porting of sources, but forgetting
  4152 to remove it again will complicate porting again in the future.
  4153 
  4154 * Most operations that refer to a global context are named
  4155 accordingly, e.g. Simplifier.global_context or
  4156 ProofContext.init_global.  There are some situations where a global
  4157 context actually works, but under normal circumstances one needs to
  4158 pass the proper local context through the code!
  4159 
  4160 * Discontinued old TheoryDataFun with its copy/init operation -- data
  4161 needs to be pure.  Functor Theory_Data_PP retains the traditional
  4162 Pretty.pp argument to merge, which is absent in the standard
  4163 Theory_Data version.
  4164 
  4165 * Sorts.certify_sort and derived "cert" operations for types and terms
  4166 no longer minimize sorts.  Thus certification at the boundary of the
  4167 inference kernel becomes invariant under addition of class relations,
  4168 which is an important monotonicity principle.  Sorts are now minimized
  4169 in the syntax layer only, at the boundary between the end-user and the
  4170 system.  Subtle INCOMPATIBILITY, may have to use Sign.minimize_sort
  4171 explicitly in rare situations.
  4172 
  4173 * Renamed old-style Drule.standard to Drule.export_without_context, to
  4174 emphasize that this is in no way a standard operation.
  4175 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4176 
  4177 * Subgoal.FOCUS (and variants): resulting goal state is normalized as
  4178 usual for resolution.  Rare INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4179 
  4180 * Renamed varify/unvarify operations to varify_global/unvarify_global
  4181 to emphasize that these only work in a global situation (which is
  4182 quite rare).
  4183 
  4184 * Curried take and drop in library.ML; negative length is interpreted
  4185 as infinity (as in chop).  Subtle INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4186 
  4187 * Proof terms: type substitutions on proof constants now use canonical
  4188 order of type variables.  INCOMPATIBILITY for tools working with proof
  4189 terms.
  4190 
  4191 * Raw axioms/defs may no longer carry sort constraints, and raw defs
  4192 may no longer carry premises.  User-level specifications are
  4193 transformed accordingly by Thm.add_axiom/add_def.
  4194 
  4195 
  4196 *** System ***
  4197 
  4198 * Discontinued special HOL_USEDIR_OPTIONS for the main HOL image;
  4199 ISABELLE_USEDIR_OPTIONS applies uniformly to all sessions.  Note that
  4200 proof terms are enabled unconditionally in the new HOL-Proofs image.
  4201 
  4202 * Discontinued old ISABELLE and ISATOOL environment settings (legacy
  4203 feature since Isabelle2009).  Use ISABELLE_PROCESS and ISABELLE_TOOL,
  4204 respectively.
  4205 
  4206 * Old lib/scripts/polyml-platform is superseded by the
  4207 ISABELLE_PLATFORM setting variable, which defaults to the 32 bit
  4208 variant, even on a 64 bit machine.  The following example setting
  4209 prefers 64 bit if available:
  4210 
  4211   ML_PLATFORM="${ISABELLE_PLATFORM64:-$ISABELLE_PLATFORM}"
  4212 
  4213 * The preliminary Isabelle/jEdit application demonstrates the emerging
  4214 Isabelle/Scala layer for advanced prover interaction and integration.
  4215 See src/Tools/jEdit or "isabelle jedit" provided by the properly built
  4216 component.
  4217 
  4218 * "IsabelleText" is a Unicode font derived from Bitstream Vera Mono
  4219 and Bluesky TeX fonts.  It provides the usual Isabelle symbols,
  4220 similar to the default assignment of the document preparation system
  4221 (cf. isabellesym.sty).  The Isabelle/Scala class Isabelle_System
  4222 provides some operations for direct access to the font without asking
  4223 the user for manual installation.
  4224 
  4225 
  4226 
  4227 New in Isabelle2009-1 (December 2009)
  4228 -------------------------------------
  4229 
  4230 *** General ***
  4231 
  4232 * Discontinued old form of "escaped symbols" such as \\<forall>.  Only
  4233 one backslash should be used, even in ML sources.
  4234 
  4235 
  4236 *** Pure ***
  4237 
  4238 * Locale interpretation propagates mixins along the locale hierarchy.
  4239 The currently only available mixins are the equations used to map
  4240 local definitions to terms of the target domain of an interpretation.
  4241 
  4242 * Reactivated diagnostic command 'print_interps'.  Use "print_interps
  4243 loc" to print all interpretations of locale "loc" in the theory.
  4244 Interpretations in proofs are not shown.
  4245 
  4246 * Thoroughly revised locales tutorial.  New section on conditional
  4247 interpretation.
  4248 
  4249 * On instantiation of classes, remaining undefined class parameters
  4250 are formally declared.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4251 
  4252 
  4253 *** Document preparation ***
  4254 
  4255 * New generalized style concept for printing terms: @{foo (style) ...}
  4256 instead of @{foo_style style ...}  (old form is still retained for
  4257 backward compatibility).  Styles can be also applied for
  4258 antiquotations prop, term_type and typeof.
  4259 
  4260 
  4261 *** HOL ***
  4262 
  4263 * New proof method "smt" for a combination of first-order logic with
  4264 equality, linear and nonlinear (natural/integer/real) arithmetic, and
  4265 fixed-size bitvectors; there is also basic support for higher-order
  4266 features (esp. lambda abstractions).  It is an incomplete decision
  4267 procedure based on external SMT solvers using the oracle mechanism;
  4268 for the SMT solver Z3, this method is proof-producing.  Certificates
  4269 are provided to avoid calling the external solvers solely for
  4270 re-checking proofs.  Due to a remote SMT service there is no need for
  4271 installing SMT solvers locally.  See src/HOL/SMT.
  4272 
  4273 * New commands to load and prove verification conditions generated by
  4274 the Boogie program verifier or derived systems (e.g. the Verifying C
  4275 Compiler (VCC) or Spec#).  See src/HOL/Boogie.
  4276 
  4277 * New counterexample generator tool 'nitpick' based on the Kodkod
  4278 relational model finder.  See src/HOL/Tools/Nitpick and
  4279 src/HOL/Nitpick_Examples.
  4280 
  4281 * New commands 'code_pred' and 'values' to invoke the predicate
  4282 compiler and to enumerate values of inductive predicates.
  4283 
  4284 * A tabled implementation of the reflexive transitive closure.
  4285 
  4286 * New implementation of quickcheck uses generic code generator;
  4287 default generators are provided for all suitable HOL types, records
  4288 and datatypes.  Old quickcheck can be re-activated importing theory
  4289 Library/SML_Quickcheck.
  4290 
  4291 * New testing tool Mirabelle for automated proof tools.  Applies
  4292 several tools and tactics like sledgehammer, metis, or quickcheck, to
  4293 every proof step in a theory.  To be used in batch mode via the
  4294 "mirabelle" utility.
  4295 
  4296 * New proof method "sos" (sum of squares) for nonlinear real
  4297 arithmetic (originally due to John Harison). It requires theory
  4298 Library/Sum_Of_Squares.  It is not a complete decision procedure but
  4299 works well in practice on quantifier-free real arithmetic with +, -,
  4300 *, ^, =, <= and <, i.e. boolean combinations of equalities and
  4301 inequalities between polynomials.  It makes use of external
  4302 semidefinite programming solvers.  Method "sos" generates a
  4303 certificate that can be pasted into the proof thus avoiding the need
  4304 to call an external tool every time the proof is checked.  See
  4305 src/HOL/Library/Sum_Of_Squares.
  4306 
  4307 * New method "linarith" invokes existing linear arithmetic decision
  4308 procedure only.
  4309 
  4310 * New command 'atp_minimal' reduces result produced by Sledgehammer.
  4311 
  4312 * New Sledgehammer option "Full Types" in Proof General settings menu.
  4313 Causes full type information to be output to the ATPs.  This slows
  4314 ATPs down considerably but eliminates a source of unsound "proofs"
  4315 that fail later.
  4316 
  4317 * New method "metisFT": A version of metis that uses full type
  4318 information in order to avoid failures of proof reconstruction.
  4319 
  4320 * New evaluator "approximate" approximates an real valued term using
  4321 the same method as the approximation method.
  4322 
  4323 * Method "approximate" now supports arithmetic expressions as
  4324 boundaries of intervals and implements interval splitting and Taylor
  4325 series expansion.
  4326 
  4327 * ML antiquotation @{code_datatype} inserts definition of a datatype
  4328 generated by the code generator; e.g. see src/HOL/Predicate.thy.
  4329 
  4330 * New theory SupInf of the supremum and infimum operators for sets of
  4331 reals.
  4332 
  4333 * New theory Probability, which contains a development of measure
  4334 theory, eventually leading to Lebesgue integration and probability.
  4335 
  4336 * Extended Multivariate Analysis to include derivation and Brouwer's
  4337 fixpoint theorem.
  4338 
  4339 * Reorganization of number theory, INCOMPATIBILITY:
  4340   - new number theory development for nat and int, in theories Divides
  4341     and GCD as well as in new session Number_Theory
  4342   - some constants and facts now suffixed with _nat and _int
  4343     accordingly
  4344   - former session NumberTheory now named Old_Number_Theory, including
  4345     theories Legacy_GCD and Primes (prefer Number_Theory if possible)
  4346   - moved theory Pocklington from src/HOL/Library to
  4347     src/HOL/Old_Number_Theory
  4348 
  4349 * Theory GCD includes functions Gcd/GCD and Lcm/LCM for the gcd and
  4350 lcm of finite and infinite sets. It is shown that they form a complete
  4351 lattice.
  4352 
  4353 * Class semiring_div requires superclass no_zero_divisors and proof of
  4354 div_mult_mult1; theorems div_mult_mult1, div_mult_mult2,
  4355 div_mult_mult1_if, div_mult_mult1 and div_mult_mult2 have been
  4356 generalized to class semiring_div, subsuming former theorems
  4357 zdiv_zmult_zmult1, zdiv_zmult_zmult1_if, zdiv_zmult_zmult1 and
  4358 zdiv_zmult_zmult2.  div_mult_mult1 is now [simp] by default.
  4359 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4360 
  4361 * Refinements to lattice classes and sets:
  4362   - less default intro/elim rules in locale variant, more default
  4363     intro/elim rules in class variant: more uniformity
  4364   - lemma ge_sup_conv renamed to le_sup_iff, in accordance with
  4365     le_inf_iff
  4366   - dropped lemma alias inf_ACI for inf_aci (same for sup_ACI and
  4367     sup_aci)
  4368   - renamed ACI to inf_sup_aci
  4369   - new class "boolean_algebra"
  4370   - class "complete_lattice" moved to separate theory
  4371     "Complete_Lattice"; corresponding constants (and abbreviations)
  4372     renamed and with authentic syntax:
  4373     Set.Inf ~>    Complete_Lattice.Inf
  4374     Set.Sup ~>    Complete_Lattice.Sup
  4375     Set.INFI ~>   Complete_Lattice.INFI
  4376     Set.SUPR ~>   Complete_Lattice.SUPR
  4377     Set.Inter ~>  Complete_Lattice.Inter
  4378     Set.Union ~>  Complete_Lattice.Union
  4379     Set.INTER ~>  Complete_Lattice.INTER
  4380     Set.UNION ~>  Complete_Lattice.UNION
  4381   - authentic syntax for
  4382     Set.Pow
  4383     Set.image
  4384   - mere abbreviations:
  4385     Set.empty               (for bot)
  4386     Set.UNIV                (for top)
  4387     Set.inter               (for inf, formerly Set.Int)
  4388     Set.union               (for sup, formerly Set.Un)
  4389     Complete_Lattice.Inter  (for Inf)
  4390     Complete_Lattice.Union  (for Sup)
  4391     Complete_Lattice.INTER  (for INFI)
  4392     Complete_Lattice.UNION  (for SUPR)
  4393   - object-logic definitions as far as appropriate
  4394 
  4395 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Care is required when theorems Int_subset_iff or
  4396 Un_subset_iff are explicitly deleted as default simp rules; then also
  4397 their lattice counterparts le_inf_iff and le_sup_iff have to be
  4398 deleted to achieve the desired effect.
  4399 
  4400 * Rules inf_absorb1, inf_absorb2, sup_absorb1, sup_absorb2 are no simp
  4401 rules by default any longer; the same applies to min_max.inf_absorb1
  4402 etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4403 
  4404 * Rules sup_Int_eq and sup_Un_eq are no longer declared as
  4405 pred_set_conv by default.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4406 
  4407 * Power operations on relations and functions are now one dedicated
  4408 constant "compow" with infix syntax "^^".  Power operation on
  4409 multiplicative monoids retains syntax "^" and is now defined generic
  4410 in class power.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4411 
  4412 * Relation composition "R O S" now has a more standard argument order:
  4413 "R O S = {(x, z). EX y. (x, y) : R & (y, z) : S}".  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  4414 rewrite propositions with "S O R" --> "R O S". Proofs may occasionally
  4415 break, since the O_assoc rule was not rewritten like this.  Fix using
  4416 O_assoc[symmetric].  The same applies to the curried version "R OO S".
  4417 
  4418 * Function "Inv" is renamed to "inv_into" and function "inv" is now an
  4419 abbreviation for "inv_into UNIV".  Lemmas are renamed accordingly.
  4420 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4421 
  4422 * Most rules produced by inductive and datatype package have mandatory
  4423 prefixes.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4424 
  4425 * Changed "DERIV_intros" to a dynamic fact, which can be augmented by
  4426 the attribute of the same name.  Each of the theorems in the list
  4427 DERIV_intros assumes composition with an additional function and
  4428 matches a variable to the derivative, which has to be solved by the
  4429 Simplifier.  Hence (auto intro!: DERIV_intros) computes the derivative
  4430 of most elementary terms.  Former Maclauren.DERIV_tac and
  4431 Maclauren.deriv_tac should be replaced by (auto intro!: DERIV_intros).
  4432 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4433 
  4434 * Code generator attributes follow the usual underscore convention:
  4435     code_unfold     replaces    code unfold
  4436     code_post       replaces    code post
  4437     etc.
  4438   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4439 
  4440 * Renamed methods:
  4441     sizechange -> size_change
  4442     induct_scheme -> induction_schema
  4443   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4444 
  4445 * Discontinued abbreviation "arbitrary" of constant "undefined".
  4446 INCOMPATIBILITY, use "undefined" directly.
  4447 
  4448 * Renamed theorems:
  4449     Suc_eq_add_numeral_1 -> Suc_eq_plus1
  4450     Suc_eq_add_numeral_1_left -> Suc_eq_plus1_left
  4451     Suc_plus1 -> Suc_eq_plus1
  4452     *anti_sym -> *antisym*
  4453     vector_less_eq_def -> vector_le_def
  4454   INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4455 
  4456 * Added theorem List.map_map as [simp].  Removed List.map_compose.
  4457 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4458 
  4459 * Removed predicate "M hassize n" (<--> card M = n & finite M).
  4460 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4461 
  4462 
  4463 *** HOLCF ***
  4464 
  4465 * Theory Representable defines a class "rep" of domains that are
  4466 representable (via an ep-pair) in the universal domain type "udom".
  4467 Instances are provided for all type constructors defined in HOLCF.
  4468 
  4469 * The 'new_domain' command is a purely definitional version of the
  4470 domain package, for representable domains.  Syntax is identical to the
  4471 old domain package.  The 'new_domain' package also supports indirect
  4472 recursion using previously-defined type constructors.  See
  4473 src/HOLCF/ex/New_Domain.thy for examples.
  4474 
  4475 * Method "fixrec_simp" unfolds one step of a fixrec-defined constant
  4476 on the left-hand side of an equation, and then performs
  4477 simplification.  Rewriting is done using rules declared with the
  4478 "fixrec_simp" attribute.  The "fixrec_simp" method is intended as a
  4479 replacement for "fixpat"; see src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for examples.
  4480 
  4481 * The pattern-match compiler in 'fixrec' can now handle constructors
  4482 with HOL function types.  Pattern-match combinators for the Pair
  4483 constructor are pre-configured.
  4484 
  4485 * The 'fixrec' package now produces better fixed-point induction rules
  4486 for mutually-recursive definitions:  Induction rules have conclusions
  4487 of the form "P foo bar" instead of "P <foo, bar>".
  4488 
  4489 * The constant "sq_le" (with infix syntax "<<" or "\<sqsubseteq>") has
  4490 been renamed to "below".  The name "below" now replaces "less" in many
  4491 theorem names.  (Legacy theorem names using "less" are still supported
  4492 as well.)
  4493 
  4494 * The 'fixrec' package now supports "bottom patterns".  Bottom
  4495 patterns can be used to generate strictness rules, or to make
  4496 functions more strict (much like the bang-patterns supported by the
  4497 Glasgow Haskell Compiler).  See src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  4498 examples.
  4499 
  4500 
  4501 *** ML ***
  4502 
  4503 * Support for Poly/ML 5.3.0, with improved reporting of compiler
  4504 errors and run-time exceptions, including detailed source positions.
  4505 
  4506 * Structure Name_Space (formerly NameSpace) now manages uniquely
  4507 identified entries, with some additional information such as source
  4508 position, logical grouping etc.
  4509 
  4510 * Theory and context data is now introduced by the simplified and
  4511 modernized functors Theory_Data, Proof_Data, Generic_Data.  Data needs
  4512 to be pure, but the old TheoryDataFun for mutable data (with explicit
  4513 copy operation) is still available for some time.
  4514 
  4515 * Structure Synchronized (cf. src/Pure/Concurrent/synchronized.ML)
  4516 provides a high-level programming interface to synchronized state
  4517 variables with atomic update.  This works via pure function
  4518 application within a critical section -- its runtime should be as
  4519 short as possible; beware of deadlocks if critical code is nested,
  4520 either directly or indirectly via other synchronized variables!
  4521 
  4522 * Structure Unsynchronized (cf. src/Pure/ML-Systems/unsynchronized.ML)
  4523 wraps raw ML references, explicitly indicating their non-thread-safe
  4524 behaviour.  The Isar toplevel keeps this structure open, to
  4525 accommodate Proof General as well as quick and dirty interactive
  4526 experiments with references.
  4527 
  4528 * PARALLEL_CHOICE and PARALLEL_GOALS provide basic support for
  4529 parallel tactical reasoning.
  4530 
  4531 * Tacticals Subgoal.FOCUS, Subgoal.FOCUS_PREMS, Subgoal.FOCUS_PARAMS
  4532 are similar to SUBPROOF, but are slightly more flexible: only the
  4533 specified parts of the subgoal are imported into the context, and the
  4534 body tactic may introduce new subgoals and schematic variables.
  4535 
  4536 * Old tactical METAHYPS, which does not observe the proof context, has
  4537 been renamed to Old_Goals.METAHYPS and awaits deletion.  Use SUBPROOF
  4538 or Subgoal.FOCUS etc.
  4539 
  4540 * Renamed functor TableFun to Table, and GraphFun to Graph.  (Since
  4541 functors have their own ML name space there is no point to mark them
  4542 separately.)  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4543 
  4544 * Renamed NamedThmsFun to Named_Thms.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4545 
  4546 * Renamed several structures FooBar to Foo_Bar.  Occasional,
  4547 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4548 
  4549 * Operations of structure Skip_Proof no longer require quick_and_dirty
  4550 mode, which avoids critical setmp.
  4551 
  4552 * Eliminated old Attrib.add_attributes, Method.add_methods and related
  4553 combinators for "args".  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to use simplified
  4554 Attrib/Method.setup introduced in Isabelle2009.
  4555 
  4556 * Proper context for simpset_of, claset_of, clasimpset_of.  May fall
  4557 back on global_simpset_of, global_claset_of, global_clasimpset_of as
  4558 last resort.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4559 
  4560 * Display.pretty_thm now requires a proper context (cf. former
  4561 ProofContext.pretty_thm).  May fall back on Display.pretty_thm_global
  4562 or even Display.pretty_thm_without_context as last resort.
  4563 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4564 
  4565 * Discontinued Display.pretty_ctyp/cterm etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  4566 Syntax.pretty_typ/term directly, preferably with proper context
  4567 instead of global theory.
  4568 
  4569 
  4570 *** System ***
  4571 
  4572 * Further fine tuning of parallel proof checking, scales up to 8 cores
  4573 (max. speedup factor 5.0).  See also Goal.parallel_proofs in ML and
  4574 usedir option -q.
  4575 
  4576 * Support for additional "Isabelle components" via etc/components, see
  4577 also the system manual.
  4578 
  4579 * The isabelle makeall tool now operates on all components with
  4580 IsaMakefile, not just hardwired "logics".
  4581 
  4582 * Removed "compress" option from isabelle-process and isabelle usedir;
  4583 this is always enabled.
  4584 
  4585 * Discontinued support for Poly/ML 4.x versions.
  4586 
  4587 * Isabelle tool "wwwfind" provides web interface for 'find_theorems'
  4588 on a given logic image.  This requires the lighttpd webserver and is
  4589 currently supported on Linux only.
  4590 
  4591 
  4592 
  4593 New in Isabelle2009 (April 2009)
  4594 --------------------------------
  4595 
  4596 *** General ***
  4597 
  4598 * Simplified main Isabelle executables, with less surprises on
  4599 case-insensitive file-systems (such as Mac OS).
  4600 
  4601   - The main Isabelle tool wrapper is now called "isabelle" instead of
  4602     "isatool."
  4603 
  4604   - The former "isabelle" alias for "isabelle-process" has been
  4605     removed (should rarely occur to regular users).
  4606 
  4607   - The former "isabelle-interface" and its alias "Isabelle" have been
  4608     removed (interfaces are now regular Isabelle tools).
  4609 
  4610 Within scripts and make files, the Isabelle environment variables
  4611 ISABELLE_TOOL and ISABELLE_PROCESS replace old ISATOOL and ISABELLE,
  4612 respectively.  (The latter are still available as legacy feature.)
  4613 
  4614 The old isabelle-interface wrapper could react in confusing ways if
  4615 the interface was uninstalled or changed otherwise.  Individual
  4616 interface tool configuration is now more explicit, see also the
  4617 Isabelle system manual.  In particular, Proof General is now available
  4618 via "isabelle emacs".
  4619 
  4620 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt derivative scripts.  Users may need to
  4621 purge installed copies of Isabelle executables and re-run "isabelle
  4622 install -p ...", or use symlinks.
  4623 
  4624 * The default for ISABELLE_HOME_USER is now ~/.isabelle instead of the
  4625 old ~/isabelle, which was slightly non-standard and apt to cause
  4626 surprises on case-insensitive file-systems (such as Mac OS).
  4627 
  4628 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to move existing ~/isabelle/etc,
  4629 ~/isabelle/heaps, ~/isabelle/browser_info to the new place.  Special
  4630 care is required when using older releases of Isabelle.  Note that
  4631 ISABELLE_HOME_USER can be changed in Isabelle/etc/settings of any
  4632 Isabelle distribution, in order to use the new ~/.isabelle uniformly.
  4633 
  4634 * Proofs of fully specified statements are run in parallel on
  4635 multi-core systems.  A speedup factor of 2.5 to 3.2 can be expected on
  4636 a regular 4-core machine, if the initial heap space is made reasonably
  4637 large (cf. Poly/ML option -H).  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.)
  4638 
  4639 * The main reference manuals ("isar-ref", "implementation", and
  4640 "system") have been updated and extended.  Formally checked references
  4641 as hyperlinks are now available uniformly.
  4642 
  4643 
  4644 *** Pure ***
  4645 
  4646 * Complete re-implementation of locales.  INCOMPATIBILITY in several
  4647 respects.  The most important changes are listed below.  See the
  4648 Tutorial on Locales ("locales" manual) for details.
  4649 
  4650 - In locale expressions, instantiation replaces renaming.  Parameters
  4651 must be declared in a for clause.  To aid compatibility with previous
  4652 parameter inheritance, in locale declarations, parameters that are not
  4653 'touched' (instantiation position "_" or omitted) are implicitly added
  4654 with their syntax at the beginning of the for clause.
  4655 
  4656 - Syntax from abbreviations and definitions in locales is available in
  4657 locale expressions and context elements.  The latter is particularly
  4658 useful in locale declarations.
  4659 
  4660 - More flexible mechanisms to qualify names generated by locale
  4661 expressions.  Qualifiers (prefixes) may be specified in locale
  4662 expressions, and can be marked as mandatory (syntax: "name!:") or
  4663 optional (syntax "name?:").  The default depends for plain "name:"
  4664 depends on the situation where a locale expression is used: in
  4665 commands 'locale' and 'sublocale' prefixes are optional, in
  4666 'interpretation' and 'interpret' prefixes are mandatory.  The old
  4667 implicit qualifiers derived from the parameter names of a locale are
  4668 no longer generated.
  4669 
  4670 - Command "sublocale l < e" replaces "interpretation l < e".  The
  4671 instantiation clause in "interpretation" and "interpret" (square
  4672 brackets) is no longer available.  Use locale expressions.
  4673 
  4674 - When converting proof scripts, mandatory qualifiers in
  4675 'interpretation' and 'interpret' should be retained by default, even
  4676 if this is an INCOMPATIBILITY compared to former behavior.  In the
  4677 worst case, use the "name?:" form for non-mandatory ones.  Qualifiers
  4678 in locale expressions range over a single locale instance only.
  4679 
  4680 - Dropped locale element "includes".  This is a major INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4681 In existing theorem specifications replace the includes element by the
  4682 respective context elements of the included locale, omitting those
  4683 that are already present in the theorem specification.  Multiple
  4684 assume elements of a locale should be replaced by a single one
  4685 involving the locale predicate.  In the proof body, declarations (most
  4686 notably theorems) may be regained by interpreting the respective
  4687 locales in the proof context as required (command "interpret").
  4688 
  4689 If using "includes" in replacement of a target solely because the
  4690 parameter types in the theorem are not as general as in the target,
  4691 consider declaring a new locale with additional type constraints on
  4692 the parameters (context element "constrains").
  4693 
  4694 - Discontinued "locale (open)".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4695 
  4696 - Locale interpretation commands no longer attempt to simplify goal.
  4697 INCOMPATIBILITY: in rare situations the generated goal differs.  Use
  4698 methods intro_locales and unfold_locales to clarify.
  4699 
  4700 - Locale interpretation commands no longer accept interpretation
  4701 attributes.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4702 
  4703 * Class declaration: so-called "base sort" must not be given in import
  4704 list any longer, but is inferred from the specification.  Particularly
  4705 in HOL, write
  4706 
  4707     class foo = ...
  4708 
  4709 instead of
  4710 
  4711     class foo = type + ...
  4712 
  4713 * Class target: global versions of theorems stemming do not carry a
  4714 parameter prefix any longer.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4715 
  4716 * Class 'instance' command no longer accepts attached definitions.
  4717 INCOMPATIBILITY, use proper 'instantiation' target instead.
  4718 
  4719 * Recovered hiding of consts, which was accidentally broken in
  4720 Isabelle2007.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, ``hide const c'' really
  4721 makes c inaccessible; consider using ``hide (open) const c'' instead.
  4722 
  4723 * Slightly more coherent Pure syntax, with updated documentation in
  4724 isar-ref manual.  Removed locales meta_term_syntax and
  4725 meta_conjunction_syntax: TERM and &&& (formerly &&) are now permanent,
  4726 INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations.  Note that &&& should not be used
  4727 directly in regular applications.
  4728 
  4729 * There is a new syntactic category "float_const" for signed decimal
  4730 fractions (e.g. 123.45 or -123.45).
  4731 
  4732 * Removed exotic 'token_translation' command.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use ML
  4733 interface with 'setup' command instead.
  4734 
  4735 * Command 'local_setup' is similar to 'setup', but operates on a local
  4736 theory context.
  4737 
  4738 * The 'axiomatization' command now only works within a global theory
  4739 context.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4740 
  4741 * Goal-directed proof now enforces strict proof irrelevance wrt. sort
  4742 hypotheses.  Sorts required in the course of reasoning need to be
  4743 covered by the constraints in the initial statement, completed by the
  4744 type instance information of the background theory.  Non-trivial sort
  4745 hypotheses, which rarely occur in practice, may be specified via
  4746 vacuous propositions of the form SORT_CONSTRAINT('a::c).  For example:
  4747 
  4748   lemma assumes "SORT_CONSTRAINT('a::empty)" shows False ...
  4749 
  4750 The result contains an implicit sort hypotheses as before --
  4751 SORT_CONSTRAINT premises are eliminated as part of the canonical rule
  4752 normalization.
  4753 
  4754 * Generalized Isar history, with support for linear undo, direct state
  4755 addressing etc.
  4756 
  4757 * Changed defaults for unify configuration options:
  4758 
  4759   unify_trace_bound = 50 (formerly 25)
  4760   unify_search_bound = 60 (formerly 30)
  4761 
  4762 * Different bookkeeping for code equations (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  4763 
  4764   a) On theory merge, the last set of code equations for a particular
  4765      constant is taken (in accordance with the policy applied by other
  4766      parts of the code generator framework).
  4767 
  4768   b) Code equations stemming from explicit declarations (e.g. code
  4769      attribute) gain priority over default code equations stemming
  4770      from definition, primrec, fun etc.
  4771 
  4772 * Keyword 'code_exception' now named 'code_abort'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4773 
  4774 * Unified theorem tables for both code generators.  Thus [code
  4775 func] has disappeared and only [code] remains.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4776 
  4777 * Command 'find_consts' searches for constants based on type and name
  4778 patterns, e.g.
  4779 
  4780     find_consts "_ => bool"
  4781 
  4782 By default, matching is against subtypes, but it may be restricted to
  4783 the whole type.  Searching by name is possible.  Multiple queries are
  4784 conjunctive and queries may be negated by prefixing them with a
  4785 hyphen:
  4786 
  4787     find_consts strict: "_ => bool" name: "Int" -"int => int"
  4788 
  4789 * New 'find_theorems' criterion "solves" matches theorems that
  4790 directly solve the current goal (modulo higher-order unification).
  4791 
  4792 * Auto solve feature for main theorem statements: whenever a new goal
  4793 is stated, "find_theorems solves" is called; any theorems that could
  4794 solve the lemma directly are listed as part of the goal state.
  4795 Cf. associated options in Proof General Isabelle settings menu,
  4796 enabled by default, with reasonable timeout for pathological cases of
  4797 higher-order unification.
  4798 
  4799 
  4800 *** Document preparation ***
  4801 
  4802 * Antiquotation @{lemma} now imitates a regular terminal proof,
  4803 demanding keyword 'by' and supporting the full method expression
  4804 syntax just like the Isar command 'by'.
  4805 
  4806 
  4807 *** HOL ***
  4808 
  4809 * Integrated main parts of former image HOL-Complex with HOL.  Entry
  4810 points Main and Complex_Main remain as before.
  4811 
  4812 * Logic image HOL-Plain provides a minimal HOL with the most important
  4813 tools available (inductive, datatype, primrec, ...).  This facilitates
  4814 experimentation and tool development.  Note that user applications
  4815 (and library theories) should never refer to anything below theory
  4816 Main, as before.
  4817 
  4818 * Logic image HOL-Main stops at theory Main, and thus facilitates
  4819 experimentation due to shorter build times.
  4820 
  4821 * Logic image HOL-NSA contains theories of nonstandard analysis which
  4822 were previously part of former HOL-Complex.  Entry point Hyperreal
  4823 remains valid, but theories formerly using Complex_Main should now use
  4824 new entry point Hypercomplex.
  4825 
  4826 * Generic ATP manager for Sledgehammer, based on ML threads instead of
  4827 Posix processes.  Avoids potentially expensive forking of the ML
  4828 process.  New thread-based implementation also works on non-Unix
  4829 platforms (Cygwin).  Provers are no longer hardwired, but defined
  4830 within the theory via plain ML wrapper functions.  Basic Sledgehammer
  4831 commands are covered in the isar-ref manual.
  4832 
  4833 * Wrapper scripts for remote SystemOnTPTP service allows to use
  4834 sledgehammer without local ATP installation (Vampire etc.). Other
  4835 provers may be included via suitable ML wrappers, see also
  4836 src/HOL/ATP_Linkup.thy.
  4837 
  4838 * ATP selection (E/Vampire/Spass) is now via Proof General's settings
  4839 menu.
  4840 
  4841 * The metis method no longer fails because the theorem is too trivial
  4842 (contains the empty clause).
  4843 
  4844 * The metis method now fails in the usual manner, rather than raising
  4845 an exception, if it determines that it cannot prove the theorem.
  4846 
  4847 * Method "coherent" implements a prover for coherent logic (see also
  4848 src/Tools/coherent.ML).
  4849 
  4850 * Constants "undefined" and "default" replace "arbitrary".  Usually
  4851 "undefined" is the right choice to replace "arbitrary", though
  4852 logically there is no difference.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4853 
  4854 * Command "value" now integrates different evaluation mechanisms.  The
  4855 result of the first successful evaluation mechanism is printed.  In
  4856 square brackets a particular named evaluation mechanisms may be
  4857 specified (currently, [SML], [code] or [nbe]).  See further
  4858 src/HOL/ex/Eval_Examples.thy.
  4859 
  4860 * Normalization by evaluation now allows non-leftlinear equations.
  4861 Declare with attribute [code nbe].
  4862 
  4863 * Methods "case_tac" and "induct_tac" now refer to the very same rules
  4864 as the structured Isar versions "cases" and "induct", cf. the
  4865 corresponding "cases" and "induct" attributes.  Mutual induction rules
  4866 are now presented as a list of individual projections
  4867 (e.g. foo_bar.inducts for types foo and bar); the old format with
  4868 explicit HOL conjunction is no longer supported.  INCOMPATIBILITY, in
  4869 rare situations a different rule is selected --- notably nested tuple
  4870 elimination instead of former prod.exhaust: use explicit (case_tac t
  4871 rule: prod.exhaust) here.
  4872 
  4873 * Attributes "cases", "induct", "coinduct" support "del" option.
  4874 
  4875 * Removed fact "case_split_thm", which duplicates "case_split".
  4876 
  4877 * The option datatype has been moved to a new theory Option.  Renamed
  4878 option_map to Option.map, and o2s to Option.set, INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4879 
  4880 * New predicate "strict_mono" classifies strict functions on partial
  4881 orders.  With strict functions on linear orders, reasoning about
  4882 (in)equalities is facilitated by theorems "strict_mono_eq",
  4883 "strict_mono_less_eq" and "strict_mono_less".
  4884 
  4885 * Some set operations are now proper qualified constants with
  4886 authentic syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
  4887 
  4888     op Int ~>   Set.Int
  4889     op Un ~>    Set.Un
  4890     INTER ~>    Set.INTER
  4891     UNION ~>    Set.UNION
  4892     Inter ~>    Set.Inter
  4893     Union ~>    Set.Union
  4894     {} ~>       Set.empty
  4895     UNIV ~>     Set.UNIV
  4896 
  4897 * Class complete_lattice with operations Inf, Sup, INFI, SUPR now in
  4898 theory Set.
  4899 
  4900 * Auxiliary class "itself" has disappeared -- classes without any
  4901 parameter are treated as expected by the 'class' command.
  4902 
  4903 * Leibnitz's Series for Pi and the arcus tangens and logarithm series.
  4904 
  4905 * Common decision procedures (Cooper, MIR, Ferrack, Approximation,
  4906 Dense_Linear_Order) are now in directory HOL/Decision_Procs.
  4907 
  4908 * Theory src/HOL/Decision_Procs/Approximation provides the new proof
  4909 method "approximation".  It proves formulas on real values by using
  4910 interval arithmetic.  In the formulas are also the transcendental
  4911 functions sin, cos, tan, atan, ln, exp and the constant pi are
  4912 allowed. For examples see
  4913 src/HOL/Descision_Procs/ex/Approximation_Ex.thy.
  4914 
  4915 * Theory "Reflection" now resides in HOL/Library.
  4916 
  4917 * Entry point to Word library now simply named "Word".
  4918 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4919 
  4920 * Made source layout more coherent with logical distribution
  4921 structure:
  4922 
  4923     src/HOL/Library/RType.thy ~> src/HOL/Typerep.thy
  4924     src/HOL/Library/Code_Message.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4925     src/HOL/Library/GCD.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4926     src/HOL/Library/Order_Relation.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4927     src/HOL/Library/Parity.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4928     src/HOL/Library/Univ_Poly.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4929     src/HOL/Real/ContNotDenum.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4930     src/HOL/Real/Lubs.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4931     src/HOL/Real/PReal.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4932     src/HOL/Real/Rational.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4933     src/HOL/Real/RComplete.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4934     src/HOL/Real/RealDef.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4935     src/HOL/Real/RealPow.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4936     src/HOL/Real/Real.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4937     src/HOL/Complex/Complex_Main.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4938     src/HOL/Complex/Complex.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4939     src/HOL/Complex/FrechetDeriv.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4940     src/HOL/Complex/Fundamental_Theorem_Algebra.thy ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4941     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Deriv.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4942     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Fact.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4943     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Integration.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4944     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Lim.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4945     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Ln.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4946     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Log.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4947     src/HOL/Hyperreal/MacLaurin.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4948     src/HOL/Hyperreal/NthRoot.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4949     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Series.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4950     src/HOL/Hyperreal/SEQ.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4951     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Taylor.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4952     src/HOL/Hyperreal/Transcendental.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4953     src/HOL/Real/Float ~> src/HOL/Library/
  4954     src/HOL/Real/HahnBanach ~> src/HOL/HahnBanach
  4955     src/HOL/Real/RealVector.thy ~> src/HOL/
  4956 
  4957     src/HOL/arith_data.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4958     src/HOL/hologic.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4959     src/HOL/simpdata.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4960     src/HOL/int_arith1.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools/int_arith.ML
  4961     src/HOL/int_factor_simprocs.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4962     src/HOL/nat_simprocs.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4963     src/HOL/Real/float_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4964     src/HOL/Real/float_syntax.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4965     src/HOL/Real/rat_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4966     src/HOL/Real/real_arith.ML ~> src/HOL/Tools
  4967 
  4968     src/HOL/Library/Array.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4969     src/HOL/Library/Heap_Monad.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4970     src/HOL/Library/Heap.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4971     src/HOL/Library/Imperative_HOL.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4972     src/HOL/Library/Ref.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4973     src/HOL/Library/Relational.thy ~> src/HOL/Imperative_HOL
  4974 
  4975 * If methods "eval" and "evaluation" encounter a structured proof
  4976 state with !!/==>, only the conclusion is evaluated to True (if
  4977 possible), avoiding strange error messages.
  4978 
  4979 * Method "sizechange" automates termination proofs using (a
  4980 modification of) the size-change principle.  Requires SAT solver.  See
  4981 src/HOL/ex/Termination.thy for examples.
  4982 
  4983 * Simplifier: simproc for let expressions now unfolds if bound
  4984 variable occurs at most once in let expression body.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  4985 
  4986 * Method "arith": Linear arithmetic now ignores all inequalities when
  4987 fast_arith_neq_limit is exceeded, instead of giving up entirely.
  4988 
  4989 * New attribute "arith" for facts that should always be used
  4990 automatically by arithmetic. It is intended to be used locally in
  4991 proofs, e.g.
  4992 
  4993   assumes [arith]: "x > 0"
  4994 
  4995 Global usage is discouraged because of possible performance impact.
  4996 
  4997 * New classes "top" and "bot" with corresponding operations "top" and
  4998 "bot" in theory Orderings; instantiation of class "complete_lattice"
  4999 requires instantiation of classes "top" and "bot".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5000 
  5001 * Changed definition lemma "less_fun_def" in order to provide an
  5002 instance for preorders on functions; use lemma "less_le" instead.
  5003 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5004 
  5005 * Theory Orderings: class "wellorder" moved here, with explicit
  5006 induction rule "less_induct" as assumption.  For instantiation of
  5007 "wellorder" by means of predicate "wf", use rule wf_wellorderI.
  5008 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5009 
  5010 * Theory Orderings: added class "preorder" as superclass of "order".
  5011 INCOMPATIBILITY: Instantiation proofs for order, linorder
  5012 etc. slightly changed.  Some theorems named order_class.* now named
  5013 preorder_class.*.
  5014 
  5015 * Theory Relation: renamed "refl" to "refl_on", "reflexive" to "refl,
  5016 "diag" to "Id_on".
  5017 
  5018 * Theory Finite_Set: added a new fold combinator of type
  5019 
  5020   ('a => 'b => 'b) => 'b => 'a set => 'b
  5021 
  5022 Occasionally this is more convenient than the old fold combinator
  5023 which is now defined in terms of the new one and renamed to
  5024 fold_image.
  5025 
  5026 * Theories Ring_and_Field and OrderedGroup: The lemmas "group_simps"
  5027 and "ring_simps" have been replaced by "algebra_simps" (which can be
  5028 extended with further lemmas!).  At the moment both still exist but
  5029 the former will disappear at some point.
  5030 
  5031 * Theory Power: Lemma power_Suc is now declared as a simp rule in
  5032 class recpower.  Type-specific simp rules for various recpower types
  5033 have been removed.  INCOMPATIBILITY, rename old lemmas as follows:
  5034 
  5035 rat_power_0    -> power_0
  5036 rat_power_Suc  -> power_Suc
  5037 realpow_0      -> power_0
  5038 realpow_Suc    -> power_Suc
  5039 complexpow_0   -> power_0
  5040 complexpow_Suc -> power_Suc
  5041 power_poly_0   -> power_0
  5042 power_poly_Suc -> power_Suc
  5043 
  5044 * Theories Ring_and_Field and Divides: Definition of "op dvd" has been
  5045 moved to separate class dvd in Ring_and_Field; a couple of lemmas on
  5046 dvd has been generalized to class comm_semiring_1.  Likewise a bunch
  5047 of lemmas from Divides has been generalized from nat to class
  5048 semiring_div.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  This involves the following theorem
  5049 renames resulting from duplicate elimination:
  5050 
  5051     dvd_def_mod ~>          dvd_eq_mod_eq_0
  5052     zero_dvd_iff ~>         dvd_0_left_iff
  5053     dvd_0 ~>                dvd_0_right
  5054     DIVISION_BY_ZERO_DIV ~> div_by_0
  5055     DIVISION_BY_ZERO_MOD ~> mod_by_0
  5056     mult_div ~>             div_mult_self2_is_id
  5057     mult_mod ~>             mod_mult_self2_is_0
  5058 
  5059 * Theory IntDiv: removed many lemmas that are instances of class-based
  5060 generalizations (from Divides and Ring_and_Field).  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  5061 rename old lemmas as follows:
  5062 
  5063 dvd_diff               -> nat_dvd_diff
  5064 dvd_zminus_iff         -> dvd_minus_iff
  5065 mod_add1_eq            -> mod_add_eq
  5066 mod_mult1_eq           -> mod_mult_right_eq
  5067 mod_mult1_eq'          -> mod_mult_left_eq
  5068 mod_mult_distrib_mod   -> mod_mult_eq
  5069 nat_mod_add_left_eq    -> mod_add_left_eq
  5070 nat_mod_add_right_eq   -> mod_add_right_eq
  5071 nat_mod_div_trivial    -> mod_div_trivial
  5072 nat_mod_mod_trivial    -> mod_mod_trivial
  5073 zdiv_zadd_self1        -> div_add_self1
  5074 zdiv_zadd_self2        -> div_add_self2
  5075 zdiv_zmult_self1       -> div_mult_self2_is_id
  5076 zdiv_zmult_self2       -> div_mult_self1_is_id
  5077 zdvd_triv_left         -> dvd_triv_left
  5078 zdvd_triv_right        -> dvd_triv_right
  5079 zdvd_zmult_cancel_disj -> dvd_mult_cancel_left
  5080 zmod_eq0_zdvd_iff      -> dvd_eq_mod_eq_0[symmetric]
  5081 zmod_zadd_left_eq      -> mod_add_left_eq
  5082 zmod_zadd_right_eq     -> mod_add_right_eq
  5083 zmod_zadd_self1        -> mod_add_self1
  5084 zmod_zadd_self2        -> mod_add_self2
  5085 zmod_zadd1_eq          -> mod_add_eq
  5086 zmod_zdiff1_eq         -> mod_diff_eq
  5087 zmod_zdvd_zmod         -> mod_mod_cancel
  5088 zmod_zmod_cancel       -> mod_mod_cancel
  5089 zmod_zmult_self1       -> mod_mult_self2_is_0
  5090 zmod_zmult_self2       -> mod_mult_self1_is_0
  5091 zmod_1                 -> mod_by_1
  5092 zdiv_1                 -> div_by_1
  5093 zdvd_abs1              -> abs_dvd_iff
  5094 zdvd_abs2              -> dvd_abs_iff
  5095 zdvd_refl              -> dvd_refl
  5096 zdvd_trans             -> dvd_trans
  5097 zdvd_zadd              -> dvd_add
  5098 zdvd_zdiff             -> dvd_diff
  5099 zdvd_zminus_iff        -> dvd_minus_iff
  5100 zdvd_zminus2_iff       -> minus_dvd_iff
  5101 zdvd_zmultD            -> dvd_mult_right
  5102 zdvd_zmultD2           -> dvd_mult_left
  5103 zdvd_zmult_mono        -> mult_dvd_mono
  5104 zdvd_0_right           -> dvd_0_right
  5105 zdvd_0_left            -> dvd_0_left_iff
  5106 zdvd_1_left            -> one_dvd
  5107 zminus_dvd_iff         -> minus_dvd_iff
  5108 
  5109 * Theory Rational: 'Fract k 0' now equals '0'.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5110 
  5111 * The real numbers offer decimal input syntax: 12.34 is translated
  5112 into 1234/10^2. This translation is not reversed upon output.
  5113 
  5114 * Theory Library/Polynomial defines an abstract type 'a poly of
  5115 univariate polynomials with coefficients of type 'a.  In addition to
  5116 the standard ring operations, it also supports div and mod.  Code
  5117 generation is also supported, using list-style constructors.
  5118 
  5119 * Theory Library/Inner_Product defines a class of real_inner for real
  5120 inner product spaces, with an overloaded operation inner :: 'a => 'a
  5121 => real.  Class real_inner is a subclass of real_normed_vector from
  5122 theory RealVector.
  5123 
  5124 * Theory Library/Product_Vector provides instances for the product
  5125 type 'a * 'b of several classes from RealVector and Inner_Product.
  5126 Definitions of addition, subtraction, scalar multiplication, norms,
  5127 and inner products are included.
  5128 
  5129 * Theory Library/Bit defines the field "bit" of integers modulo 2.  In
  5130 addition to the field operations, numerals and case syntax are also
  5131 supported.
  5132 
  5133 * Theory Library/Diagonalize provides constructive version of Cantor's
  5134 first diagonalization argument.
  5135 
  5136 * Theory Library/GCD: Curried operations gcd, lcm (for nat) and zgcd,
  5137 zlcm (for int); carried together from various gcd/lcm developements in
  5138 the HOL Distribution.  Constants zgcd and zlcm replace former igcd and
  5139 ilcm; corresponding theorems renamed accordingly.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  5140 may recover tupled syntax as follows:
  5141 
  5142     hide (open) const gcd
  5143     abbreviation gcd where
  5144       "gcd == (%(a, b). GCD.gcd a b)"
  5145     notation (output)
  5146       GCD.gcd ("gcd '(_, _')")
  5147 
  5148 The same works for lcm, zgcd, zlcm.
  5149 
  5150 * Theory Library/Nat_Infinity: added addition, numeral syntax and more
  5151 instantiations for algebraic structures.  Removed some duplicate
  5152 theorems.  Changes in simp rules.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5153 
  5154 * ML antiquotation @{code} takes a constant as argument and generates
  5155 corresponding code in background and inserts name of the corresponding
  5156 resulting ML value/function/datatype constructor binding in place.
  5157 All occurrences of @{code} with a single ML block are generated
  5158 simultaneously.  Provides a generic and safe interface for
  5159 instrumentalizing code generation.  See
  5160 src/HOL/Decision_Procs/Ferrack.thy for a more ambitious application.
  5161 In future you ought to refrain from ad-hoc compiling generated SML
  5162 code on the ML toplevel.  Note that (for technical reasons) @{code}
  5163 cannot refer to constants for which user-defined serializations are
  5164 set.  Refer to the corresponding ML counterpart directly in that
  5165 cases.
  5166 
  5167 * Command 'rep_datatype': instead of theorem names the command now
  5168 takes a list of terms denoting the constructors of the type to be
  5169 represented as datatype.  The characteristic theorems have to be
  5170 proven.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Also observe that the following theorems
  5171 have disappeared in favour of existing ones:
  5172 
  5173     unit_induct                 ~> unit.induct
  5174     prod_induct                 ~> prod.induct
  5175     sum_induct                  ~> sum.induct
  5176     Suc_Suc_eq                  ~> nat.inject
  5177     Suc_not_Zero Zero_not_Suc   ~> nat.distinct
  5178 
  5179 
  5180 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  5181 
  5182 * New locales for orders and lattices where the equivalence relation
  5183 is not restricted to equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY: all order and lattice
  5184 locales use a record structure with field eq for the equivalence.
  5185 
  5186 * New theory of factorial domains.
  5187 
  5188 * Units_l_inv and Units_r_inv are now simp rules by default.
  5189 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Simplifier proof that require deletion of l_inv
  5190 and/or r_inv will now also require deletion of these lemmas.
  5191 
  5192 * Renamed the following theorems, INCOMPATIBILITY:
  5193 
  5194 UpperD ~> Upper_memD
  5195 LowerD ~> Lower_memD
  5196 least_carrier ~> least_closed
  5197 greatest_carrier ~> greatest_closed
  5198 greatest_Lower_above ~> greatest_Lower_below
  5199 one_zero ~> carrier_one_zero
  5200 one_not_zero ~> carrier_one_not_zero  (collision with assumption)
  5201 
  5202 
  5203 *** HOL-Nominal ***
  5204 
  5205 * Nominal datatypes can now contain type-variables.
  5206 
  5207 * Commands 'nominal_inductive' and 'equivariance' work with local
  5208 theory targets.
  5209 
  5210 * Nominal primrec can now works with local theory targets and its
  5211 specification syntax now conforms to the general format as seen in
  5212 'inductive' etc.
  5213 
  5214 * Method "perm_simp" honours the standard simplifier attributes
  5215 (no_asm), (no_asm_use) etc.
  5216 
  5217 * The new predicate #* is defined like freshness, except that on the
  5218 left hand side can be a set or list of atoms.
  5219 
  5220 * Experimental command 'nominal_inductive2' derives strong induction
  5221 principles for inductive definitions.  In contrast to
  5222 'nominal_inductive', which can only deal with a fixed number of
  5223 binders, it can deal with arbitrary expressions standing for sets of
  5224 atoms to be avoided.  The only inductive definition we have at the
  5225 moment that needs this generalisation is the typing rule for Lets in
  5226 the algorithm W:
  5227 
  5228  Gamma |- t1 : T1   (x,close Gamma T1)::Gamma |- t2 : T2   x#Gamma
  5229  -----------------------------------------------------------------
  5230          Gamma |- Let x be t1 in t2 : T2
  5231 
  5232 In this rule one wants to avoid all the binders that are introduced by
  5233 "close Gamma T1".  We are looking for other examples where this
  5234 feature might be useful.  Please let us know.
  5235 
  5236 
  5237 *** HOLCF ***
  5238 
  5239 * Reimplemented the simplification procedure for proving continuity
  5240 subgoals.  The new simproc is extensible; users can declare additional
  5241 continuity introduction rules with the attribute [cont2cont].
  5242 
  5243 * The continuity simproc now uses a different introduction rule for
  5244 solving continuity subgoals on terms with lambda abstractions.  In
  5245 some rare cases the new simproc may fail to solve subgoals that the
  5246 old one could solve, and "simp add: cont2cont_LAM" may be necessary.
  5247 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5248 
  5249 * Command 'fixrec': specification syntax now conforms to the general
  5250 format as seen in 'inductive' etc.  See src/HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  5251 examples.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5252 
  5253 
  5254 *** ZF ***
  5255 
  5256 * Proof of Zorn's Lemma for partial orders.
  5257 
  5258 
  5259 *** ML ***
  5260 
  5261 * Multithreading for Poly/ML 5.1/5.2 is no longer supported, only for
  5262 Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.  Important note: the TimeLimit facility
  5263 depends on multithreading, so timouts will not work before Poly/ML
  5264 5.2.1!
  5265 
  5266 * High-level support for concurrent ML programming, see
  5267 src/Pure/Cuncurrent.  The data-oriented model of "future values" is
  5268 particularly convenient to organize independent functional
  5269 computations.  The concept of "synchronized variables" provides a
  5270 higher-order interface for components with shared state, avoiding the
  5271 delicate details of mutexes and condition variables.  (Requires
  5272 Poly/ML 5.2.1 or later.)
  5273 
  5274 * ML bindings produced via Isar commands are stored within the Isar
  5275 context (theory or proof).  Consequently, commands like 'use' and 'ML'
  5276 become thread-safe and work with undo as expected (concerning
  5277 top-level bindings, not side-effects on global references).
  5278 INCOMPATIBILITY, need to provide proper Isar context when invoking the
  5279 compiler at runtime; really global bindings need to be given outside a
  5280 theory.  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2 or later.)
  5281 
  5282 * Command 'ML_prf' is analogous to 'ML' but works within a proof
  5283 context.  Top-level ML bindings are stored within the proof context in
  5284 a purely sequential fashion, disregarding the nested proof structure.
  5285 ML bindings introduced by 'ML_prf' are discarded at the end of the
  5286 proof.  (Requires Poly/ML 5.2 or later.)
  5287 
  5288 * Simplified ML attribute and method setup, cf. functions Attrib.setup
  5289 and Method.setup, as well as Isar commands 'attribute_setup' and
  5290 'method_setup'.  INCOMPATIBILITY for 'method_setup', need to simplify
  5291 existing code accordingly, or use plain 'setup' together with old
  5292 Method.add_method.
  5293 
  5294 * Simplified ML oracle interface Thm.add_oracle promotes 'a -> cterm
  5295 to 'a -> thm, while results are always tagged with an authentic oracle
  5296 name.  The Isar command 'oracle' is now polymorphic, no argument type
  5297 is specified.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to simplify existing oracle code
  5298 accordingly.  Note that extra performance may be gained by producing
  5299 the cterm carefully, avoiding slow Thm.cterm_of.
  5300 
  5301 * Simplified interface for defining document antiquotations via
  5302 ThyOutput.antiquotation, ThyOutput.output, and optionally
  5303 ThyOutput.maybe_pretty_source.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to simplify user
  5304 antiquotations accordingly, see src/Pure/Thy/thy_output.ML for common
  5305 examples.
  5306 
  5307 * More systematic treatment of long names, abstract name bindings, and
  5308 name space operations.  Basic operations on qualified names have been
  5309 move from structure NameSpace to Long_Name, e.g. Long_Name.base_name,
  5310 Long_Name.append.  Old type bstring has been mostly replaced by
  5311 abstract type binding (see structure Binding), which supports precise
  5312 qualification by packages and local theory targets, as well as proper
  5313 tracking of source positions.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to wrap old
  5314 bstring values into Binding.name, or better pass through abstract
  5315 bindings everywhere.  See further src/Pure/General/long_name.ML,
  5316 src/Pure/General/binding.ML and src/Pure/General/name_space.ML
  5317 
  5318 * Result facts (from PureThy.note_thms, ProofContext.note_thms,
  5319 LocalTheory.note etc.) now refer to the *full* internal name, not the
  5320 bstring as before.  INCOMPATIBILITY, not detected by ML type-checking!
  5321 
  5322 * Disposed old type and term read functions (Sign.read_def_typ,
  5323 Sign.read_typ, Sign.read_def_terms, Sign.read_term,
  5324 Thm.read_def_cterms, Thm.read_cterm etc.).  INCOMPATIBILITY, should
  5325 use regular Syntax.read_typ, Syntax.read_term, Syntax.read_typ_global,
  5326 Syntax.read_term_global etc.; see also OldGoals.read_term as last
  5327 resort for legacy applications.
  5328 
  5329 * Disposed old declarations, tactics, tactic combinators that refer to
  5330 the simpset or claset of an implicit theory (such as Addsimps,
  5331 Simp_tac, SIMPSET).  INCOMPATIBILITY, should use @{simpset} etc. in
  5332 embedded ML text, or local_simpset_of with a proper context passed as
  5333 explicit runtime argument.
  5334 
  5335 * Rules and tactics that read instantiations (read_instantiate,
  5336 res_inst_tac, thin_tac, subgoal_tac etc.) now demand a proper proof
  5337 context, which is required for parsing and type-checking.  Moreover,
  5338 the variables are specified as plain indexnames, not string encodings
  5339 thereof.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5340 
  5341 * Generic Toplevel.add_hook interface allows to analyze the result of
  5342 transactions.  E.g. see src/Pure/ProofGeneral/proof_general_pgip.ML
  5343 for theorem dependency output of transactions resulting in a new
  5344 theory state.
  5345 
  5346 * ML antiquotations: block-structured compilation context indicated by
  5347 \<lbrace> ... \<rbrace>; additional antiquotation forms:
  5348 
  5349   @{binding name}                         - basic name binding
  5350   @{let ?pat = term}                      - term abbreviation (HO matching)
  5351   @{note name = fact}                     - fact abbreviation
  5352   @{thm fact}                             - singleton fact (with attributes)
  5353   @{thms fact}                            - general fact (with attributes)
  5354   @{lemma prop by method}                 - singleton goal
  5355   @{lemma prop by meth1 meth2}            - singleton goal
  5356   @{lemma prop1 ... propN by method}      - general goal
  5357   @{lemma prop1 ... propN by meth1 meth2} - general goal
  5358   @{lemma (open) ...}                     - open derivation
  5359 
  5360 
  5361 *** System ***
  5362 
  5363 * The Isabelle "emacs" tool provides a specific interface to invoke
  5364 Proof General / Emacs, with more explicit failure if that is not
  5365 installed (the old isabelle-interface script silently falls back on
  5366 isabelle-process).  The PROOFGENERAL_HOME setting determines the
  5367 installation location of the Proof General distribution.
  5368 
  5369 * Isabelle/lib/classes/Pure.jar provides basic support to integrate
  5370 the Isabelle process into a JVM/Scala application.  See
  5371 Isabelle/lib/jedit/plugin for a minimal example.  (The obsolete Java
  5372 process wrapper has been discontinued.)
  5373 
  5374 * Added homegrown Isabelle font with unicode layout, see lib/fonts.
  5375 
  5376 * Various status messages (with exact source position information) are
  5377 emitted, if proper markup print mode is enabled.  This allows
  5378 user-interface components to provide detailed feedback on internal
  5379 prover operations.
  5380 
  5381 
  5382 
  5383 New in Isabelle2008 (June 2008)
  5384 -------------------------------
  5385 
  5386 *** General ***
  5387 
  5388 * The Isabelle/Isar Reference Manual (isar-ref) has been reorganized
  5389 and updated, with formally checked references as hyperlinks.
  5390 
  5391 * Theory loader: use_thy (and similar operations) no longer set the
  5392 implicit ML context, which was occasionally hard to predict and in
  5393 conflict with concurrency.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use ML within Isar which
  5394 provides a proper context already.
  5395 
  5396 * Theory loader: old-style ML proof scripts being *attached* to a thy
  5397 file are no longer supported.  INCOMPATIBILITY, regular 'uses' and
  5398 'use' within a theory file will do the job.
  5399 
  5400 * Name space merge now observes canonical order, i.e. the second space
  5401 is inserted into the first one, while existing entries in the first
  5402 space take precedence.  INCOMPATIBILITY in rare situations, may try to
  5403 swap theory imports.
  5404 
  5405 * Syntax: symbol \<chi> is now considered a letter.  Potential
  5406 INCOMPATIBILITY in identifier syntax etc.
  5407 
  5408 * Outer syntax: string tokens no longer admit escaped white space,
  5409 which was an accidental (undocumented) feature.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  5410 white space without escapes.
  5411 
  5412 * Outer syntax: string tokens may contain arbitrary character codes
  5413 specified via 3 decimal digits (as in SML).  E.g. "foo\095bar" for
  5414 "foo_bar".
  5415 
  5416 
  5417 *** Pure ***
  5418 
  5419 * Context-dependent token translations.  Default setup reverts locally
  5420 fixed variables, and adds hilite markup for undeclared frees.
  5421 
  5422 * Unused theorems can be found using the new command 'unused_thms'.
  5423 There are three ways of invoking it:
  5424 
  5425 (1) unused_thms
  5426      Only finds unused theorems in the current theory.
  5427 
  5428 (2) unused_thms thy_1 ... thy_n -
  5429      Finds unused theorems in the current theory and all of its ancestors,
  5430      excluding the theories thy_1 ... thy_n and all of their ancestors.
  5431 
  5432 (3) unused_thms thy_1 ... thy_n - thy'_1 ... thy'_m
  5433      Finds unused theorems in the theories thy'_1 ... thy'_m and all of
  5434      their ancestors, excluding the theories thy_1 ... thy_n and all of
  5435      their ancestors.
  5436 
  5437 In order to increase the readability of the list produced by
  5438 unused_thms, theorems that have been created by a particular instance
  5439 of a theory command such as 'inductive' or 'function' are considered
  5440 to belong to the same "group", meaning that if at least one theorem in
  5441 this group is used, the other theorems in the same group are no longer
  5442 reported as unused.  Moreover, if all theorems in the group are
  5443 unused, only one theorem in the group is displayed.
  5444 
  5445 Note that proof objects have to be switched on in order for
  5446 unused_thms to work properly (i.e. !proofs must be >= 1, which is
  5447 usually the case when using Proof General with the default settings).
  5448 
  5449 * Authentic naming of facts disallows ad-hoc overwriting of previous
  5450 theorems within the same name space.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to remove
  5451 duplicate fact bindings, or even accidental fact duplications.  Note
  5452 that tools may maintain dynamically scoped facts systematically, using
  5453 PureThy.add_thms_dynamic.
  5454 
  5455 * Command 'hide' now allows to hide from "fact" name space as well.
  5456 
  5457 * Eliminated destructive theorem database, simpset, claset, and
  5458 clasimpset.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY, really need to observe linear
  5459 update of theories within ML code.
  5460 
  5461 * Eliminated theory ProtoPure and CPure, leaving just one Pure theory.
  5462 INCOMPATIBILITY, object-logics depending on former Pure require
  5463 additional setup PureThy.old_appl_syntax_setup; object-logics
  5464 depending on former CPure need to refer to Pure.
  5465 
  5466 * Commands 'use' and 'ML' are now purely functional, operating on
  5467 theory/local_theory.  Removed former 'ML_setup' (on theory), use 'ML'
  5468 instead.  Added 'ML_val' as mere diagnostic replacement for 'ML'.
  5469 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5470 
  5471 * Command 'setup': discontinued implicit version with ML reference.
  5472 
  5473 * Instantiation target allows for simultaneous specification of class
  5474 instance operations together with an instantiation proof.
  5475 Type-checking phase allows to refer to class operations uniformly.
  5476 See src/HOL/Complex/Complex.thy for an Isar example and
  5477 src/HOL/Library/Eval.thy for an ML example.
  5478 
  5479 * Indexing of literal facts: be more serious about including only
  5480 facts from the visible specification/proof context, but not the
  5481 background context (locale etc.).  Affects `prop` notation and method
  5482 "fact".  INCOMPATIBILITY: need to name facts explicitly in rare
  5483 situations.
  5484 
  5485 * Method "cases", "induct", "coinduct": removed obsolete/undocumented
  5486 "(open)" option, which used to expose internal bound variables to the
  5487 proof text.
  5488 
  5489 * Isar statements: removed obsolete case "rule_context".
  5490 INCOMPATIBILITY, better use explicit fixes/assumes.
  5491 
  5492 * Locale proofs: default proof step now includes 'unfold_locales';
  5493 hence 'proof' without argument may be used to unfold locale
  5494 predicates.
  5495 
  5496 
  5497 *** Document preparation ***
  5498 
  5499 * Simplified pdfsetup.sty: color/hyperref is used unconditionally for
  5500 both pdf and dvi (hyperlinks usually work in xdvi as well); removed
  5501 obsolete thumbpdf setup (contemporary PDF viewers do this on the
  5502 spot); renamed link color from "darkblue" to "linkcolor" (default
  5503 value unchanged, can be redefined via \definecolor); no longer sets
  5504 "a4paper" option (unnecessary or even intrusive).
  5505 
  5506 * Antiquotation @{lemma A method} proves proposition A by the given
  5507 method (either a method name or a method name plus (optional) method
  5508 arguments in parentheses) and prints A just like @{prop A}.
  5509 
  5510 
  5511 *** HOL ***
  5512 
  5513 * New primrec package.  Specification syntax conforms in style to
  5514 definition/function/....  No separate induction rule is provided.  The
  5515 "primrec" command distinguishes old-style and new-style specifications
  5516 by syntax.  The former primrec package is now named OldPrimrecPackage.
  5517 When adjusting theories, beware: constants stemming from new-style
  5518 primrec specifications have authentic syntax.
  5519 
  5520 * Metis prover is now an order of magnitude faster, and also works
  5521 with multithreading.
  5522 
  5523 * Metis: the maximum number of clauses that can be produced from a
  5524 theorem is now given by the attribute max_clauses.  Theorems that
  5525 exceed this number are ignored, with a warning printed.
  5526 
  5527 * Sledgehammer no longer produces structured proofs by default. To
  5528 enable, declare [[sledgehammer_full = true]].  Attributes
  5529 reconstruction_modulus, reconstruction_sorts renamed
  5530 sledgehammer_modulus, sledgehammer_sorts.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5531 
  5532 * Method "induct_scheme" derives user-specified induction rules
  5533 from well-founded induction and completeness of patterns. This factors
  5534 out some operations that are done internally by the function package
  5535 and makes them available separately.  See
  5536 src/HOL/ex/Induction_Scheme.thy for examples.
  5537 
  5538 * More flexible generation of measure functions for termination
  5539 proofs: Measure functions can be declared by proving a rule of the
  5540 form "is_measure f" and giving it the [measure_function] attribute.
  5541 The "is_measure" predicate is logically meaningless (always true), and
  5542 just guides the heuristic.  To find suitable measure functions, the
  5543 termination prover sets up the goal "is_measure ?f" of the appropriate
  5544 type and generates all solutions by prolog-style backwards proof using
  5545 the declared rules.
  5546 
  5547 This setup also deals with rules like 
  5548 
  5549   "is_measure f ==> is_measure (list_size f)"
  5550 
  5551 which accommodates nested datatypes that recurse through lists.
  5552 Similar rules are predeclared for products and option types.
  5553 
  5554 * Turned the type of sets "'a set" into an abbreviation for "'a => bool"
  5555 
  5556   INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  5557 
  5558   - Definitions of overloaded constants on sets have to be replaced by
  5559     definitions on => and bool.
  5560 
  5561   - Some definitions of overloaded operators on sets can now be proved
  5562     using the definitions of the operators on => and bool.  Therefore,
  5563     the following theorems have been renamed:
  5564 
  5565       subset_def   -> subset_eq
  5566       psubset_def  -> psubset_eq
  5567       set_diff_def -> set_diff_eq
  5568       Compl_def    -> Compl_eq
  5569       Sup_set_def  -> Sup_set_eq
  5570       Inf_set_def  -> Inf_set_eq
  5571       sup_set_def  -> sup_set_eq
  5572       inf_set_def  -> inf_set_eq
  5573 
  5574   - Due to the incompleteness of the HO unification algorithm, some
  5575     rules such as subst may require manual instantiation, if some of
  5576     the unknowns in the rule is a set.
  5577 
  5578   - Higher order unification and forward proofs:
  5579     The proof pattern
  5580 
  5581       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  5582       then have "EX S. P S" ..
  5583 
  5584     no longer works (due to the incompleteness of the HO unification
  5585     algorithm) and must be replaced by the pattern
  5586 
  5587       have "EX S. P S"
  5588       proof
  5589         show "P S" <...>
  5590       qed
  5591 
  5592   - Calculational reasoning with subst (or similar rules):
  5593     The proof pattern
  5594 
  5595       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  5596       also have "S = T" <...>
  5597       finally have "P T" .
  5598 
  5599     no longer works (for similar reasons as the previous example) and
  5600     must be replaced by something like
  5601 
  5602       have "P (S::'a set)" <...>
  5603       moreover have "S = T" <...>
  5604       ultimately have "P T" by simp
  5605 
  5606   - Tactics or packages written in ML code:
  5607     Code performing pattern matching on types via
  5608 
  5609       Type ("set", [T]) => ...
  5610 
  5611     must be rewritten. Moreover, functions like strip_type or
  5612     binder_types no longer return the right value when applied to a
  5613     type of the form
  5614 
  5615       T1 => ... => Tn => U => bool
  5616 
  5617     rather than
  5618 
  5619       T1 => ... => Tn => U set
  5620 
  5621 * Merged theories Wellfounded_Recursion, Accessible_Part and
  5622 Wellfounded_Relations to theory Wellfounded.
  5623 
  5624 * Explicit class "eq" for executable equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5625 
  5626 * Class finite no longer treats UNIV as class parameter.  Use class
  5627 enum from theory Library/Enum instead to achieve a similar effect.
  5628 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5629 
  5630 * Theory List: rule list_induct2 now has explicitly named cases "Nil"
  5631 and "Cons".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5632 
  5633 * HOL (and FOL): renamed variables in rules imp_elim and swap.
  5634 Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5635 
  5636 * Theory Product_Type: duplicated lemmas split_Pair_apply and
  5637 injective_fst_snd removed, use split_eta and prod_eqI instead.
  5638 Renamed upd_fst to apfst and upd_snd to apsnd.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5639 
  5640 * Theory Nat: removed redundant lemmas that merely duplicate lemmas of
  5641 the same name in theory Orderings:
  5642 
  5643   less_trans
  5644   less_linear
  5645   le_imp_less_or_eq
  5646   le_less_trans
  5647   less_le_trans
  5648   less_not_sym
  5649   less_asym
  5650 
  5651 Renamed less_imp_le to less_imp_le_nat, and less_irrefl to
  5652 less_irrefl_nat.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY due to more general types
  5653 and different variable names.
  5654 
  5655 * Library/Option_ord.thy: Canonical order on option type.
  5656 
  5657 * Library/RBT.thy: Red-black trees, an efficient implementation of
  5658 finite maps.
  5659 
  5660 * Library/Countable.thy: Type class for countable types.
  5661 
  5662 * Theory Int: The representation of numerals has changed.  The infix
  5663 operator BIT and the bit datatype with constructors B0 and B1 have
  5664 disappeared.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use "Int.Bit0 x" and "Int.Bit1 y" in
  5665 place of "x BIT bit.B0" and "y BIT bit.B1", respectively.  Theorems
  5666 involving BIT, B0, or B1 have been renamed with "Bit0" or "Bit1"
  5667 accordingly.
  5668 
  5669 * Theory Nat: definition of <= and < on natural numbers no longer
  5670 depend on well-founded relations.  INCOMPATIBILITY.  Definitions
  5671 le_def and less_def have disappeared.  Consider lemmas not_less
  5672 [symmetric, where ?'a = nat] and less_eq [symmetric] instead.
  5673 
  5674 * Theory Finite_Set: locales ACf, ACe, ACIf, ACIfSL and ACIfSLlin
  5675 (whose purpose mainly is for various fold_set functionals) have been
  5676 abandoned in favor of the existing algebraic classes
  5677 ab_semigroup_mult, comm_monoid_mult, ab_semigroup_idem_mult,
  5678 lower_semilattice (resp. upper_semilattice) and linorder.
  5679 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5680 
  5681 * Theory Transitive_Closure: induct and cases rules now declare proper
  5682 case_names ("base" and "step").  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5683 
  5684 * Theorem Inductive.lfp_ordinal_induct generalized to complete
  5685 lattices.  The form set-specific version is available as
  5686 Inductive.lfp_ordinal_induct_set.
  5687 
  5688 * Renamed theorems "power.simps" to "power_int.simps".
  5689 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5690 
  5691 * Class semiring_div provides basic abstract properties of semirings
  5692 with division and modulo operations.  Subsumes former class dvd_mod.
  5693 
  5694 * Merged theories IntDef, Numeral and IntArith into unified theory
  5695 Int.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5696 
  5697 * Theory Library/Code_Index: type "index" now represents natural
  5698 numbers rather than integers.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5699 
  5700 * New class "uminus" with operation "uminus" (split of from class
  5701 "minus" which now only has operation "minus", binary).
  5702 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5703 
  5704 * Constants "card", "internal_split", "option_map" now with authentic
  5705 syntax.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5706 
  5707 * Definitions subset_def, psubset_def, set_diff_def, Compl_def,
  5708 le_bool_def, less_bool_def, le_fun_def, less_fun_def, inf_bool_def,
  5709 sup_bool_def, Inf_bool_def, Sup_bool_def, inf_fun_def, sup_fun_def,
  5710 Inf_fun_def, Sup_fun_def, inf_set_def, sup_set_def, Inf_set_def,
  5711 Sup_set_def, le_def, less_def, option_map_def now with object
  5712 equality.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5713 
  5714 * Records. Removed K_record, and replaced it by pure lambda term
  5715 %x. c. The simplifier setup is now more robust against eta expansion.
  5716 INCOMPATIBILITY: in cases explicitly referring to K_record.
  5717 
  5718 * Library/Multiset: {#a, b, c#} abbreviates {#a#} + {#b#} + {#c#}.
  5719 
  5720 * Library/ListVector: new theory of arithmetic vector operations.
  5721 
  5722 * Library/Order_Relation: new theory of various orderings as sets of
  5723 pairs.  Defines preorders, partial orders, linear orders and
  5724 well-orders on sets and on types.
  5725 
  5726 
  5727 *** ZF ***
  5728 
  5729 * Renamed some theories to allow to loading both ZF and HOL in the
  5730 same session:
  5731 
  5732   Datatype  -> Datatype_ZF
  5733   Inductive -> Inductive_ZF
  5734   Int       -> Int_ZF
  5735   IntDiv    -> IntDiv_ZF
  5736   Nat       -> Nat_ZF
  5737   List      -> List_ZF
  5738   Main      -> Main_ZF
  5739 
  5740 INCOMPATIBILITY: ZF theories that import individual theories below
  5741 Main might need to be adapted.  Regular theory Main is still
  5742 available, as trivial extension of Main_ZF.
  5743 
  5744 
  5745 *** ML ***
  5746 
  5747 * ML within Isar: antiquotation @{const name} or @{const
  5748 name(typargs)} produces statically-checked Const term.
  5749 
  5750 * Functor NamedThmsFun: data is available to the user as dynamic fact
  5751 (of the same name).  Removed obsolete print command.
  5752 
  5753 * Removed obsolete "use_legacy_bindings" function.
  5754 
  5755 * The ``print mode'' is now a thread-local value derived from a global
  5756 template (the former print_mode reference), thus access becomes
  5757 non-critical.  The global print_mode reference is for session
  5758 management only; user-code should use print_mode_value,
  5759 print_mode_active, PrintMode.setmp etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5760 
  5761 * Functions system/system_out provide a robust way to invoke external
  5762 shell commands, with propagation of interrupts (requires Poly/ML
  5763 5.2.1).  Do not use OS.Process.system etc. from the basis library!
  5764 
  5765 
  5766 *** System ***
  5767 
  5768 * Default settings: PROOFGENERAL_OPTIONS no longer impose xemacs ---
  5769 in accordance with Proof General 3.7, which prefers GNU emacs.
  5770 
  5771 * isatool tty runs Isabelle process with plain tty interaction;
  5772 optional line editor may be specified via ISABELLE_LINE_EDITOR
  5773 setting, the default settings attempt to locate "ledit" and "rlwrap".
  5774 
  5775 * isatool browser now works with Cygwin as well, using general
  5776 "javapath" function defined in Isabelle process environment.
  5777 
  5778 * YXML notation provides a simple and efficient alternative to
  5779 standard XML transfer syntax.  See src/Pure/General/yxml.ML and
  5780 isatool yxml as described in the Isabelle system manual.
  5781 
  5782 * JVM class isabelle.IsabelleProcess (located in Isabelle/lib/classes)
  5783 provides general wrapper for managing an Isabelle process in a robust
  5784 fashion, with ``cooked'' output from stdin/stderr.
  5785 
  5786 * Rudimentary Isabelle plugin for jEdit (see Isabelle/lib/jedit),
  5787 based on Isabelle/JVM process wrapper (see Isabelle/lib/classes).
  5788 
  5789 * Removed obsolete THIS_IS_ISABELLE_BUILD feature.  NB: the documented
  5790 way of changing the user's settings is via
  5791 ISABELLE_HOME_USER/etc/settings, which is a fully featured bash
  5792 script.
  5793 
  5794 * Multithreading.max_threads := 0 refers to the number of actual CPU
  5795 cores of the underlying machine, which is a good starting point for
  5796 optimal performance tuning.  The corresponding usedir option -M allows
  5797 "max" as an alias for "0".  WARNING: does not work on certain versions
  5798 of Mac OS (with Poly/ML 5.1).
  5799 
  5800 * isabelle-process: non-ML sessions are run with "nice", to reduce the
  5801 adverse effect of Isabelle flooding interactive front-ends (notably
  5802 ProofGeneral / XEmacs).
  5803 
  5804 
  5805 
  5806 New in Isabelle2007 (November 2007)
  5807 -----------------------------------
  5808 
  5809 *** General ***
  5810 
  5811 * More uniform information about legacy features, notably a
  5812 warning/error of "Legacy feature: ...", depending on the state of the
  5813 tolerate_legacy_features flag (default true). FUTURE INCOMPATIBILITY:
  5814 legacy features will disappear eventually.
  5815 
  5816 * Theory syntax: the header format ``theory A = B + C:'' has been
  5817 discontinued in favour of ``theory A imports B C begin''.  Use isatool
  5818 fixheaders to convert existing theory files.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5819 
  5820 * Theory syntax: the old non-Isar theory file format has been
  5821 discontinued altogether.  Note that ML proof scripts may still be used
  5822 with Isar theories; migration is usually quite simple with the ML
  5823 function use_legacy_bindings.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  5824 
  5825 * Theory syntax: some popular names (e.g. 'class', 'declaration',
  5826 'fun', 'help', 'if') are now keywords.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use double
  5827 quotes.
  5828 
  5829 * Theory loader: be more serious about observing the static theory
  5830 header specifications (including optional directories), but not the
  5831 accidental file locations of previously successful loads.  The strict
  5832 update policy of former update_thy is now already performed by
  5833 use_thy, so the former has been removed; use_thys updates several
  5834 theories simultaneously, just as 'imports' within a theory header
  5835 specification, but without merging the results.  Potential
  5836 INCOMPATIBILITY: may need to refine theory headers and commands
  5837 ROOT.ML which depend on load order.
  5838 
  5839 * Theory loader: optional support for content-based file
  5840 identification, instead of the traditional scheme of full physical
  5841 path plus date stamp; configured by the ISABELLE_FILE_IDENT setting
  5842 (cf. the system manual).  The new scheme allows to work with
  5843 non-finished theories in persistent session images, such that source
  5844 files may be moved later on without requiring reloads.
  5845 
  5846 * Theory loader: old-style ML proof scripts being *attached* to a thy
  5847 file (with the same base name as the theory) are considered a legacy
  5848 feature, which will disappear eventually. Even now, the theory loader
  5849 no longer maintains dependencies on such files.
  5850 
  5851 * Syntax: the scope for resolving ambiguities via type-inference is
  5852 now limited to individual terms, instead of whole simultaneous
  5853 specifications as before. This greatly reduces the complexity of the
  5854 syntax module and improves flexibility by separating parsing and
  5855 type-checking. INCOMPATIBILITY: additional type-constraints (explicit
  5856 'fixes' etc.) are required in rare situations.
  5857 
  5858 * Syntax: constants introduced by new-style packages ('definition',
  5859 'abbreviation' etc.) are passed through the syntax module in
  5860 ``authentic mode''. This means that associated mixfix annotations
  5861 really stick to such constants, independently of potential name space
  5862 ambiguities introduced later on. INCOMPATIBILITY: constants in parse
  5863 trees are represented slightly differently, may need to adapt syntax
  5864 translations accordingly. Use CONST marker in 'translations' and
  5865 @{const_syntax} antiquotation in 'parse_translation' etc.
  5866 
  5867 * Legacy goal package: reduced interface to the bare minimum required
  5868 to keep existing proof scripts running.  Most other user-level
  5869 functions are now part of the OldGoals structure, which is *not* open
  5870 by default (consider isatool expandshort before open OldGoals).
  5871 Removed top_sg, prin, printyp, pprint_term/typ altogether, because
  5872 these tend to cause confusion about the actual goal (!) context being
  5873 used here, which is not necessarily the same as the_context().
  5874 
  5875 * Command 'find_theorems': supports "*" wild-card in "name:"
  5876 criterion; "with_dups" option.  Certain ProofGeneral versions might
  5877 support a specific search form (see ProofGeneral/CHANGES).
  5878 
  5879 * The ``prems limit'' option (cf. ProofContext.prems_limit) is now -1
  5880 by default, which means that "prems" (and also "fixed variables") are
  5881 suppressed from proof state output.  Note that the ProofGeneral
  5882 settings mechanism allows to change and save options persistently, but
  5883 older versions of Isabelle will fail to start up if a negative prems
  5884 limit is imposed.
  5885 
  5886 * Local theory targets may be specified by non-nested blocks of
  5887 ``context/locale/class ... begin'' followed by ``end''.  The body may
  5888 contain definitions, theorems etc., including any derived mechanism
  5889 that has been implemented on top of these primitives.  This concept
  5890 generalizes the existing ``theorem (in ...)'' towards more versatility
  5891 and scalability.
  5892 
  5893 * Proof General interface: proper undo of final 'end' command;
  5894 discontinued Isabelle/classic mode (ML proof scripts).
  5895 
  5896 
  5897 *** Document preparation ***
  5898 
  5899 * Added antiquotation @{theory name} which prints the given name,
  5900 after checking that it refers to a valid ancestor theory in the
  5901 current context.
  5902 
  5903 * Added antiquotations @{ML_type text} and @{ML_struct text} which
  5904 check the given source text as ML type/structure, printing verbatim.
  5905 
  5906 * Added antiquotation @{abbrev "c args"} which prints the abbreviation
  5907 "c args == rhs" given in the current context.  (Any number of
  5908 arguments may be given on the LHS.)
  5909 
  5910 
  5911 *** Pure ***
  5912 
  5913 * The 'class' package offers a combination of axclass and locale to
  5914 achieve Haskell-like type classes in Isabelle.  Definitions and
  5915 theorems within a class context produce both relative results (with
  5916 implicit parameters according to the locale context), and polymorphic
  5917 constants with qualified polymorphism (according to the class
  5918 context).  Within the body context of a 'class' target, a separate
  5919 syntax layer ("user space type system") takes care of converting
  5920 between global polymorphic consts and internal locale representation.
  5921 See src/HOL/ex/Classpackage.thy for examples (as well as main HOL).
  5922 "isatool doc classes" provides a tutorial.
  5923 
  5924 * Generic code generator framework allows to generate executable
  5925 code for ML and Haskell (including Isabelle classes).  A short usage
  5926 sketch:
  5927 
  5928     internal compilation:
  5929         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in SML
  5930     writing SML code to a file:
  5931         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in SML <filename>
  5932     writing OCaml code to a file:
  5933         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in OCaml <filename>
  5934     writing Haskell code to a bunch of files:
  5935         export_code <list of constants (term syntax)> in Haskell <filename>
  5936 
  5937     evaluating closed propositions to True/False using code generation:
  5938         method ``eval''
  5939 
  5940 Reasonable default setup of framework in HOL.
  5941 
  5942 Theorem attributs for selecting and transforming function equations theorems:
  5943 
  5944     [code fun]:        select a theorem as function equation for a specific constant
  5945     [code fun del]:    deselect a theorem as function equation for a specific constant
  5946     [code inline]:     select an equation theorem for unfolding (inlining) in place
  5947     [code inline del]: deselect an equation theorem for unfolding (inlining) in place
  5948 
  5949 User-defined serializations (target in {SML, OCaml, Haskell}):
  5950 
  5951     code_const <and-list of constants (term syntax)>
  5952       {(target) <and-list of const target syntax>}+
  5953 
  5954     code_type <and-list of type constructors>
  5955       {(target) <and-list of type target syntax>}+
  5956 
  5957     code_instance <and-list of instances>
  5958       {(target)}+
  5959         where instance ::= <type constructor> :: <class>
  5960 
  5961     code_class <and_list of classes>
  5962       {(target) <and-list of class target syntax>}+
  5963         where class target syntax ::= <class name> {where {<classop> == <target syntax>}+}?
  5964 
  5965 code_instance and code_class only are effective to target Haskell.
  5966 
  5967 For example usage see src/HOL/ex/Codegenerator.thy and
  5968 src/HOL/ex/Codegenerator_Pretty.thy.  A separate tutorial on code
  5969 generation from Isabelle/HOL theories is available via "isatool doc
  5970 codegen".
  5971 
  5972 * Code generator: consts in 'consts_code' Isar commands are now
  5973 referred to by usual term syntax (including optional type
  5974 annotations).
  5975 
  5976 * Command 'no_translations' removes translation rules from theory
  5977 syntax.
  5978 
  5979 * Overloaded definitions are now actually checked for acyclic
  5980 dependencies.  The overloading scheme is slightly more general than
  5981 that of Haskell98, although Isabelle does not demand an exact
  5982 correspondence to type class and instance declarations.
  5983 INCOMPATIBILITY, use ``defs (unchecked overloaded)'' to admit more
  5984 exotic versions of overloading -- at the discretion of the user!
  5985 
  5986 Polymorphic constants are represented via type arguments, i.e. the
  5987 instantiation that matches an instance against the most general
  5988 declaration given in the signature.  For example, with the declaration
  5989 c :: 'a => 'a => 'a, an instance c :: nat => nat => nat is represented
  5990 as c(nat).  Overloading is essentially simultaneous structural
  5991 recursion over such type arguments.  Incomplete specification patterns
  5992 impose global constraints on all occurrences, e.g. c('a * 'a) on the
  5993 LHS means that more general c('a * 'b) will be disallowed on any RHS.
  5994 Command 'print_theory' outputs the normalized system of recursive
  5995 equations, see section "definitions".
  5996 
  5997 * Configuration options are maintained within the theory or proof
  5998 context (with name and type bool/int/string), providing a very simple
  5999 interface to a poor-man's version of general context data.  Tools may
  6000 declare options in ML (e.g. using Attrib.config_int) and then refer to
  6001 these values using Config.get etc.  Users may change options via an
  6002 associated attribute of the same name.  This form of context
  6003 declaration works particularly well with commands 'declare' or
  6004 'using', for example ``declare [[foo = 42]]''.  Thus it has become
  6005 very easy to avoid global references, which would not observe Isar
  6006 toplevel undo/redo and fail to work with multithreading.
  6007 
  6008 Various global ML references of Pure and HOL have been turned into
  6009 configuration options:
  6010 
  6011   Unify.search_bound		unify_search_bound
  6012   Unify.trace_bound		unify_trace_bound
  6013   Unify.trace_simp		unify_trace_simp
  6014   Unify.trace_types		unify_trace_types
  6015   Simplifier.simp_depth_limit	simp_depth_limit
  6016   Blast.depth_limit		blast_depth_limit
  6017   DatatypeProp.dtK		datatype_distinctness_limit
  6018   fast_arith_neq_limit  	fast_arith_neq_limit
  6019   fast_arith_split_limit	fast_arith_split_limit
  6020 
  6021 * Named collections of theorems may be easily installed as context
  6022 data using the functor NamedThmsFun (see also
  6023 src/Pure/Tools/named_thms.ML).  The user may add or delete facts via
  6024 attributes; there is also a toplevel print command.  This facility is
  6025 just a common case of general context data, which is the preferred way
  6026 for anything more complex than just a list of facts in canonical
  6027 order.
  6028 
  6029 * Isar: command 'declaration' augments a local theory by generic
  6030 declaration functions written in ML.  This enables arbitrary content
  6031 being added to the context, depending on a morphism that tells the
  6032 difference of the original declaration context wrt. the application
  6033 context encountered later on.
  6034 
  6035 * Isar: proper interfaces for simplification procedures.  Command
  6036 'simproc_setup' declares named simprocs (with match patterns, and body
  6037 text in ML).  Attribute "simproc" adds/deletes simprocs in the current
  6038 context.  ML antiquotation @{simproc name} retrieves named simprocs.
  6039 
  6040 * Isar: an extra pair of brackets around attribute declarations
  6041 abbreviates a theorem reference involving an internal dummy fact,
  6042 which will be ignored later --- only the effect of the attribute on
  6043 the background context will persist.  This form of in-place
  6044 declarations is particularly useful with commands like 'declare' and
  6045 'using', for example ``have A using [[simproc a]] by simp''.
  6046 
  6047 * Isar: method "assumption" (and implicit closing of subproofs) now
  6048 takes simple non-atomic goal assumptions into account: after applying
  6049 an assumption as a rule the resulting subgoals are solved by atomic
  6050 assumption steps.  This is particularly useful to finish 'obtain'
  6051 goals, such as "!!x. (!!x. P x ==> thesis) ==> P x ==> thesis",
  6052 without referring to the original premise "!!x. P x ==> thesis" in the
  6053 Isar proof context.  POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: method "assumption" is
  6054 more permissive.
  6055 
  6056 * Isar: implicit use of prems from the Isar proof context is
  6057 considered a legacy feature.  Common applications like ``have A .''
  6058 may be replaced by ``have A by fact'' or ``note `A`''.  In general,
  6059 referencing facts explicitly here improves readability and
  6060 maintainability of proof texts.
  6061 
  6062 * Isar: improper proof element 'guess' is like 'obtain', but derives
  6063 the obtained context from the course of reasoning!  For example:
  6064 
  6065   assume "EX x y. A x & B y"   -- "any previous fact"
  6066   then guess x and y by clarify
  6067 
  6068 This technique is potentially adventurous, depending on the facts and
  6069 proof tools being involved here.
  6070 
  6071 * Isar: known facts from the proof context may be specified as literal
  6072 propositions, using ASCII back-quote syntax.  This works wherever
  6073 named facts used to be allowed so far, in proof commands, proof
  6074 methods, attributes etc.  Literal facts are retrieved from the context
  6075 according to unification of type and term parameters.  For example,
  6076 provided that "A" and "A ==> B" and "!!x. P x ==> Q x" are known
  6077 theorems in the current context, then these are valid literal facts:
  6078 `A` and `A ==> B` and `!!x. P x ==> Q x" as well as `P a ==> Q a` etc.
  6079 
  6080 There is also a proof method "fact" which does the same composition
  6081 for explicit goal states, e.g. the following proof texts coincide with
  6082 certain special cases of literal facts:
  6083 
  6084   have "A" by fact                 ==  note `A`
  6085   have "A ==> B" by fact           ==  note `A ==> B`
  6086   have "!!x. P x ==> Q x" by fact  ==  note `!!x. P x ==> Q x`
  6087   have "P a ==> Q a" by fact       ==  note `P a ==> Q a`
  6088 
  6089 * Isar: ":" (colon) is no longer a symbolic identifier character in
  6090 outer syntax.  Thus symbolic identifiers may be used without
  6091 additional white space in declarations like this: ``assume *: A''.
  6092 
  6093 * Isar: 'print_facts' prints all local facts of the current context,
  6094 both named and unnamed ones.
  6095 
  6096 * Isar: 'def' now admits simultaneous definitions, e.g.:
  6097 
  6098   def x == "t" and y == "u"
  6099 
  6100 * Isar: added command 'unfolding', which is structurally similar to
  6101 'using', but affects both the goal state and facts by unfolding given
  6102 rewrite rules.  Thus many occurrences of the 'unfold' method or
  6103 'unfolded' attribute may be replaced by first-class proof text.
  6104 
  6105 * Isar: methods 'unfold' / 'fold', attributes 'unfolded' / 'folded',
  6106 and command 'unfolding' now all support object-level equalities
  6107 (potentially conditional).  The underlying notion of rewrite rule is
  6108 analogous to the 'rule_format' attribute, but *not* that of the
  6109 Simplifier (which is usually more generous).
  6110 
  6111 * Isar: the new attribute [rotated n] (default n = 1) rotates the
  6112 premises of a theorem by n. Useful in conjunction with drule.
  6113 
  6114 * Isar: the goal restriction operator [N] (default N = 1) evaluates a
  6115 method expression within a sandbox consisting of the first N
  6116 sub-goals, which need to exist.  For example, ``simp_all [3]''
  6117 simplifies the first three sub-goals, while (rule foo, simp_all)[]
  6118 simplifies all new goals that emerge from applying rule foo to the
  6119 originally first one.
  6120 
  6121 * Isar: schematic goals are no longer restricted to higher-order
  6122 patterns; e.g. ``lemma "?P(?x)" by (rule TrueI)'' now works as
  6123 expected.
  6124 
  6125 * Isar: the conclusion of a long theorem statement is now either
  6126 'shows' (a simultaneous conjunction, as before), or 'obtains'
  6127 (essentially a disjunction of cases with local parameters and
  6128 assumptions).  The latter allows to express general elimination rules
  6129 adequately; in this notation common elimination rules look like this:
  6130 
  6131   lemma exE:    -- "EX x. P x ==> (!!x. P x ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6132     assumes "EX x. P x"
  6133     obtains x where "P x"
  6134 
  6135   lemma conjE:  -- "A & B ==> (A ==> B ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6136     assumes "A & B"
  6137     obtains A and B
  6138 
  6139   lemma disjE:  -- "A | B ==> (A ==> thesis) ==> (B ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6140     assumes "A | B"
  6141     obtains
  6142       A
  6143     | B
  6144 
  6145 The subsequent classical rules even refer to the formal "thesis"
  6146 explicitly:
  6147 
  6148   lemma classical:     -- "(~ thesis ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6149     obtains "~ thesis"
  6150 
  6151   lemma Peirce's_Law:  -- "((thesis ==> something) ==> thesis) ==> thesis"
  6152     obtains "thesis ==> something"
  6153 
  6154 The actual proof of an 'obtains' statement is analogous to that of the
  6155 Isar proof element 'obtain', only that there may be several cases.
  6156 Optional case names may be specified in parentheses; these will be
  6157 available both in the present proof and as annotations in the
  6158 resulting rule, for later use with the 'cases' method (cf. attribute
  6159 case_names).
  6160 
  6161 * Isar: the assumptions of a long theorem statement are available as
  6162 "assms" fact in the proof context.  This is more appropriate than the
  6163 (historical) "prems", which refers to all assumptions of the current
  6164 context, including those from the target locale, proof body etc.
  6165 
  6166 * Isar: 'print_statement' prints theorems from the current theory or
  6167 proof context in long statement form, according to the syntax of a
  6168 top-level lemma.
  6169 
  6170 * Isar: 'obtain' takes an optional case name for the local context
  6171 introduction rule (default "that").
  6172 
  6173 * Isar: removed obsolete 'concl is' patterns.  INCOMPATIBILITY, use
  6174 explicit (is "_ ==> ?foo") in the rare cases where this still happens
  6175 to occur.
  6176 
  6177 * Pure: syntax "CONST name" produces a fully internalized constant
  6178 according to the current context.  This is particularly useful for
  6179 syntax translations that should refer to internal constant
  6180 representations independently of name spaces.
  6181 
  6182 * Pure: syntax constant for foo (binder "FOO ") is called "foo_binder"
  6183 instead of "FOO ". This allows multiple binder declarations to coexist
  6184 in the same context.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6185 
  6186 * Isar/locales: 'notation' provides a robust interface to the 'syntax'
  6187 primitive that also works in a locale context (both for constants and
  6188 fixed variables). Type declaration and internal syntactic representation
  6189 of given constants retrieved from the context. Likewise, the
  6190 'no_notation' command allows to remove given syntax annotations from the
  6191 current context.
  6192 
  6193 * Isar/locales: new derived specification elements 'axiomatization',
  6194 'definition', 'abbreviation', which support type-inference, admit
  6195 object-level specifications (equality, equivalence).  See also the
  6196 isar-ref manual.  Examples:
  6197 
  6198   axiomatization
  6199     eq  (infix "===" 50) where
  6200     eq_refl: "x === x" and eq_subst: "x === y ==> P x ==> P y"
  6201 
  6202   definition "f x y = x + y + 1"
  6203   definition g where "g x = f x x"
  6204 
  6205   abbreviation
  6206     neq  (infix "=!=" 50) where
  6207     "x =!= y == ~ (x === y)"
  6208 
  6209 These specifications may be also used in a locale context.  Then the
  6210 constants being introduced depend on certain fixed parameters, and the
  6211 constant name is qualified by the locale base name.  An internal
  6212 abbreviation takes care for convenient input and output, making the
  6213 parameters implicit and using the original short name.  See also
  6214 src/HOL/ex/Abstract_NAT.thy for an example of deriving polymorphic
  6215 entities from a monomorphic theory.
  6216 
  6217 Presently, abbreviations are only available 'in' a target locale, but
  6218 not inherited by general import expressions.  Also note that
  6219 'abbreviation' may be used as a type-safe replacement for 'syntax' +
  6220 'translations' in common applications.  The "no_abbrevs" print mode
  6221 prevents folding of abbreviations in term output.
  6222 
  6223 Concrete syntax is attached to specified constants in internal form,
  6224 independently of name spaces.  The parse tree representation is
  6225 slightly different -- use 'notation' instead of raw 'syntax', and
  6226 'translations' with explicit "CONST" markup to accommodate this.
  6227 
  6228 * Pure/Isar: unified syntax for new-style specification mechanisms
  6229 (e.g.  'definition', 'abbreviation', or 'inductive' in HOL) admits
  6230 full type inference and dummy patterns ("_").  For example:
  6231 
  6232   definition "K x _ = x"
  6233 
  6234   inductive conj for A B
  6235   where "A ==> B ==> conj A B"
  6236 
  6237 * Pure: command 'print_abbrevs' prints all constant abbreviations of
  6238 the current context.  Print mode "no_abbrevs" prevents inversion of
  6239 abbreviations on output.
  6240 
  6241 * Isar/locales: improved parameter handling: use of locales "var" and
  6242 "struct" no longer necessary; - parameter renamings are no longer
  6243 required to be injective.  For example, this allows to define
  6244 endomorphisms as locale endom = homom mult mult h.
  6245 
  6246 * Isar/locales: changed the way locales with predicates are defined.
  6247 Instead of accumulating the specification, the imported expression is
  6248 now an interpretation.  INCOMPATIBILITY: different normal form of
  6249 locale expressions.  In particular, in interpretations of locales with
  6250 predicates, goals repesenting already interpreted fragments are not
  6251 removed automatically.  Use methods `intro_locales' and
  6252 `unfold_locales'; see below.
  6253 
  6254 * Isar/locales: new methods `intro_locales' and `unfold_locales'
  6255 provide backward reasoning on locales predicates.  The methods are
  6256 aware of interpretations and discharge corresponding goals.
  6257 `intro_locales' is less aggressive then `unfold_locales' and does not
  6258 unfold predicates to assumptions.
  6259 
  6260 * Isar/locales: the order in which locale fragments are accumulated
  6261 has changed.  This enables to override declarations from fragments due
  6262 to interpretations -- for example, unwanted simp rules.
  6263 
  6264 * Isar/locales: interpretation in theories and proof contexts has been
  6265 extended.  One may now specify (and prove) equations, which are
  6266 unfolded in interpreted theorems.  This is useful for replacing
  6267 defined concepts (constants depending on locale parameters) by
  6268 concepts already existing in the target context.  Example:
  6269 
  6270   interpretation partial_order ["op <= :: [int, int] => bool"]
  6271     where "partial_order.less (op <=) (x::int) y = (x < y)"
  6272 
  6273 Typically, the constant `partial_order.less' is created by a
  6274 definition specification element in the context of locale
  6275 partial_order.
  6276 
  6277 * Method "induct": improved internal context management to support
  6278 local fixes and defines on-the-fly. Thus explicit meta-level
  6279 connectives !!  and ==> are rarely required anymore in inductive goals
  6280 (using object-logic connectives for this purpose has been long
  6281 obsolete anyway). Common proof patterns are explained in
  6282 src/HOL/Induct/Common_Patterns.thy, see also
  6283 src/HOL/Isar_examples/Puzzle.thy and src/HOL/Lambda for realistic
  6284 examples.
  6285 
  6286 * Method "induct": improved handling of simultaneous goals. Instead of
  6287 introducing object-level conjunction, the statement is now split into
  6288 several conclusions, while the corresponding symbolic cases are nested
  6289 accordingly. INCOMPATIBILITY, proofs need to be structured explicitly,
  6290 see src/HOL/Induct/Common_Patterns.thy, for example.
  6291 
  6292 * Method "induct": mutual induction rules are now specified as a list
  6293 of rule sharing the same induction cases. HOL packages usually provide
  6294 foo_bar.inducts for mutually defined items foo and bar (e.g. inductive
  6295 predicates/sets or datatypes). INCOMPATIBILITY, users need to specify
  6296 mutual induction rules differently, i.e. like this:
  6297 
  6298   (induct rule: foo_bar.inducts)
  6299   (induct set: foo bar)
  6300   (induct pred: foo bar)
  6301   (induct type: foo bar)
  6302 
  6303 The ML function ProjectRule.projections turns old-style rules into the
  6304 new format.
  6305 
  6306 * Method "coinduct": dual of induction, see
  6307 src/HOL/Library/Coinductive_List.thy for various examples.
  6308 
  6309 * Method "cases", "induct", "coinduct": the ``(open)'' option is
  6310 considered a legacy feature.
  6311 
  6312 * Attribute "symmetric" produces result with standardized schematic
  6313 variables (index 0).  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6314 
  6315 * Simplifier: by default the simplifier trace only shows top level
  6316 rewrites now. That is, trace_simp_depth_limit is set to 1 by
  6317 default. Thus there is less danger of being flooded by the trace. The
  6318 trace indicates where parts have been suppressed.
  6319   
  6320 * Provers/classical: removed obsolete classical version of elim_format
  6321 attribute; classical elim/dest rules are now treated uniformly when
  6322 manipulating the claset.
  6323 
  6324 * Provers/classical: stricter checks to ensure that supplied intro,
  6325 dest and elim rules are well-formed; dest and elim rules must have at
  6326 least one premise.
  6327 
  6328 * Provers/classical: attributes dest/elim/intro take an optional
  6329 weight argument for the rule (just as the Pure versions).  Weights are
  6330 ignored by automated tools, but determine the search order of single
  6331 rule steps.
  6332 
  6333 * Syntax: input syntax now supports dummy variable binding "%_. b",
  6334 where the body does not mention the bound variable.  Note that dummy
  6335 patterns implicitly depend on their context of bounds, which makes
  6336 "{_. _}" match any set comprehension as expected.  Potential
  6337 INCOMPATIBILITY -- parse translations need to cope with syntactic
  6338 constant "_idtdummy" in the binding position.
  6339 
  6340 * Syntax: removed obsolete syntactic constant "_K" and its associated
  6341 parse translation.  INCOMPATIBILITY -- use dummy abstraction instead,
  6342 for example "A -> B" => "Pi A (%_. B)".
  6343 
  6344 * Pure: 'class_deps' command visualizes the subclass relation, using
  6345 the graph browser tool.
  6346 
  6347 * Pure: 'print_theory' now suppresses certain internal declarations by
  6348 default; use '!' option for full details.
  6349 
  6350 
  6351 *** HOL ***
  6352 
  6353 * Method "metis" proves goals by applying the Metis general-purpose
  6354 resolution prover (see also http://gilith.com/software/metis/).
  6355 Examples are in the directory MetisExamples.  WARNING: the
  6356 Isabelle/HOL-Metis integration does not yet work properly with
  6357 multi-threading.
  6358   
  6359 * Command 'sledgehammer' invokes external automatic theorem provers as
  6360 background processes.  It generates calls to the "metis" method if
  6361 successful. These can be pasted into the proof.  Users do not have to
  6362 wait for the automatic provers to return.  WARNING: does not really
  6363 work with multi-threading.
  6364 
  6365 * New "auto_quickcheck" feature tests outermost goal statements for
  6366 potential counter-examples.  Controlled by ML references
  6367 auto_quickcheck (default true) and auto_quickcheck_time_limit (default
  6368 5000 milliseconds).  Fails silently if statements is outside of
  6369 executable fragment, or any other codgenerator problem occurs.
  6370 
  6371 * New constant "undefined" with axiom "undefined x = undefined".
  6372 
  6373 * Added class "HOL.eq", allowing for code generation with polymorphic
  6374 equality.
  6375 
  6376 * Some renaming of class constants due to canonical name prefixing in
  6377 the new 'class' package:
  6378 
  6379     HOL.abs ~> HOL.abs_class.abs
  6380     HOL.divide ~> HOL.divide_class.divide
  6381     0 ~> HOL.zero_class.zero
  6382     1 ~> HOL.one_class.one
  6383     op + ~> HOL.plus_class.plus
  6384     op - ~> HOL.minus_class.minus
  6385     uminus ~> HOL.minus_class.uminus
  6386     op * ~> HOL.times_class.times
  6387     op < ~> HOL.ord_class.less
  6388     op <= > HOL.ord_class.less_eq
  6389     Nat.power ~> Power.power_class.power
  6390     Nat.size ~> Nat.size_class.size
  6391     Numeral.number_of ~> Numeral.number_class.number_of
  6392     FixedPoint.Inf ~> Lattices.complete_lattice_class.Inf
  6393     FixedPoint.Sup ~> Lattices.complete_lattice_class.Sup
  6394     Orderings.min ~> Orderings.ord_class.min
  6395     Orderings.max ~> Orderings.ord_class.max
  6396     Divides.op div ~> Divides.div_class.div
  6397     Divides.op mod ~> Divides.div_class.mod
  6398     Divides.op dvd ~> Divides.div_class.dvd
  6399 
  6400 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Adaptions may be required in the following cases:
  6401 
  6402 a) User-defined constants using any of the names "plus", "minus",
  6403 "times", "less" or "less_eq". The standard syntax translations for
  6404 "+", "-" and "*" may go wrong.  INCOMPATIBILITY: use more specific
  6405 names.
  6406 
  6407 b) Variables named "plus", "minus", "times", "less", "less_eq"
  6408 INCOMPATIBILITY: use more specific names.
  6409 
  6410 c) Permutative equations (e.g. "a + b = b + a")
  6411 Since the change of names also changes the order of terms, permutative
  6412 rewrite rules may get applied in a different order. Experience shows
  6413 that this is rarely the case (only two adaptions in the whole Isabelle
  6414 distribution).  INCOMPATIBILITY: rewrite proofs
  6415 
  6416 d) ML code directly refering to constant names
  6417 This in general only affects hand-written proof tactics, simprocs and
  6418 so on.  INCOMPATIBILITY: grep your sourcecode and replace names.
  6419 Consider using @{const_name} antiquotation.
  6420 
  6421 * New class "default" with associated constant "default".
  6422 
  6423 * Function "sgn" is now overloaded and available on int, real, complex
  6424 (and other numeric types), using class "sgn".  Two possible defs of
  6425 sgn are given as equational assumptions in the classes sgn_if and
  6426 sgn_div_norm; ordered_idom now also inherits from sgn_if.
  6427 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6428 
  6429 * Locale "partial_order" now unified with class "order" (cf. theory
  6430 Orderings), added parameter "less".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6431 
  6432 * Renamings in classes "order" and "linorder": facts "refl", "trans" and
  6433 "cases" to "order_refl", "order_trans" and "linorder_cases", to avoid
  6434 clashes with HOL "refl" and "trans".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6435 
  6436 * Classes "order" and "linorder": potential INCOMPATIBILITY due to
  6437 changed order of proof goals in instance proofs.
  6438 
  6439 * The transitivity reasoner for partial and linear orders is set up
  6440 for classes "order" and "linorder".  Instances of the reasoner are available
  6441 in all contexts importing or interpreting the corresponding locales.
  6442 Method "order" invokes the reasoner separately; the reasoner
  6443 is also integrated with the Simplifier as a solver.  Diagnostic
  6444 command 'print_orders' shows the available instances of the reasoner
  6445 in the current context.
  6446 
  6447 * Localized monotonicity predicate in theory "Orderings"; integrated
  6448 lemmas max_of_mono and min_of_mono with this predicate.
  6449 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6450 
  6451 * Formulation of theorem "dense" changed slightly due to integration
  6452 with new class dense_linear_order.
  6453 
  6454 * Uniform lattice theory development in HOL.
  6455 
  6456     constants "meet" and "join" now named "inf" and "sup"
  6457     constant "Meet" now named "Inf"
  6458 
  6459     classes "meet_semilorder" and "join_semilorder" now named
  6460       "lower_semilattice" and "upper_semilattice"
  6461     class "lorder" now named "lattice"
  6462     class "comp_lat" now named "complete_lattice"
  6463 
  6464     Instantiation of lattice classes allows explicit definitions
  6465     for "inf" and "sup" operations (or "Inf" and "Sup" for complete lattices).
  6466 
  6467   INCOMPATIBILITY.  Theorem renames:
  6468 
  6469     meet_left_le            ~> inf_le1
  6470     meet_right_le           ~> inf_le2
  6471     join_left_le            ~> sup_ge1
  6472     join_right_le           ~> sup_ge2
  6473     meet_join_le            ~> inf_sup_ord
  6474     le_meetI                ~> le_infI
  6475     join_leI                ~> le_supI
  6476     le_meet                 ~> le_inf_iff
  6477     le_join                 ~> ge_sup_conv
  6478     meet_idempotent         ~> inf_idem
  6479     join_idempotent         ~> sup_idem
  6480     meet_comm               ~> inf_commute
  6481     join_comm               ~> sup_commute
  6482     meet_leI1               ~> le_infI1
  6483     meet_leI2               ~> le_infI2
  6484     le_joinI1               ~> le_supI1
  6485     le_joinI2               ~> le_supI2
  6486     meet_assoc              ~> inf_assoc
  6487     join_assoc              ~> sup_assoc
  6488     meet_left_comm          ~> inf_left_commute
  6489     meet_left_idempotent    ~> inf_left_idem
  6490     join_left_comm          ~> sup_left_commute
  6491     join_left_idempotent    ~> sup_left_idem
  6492     meet_aci                ~> inf_aci
  6493     join_aci                ~> sup_aci
  6494     le_def_meet             ~> le_iff_inf
  6495     le_def_join             ~> le_iff_sup
  6496     join_absorp2            ~> sup_absorb2
  6497     join_absorp1            ~> sup_absorb1
  6498     meet_absorp1            ~> inf_absorb1
  6499     meet_absorp2            ~> inf_absorb2
  6500     meet_join_absorp        ~> inf_sup_absorb
  6501     join_meet_absorp        ~> sup_inf_absorb
  6502     distrib_join_le         ~> distrib_sup_le
  6503     distrib_meet_le         ~> distrib_inf_le
  6504 
  6505     add_meet_distrib_left   ~> add_inf_distrib_left
  6506     add_join_distrib_left   ~> add_sup_distrib_left
  6507     is_join_neg_meet        ~> is_join_neg_inf
  6508     is_meet_neg_join        ~> is_meet_neg_sup
  6509     add_meet_distrib_right  ~> add_inf_distrib_right
  6510     add_join_distrib_right  ~> add_sup_distrib_right
  6511     add_meet_join_distribs  ~> add_sup_inf_distribs
  6512     join_eq_neg_meet        ~> sup_eq_neg_inf
  6513     meet_eq_neg_join        ~> inf_eq_neg_sup
  6514     add_eq_meet_join        ~> add_eq_inf_sup
  6515     meet_0_imp_0            ~> inf_0_imp_0
  6516     join_0_imp_0            ~> sup_0_imp_0
  6517     meet_0_eq_0             ~> inf_0_eq_0
  6518     join_0_eq_0             ~> sup_0_eq_0
  6519     neg_meet_eq_join        ~> neg_inf_eq_sup
  6520     neg_join_eq_meet        ~> neg_sup_eq_inf
  6521     join_eq_if              ~> sup_eq_if
  6522 
  6523     mono_meet               ~> mono_inf
  6524     mono_join               ~> mono_sup
  6525     meet_bool_eq            ~> inf_bool_eq
  6526     join_bool_eq            ~> sup_bool_eq
  6527     meet_fun_eq             ~> inf_fun_eq
  6528     join_fun_eq             ~> sup_fun_eq
  6529     meet_set_eq             ~> inf_set_eq
  6530     join_set_eq             ~> sup_set_eq
  6531     meet1_iff               ~> inf1_iff
  6532     meet2_iff               ~> inf2_iff
  6533     meet1I                  ~> inf1I
  6534     meet2I                  ~> inf2I
  6535     meet1D1                 ~> inf1D1
  6536     meet2D1                 ~> inf2D1
  6537     meet1D2                 ~> inf1D2
  6538     meet2D2                 ~> inf2D2
  6539     meet1E                  ~> inf1E
  6540     meet2E                  ~> inf2E
  6541     join1_iff               ~> sup1_iff
  6542     join2_iff               ~> sup2_iff
  6543     join1I1                 ~> sup1I1
  6544     join2I1                 ~> sup2I1
  6545     join1I1                 ~> sup1I1
  6546     join2I2                 ~> sup1I2
  6547     join1CI                 ~> sup1CI
  6548     join2CI                 ~> sup2CI
  6549     join1E                  ~> sup1E
  6550     join2E                  ~> sup2E
  6551 
  6552     is_meet_Meet            ~> is_meet_Inf
  6553     Meet_bool_def           ~> Inf_bool_def
  6554     Meet_fun_def            ~> Inf_fun_def
  6555     Meet_greatest           ~> Inf_greatest
  6556     Meet_lower              ~> Inf_lower
  6557     Meet_set_def            ~> Inf_set_def
  6558 
  6559     Sup_def                 ~> Sup_Inf
  6560     Sup_bool_eq             ~> Sup_bool_def
  6561     Sup_fun_eq              ~> Sup_fun_def
  6562     Sup_set_eq              ~> Sup_set_def
  6563 
  6564     listsp_meetI            ~> listsp_infI
  6565     listsp_meet_eq          ~> listsp_inf_eq
  6566 
  6567     meet_min                ~> inf_min
  6568     join_max                ~> sup_max
  6569 
  6570 * Added syntactic class "size"; overloaded constant "size" now has
  6571 type "'a::size ==> bool"
  6572 
  6573 * Internal reorganisation of `size' of datatypes: size theorems
  6574 "foo.size" are no longer subsumed by "foo.simps" (but are still
  6575 simplification rules by default!); theorems "prod.size" now named
  6576 "*.size".
  6577 
  6578 * Class "div" now inherits from class "times" rather than "type".
  6579 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6580 
  6581 * HOL/Finite_Set: "name-space" locales Lattice, Distrib_lattice,
  6582 Linorder etc.  have disappeared; operations defined in terms of
  6583 fold_set now are named Inf_fin, Sup_fin.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6584 
  6585 * HOL/Nat: neq0_conv no longer declared as iff.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6586 
  6587 * HOL-Word: New extensive library and type for generic, fixed size
  6588 machine words, with arithmetic, bit-wise, shifting and rotating
  6589 operations, reflection into int, nat, and bool lists, automation for
  6590 linear arithmetic (by automatic reflection into nat or int), including
  6591 lemmas on overflow and monotonicity.  Instantiated to all appropriate
  6592 arithmetic type classes, supporting automatic simplification of
  6593 numerals on all operations.
  6594 
  6595 * Library/Boolean_Algebra: locales for abstract boolean algebras.
  6596 
  6597 * Library/Numeral_Type: numbers as types, e.g. TYPE(32).
  6598 
  6599 * Code generator library theories:
  6600   - Code_Integer represents HOL integers by big integer literals in target
  6601     languages.
  6602   - Code_Char represents HOL characters by character literals in target
  6603     languages.
  6604   - Code_Char_chr like Code_Char, but also offers treatment of character
  6605     codes; includes Code_Integer.
  6606   - Executable_Set allows to generate code for finite sets using lists.
  6607   - Executable_Rat implements rational numbers as triples (sign, enumerator,
  6608     denominator).
  6609   - Executable_Real implements a subset of real numbers, namly those
  6610     representable by rational numbers.
  6611   - Efficient_Nat implements natural numbers by integers, which in general will
  6612     result in higher efficency; pattern matching with 0/Suc is eliminated;
  6613     includes Code_Integer.
  6614   - Code_Index provides an additional datatype index which is mapped to
  6615     target-language built-in integers.
  6616   - Code_Message provides an additional datatype message_string which is isomorphic to
  6617     strings; messages are mapped to target-language strings.
  6618 
  6619 * New package for inductive predicates
  6620 
  6621   An n-ary predicate p with m parameters z_1, ..., z_m can now be defined via
  6622 
  6623     inductive
  6624       p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  6625       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  6626     where
  6627       rule_1: "... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_1_1 ... t_1_n"
  6628     | ...
  6629 
  6630   with full support for type-inference, rather than
  6631 
  6632     consts s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  6633 
  6634     abbreviation p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  6635     where "p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n == (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6636 
  6637     inductive "s z_1 ... z_m"
  6638     intros
  6639       rule_1: "... ==> (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6640       ...
  6641 
  6642   For backward compatibility, there is a wrapper allowing inductive
  6643   sets to be defined with the new package via
  6644 
  6645     inductive_set
  6646       s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  6647       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  6648     where
  6649       rule_1: "... ==> (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6650     | ...
  6651 
  6652   or
  6653 
  6654     inductive_set
  6655       s :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => (T_1 * ... * T_n) set"
  6656       and p :: "U_1 => ... => U_m => T_1 => ... => T_n => bool"
  6657       for z_1 :: U_1 and ... and z_n :: U_m
  6658     where
  6659       "p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n == (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m"
  6660     | rule_1: "... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_1_1 ... t_1_n"
  6661     | ...
  6662 
  6663   if the additional syntax "p ..." is required.
  6664 
  6665   Numerous examples can be found in the subdirectories src/HOL/Auth,
  6666   src/HOL/Bali, src/HOL/Induct, and src/HOL/MicroJava.
  6667 
  6668   INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  6669 
  6670   - Since declaration and definition of inductive sets or predicates
  6671     is no longer separated, abbreviations involving the newly
  6672     introduced sets or predicates must be specified together with the
  6673     introduction rules after the 'where' keyword (see above), rather
  6674     than before the actual inductive definition.
  6675 
  6676   - The variables in induction and elimination rules are now
  6677     quantified in the order of their occurrence in the introduction
  6678     rules, rather than in alphabetical order. Since this may break
  6679     some proofs, these proofs either have to be repaired, e.g. by
  6680     reordering the variables a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i} in Isar 'case'
  6681     statements of the form
  6682 
  6683       case (rule_i a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i})
  6684 
  6685     or the old order of quantification has to be restored by explicitly adding
  6686     meta-level quantifiers in the introduction rules, i.e.
  6687 
  6688       | rule_i: "!!a_i_1 ... a_i_{k_i}. ... ==> p z_1 ... z_m t_i_1 ... t_i_n"
  6689 
  6690   - The format of the elimination rules is now
  6691 
  6692       p z_1 ... z_m x_1 ... x_n ==>
  6693         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x_1 = t_1_1 ==> ... ==> x_n = t_1_n ==> ... ==> P)
  6694         ==> ... ==> P
  6695 
  6696     for predicates and
  6697 
  6698       (x_1, ..., x_n) : s z_1 ... z_m ==>
  6699         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x_1 = t_1_1 ==> ... ==> x_n = t_1_n ==> ... ==> P)
  6700         ==> ... ==> P
  6701 
  6702     for sets rather than
  6703 
  6704       x : s z_1 ... z_m ==>
  6705         (!!a_1_1 ... a_1_{k_1}. x = (t_1_1, ..., t_1_n) ==> ... ==> P)
  6706         ==> ... ==> P
  6707 
  6708     This may require terms in goals to be expanded to n-tuples
  6709     (e.g. using case_tac or simplification with the split_paired_all
  6710     rule) before the above elimination rule is applicable.
  6711 
  6712   - The elimination or case analysis rules for (mutually) inductive
  6713     sets or predicates are now called "p_1.cases" ... "p_k.cases". The
  6714     list of rules "p_1_..._p_k.elims" is no longer available.
  6715 
  6716 * New package "function"/"fun" for general recursive functions,
  6717 supporting mutual and nested recursion, definitions in local contexts,
  6718 more general pattern matching and partiality. See HOL/ex/Fundefs.thy
  6719 for small examples, and the separate tutorial on the function
  6720 package. The old recdef "package" is still available as before, but
  6721 users are encouraged to use the new package.
  6722 
  6723 * Method "lexicographic_order" automatically synthesizes termination
  6724 relations as lexicographic combinations of size measures. 
  6725 
  6726 * Case-expressions allow arbitrary constructor-patterns (including
  6727 "_") and take their order into account, like in functional
  6728 programming.  Internally, this is translated into nested
  6729 case-expressions; missing cases are added and mapped to the predefined
  6730 constant "undefined". In complicated cases printing may no longer show
  6731 the original input but the internal form. Lambda-abstractions allow
  6732 the same form of pattern matching: "% pat1 => e1 | ..." is an
  6733 abbreviation for "%x. case x of pat1 => e1 | ..." where x is a new
  6734 variable.
  6735 
  6736 * IntDef: The constant "int :: nat => int" has been removed; now "int"
  6737 is an abbreviation for "of_nat :: nat => int". The simplification
  6738 rules for "of_nat" have been changed to work like "int" did
  6739 previously.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY:
  6740   - "of_nat (Suc m)" simplifies to "1 + of_nat m" instead of "of_nat m + 1"
  6741   - of_nat_diff and of_nat_mult are no longer default simp rules
  6742 
  6743 * Method "algebra" solves polynomial equations over (semi)rings using
  6744 Groebner bases. The (semi)ring structure is defined by locales and the
  6745 tool setup depends on that generic context. Installing the method for
  6746 a specific type involves instantiating the locale and possibly adding
  6747 declarations for computation on the coefficients.  The method is
  6748 already instantiated for natural numbers and for the axiomatic class
  6749 of idoms with numerals.  See also the paper by Chaieb and Wenzel at
  6750 CALCULEMUS 2007 for the general principles underlying this
  6751 architecture of context-aware proof-tools.
  6752 
  6753 * Method "ferrack" implements quantifier elimination over
  6754 special-purpose dense linear orders using locales (analogous to
  6755 "algebra"). The method is already installed for class
  6756 {ordered_field,recpower,number_ring} which subsumes real, hyperreal,
  6757 rat, etc.
  6758 
  6759 * Former constant "List.op @" now named "List.append".  Use ML
  6760 antiquotations @{const_name List.append} or @{term " ... @ ... "} to
  6761 circumvent possible incompatibilities when working on ML level.
  6762 
  6763 * primrec: missing cases mapped to "undefined" instead of "arbitrary".
  6764 
  6765 * New function listsum :: 'a list => 'a for arbitrary monoids.
  6766 Special syntax: "SUM x <- xs. f x" (and latex variants)
  6767 
  6768 * New syntax for Haskell-like list comprehension (input only), eg.
  6769 [(x,y). x <- xs, y <- ys, x ~= y], see also src/HOL/List.thy.
  6770 
  6771 * The special syntax for function "filter" has changed from [x :
  6772 xs. P] to [x <- xs. P] to avoid an ambiguity caused by list
  6773 comprehension syntax, and for uniformity.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6774 
  6775 * [a..b] is now defined for arbitrary linear orders.  It used to be
  6776 defined on nat only, as an abbreviation for [a..<Suc b]
  6777 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6778 
  6779 * Renamed lemma "set_take_whileD"  to "set_takeWhileD".
  6780 
  6781 * New functions "sorted" and "sort" in src/HOL/List.thy.
  6782 
  6783 * New lemma collection field_simps (an extension of ring_simps) for
  6784 manipulating (in)equations involving division. Multiplies with all
  6785 denominators that can be proved to be non-zero (in equations) or
  6786 positive/negative (in inequations).
  6787 
  6788 * Lemma collections ring_eq_simps, group_eq_simps and ring_distrib
  6789 have been improved and renamed to ring_simps, group_simps and
  6790 ring_distribs.  Removed lemmas field_xyz in theory Ring_and_Field
  6791 because they were subsumed by lemmas xyz.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6792 
  6793 * Theory Library/Commutative_Ring: switched from recdef to function
  6794 package; constants add, mul, pow now curried.  Infix syntax for
  6795 algebraic operations.
  6796 
  6797 * Dropped redundant lemma def_imp_eq in favor of meta_eq_to_obj_eq.
  6798 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6799 
  6800 * Dropped redundant lemma if_def2 in favor of if_bool_eq_conj.
  6801 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6802 
  6803 * HOL/records: generalised field-update to take a function on the
  6804 field rather than the new value: r(|A := x|) is translated to A_update
  6805 (K x) r The K-combinator that is internally used is called K_record.
  6806 INCOMPATIBILITY: Usage of the plain update functions has to be
  6807 adapted.
  6808  
  6809 * Class "semiring_0" now contains annihilation axioms x * 0 = 0 and 0
  6810 * x = 0, which are required for a semiring.  Richer structures do not
  6811 inherit from semiring_0 anymore, because this property is a theorem
  6812 there, not an axiom.  INCOMPATIBILITY: In instances of semiring_0,
  6813 there is more to prove, but this is mostly trivial.
  6814 
  6815 * Class "recpower" is generalized to arbitrary monoids, not just
  6816 commutative semirings.  INCOMPATIBILITY: may need to incorporate
  6817 commutativity or semiring properties additionally.
  6818 
  6819 * Constant "List.list_all2" in List.thy now uses authentic syntax.
  6820 INCOMPATIBILITY: translations containing list_all2 may go wrong,
  6821 better use 'abbreviation'.
  6822 
  6823 * Renamed constant "List.op mem" to "List.member".  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6824 
  6825 * Numeral syntax: type 'bin' which was a mere type copy of 'int' has
  6826 been abandoned in favour of plain 'int'.  INCOMPATIBILITY --
  6827 significant changes for setting up numeral syntax for types:
  6828   - New constants Numeral.pred and Numeral.succ instead
  6829       of former Numeral.bin_pred and Numeral.bin_succ.
  6830   - Use integer operations instead of bin_add, bin_mult and so on.
  6831   - Numeral simplification theorems named Numeral.numeral_simps instead of Bin_simps.
  6832   - ML structure Bin_Simprocs now named Int_Numeral_Base_Simprocs.
  6833 
  6834 See src/HOL/Integ/IntArith.thy for an example setup.
  6835 
  6836 * Command 'normal_form' computes the normal form of a term that may
  6837 contain free variables.  For example ``normal_form "rev [a, b, c]"''
  6838 produces ``[b, c, a]'' (without proof).  This command is suitable for
  6839 heavy-duty computations because the functions are compiled to ML
  6840 first.  Correspondingly, a method "normalization" is provided.  See
  6841 further src/HOL/ex/NormalForm.thy and src/Tools/nbe.ML.
  6842 
  6843 * Alternative iff syntax "A <-> B" for equality on bool (with priority
  6844 25 like -->); output depends on the "iff" print_mode, the default is
  6845 "A = B" (with priority 50).
  6846 
  6847 * Relations less (<) and less_eq (<=) are also available on type bool.
  6848 Modified syntax to disallow nesting without explicit parentheses,
  6849 e.g. "(x < y) < z" or "x < (y < z)", but NOT "x < y < z".  Potential
  6850 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6851 
  6852 * "LEAST x:A. P" expands to "LEAST x. x:A & P" (input only).
  6853 
  6854 * Relation composition operator "op O" now has precedence 75 and binds
  6855 stronger than union and intersection. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6856 
  6857 * The old set interval syntax "{m..n(}" (and relatives) has been
  6858 removed.  Use "{m..<n}" (and relatives) instead.
  6859 
  6860 * In the context of the assumption "~(s = t)" the Simplifier rewrites
  6861 "t = s" to False (by simproc "neq").  INCOMPATIBILITY, consider using
  6862 ``declare [[simproc del: neq]]''.
  6863 
  6864 * Simplifier: "m dvd n" where m and n are numbers is evaluated to
  6865 True/False.
  6866 
  6867 * Theorem Cons_eq_map_conv no longer declared as "simp".
  6868 
  6869 * Theorem setsum_mult renamed to setsum_right_distrib.
  6870 
  6871 * Prefer ex1I over ex_ex1I in single-step reasoning, e.g. by the
  6872 ``rule'' method.
  6873 
  6874 * Reimplemented methods "sat" and "satx", with several improvements:
  6875 goals no longer need to be stated as "<prems> ==> False", equivalences
  6876 (i.e. "=" on type bool) are handled, variable names of the form
  6877 "lit_<n>" are no longer reserved, significant speedup.
  6878 
  6879 * Methods "sat" and "satx" can now replay MiniSat proof traces.
  6880 zChaff is still supported as well.
  6881 
  6882 * 'inductive' and 'datatype': provide projections of mutual rules,
  6883 bundled as foo_bar.inducts;
  6884 
  6885 * Library: moved theories Parity, GCD, Binomial, Infinite_Set to
  6886 Library.
  6887 
  6888 * Library: moved theory Accessible_Part to main HOL.
  6889 
  6890 * Library: added theory Coinductive_List of potentially infinite lists
  6891 as greatest fixed-point.
  6892 
  6893 * Library: added theory AssocList which implements (finite) maps as
  6894 association lists.
  6895 
  6896 * Method "evaluation" solves goals (i.e. a boolean expression)
  6897 efficiently by compiling it to ML.  The goal is "proved" (via an
  6898 oracle) if it evaluates to True.
  6899 
  6900 * Linear arithmetic now splits certain operators (e.g. min, max, abs)
  6901 also when invoked by the simplifier.  This results in the Simplifier
  6902 being more powerful on arithmetic goals.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6903 Configuration option fast_arith_split_limit=0 recovers the old
  6904 behavior.
  6905 
  6906 * Support for hex (0x20) and binary (0b1001) numerals.
  6907 
  6908 * New method: reify eqs (t), where eqs are equations for an
  6909 interpretation I :: 'a list => 'b => 'c and t::'c is an optional
  6910 parameter, computes a term s::'b and a list xs::'a list and proves the
  6911 theorem I xs s = t. This is also known as reification or quoting. The
  6912 resulting theorem is applied to the subgoal to substitute t with I xs
  6913 s.  If t is omitted, the subgoal itself is reified.
  6914 
  6915 * New method: reflection corr_thm eqs (t). The parameters eqs and (t)
  6916 are as explained above. corr_thm is a theorem for I vs (f t) = I vs t,
  6917 where f is supposed to be a computable function (in the sense of code
  6918 generattion). The method uses reify to compute s and xs as above then
  6919 applies corr_thm and uses normalization by evaluation to "prove" f s =
  6920 r and finally gets the theorem t = r, which is again applied to the
  6921 subgoal. An Example is available in src/HOL/ex/ReflectionEx.thy.
  6922 
  6923 * Reflection: Automatic reification now handels binding, an example is
  6924 available in src/HOL/ex/ReflectionEx.thy
  6925 
  6926 * HOL-Statespace: ``State Spaces: The Locale Way'' introduces a
  6927 command 'statespace' that is similar to 'record', but introduces an
  6928 abstract specification based on the locale infrastructure instead of
  6929 HOL types.  This leads to extra flexibility in composing state spaces,
  6930 in particular multiple inheritance and renaming of components.
  6931 
  6932 
  6933 *** HOL-Complex ***
  6934 
  6935 * Hyperreal: Functions root and sqrt are now defined on negative real
  6936 inputs so that root n (- x) = - root n x and sqrt (- x) = - sqrt x.
  6937 Nonnegativity side conditions have been removed from many lemmas, so
  6938 that more subgoals may now be solved by simplification; potential
  6939 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6940 
  6941 * Real: new type classes formalize real normed vector spaces and
  6942 algebras, using new overloaded constants scaleR :: real => 'a => 'a
  6943 and norm :: 'a => real.
  6944 
  6945 * Real: constant of_real :: real => 'a::real_algebra_1 injects from
  6946 reals into other types. The overloaded constant Reals :: 'a set is now
  6947 defined as range of_real; potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6948 
  6949 * Real: proper support for ML code generation, including 'quickcheck'.
  6950 Reals are implemented as arbitrary precision rationals.
  6951 
  6952 * Hyperreal: Several constants that previously worked only for the
  6953 reals have been generalized, so they now work over arbitrary vector
  6954 spaces. Type annotations may need to be added in some cases; potential
  6955 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6956 
  6957   Infinitesimal  :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  6958   HFinite        :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  6959   HInfinite      :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star set
  6960   approx         :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star => bool
  6961   monad          :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star set
  6962   galaxy         :: ('a::real_normed_vector) star => 'a star set
  6963   (NS)LIMSEQ     :: [nat => 'a::real_normed_vector, 'a] => bool
  6964   (NS)convergent :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  6965   (NS)Bseq       :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  6966   (NS)Cauchy     :: (nat => 'a::real_normed_vector) => bool
  6967   (NS)LIM        :: ['a::real_normed_vector => 'b::real_normed_vector, 'a, 'b] => bool
  6968   is(NS)Cont     :: ['a::real_normed_vector => 'b::real_normed_vector, 'a] => bool
  6969   deriv          :: ['a::real_normed_field => 'a, 'a, 'a] => bool
  6970   sgn            :: 'a::real_normed_vector => 'a
  6971   exp            :: 'a::{recpower,real_normed_field,banach} => 'a
  6972 
  6973 * Complex: Some complex-specific constants are now abbreviations for
  6974 overloaded ones: complex_of_real = of_real, cmod = norm, hcmod =
  6975 hnorm.  Other constants have been entirely removed in favor of the
  6976 polymorphic versions (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  6977 
  6978   approx        <-- capprox
  6979   HFinite       <-- CFinite
  6980   HInfinite     <-- CInfinite
  6981   Infinitesimal <-- CInfinitesimal
  6982   monad         <-- cmonad
  6983   galaxy        <-- cgalaxy
  6984   (NS)LIM       <-- (NS)CLIM, (NS)CRLIM
  6985   is(NS)Cont    <-- is(NS)Contc, is(NS)contCR
  6986   (ns)deriv     <-- (ns)cderiv
  6987 
  6988 
  6989 *** HOL-Algebra ***
  6990 
  6991 * Formalisation of ideals and the quotient construction over rings.
  6992 
  6993 * Order and lattice theory no longer based on records.
  6994 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6995 
  6996 * Renamed lemmas least_carrier -> least_closed and greatest_carrier ->
  6997 greatest_closed.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  6998 
  6999 * Method algebra is now set up via an attribute.  For examples see
  7000 Ring.thy.  INCOMPATIBILITY: the method is now weaker on combinations
  7001 of algebraic structures.
  7002 
  7003 * Renamed theory CRing to Ring.
  7004 
  7005 
  7006 *** HOL-Nominal ***
  7007 
  7008 * Substantial, yet incomplete support for nominal datatypes (binding
  7009 structures) based on HOL-Nominal logic.  See src/HOL/Nominal and
  7010 src/HOL/Nominal/Examples.  Prospective users should consult
  7011 http://isabelle.in.tum.de/nominal/
  7012 
  7013 
  7014 *** ML ***
  7015 
  7016 * ML basics: just one true type int, which coincides with IntInf.int
  7017 (even on SML/NJ).
  7018 
  7019 * ML within Isar: antiquotations allow to embed statically-checked
  7020 formal entities in the source, referring to the context available at
  7021 compile-time.  For example:
  7022 
  7023 ML {* @{sort "{zero,one}"} *}
  7024 ML {* @{typ "'a => 'b"} *}
  7025 ML {* @{term "%x. x"} *}
  7026 ML {* @{prop "x == y"} *}
  7027 ML {* @{ctyp "'a => 'b"} *}
  7028 ML {* @{cterm "%x. x"} *}
  7029 ML {* @{cprop "x == y"} *}
  7030 ML {* @{thm asm_rl} *}
  7031 ML {* @{thms asm_rl} *}
  7032 ML {* @{type_name c} *}
  7033 ML {* @{type_syntax c} *}
  7034 ML {* @{const_name c} *}
  7035 ML {* @{const_syntax c} *}
  7036 ML {* @{context} *}
  7037 ML {* @{theory} *}
  7038 ML {* @{theory Pure} *}
  7039 ML {* @{theory_ref} *}
  7040 ML {* @{theory_ref Pure} *}
  7041 ML {* @{simpset} *}
  7042 ML {* @{claset} *}
  7043 ML {* @{clasimpset} *}
  7044 
  7045 The same works for sources being ``used'' within an Isar context.
  7046 
  7047 * ML in Isar: improved error reporting; extra verbosity with
  7048 ML_Context.trace enabled.
  7049 
  7050 * Pure/General/table.ML: the join operations now works via exceptions
  7051 DUP/SAME instead of type option. This is simpler in simple cases, and
  7052 admits slightly more efficient complex applications.
  7053 
  7054 * Pure: 'advanced' translation functions (parse_translation etc.) now
  7055 use Context.generic instead of just theory.
  7056 
  7057 * Pure: datatype Context.generic joins theory/Proof.context and
  7058 provides some facilities for code that works in either kind of
  7059 context, notably GenericDataFun for uniform theory and proof data.
  7060 
  7061 * Pure: simplified internal attribute type, which is now always
  7062 Context.generic * thm -> Context.generic * thm. Global (theory) vs.
  7063 local (Proof.context) attributes have been discontinued, while
  7064 minimizing code duplication. Thm.rule_attribute and
  7065 Thm.declaration_attribute build canonical attributes; see also structure
  7066 Context for further operations on Context.generic, notably
  7067 GenericDataFun. INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt attribute type
  7068 declarations and definitions.
  7069 
  7070 * Context data interfaces (Theory/Proof/GenericDataFun): removed
  7071 name/print, uninitialized data defaults to ad-hoc copy of empty value,
  7072 init only required for impure data. INCOMPATIBILITY: empty really need
  7073 to be empty (no dependencies on theory content!)
  7074 
  7075 * Pure/kernel: consts certification ignores sort constraints given in
  7076 signature declarations. (This information is not relevant to the
  7077 logic, but only for type inference.) SIGNIFICANT INTERNAL CHANGE,
  7078 potential INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7079 
  7080 * Pure: axiomatic type classes are now purely definitional, with
  7081 explicit proofs of class axioms and super class relations performed
  7082 internally. See Pure/axclass.ML for the main internal interfaces --
  7083 notably AxClass.define_class supercedes AxClass.add_axclass, and
  7084 AxClass.axiomatize_class/classrel/arity supersede
  7085 Sign.add_classes/classrel/arities.
  7086 
  7087 * Pure/Isar: Args/Attrib parsers operate on Context.generic --
  7088 global/local versions on theory vs. Proof.context have been
  7089 discontinued; Attrib.syntax and Method.syntax have been adapted
  7090 accordingly.  INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt parser expressions for
  7091 attributes, methods, etc.
  7092 
  7093 * Pure: several functions of signature "... -> theory -> theory * ..."
  7094 have been reoriented to "... -> theory -> ... * theory" in order to
  7095 allow natural usage in combination with the ||>, ||>>, |-> and
  7096 fold_map combinators.
  7097 
  7098 * Pure: official theorem names (closed derivations) and additional
  7099 comments (tags) are now strictly separate.  Name hints -- which are
  7100 maintained as tags -- may be attached any time without affecting the
  7101 derivation.
  7102 
  7103 * Pure: primitive rule lift_rule now takes goal cterm instead of an
  7104 actual goal state (thm).  Use Thm.lift_rule (Thm.cprem_of st i) to
  7105 achieve the old behaviour.
  7106 
  7107 * Pure: the "Goal" constant is now called "prop", supporting a
  7108 slightly more general idea of ``protecting'' meta-level rule
  7109 statements.
  7110 
  7111 * Pure: Logic.(un)varify only works in a global context, which is now
  7112 enforced instead of silently assumed.  INCOMPATIBILITY, may use
  7113 Logic.legacy_(un)varify as temporary workaround.
  7114 
  7115 * Pure: structure Name provides scalable operations for generating
  7116 internal variable names, notably Name.variants etc.  This replaces
  7117 some popular functions from term.ML:
  7118 
  7119   Term.variant		->  Name.variant
  7120   Term.variantlist	->  Name.variant_list
  7121   Term.invent_names	->  Name.invent_list
  7122 
  7123 Note that low-level renaming rarely occurs in new code -- operations
  7124 from structure Variable are used instead (see below).
  7125 
  7126 * Pure: structure Variable provides fundamental operations for proper
  7127 treatment of fixed/schematic variables in a context.  For example,
  7128 Variable.import introduces fixes for schematics of given facts and
  7129 Variable.export reverses the effect (up to renaming) -- this replaces
  7130 various freeze_thaw operations.
  7131 
  7132 * Pure: structure Goal provides simple interfaces for
  7133 init/conclude/finish and tactical prove operations (replacing former
  7134 Tactic.prove).  Goal.prove is the canonical way to prove results
  7135 within a given context; Goal.prove_global is a degraded version for
  7136 theory level goals, including a global Drule.standard.  Note that
  7137 OldGoals.prove_goalw_cterm has long been obsolete, since it is
  7138 ill-behaved in a local proof context (e.g. with local fixes/assumes or
  7139 in a locale context).
  7140 
  7141 * Pure/Syntax: generic interfaces for parsing (Syntax.parse_term etc.)
  7142 and type checking (Syntax.check_term etc.), with common combinations
  7143 (Syntax.read_term etc.). These supersede former Sign.read_term etc.
  7144 which are considered legacy and await removal.
  7145 
  7146 * Pure/Syntax: generic interfaces for type unchecking
  7147 (Syntax.uncheck_terms etc.) and unparsing (Syntax.unparse_term etc.),
  7148 with common combinations (Syntax.pretty_term, Syntax.string_of_term
  7149 etc.).  Former Sign.pretty_term, Sign.string_of_term etc. are still
  7150 available for convenience, but refer to the very same operations using
  7151 a mere theory instead of a full context.
  7152 
  7153 * Isar: simplified treatment of user-level errors, using exception
  7154 ERROR of string uniformly.  Function error now merely raises ERROR,
  7155 without any side effect on output channels.  The Isar toplevel takes
  7156 care of proper display of ERROR exceptions.  ML code may use plain
  7157 handle/can/try; cat_error may be used to concatenate errors like this:
  7158 
  7159   ... handle ERROR msg => cat_error msg "..."
  7160 
  7161 Toplevel ML code (run directly or through the Isar toplevel) may be
  7162 embedded into the Isar toplevel with exception display/debug like
  7163 this:
  7164 
  7165   Isar.toplevel (fn () => ...)
  7166 
  7167 INCOMPATIBILITY, removed special transform_error facilities, removed
  7168 obsolete variants of user-level exceptions (ERROR_MESSAGE,
  7169 Context.PROOF, ProofContext.CONTEXT, Proof.STATE, ProofHistory.FAIL)
  7170 -- use plain ERROR instead.
  7171 
  7172 * Isar: theory setup now has type (theory -> theory), instead of a
  7173 list.  INCOMPATIBILITY, may use #> to compose setup functions.
  7174 
  7175 * Isar: ML toplevel pretty printer for type Proof.context, subject to
  7176 ProofContext.debug/verbose flags.
  7177 
  7178 * Isar: Toplevel.theory_to_proof admits transactions that modify the
  7179 theory before entering a proof state.  Transactions now always see a
  7180 quasi-functional intermediate checkpoint, both in interactive and
  7181 batch mode.
  7182 
  7183 * Isar: simplified interfaces for outer syntax.  Renamed
  7184 OuterSyntax.add_keywords to OuterSyntax.keywords.  Removed
  7185 OuterSyntax.add_parsers -- this functionality is now included in
  7186 OuterSyntax.command etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7187 
  7188 * Simplifier: the simpset of a running simplification process now
  7189 contains a proof context (cf. Simplifier.the_context), which is the
  7190 very context that the initial simpset has been retrieved from (by
  7191 simpset_of/local_simpset_of).  Consequently, all plug-in components
  7192 (solver, looper etc.) may depend on arbitrary proof data.
  7193 
  7194 * Simplifier.inherit_context inherits the proof context (plus the
  7195 local bounds) of the current simplification process; any simproc
  7196 etc. that calls the Simplifier recursively should do this!  Removed
  7197 former Simplifier.inherit_bounds, which is already included here --
  7198 INCOMPATIBILITY.  Tools based on low-level rewriting may even have to
  7199 specify an explicit context using Simplifier.context/theory_context.
  7200 
  7201 * Simplifier/Classical Reasoner: more abstract interfaces
  7202 change_simpset/claset for modifying the simpset/claset reference of a
  7203 theory; raw versions simpset/claset_ref etc. have been discontinued --
  7204 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7205 
  7206 * Provers: more generic wrt. syntax of object-logics, avoid hardwired
  7207 "Trueprop" etc.
  7208 
  7209 
  7210 *** System ***
  7211 
  7212 * settings: the default heap location within ISABELLE_HOME_USER now
  7213 includes ISABELLE_IDENTIFIER.  This simplifies use of multiple
  7214 Isabelle installations.
  7215 
  7216 * isabelle-process: option -S (secure mode) disables some critical
  7217 operations, notably runtime compilation and evaluation of ML source
  7218 code.
  7219 
  7220 * Basic Isabelle mode for jEdit, see Isabelle/lib/jedit/.
  7221 
  7222 * Support for parallel execution, using native multicore support of
  7223 Poly/ML 5.1.  The theory loader exploits parallelism when processing
  7224 independent theories, according to the given theory header
  7225 specifications. The maximum number of worker threads is specified via
  7226 usedir option -M or the "max-threads" setting in Proof General. A
  7227 speedup factor of 1.5--3.5 can be expected on a 4-core machine, and up
  7228 to 6 on a 8-core machine.  User-code needs to observe certain
  7229 guidelines for thread-safe programming, see appendix A in the Isar
  7230 Implementation manual.
  7231 
  7232 
  7233 
  7234 New in Isabelle2005 (October 2005)
  7235 ----------------------------------
  7236 
  7237 *** General ***
  7238 
  7239 * Theory headers: the new header syntax for Isar theories is
  7240 
  7241   theory <name>
  7242   imports <theory1> ... <theoryN>
  7243   uses <file1> ... <fileM>
  7244   begin
  7245 
  7246 where the 'uses' part is optional.  The previous syntax
  7247 
  7248   theory <name> = <theory1> + ... + <theoryN>:
  7249 
  7250 will disappear in the next release.  Use isatool fixheaders to convert
  7251 existing theory files.  Note that there is no change in ancient
  7252 non-Isar theories now, but these will disappear soon.
  7253 
  7254 * Theory loader: parent theories can now also be referred to via
  7255 relative and absolute paths.
  7256 
  7257 * Command 'find_theorems' searches for a list of criteria instead of a
  7258 list of constants. Known criteria are: intro, elim, dest, name:string,
  7259 simp:term, and any term. Criteria can be preceded by '-' to select
  7260 theorems that do not match. Intro, elim, dest select theorems that
  7261 match the current goal, name:s selects theorems whose fully qualified
  7262 name contain s, and simp:term selects all simplification rules whose
  7263 lhs match term.  Any other term is interpreted as pattern and selects
  7264 all theorems matching the pattern. Available in ProofGeneral under
  7265 'ProofGeneral -> Find Theorems' or C-c C-f.  Example:
  7266 
  7267   C-c C-f (100) "(_::nat) + _ + _" intro -name: "HOL."
  7268 
  7269 prints the last 100 theorems matching the pattern "(_::nat) + _ + _",
  7270 matching the current goal as introduction rule and not having "HOL."
  7271 in their name (i.e. not being defined in theory HOL).
  7272 
  7273 * Command 'thms_containing' has been discontinued in favour of
  7274 'find_theorems'; INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7275 
  7276 * Communication with Proof General is now 8bit clean, which means that
  7277 Unicode text in UTF-8 encoding may be used within theory texts (both
  7278 formal and informal parts).  Cf. option -U of the Isabelle Proof
  7279 General interface.  Here are some simple examples (cf. src/HOL/ex):
  7280 
  7281   http://isabelle.in.tum.de/library/HOL/ex/Hebrew.html
  7282   http://isabelle.in.tum.de/library/HOL/ex/Chinese.html
  7283 
  7284 * Improved efficiency of the Simplifier and, to a lesser degree, the
  7285 Classical Reasoner.  Typical big applications run around 2 times
  7286 faster.
  7287 
  7288 
  7289 *** Document preparation ***
  7290 
  7291 * Commands 'display_drafts' and 'print_drafts' perform simple output
  7292 of raw sources.  Only those symbols that do not require additional
  7293 LaTeX packages (depending on comments in isabellesym.sty) are
  7294 displayed properly, everything else is left verbatim.  isatool display
  7295 and isatool print are used as front ends (these are subject to the
  7296 DVI/PDF_VIEWER and PRINT_COMMAND settings, respectively).
  7297 
  7298 * Command tags control specific markup of certain regions of text,
  7299 notably folding and hiding.  Predefined tags include "theory" (for
  7300 theory begin and end), "proof" for proof commands, and "ML" for
  7301 commands involving ML code; the additional tags "visible" and
  7302 "invisible" are unused by default.  Users may give explicit tag
  7303 specifications in the text, e.g. ''by %invisible (auto)''.  The
  7304 interpretation of tags is determined by the LaTeX job during document
  7305 preparation: see option -V of isatool usedir, or options -n and -t of
  7306 isatool document, or even the LaTeX macros \isakeeptag, \isafoldtag,
  7307 \isadroptag.
  7308 
  7309 Several document versions may be produced at the same time via isatool
  7310 usedir (the generated index.html will link all of them).  Typical
  7311 specifications include ''-V document=theory,proof,ML'' to present
  7312 theory/proof/ML parts faithfully, ''-V outline=/proof,/ML'' to fold
  7313 proof and ML commands, and ''-V mutilated=-theory,-proof,-ML'' to omit
  7314 these parts without any formal replacement text.  The Isabelle site
  7315 default settings produce ''document'' and ''outline'' versions as
  7316 specified above.
  7317 
  7318 * Several new antiquotations:
  7319 
  7320   @{term_type term} prints a term with its type annotated;
  7321 
  7322   @{typeof term} prints the type of a term;
  7323 
  7324   @{const const} is the same as @{term const}, but checks that the
  7325   argument is a known logical constant;
  7326 
  7327   @{term_style style term} and @{thm_style style thm} print a term or
  7328   theorem applying a "style" to it
  7329 
  7330   @{ML text}
  7331 
  7332 Predefined styles are 'lhs' and 'rhs' printing the lhs/rhs of
  7333 definitions, equations, inequations etc., 'concl' printing only the
  7334 conclusion of a meta-logical statement theorem, and 'prem1' .. 'prem19'
  7335 to print the specified premise.  TermStyle.add_style provides an ML
  7336 interface for introducing further styles.  See also the "LaTeX Sugar"
  7337 document practical applications.  The ML antiquotation prints
  7338 type-checked ML expressions verbatim.
  7339 
  7340 * Markup commands 'chapter', 'section', 'subsection', 'subsubsection',
  7341 and 'text' support optional locale specification '(in loc)', which
  7342 specifies the default context for interpreting antiquotations.  For
  7343 example: 'text (in lattice) {* @{thm inf_assoc}*}'.
  7344 
  7345 * Option 'locale=NAME' of antiquotations specifies an alternative
  7346 context interpreting the subsequent argument.  For example: @{thm
  7347 [locale=lattice] inf_assoc}.
  7348 
  7349 * Proper output of proof terms (@{prf ...} and @{full_prf ...}) within
  7350 a proof context.
  7351 
  7352 * Proper output of antiquotations for theory commands involving a
  7353 proof context (such as 'locale' or 'theorem (in loc) ...').
  7354 
  7355 * Delimiters of outer tokens (string etc.) now produce separate LaTeX
  7356 macros (\isachardoublequoteopen, isachardoublequoteclose etc.).
  7357 
  7358 * isatool usedir: new option -C (default true) controls whether option
  7359 -D should include a copy of the original document directory; -C false
  7360 prevents unwanted effects such as copying of administrative CVS data.
  7361 
  7362 
  7363 *** Pure ***
  7364 
  7365 * Considerably improved version of 'constdefs' command.  Now performs
  7366 automatic type-inference of declared constants; additional support for
  7367 local structure declarations (cf. locales and HOL records), see also
  7368 isar-ref manual.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY: need to observe strictly
  7369 sequential dependencies of definitions within a single 'constdefs'
  7370 section; moreover, the declared name needs to be an identifier.  If
  7371 all fails, consider to fall back on 'consts' and 'defs' separately.
  7372 
  7373 * Improved indexed syntax and implicit structures.  First of all,
  7374 indexed syntax provides a notational device for subscripted
  7375 application, using the new syntax \<^bsub>term\<^esub> for arbitrary
  7376 expressions.  Secondly, in a local context with structure
  7377 declarations, number indexes \<^sub>n or the empty index (default
  7378 number 1) refer to a certain fixed variable implicitly; option
  7379 show_structs controls printing of implicit structures.  Typical
  7380 applications of these concepts involve record types and locales.
  7381 
  7382 * New command 'no_syntax' removes grammar declarations (and
  7383 translations) resulting from the given syntax specification, which is
  7384 interpreted in the same manner as for the 'syntax' command.
  7385 
  7386 * 'Advanced' translation functions (parse_translation etc.) may depend
  7387 on the signature of the theory context being presently used for
  7388 parsing/printing, see also isar-ref manual.
  7389 
  7390 * Improved 'oracle' command provides a type-safe interface to turn an
  7391 ML expression of type theory -> T -> term into a primitive rule of
  7392 type theory -> T -> thm (i.e. the functionality of Thm.invoke_oracle
  7393 is already included here); see also FOL/ex/IffExample.thy;
  7394 INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7395 
  7396 * axclass: name space prefix for class "c" is now "c_class" (was "c"
  7397 before); "cI" is no longer bound, use "c.intro" instead.
  7398 INCOMPATIBILITY.  This change avoids clashes of fact bindings for
  7399 axclasses vs. locales.
  7400 
  7401 * Improved internal renaming of symbolic identifiers -- attach primes
  7402 instead of base 26 numbers.
  7403 
  7404 * New flag show_question_marks controls printing of leading question
  7405 marks in schematic variable names.
  7406 
  7407 * In schematic variable names, *any* symbol following \<^isub> or
  7408 \<^isup> is now treated as part of the base name.  For example, the
  7409 following works without printing of awkward ".0" indexes:
  7410 
  7411   lemma "x\<^isub>1 = x\<^isub>2 ==> x\<^isub>2 = x\<^isub>1"
  7412     by simp
  7413 
  7414 * Inner syntax includes (*(*nested*) comments*).
  7415 
  7416 * Pretty printer now supports unbreakable blocks, specified in mixfix
  7417 annotations as "(00...)".
  7418 
  7419 * Clear separation of logical types and nonterminals, where the latter
  7420 may only occur in 'syntax' specifications or type abbreviations.
  7421 Before that distinction was only partially implemented via type class
  7422 "logic" vs. "{}".  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY in rare cases of improper
  7423 use of 'types'/'consts' instead of 'nonterminals'/'syntax'.  Some very
  7424 exotic syntax specifications may require further adaption
  7425 (e.g. Cube/Cube.thy).
  7426 
  7427 * Removed obsolete type class "logic", use the top sort {} instead.
  7428 Note that non-logical types should be declared as 'nonterminals'
  7429 rather than 'types'.  INCOMPATIBILITY for new object-logic
  7430 specifications.
  7431 
  7432 * Attributes 'induct' and 'cases': type or set names may now be
  7433 locally fixed variables as well.
  7434 
  7435 * Simplifier: can now control the depth to which conditional rewriting
  7436 is traced via the PG menu Isabelle -> Settings -> Trace Simp Depth
  7437 Limit.
  7438 
  7439 * Simplifier: simplification procedures may now take the current
  7440 simpset into account (cf. Simplifier.simproc(_i) / mk_simproc
  7441 interface), which is very useful for calling the Simplifier
  7442 recursively.  Minor INCOMPATIBILITY: the 'prems' argument of simprocs
  7443 is gone -- use prems_of_ss on the simpset instead.  Moreover, the
  7444 low-level mk_simproc no longer applies Logic.varify internally, to
  7445 allow for use in a context of fixed variables.
  7446 
  7447 * thin_tac now works even if the assumption being deleted contains !!
  7448 or ==>.  More generally, erule now works even if the major premise of
  7449 the elimination rule contains !! or ==>.
  7450 
  7451 * Method 'rules' has been renamed to 'iprover'. INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7452 
  7453 * Reorganized bootstrapping of the Pure theories; CPure is now derived
  7454 from Pure, which contains all common declarations already.  Both
  7455 theories are defined via plain Isabelle/Isar .thy files.
  7456 INCOMPATIBILITY: elements of CPure (such as the CPure.intro /
  7457 CPure.elim / CPure.dest attributes) now appear in the Pure name space;
  7458 use isatool fixcpure to adapt your theory and ML sources.
  7459 
  7460 * New syntax 'name(i-j, i-, i, ...)' for referring to specific
  7461 selections of theorems in named facts via index ranges.
  7462 
  7463 * 'print_theorems': in theory mode, really print the difference
  7464 wrt. the last state (works for interactive theory development only),
  7465 in proof mode print all local facts (cf. 'print_facts');
  7466 
  7467 * 'hide': option '(open)' hides only base names.
  7468 
  7469 * More efficient treatment of intermediate checkpoints in interactive
  7470 theory development.
  7471 
  7472 * Code generator is now invoked via code_module (incremental code
  7473 generation) and code_library (modular code generation, ML structures
  7474 for each theory).  INCOMPATIBILITY: new keywords 'file' and 'contains'
  7475 must be quoted when used as identifiers.
  7476 
  7477 * New 'value' command for reading, evaluating and printing terms using
  7478 the code generator.  INCOMPATIBILITY: command keyword 'value' must be
  7479 quoted when used as identifier.
  7480 
  7481 
  7482 *** Locales ***
  7483 
  7484 * New commands for the interpretation of locale expressions in
  7485 theories (1), locales (2) and proof contexts (3).  These generate
  7486 proof obligations from the expression specification.  After the
  7487 obligations have been discharged, theorems of the expression are added
  7488 to the theory, target locale or proof context.  The synopsis of the
  7489 commands is a follows:
  7490 
  7491   (1) interpretation expr inst
  7492   (2) interpretation target < expr
  7493   (3) interpret expr inst
  7494 
  7495 Interpretation in theories and proof contexts require a parameter
  7496 instantiation of terms from the current context.  This is applied to
  7497 specifications and theorems of the interpreted expression.
  7498 Interpretation in locales only permits parameter renaming through the
  7499 locale expression.  Interpretation is smart in that interpretations
  7500 that are active already do not occur in proof obligations, neither are
  7501 instantiated theorems stored in duplicate.  Use 'print_interps' to
  7502 inspect active interpretations of a particular locale.  For details,
  7503 see the Isar Reference manual.  Examples can be found in
  7504 HOL/Finite_Set.thy and HOL/Algebra/UnivPoly.thy.
  7505 
  7506 INCOMPATIBILITY: former 'instantiate' has been withdrawn, use
  7507 'interpret' instead.
  7508 
  7509 * New context element 'constrains' for adding type constraints to
  7510 parameters.
  7511 
  7512 * Context expressions: renaming of parameters with syntax
  7513 redeclaration.
  7514 
  7515 * Locale declaration: 'includes' disallowed.
  7516 
  7517 * Proper static binding of attribute syntax -- i.e. types / terms /
  7518 facts mentioned as arguments are always those of the locale definition
  7519 context, independently of the context of later invocations.  Moreover,
  7520 locale operations (renaming and type / term instantiation) are applied
  7521 to attribute arguments as expected.
  7522 
  7523 INCOMPATIBILITY of the ML interface: always pass Attrib.src instead of
  7524 actual attributes; rare situations may require Attrib.attribute to
  7525 embed those attributes into Attrib.src that lack concrete syntax.
  7526 Attribute implementations need to cooperate properly with the static
  7527 binding mechanism.  Basic parsers Args.XXX_typ/term/prop and
  7528 Attrib.XXX_thm etc. already do the right thing without further
  7529 intervention.  Only unusual applications -- such as "where" or "of"
  7530 (cf. src/Pure/Isar/attrib.ML), which process arguments depending both
  7531 on the context and the facts involved -- may have to assign parsed
  7532 values to argument tokens explicitly.
  7533 
  7534 * Changed parameter management in theorem generation for long goal
  7535 statements with 'includes'.  INCOMPATIBILITY: produces a different
  7536 theorem statement in rare situations.
  7537 
  7538 * Locale inspection command 'print_locale' omits notes elements.  Use
  7539 'print_locale!' to have them included in the output.
  7540 
  7541 
  7542 *** Provers ***
  7543 
  7544 * Provers/hypsubst.ML: improved version of the subst method, for
  7545 single-step rewriting: it now works in bound variable contexts. New is
  7546 'subst (asm)', for rewriting an assumption.  INCOMPATIBILITY: may
  7547 rewrite a different subterm than the original subst method, which is
  7548 still available as 'simplesubst'.
  7549 
  7550 * Provers/quasi.ML: new transitivity reasoners for transitivity only
  7551 and quasi orders.
  7552 
  7553 * Provers/trancl.ML: new transitivity reasoner for transitive and
  7554 reflexive-transitive closure of relations.
  7555 
  7556 * Provers/blast.ML: new reference depth_limit to make blast's depth
  7557 limit (previously hard-coded with a value of 20) user-definable.
  7558 
  7559 * Provers/simplifier.ML has been moved to Pure, where Simplifier.setup
  7560 is peformed already.  Object-logics merely need to finish their
  7561 initial simpset configuration as before.  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  7562 
  7563 
  7564 *** HOL ***
  7565 
  7566 * Symbolic syntax of Hilbert Choice Operator is now as follows:
  7567 
  7568   syntax (epsilon)
  7569     "_Eps" :: "[pttrn, bool] => 'a"    ("(3\<some>_./ _)" [0, 10] 10)
  7570 
  7571 The symbol \<some> is displayed as the alternative epsilon of LaTeX
  7572 and x-symbol; use option '-m epsilon' to get it actually printed.
  7573 Moreover, the mathematically important symbolic identifier \<epsilon>
  7574 becomes available as variable, constant etc.  INCOMPATIBILITY,
  7575 
  7576 * "x > y" abbreviates "y < x" and "x >= y" abbreviates "y <= x".
  7577 Similarly for all quantifiers: "ALL x > y" etc.  The x-symbol for >=
  7578 is \<ge>. New transitivity rules have been added to HOL/Orderings.thy to
  7579 support corresponding Isar calculations.
  7580 
  7581 * "{x:A. P}" abbreviates "{x. x:A & P}", and similarly for "\<in>"
  7582 instead of ":".
  7583 
  7584 * theory SetInterval: changed the syntax for open intervals:
  7585 
  7586   Old       New
  7587   {..n(}    {..<n}
  7588   {)n..}    {n<..}
  7589   {m..n(}   {m..<n}
  7590   {)m..n}   {m<..n}
  7591   {)m..n(}  {m<..<n}
  7592 
  7593 The old syntax is still supported but will disappear in the next
  7594 release.  For conversion use the following Emacs search and replace
  7595 patterns (these are not perfect but work quite well):
  7596 
  7597   {)\([^\.]*\)\.\.  ->  {\1<\.\.}
  7598   \.\.\([^(}]*\)(}  ->  \.\.<\1}
  7599 
  7600 * Theory Commutative_Ring (in Library): method comm_ring for proving
  7601 equalities in commutative rings; method 'algebra' provides a generic
  7602 interface.
  7603 
  7604 * Theory Finite_Set: changed the syntax for 'setsum', summation over
  7605 finite sets: "setsum (%x. e) A", which used to be "\<Sum>x:A. e", is
  7606 now either "SUM x:A. e" or "\<Sum>x \<in> A. e". The bound variable can
  7607 be a tuple pattern.
  7608 
  7609 Some new syntax forms are available:
  7610 
  7611   "\<Sum>x | P. e"      for     "setsum (%x. e) {x. P}"
  7612   "\<Sum>x = a..b. e"   for     "setsum (%x. e) {a..b}"
  7613   "\<Sum>x = a..<b. e"  for     "setsum (%x. e) {a..<b}"
  7614   "\<Sum>x < k. e"      for     "setsum (%x. e) {..<k}"
  7615 
  7616 The latter form "\<Sum>x < k. e" used to be based on a separate
  7617 function "Summation", which has been discontinued.
  7618 
  7619 * theory Finite_Set: in structured induction proofs, the insert case
  7620 is now 'case (insert x F)' instead of the old counterintuitive 'case
  7621 (insert F x)'.
  7622 
  7623 * The 'refute' command has been extended to support a much larger
  7624 fragment of HOL, including axiomatic type classes, constdefs and
  7625 typedefs, inductive datatypes and recursion.
  7626 
  7627 * New tactics 'sat' and 'satx' to prove propositional tautologies.
  7628 Requires zChaff with proof generation to be installed.  See
  7629 HOL/ex/SAT_Examples.thy for examples.
  7630 
  7631 * Datatype induction via method 'induct' now preserves the name of the
  7632 induction variable. For example, when proving P(xs::'a list) by
  7633 induction on xs, the induction step is now P(xs) ==> P(a#xs) rather
  7634 than P(list) ==> P(a#list) as previously.  Potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  7635 in unstructured proof scripts.
  7636 
  7637 * Reworked implementation of records.  Improved scalability for
  7638 records with many fields, avoiding performance problems for type
  7639 inference. Records are no longer composed of nested field types, but
  7640 of nested extension types. Therefore the record type only grows linear
  7641 in the number of extensions and not in the number of fields.  The
  7642 top-level (users) view on records is preserved.  Potential
  7643 INCOMPATIBILITY only in strange cases, where the theory depends on the
  7644 old record representation. The type generated for a record is called
  7645 <record_name>_ext_type.
  7646 
  7647 Flag record_quick_and_dirty_sensitive can be enabled to skip the
  7648 proofs triggered by a record definition or a simproc (if
  7649 quick_and_dirty is enabled).  Definitions of large records can take
  7650 quite long.
  7651 
  7652 New simproc record_upd_simproc for simplification of multiple record
  7653 updates enabled by default.  Moreover, trivial updates are also
  7654 removed: r(|x := x r|) = r.  INCOMPATIBILITY: old proofs break
  7655 occasionally, since simplification is more powerful by default.
  7656 
  7657 * typedef: proper support for polymorphic sets, which contain extra
  7658 type-variables in the term.
  7659 
  7660 * Simplifier: automatically reasons about transitivity chains
  7661 involving "trancl" (r^+) and "rtrancl" (r^*) by setting up tactics
  7662 provided by Provers/trancl.ML as additional solvers.  INCOMPATIBILITY:
  7663 old proofs break occasionally as simplification may now solve more
  7664 goals than previously.
  7665 
  7666 * Simplifier: converts x <= y into x = y if assumption y <= x is
  7667 present.  Works for all partial orders (class "order"), in particular
  7668 numbers and sets.  For linear orders (e.g. numbers) it treats ~ x < y
  7669 just like y <= x.
  7670 
  7671 * Simplifier: new simproc for "let x = a in f x".  If a is a free or
  7672 bound variable or a constant then the let is unfolded.  Otherwise
  7673 first a is simplified to b, and then f b is simplified to g. If
  7674 possible we abstract b from g arriving at "let x = b in h x",
  7675 otherwise we unfold the let and arrive at g.  The simproc can be
  7676 enabled/disabled by the reference use_let_simproc.  Potential
  7677 INCOMPATIBILITY since simplification is more powerful by default.
  7678 
  7679 * Classical reasoning: the meson method now accepts theorems as arguments.
  7680 
  7681 * Prover support: pre-release of the Isabelle-ATP linkup, which runs background
  7682 jobs to provide advice on the provability of subgoals.
  7683 
  7684 * Theory OrderedGroup and Ring_and_Field: various additions and
  7685 improvements to faciliate calculations involving equalities and
  7686 inequalities.
  7687 
  7688 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  7689 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7690 
  7691   abs_eq             now named abs_of_nonneg
  7692   abs_of_ge_0        now named abs_of_nonneg
  7693   abs_minus_eq       now named abs_of_nonpos
  7694   imp_abs_id         now named abs_of_nonneg
  7695   imp_abs_neg_id     now named abs_of_nonpos
  7696   mult_pos           now named mult_pos_pos
  7697   mult_pos_le        now named mult_nonneg_nonneg
  7698   mult_pos_neg_le    now named mult_nonneg_nonpos
  7699   mult_pos_neg2_le   now named mult_nonneg_nonpos2
  7700   mult_neg           now named mult_neg_neg
  7701   mult_neg_le        now named mult_nonpos_nonpos
  7702 
  7703 * The following lemmas in Ring_and_Field have been added to the simplifier:
  7704      
  7705      zero_le_square
  7706      not_square_less_zero 
  7707 
  7708   The following lemmas have been deleted from Real/RealPow:
  7709   
  7710      realpow_zero_zero
  7711      realpow_two
  7712      realpow_less
  7713      zero_le_power
  7714      realpow_two_le
  7715      abs_realpow_two
  7716      realpow_two_abs     
  7717 
  7718 * Theory Parity: added rules for simplifying exponents.
  7719 
  7720 * Theory List:
  7721 
  7722 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  7723 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7724 
  7725   list_all_Nil       now named list_all.simps(1)
  7726   list_all_Cons      now named list_all.simps(2)
  7727   list_all_conv      now named list_all_iff
  7728   set_mem_eq         now named mem_iff
  7729 
  7730 * Theories SetsAndFunctions and BigO (see HOL/Library) support
  7731 asymptotic "big O" calculations.  See the notes in BigO.thy.
  7732 
  7733 
  7734 *** HOL-Complex ***
  7735 
  7736 * Theory RealDef: better support for embedding natural numbers and
  7737 integers in the reals.
  7738 
  7739 The following theorems have been eliminated or modified
  7740 (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7741 
  7742   exp_ge_add_one_self  now requires no hypotheses
  7743   real_of_int_add      reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7744   real_of_int_minus    reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7745   real_of_int_diff     reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7746   real_of_int_mult     reversed direction of equality (use [symmetric])
  7747 
  7748 * Theory RComplete: expanded support for floor and ceiling functions.
  7749 
  7750 * Theory Ln is new, with properties of the natural logarithm
  7751 
  7752 * Hyperreal: There is a new type constructor "star" for making
  7753 nonstandard types.  The old type names are now type synonyms:
  7754 
  7755   hypreal = real star
  7756   hypnat = nat star
  7757   hcomplex = complex star
  7758 
  7759 * Hyperreal: Many groups of similarly-defined constants have been
  7760 replaced by polymorphic versions (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7761 
  7762   star_of <-- hypreal_of_real, hypnat_of_nat, hcomplex_of_complex
  7763 
  7764   starset      <-- starsetNat, starsetC
  7765   *s*          <-- *sNat*, *sc*
  7766   starset_n    <-- starsetNat_n, starsetC_n
  7767   *sn*         <-- *sNatn*, *scn*
  7768   InternalSets <-- InternalNatSets, InternalCSets
  7769 
  7770   starfun      <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  7771   *f*          <-- *fNat*, *fNat2*, *fc*, *fRc*, *fcR*
  7772   starfun_n    <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_n
  7773   *fn*         <-- *fNatn*, *fNat2n*, *fcn*, *fRcn*, *fcRn*
  7774   InternalFuns <-- InternalNatFuns, InternalNatFuns2, Internal{C,RC,CR}Funs
  7775 
  7776 * Hyperreal: Many type-specific theorems have been removed in favor of
  7777 theorems specific to various axiomatic type classes (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7778 
  7779   add_commute <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_commute
  7780   add_assoc   <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_assocs
  7781   OrderedGroup.add_0 <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_zero_left
  7782   OrderedGroup.add_0_right <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_add_zero_right
  7783   right_minus <-- hypreal_add_minus
  7784   left_minus <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_add_minus_left
  7785   mult_commute <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_mult_commute
  7786   mult_assoc <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_mult_assoc
  7787   mult_1_left <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_mult_1, hcomplex_mult_one_left
  7788   mult_1_right <-- hcomplex_mult_one_right
  7789   mult_zero_left <-- hcomplex_mult_zero_left
  7790   left_distrib <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add_mult_distrib
  7791   right_distrib <-- hypnat_add_mult_distrib2
  7792   zero_neq_one <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_zero_not_eq_one
  7793   right_inverse <-- hypreal_mult_inverse
  7794   left_inverse <-- hypreal_mult_inverse_left, hcomplex_mult_inv_left
  7795   order_refl <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_refl
  7796   order_trans <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_trans
  7797   order_antisym <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_anti_sym
  7798   order_less_le <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_less_le
  7799   linorder_linear <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le_linear
  7800   add_left_mono <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_add_left_mono
  7801   mult_strict_left_mono <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_mult_less_mono2
  7802   add_nonneg_nonneg <-- hypreal_le_add_order
  7803 
  7804 * Hyperreal: Separate theorems having to do with type-specific
  7805 versions of constants have been merged into theorems that apply to the
  7806 new polymorphic constants (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7807 
  7808   STAR_UNIV_set <-- {STAR_real,NatStar_real,STARC_complex}_set
  7809   STAR_empty_set <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_empty_set
  7810   STAR_Un <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Un
  7811   STAR_Int <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Int
  7812   STAR_Compl <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_Compl
  7813   STAR_subset <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_subset
  7814   STAR_mem <-- {STAR,NatStar,STARC}_mem
  7815   STAR_mem_Compl <-- {STAR,STARC}_mem_Compl
  7816   STAR_diff <-- {STAR,STARC}_diff
  7817   STAR_star_of_image_subset <-- {STAR_hypreal_of_real, NatStar_hypreal_of_real,
  7818     STARC_hcomplex_of_complex}_image_subset
  7819   starset_n_Un <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Un
  7820   starset_n_Int <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Int
  7821   starset_n_Compl <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_Compl
  7822   starset_n_diff <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_diff
  7823   InternalSets_Un <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Un
  7824   InternalSets_Int <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Int
  7825   InternalSets_Compl <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_Compl
  7826   InternalSets_diff <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_diff
  7827   InternalSets_UNIV_diff <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_UNIV_diff
  7828   InternalSets_starset_n <-- Internal{Nat,C}Sets_starset{Nat,C}_n
  7829   starset_starset_n_eq <-- starset{Nat,C}_starset{Nat,C}_n_eq
  7830   starset_n_starset <-- starset{Nat,C}_n_starset{Nat,C}
  7831   starfun_n_starfun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_n_starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  7832   starfun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}
  7833   starfun_mult <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_mult
  7834   starfun_add <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_add
  7835   starfun_minus <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_minus
  7836   starfun_diff <-- starfun{C,RC,CR}_diff
  7837   starfun_o <-- starfun{NatNat2,Nat2,_stafunNat,C,C_starfunRC,_starfunCR}_o
  7838   starfun_o2 <-- starfun{NatNat2,_stafunNat,C,C_starfunRC,_starfunCR}_o2
  7839   starfun_const_fun <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_const_fun
  7840   starfun_inverse <-- starfun{Nat,C,RC,CR}_inverse
  7841   starfun_eq <-- starfun{Nat,Nat2,C,RC,CR}_eq
  7842   starfun_eq_iff <-- starfun{C,RC,CR}_eq_iff
  7843   starfun_Id <-- starfunC_Id
  7844   starfun_approx <-- starfun{Nat,CR}_approx
  7845   starfun_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_capprox
  7846   starfun_abs <-- starfunNat_rabs
  7847   starfun_lambda_cancel <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_lambda_cancel
  7848   starfun_lambda_cancel2 <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_lambda_cancel2
  7849   starfun_mult_HFinite_approx <-- starfunCR_mult_HFinite_capprox
  7850   starfun_mult_CFinite_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_mult_CFinite_capprox
  7851   starfun_add_capprox <-- starfun{C,RC}_add_capprox
  7852   starfun_add_approx <-- starfunCR_add_approx
  7853   starfun_inverse_inverse <-- starfunC_inverse_inverse
  7854   starfun_divide <-- starfun{C,CR,RC}_divide
  7855   starfun_n <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n
  7856   starfun_n_mult <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_mult
  7857   starfun_n_add <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_add
  7858   starfun_n_add_minus <-- starfunNat_n_add_minus
  7859   starfun_n_const_fun <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_const_fun
  7860   starfun_n_minus <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_minus
  7861   starfun_n_eq <-- starfun{Nat,C}_n_eq
  7862 
  7863   star_n_add <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_add
  7864   star_n_minus <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_minus
  7865   star_n_diff <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_diff
  7866   star_n_mult <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_mult
  7867   star_n_inverse <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_inverse
  7868   star_n_le <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_le
  7869   star_n_less <-- {hypreal,hypnat}_less
  7870   star_n_zero_num <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_zero_num
  7871   star_n_one_num <-- {hypreal,hypnat,hcomplex}_one_num
  7872   star_n_abs <-- hypreal_hrabs
  7873   star_n_divide <-- hcomplex_divide
  7874 
  7875   star_of_add <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_add
  7876   star_of_minus <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_minus
  7877   star_of_diff <-- hypreal_of_real_diff
  7878   star_of_mult <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_mult
  7879   star_of_one <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_one
  7880   star_of_zero <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_zero
  7881   star_of_le <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat}_le_iff
  7882   star_of_less <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat}_less_iff
  7883   star_of_eq <-- {hypreal_of_real,hypnat_of_nat,hcomplex_of_complex}_eq_iff
  7884   star_of_inverse <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_inverse
  7885   star_of_divide <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_divide
  7886   star_of_of_nat <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_of_nat
  7887   star_of_of_int <-- {hypreal_of_real,hcomplex_of_complex}_of_int
  7888   star_of_number_of <-- {hypreal,hcomplex}_number_of
  7889   star_of_number_less <-- number_of_less_hypreal_of_real_iff
  7890   star_of_number_le <-- number_of_le_hypreal_of_real_iff
  7891   star_of_eq_number <-- hypreal_of_real_eq_number_of_iff
  7892   star_of_less_number <-- hypreal_of_real_less_number_of_iff
  7893   star_of_le_number <-- hypreal_of_real_le_number_of_iff
  7894   star_of_power <-- hypreal_of_real_power
  7895   star_of_eq_0 <-- hcomplex_of_complex_zero_iff
  7896 
  7897 * Hyperreal: new method "transfer" that implements the transfer
  7898 principle of nonstandard analysis. With a subgoal that mentions
  7899 nonstandard types like "'a star", the command "apply transfer"
  7900 replaces it with an equivalent one that mentions only standard types.
  7901 To be successful, all free variables must have standard types; non-
  7902 standard variables must have explicit universal quantifiers.
  7903 
  7904 * Hyperreal: A theory of Taylor series.
  7905 
  7906 
  7907 *** HOLCF ***
  7908 
  7909 * Discontinued special version of 'constdefs' (which used to support
  7910 continuous functions) in favor of the general Pure one with full
  7911 type-inference.
  7912 
  7913 * New simplification procedure for solving continuity conditions; it
  7914 is much faster on terms with many nested lambda abstractions (cubic
  7915 instead of exponential time).
  7916 
  7917 * New syntax for domain package: selector names are now optional.
  7918 Parentheses should be omitted unless argument is lazy, for example:
  7919 
  7920   domain 'a stream = cons "'a" (lazy "'a stream")
  7921 
  7922 * New command 'fixrec' for defining recursive functions with pattern
  7923 matching; defining multiple functions with mutual recursion is also
  7924 supported.  Patterns may include the constants cpair, spair, up, sinl,
  7925 sinr, or any data constructor defined by the domain package. The given
  7926 equations are proven as rewrite rules. See HOLCF/ex/Fixrec_ex.thy for
  7927 syntax and examples.
  7928 
  7929 * New commands 'cpodef' and 'pcpodef' for defining predicate subtypes
  7930 of cpo and pcpo types. Syntax is exactly like the 'typedef' command,
  7931 but the proof obligation additionally includes an admissibility
  7932 requirement. The packages generate instances of class cpo or pcpo,
  7933 with continuity and strictness theorems for Rep and Abs.
  7934 
  7935 * HOLCF: Many theorems have been renamed according to a more standard naming
  7936 scheme (INCOMPATIBILITY):
  7937 
  7938   foo_inject:  "foo$x = foo$y ==> x = y"
  7939   foo_eq:      "(foo$x = foo$y) = (x = y)"
  7940   foo_less:    "(foo$x << foo$y) = (x << y)"
  7941   foo_strict:  "foo$UU = UU"
  7942   foo_defined: "... ==> foo$x ~= UU"
  7943   foo_defined_iff: "(foo$x = UU) = (x = UU)"
  7944 
  7945 
  7946 *** ZF ***
  7947 
  7948 * ZF/ex: theories Group and Ring provide examples in abstract algebra,
  7949 including the First Isomorphism Theorem (on quotienting by the kernel
  7950 of a homomorphism).
  7951 
  7952 * ZF/Simplifier: install second copy of type solver that actually
  7953 makes use of TC rules declared to Isar proof contexts (or locales);
  7954 the old version is still required for ML proof scripts.
  7955 
  7956 
  7957 *** Cube ***
  7958 
  7959 * Converted to Isar theory format; use locales instead of axiomatic
  7960 theories.
  7961 
  7962 
  7963 *** ML ***
  7964 
  7965 * Pure/library.ML: added ##>, ##>>, #>> -- higher-order counterparts
  7966 for ||>, ||>>, |>>,
  7967 
  7968 * Pure/library.ML no longer defines its own option datatype, but uses
  7969 that of the SML basis, which has constructors NONE and SOME instead of
  7970 None and Some, as well as exception Option.Option instead of OPTION.
  7971 The functions the, if_none, is_some, is_none have been adapted
  7972 accordingly, while Option.map replaces apsome.
  7973 
  7974 * Pure/library.ML: the exception LIST has been given up in favour of
  7975 the standard exceptions Empty and Subscript, as well as
  7976 Library.UnequalLengths.  Function like Library.hd and Library.tl are
  7977 superceded by the standard hd and tl functions etc.
  7978 
  7979 A number of basic list functions are no longer exported to the ML
  7980 toplevel, as they are variants of predefined functions.  The following
  7981 suggests how one can translate existing code:
  7982 
  7983     rev_append xs ys = List.revAppend (xs, ys)
  7984     nth_elem (i, xs) = List.nth (xs, i)
  7985     last_elem xs = List.last xs
  7986     flat xss = List.concat xss
  7987     seq fs = List.app fs
  7988     partition P xs = List.partition P xs
  7989     mapfilter f xs = List.mapPartial f xs
  7990 
  7991 * Pure/library.ML: several combinators for linear functional
  7992 transformations, notably reverse application and composition:
  7993 
  7994   x |> f                f #> g
  7995   (x, y) |-> f          f #-> g
  7996 
  7997 * Pure/library.ML: introduced/changed precedence of infix operators:
  7998 
  7999   infix 1 |> |-> ||> ||>> |>> |>>> #> #->;
  8000   infix 2 ?;
  8001   infix 3 o oo ooo oooo;
  8002   infix 4 ~~ upto downto;
  8003 
  8004 Maybe INCOMPATIBILITY when any of those is used in conjunction with other
  8005 infix operators.
  8006 
  8007 * Pure/library.ML: natural list combinators fold, fold_rev, and
  8008 fold_map support linear functional transformations and nesting.  For
  8009 example:
  8010 
  8011   fold f [x1, ..., xN] y =
  8012     y |> f x1 |> ... |> f xN
  8013 
  8014   (fold o fold) f [xs1, ..., xsN] y =
  8015     y |> fold f xs1 |> ... |> fold f xsN
  8016 
  8017   fold f [x1, ..., xN] =
  8018     f x1 #> ... #> f xN
  8019 
  8020   (fold o fold) f [xs1, ..., xsN] =
  8021     fold f xs1 #> ... #> fold f xsN
  8022 
  8023 * Pure/library.ML: the following selectors on type 'a option are
  8024 available:
  8025 
  8026   the:               'a option -> 'a  (*partial*)
  8027   these:             'a option -> 'a  where 'a = 'b list
  8028   the_default: 'a -> 'a option -> 'a
  8029   the_list:          'a option -> 'a list
  8030 
  8031 * Pure/General: structure AList (cf. Pure/General/alist.ML) provides
  8032 basic operations for association lists, following natural argument
  8033 order; moreover the explicit equality predicate passed here avoids
  8034 potentially expensive polymorphic runtime equality checks.
  8035 The old functions may be expressed as follows:
  8036 
  8037   assoc = uncurry (AList.lookup (op =))
  8038   assocs = these oo AList.lookup (op =)
  8039   overwrite = uncurry (AList.update (op =)) o swap
  8040 
  8041 * Pure/General: structure AList (cf. Pure/General/alist.ML) provides
  8042 
  8043   val make: ('a -> 'b) -> 'a list -> ('a * 'b) list
  8044   val find: ('a * 'b -> bool) -> ('c * 'b) list -> 'a -> 'c list
  8045 
  8046 replacing make_keylist and keyfilter (occassionally used)
  8047 Naive rewrites:
  8048 
  8049   make_keylist = AList.make
  8050   keyfilter = AList.find (op =)
  8051 
  8052 * eq_fst and eq_snd now take explicit equality parameter, thus
  8053   avoiding eqtypes. Naive rewrites:
  8054 
  8055     eq_fst = eq_fst (op =)
  8056     eq_snd = eq_snd (op =)
  8057 
  8058 * Removed deprecated apl and apr (rarely used).
  8059   Naive rewrites:
  8060 
  8061     apl (n, op) =>>= curry op n
  8062     apr (op, m) =>>= fn n => op (n, m)
  8063 
  8064 * Pure/General: structure OrdList (cf. Pure/General/ord_list.ML)
  8065 provides a reasonably efficient light-weight implementation of sets as
  8066 lists.
  8067 
  8068 * Pure/General: generic tables (cf. Pure/General/table.ML) provide a
  8069 few new operations; existing lookup and update are now curried to
  8070 follow natural argument order (for use with fold etc.);
  8071 INCOMPATIBILITY, use (uncurry Symtab.lookup) etc. as last resort.
  8072 
  8073 * Pure/General: output via the Isabelle channels of
  8074 writeln/warning/error etc. is now passed through Output.output, with a
  8075 hook for arbitrary transformations depending on the print_mode
  8076 (cf. Output.add_mode -- the first active mode that provides a output
  8077 function wins).  Already formatted output may be embedded into further
  8078 text via Output.raw; the result of Pretty.string_of/str_of and derived
  8079 functions (string_of_term/cterm/thm etc.) is already marked raw to
  8080 accommodate easy composition of diagnostic messages etc.  Programmers
  8081 rarely need to care about Output.output or Output.raw at all, with
  8082 some notable exceptions: Output.output is required when bypassing the
  8083 standard channels (writeln etc.), or in token translations to produce
  8084 properly formatted results; Output.raw is required when capturing
  8085 already output material that will eventually be presented to the user
  8086 a second time.  For the default print mode, both Output.output and
  8087 Output.raw have no effect.
  8088 
  8089 * Pure/General: Output.time_accumulator NAME creates an operator ('a
  8090 -> 'b) -> 'a -> 'b to measure runtime and count invocations; the
  8091 cumulative results are displayed at the end of a batch session.
  8092 
  8093 * Pure/General: File.sysify_path and File.quote_sysify path have been
  8094 replaced by File.platform_path and File.shell_path (with appropriate
  8095 hooks).  This provides a clean interface for unusual systems where the
  8096 internal and external process view of file names are different.
  8097 
  8098 * Pure: more efficient orders for basic syntactic entities: added
  8099 fast_string_ord, fast_indexname_ord, fast_term_ord; changed sort_ord
  8100 and typ_ord to use fast_string_ord and fast_indexname_ord (term_ord is
  8101 NOT affected); structures Symtab, Vartab, Typtab, Termtab use the fast
  8102 orders now -- potential INCOMPATIBILITY for code that depends on a
  8103 particular order for Symtab.keys, Symtab.dest, etc. (consider using
  8104 Library.sort_strings on result).
  8105 
  8106 * Pure/term.ML: combinators fold_atyps, fold_aterms, fold_term_types,
  8107 fold_types traverse types/terms from left to right, observing natural
  8108 argument order.  Supercedes previous foldl_XXX versions, add_frees,
  8109 add_vars etc. have been adapted as well: INCOMPATIBILITY.
  8110 
  8111 * Pure: name spaces have been refined, with significant changes of the
  8112 internal interfaces -- INCOMPATIBILITY.  Renamed cond_extern(_table)
  8113 to extern(_table).  The plain name entry path is superceded by a
  8114 general 'naming' context, which also includes the 'policy' to produce
  8115 a fully qualified name and external accesses of a fully qualified
  8116 name; NameSpace.extend is superceded by context dependent
  8117 Sign.declare_name.  Several theory and proof context operations modify
  8118 the naming context.  Especially note Theory.restore_naming and
  8119 ProofContext.restore_naming to get back to a sane state; note that
  8120 Theory.add_path is no longer sufficient to recover from
  8121 Theory.absolute_path in particular.
  8122 
  8123 * Pure: new flags short_names (default false) and unique_names
  8124 (default true) for controlling output of qualified names.  If
  8125 short_names is set, names are printed unqualified.  If unique_names is
  8126 reset, the name prefix is reduced to the minimum required to achieve
  8127 the original result when interning again, even if there is an overlap
  8128 with earlier declarations.
  8129 
  8130 * Pure/TheoryDataFun: change of the argument structure; 'prep_ext' is
  8131 now 'extend', and 'merge' gets an additional Pretty.pp argument
  8132 (useful for printing error messages).  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  8133 
  8134 * Pure: major reorganization of the theory context.  Type Sign.sg and
  8135 Theory.theory are now identified, referring to the universal
  8136 Context.theory (see Pure/context.ML).  Actual signature and theory
  8137 content is managed as theory data.  The old code and interfaces were
  8138 spread over many files and structures; the new arrangement introduces
  8139 considerable INCOMPATIBILITY to gain more clarity:
  8140 
  8141   Context -- theory management operations (name, identity, inclusion,
  8142     parents, ancestors, merge, etc.), plus generic theory data;
  8143 
  8144   Sign -- logical signature and syntax operations (declaring consts,
  8145     types, etc.), plus certify/read for common entities;
  8146 
  8147   Theory -- logical theory operations (stating axioms, definitions,
  8148     oracles), plus a copy of logical signature operations (consts,
  8149     types, etc.); also a few basic management operations (Theory.copy,
  8150     Theory.merge, etc.)
  8151 
  8152 The most basic sign_of operations (Theory.sign_of, Thm.sign_of_thm
  8153 etc.) as well as the sign field in Thm.rep_thm etc. have been retained
  8154 for convenience -- they merely return the theory.
  8155 
  8156 * Pure: type Type.tsig is superceded by theory in most interfaces.
  8157 
  8158 * Pure: the Isar proof context type is already defined early in Pure
  8159 as Context.proof (note that ProofContext.context and Proof.context are
  8160 aliases, where the latter is the preferred name).  This enables other
  8161 Isabelle components to refer to that type even before Isar is present.
  8162 
  8163 * Pure/sign/theory: discontinued named name spaces (i.e. classK,
  8164 typeK, constK, axiomK, oracleK), but provide explicit operations for
  8165 any of these kinds.  For example, Sign.intern typeK is now
  8166 Sign.intern_type, Theory.hide_space Sign.typeK is now
  8167 Theory.hide_types.  Also note that former
  8168 Theory.hide_classes/types/consts are now
  8169 Theory.hide_classes_i/types_i/consts_i, while the non '_i' versions
  8170 internalize their arguments!  INCOMPATIBILITY.
  8171 
  8172 * Pure: get_thm interface (of PureThy and ProofContext) expects
  8173 datatype thmref (with constructors Name and NameSelection) instead of
  8174 plain string -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8175 
  8176 * Pure: cases produced by proof methods specify options, where NONE
  8177 means to remove case bindings -- INCOMPATIBILITY in
  8178 (RAW_)METHOD_CASES.
  8179 
  8180 * Pure: the following operations retrieve axioms or theorems from a
  8181 theory node or theory hierarchy, respectively:
  8182 
  8183   Theory.axioms_of: theory -> (string * term) list
  8184   Theory.all_axioms_of: theory -> (string * term) list
  8185   PureThy.thms_of: theory -> (string * thm) list
  8186   PureThy.all_thms_of: theory -> (string * thm) list
  8187 
  8188 * Pure: print_tac now outputs the goal through the trace channel.
  8189 
  8190 * Isar toplevel: improved diagnostics, mostly for Poly/ML only.
  8191 Reference Toplevel.debug (default false) controls detailed printing
  8192 and tracing of low-level exceptions; Toplevel.profiling (default 0)
  8193 controls execution profiling -- set to 1 for time and 2 for space
  8194 (both increase the runtime).
  8195 
  8196 * Isar session: The initial use of ROOT.ML is now always timed,
  8197 i.e. the log will show the actual process times, in contrast to the
  8198 elapsed wall-clock time that the outer shell wrapper produces.
  8199 
  8200 * Simplifier: improved handling of bound variables (nameless
  8201 representation, avoid allocating new strings).  Simprocs that invoke
  8202 the Simplifier recursively should use Simplifier.inherit_bounds to
  8203 avoid local name clashes.  Failure to do so produces warnings
  8204 "Simplifier: renamed bound variable ..."; set Simplifier.debug_bounds
  8205 for further details.
  8206 
  8207 * ML functions legacy_bindings and use_legacy_bindings produce ML fact
  8208 bindings for all theorems stored within a given theory; this may help
  8209 in porting non-Isar theories to Isar ones, while keeping ML proof
  8210 scripts for the time being.
  8211 
  8212 * ML operator HTML.with_charset specifies the charset begin used for
  8213 generated HTML files.  For example:
  8214 
  8215   HTML.with_charset "utf-8" use_thy "Hebrew";
  8216   HTML.with_charset "utf-8" use_thy "Chinese";
  8217 
  8218 
  8219 *** System ***
  8220 
  8221 * Allow symlinks to all proper Isabelle executables (Isabelle,
  8222 isabelle, isatool etc.).
  8223 
  8224 * ISABELLE_DOC_FORMAT setting specifies preferred document format (for
  8225 isatool doc, isatool mkdir, display_drafts etc.).
  8226 
  8227 * isatool usedir: option -f allows specification of the ML file to be
  8228 used by Isabelle; default is ROOT.ML.
  8229 
  8230 * New isatool version outputs the version identifier of the Isabelle
  8231 distribution being used.
  8232 
  8233 * HOL: new isatool dimacs2hol converts files in DIMACS CNF format
  8234 (containing Boolean satisfiability problems) into Isabelle/HOL
  8235 theories.
  8236 
  8237 
  8238 
  8239 New in Isabelle2004 (April 2004)
  8240 --------------------------------
  8241 
  8242 *** General ***
  8243 
  8244 * Provers/order.ML:  new efficient reasoner for partial and linear orders.
  8245   Replaces linorder.ML.
  8246 
  8247 * Pure: Greek letters (except small lambda, \<lambda>), as well as Gothic
  8248   (\<aa>...\<zz>\<AA>...\<ZZ>), calligraphic (\<A>...\<Z>), and Euler
  8249   (\<a>...\<z>), are now considered normal letters, and can therefore
  8250   be used anywhere where an ASCII letter (a...zA...Z) has until
  8251   now. COMPATIBILITY: This obviously changes the parsing of some
  8252   terms, especially where a symbol has been used as a binder, say
  8253   '\<Pi>x. ...', which is now a type error since \<Pi>x will be parsed
  8254   as an identifier.  Fix it by inserting a space around former
  8255   symbols.  Call 'isatool fixgreek' to try to fix parsing errors in
  8256   existing theory and ML files.
  8257 
  8258 * Pure: Macintosh and Windows line-breaks are now allowed in theory files.
  8259 
  8260 * Pure: single letter sub/superscripts (\<^isub> and \<^isup>) are now
  8261   allowed in identifiers. Similar to Greek letters \<^isub> is now considered
  8262   a normal (but invisible) letter. For multiple letter subscripts repeat
  8263   \<^isub> like this: x\<^isub>1\<^isub>2.
  8264 
  8265 * Pure: There are now sub-/superscripts that can span more than one
  8266   character. Text between \<^bsub> and \<^esub> is set in subscript in
  8267   ProofGeneral and LaTeX, text between \<^bsup> and \<^esup> in
  8268   superscript. The new control characters are not identifier parts.
  8269 
  8270 * Pure: Control-symbols of the form \<^raw:...> will literally print the
  8271   content of "..." to the latex file instead of \isacntrl... . The "..."
  8272   may consist of any printable characters excluding the end bracket >.
  8273 
  8274 * Pure: Using new Isar command "finalconsts" (or the ML functions
  8275   Theory.add_finals or Theory.add_finals_i) it is now possible to
  8276   declare constants "final", which prevents their being given a definition
  8277   later.  It is useful for constants whose behaviour is fixed axiomatically
  8278   rather than definitionally, such as the meta-logic connectives.
  8279 
  8280 * Pure: 'instance' now handles general arities with general sorts
  8281   (i.e. intersections of classes),
  8282 
  8283 * Presentation: generated HTML now uses a CSS style sheet to make layout
  8284   (somewhat) independent of content. It is copied from lib/html/isabelle.css.
  8285   It can be changed to alter the colors/layout of generated pages.
  8286 
  8287 
  8288 *** Isar ***
  8289 
  8290 * Tactic emulation methods rule_tac, erule_tac, drule_tac, frule_tac,
  8291   cut_tac, subgoal_tac and thin_tac:
  8292   - Now understand static (Isar) contexts.  As a consequence, users of Isar
  8293     locales are no longer forced to write Isar proof scripts.
  8294     For details see Isar Reference Manual, paragraph 4.3.2: Further tactic
  8295     emulations.
  8296   - INCOMPATIBILITY: names of variables to be instantiated may no
  8297     longer be enclosed in quotes.  Instead, precede variable name with `?'.
  8298     This is consistent with the instantiation attribute "where".
  8299 
  8300 * Attributes "where" and "of":
  8301   - Now take type variables of instantiated theorem into account when reading
  8302     the instantiation string.  This fixes a bug that caused instantiated
  8303     theorems to have too special types in some circumstances.
  8304   - "where" permits explicit instantiations of type variables.
  8305 
  8306 * Calculation commands "moreover" and "also" no longer interfere with
  8307   current facts ("this"), admitting arbitrary combinations with "then"
  8308   and derived forms.
  8309 
  8310 * Locales:
  8311   - Goal statements involving the context element "includes" no longer
  8312     generate theorems with internal delta predicates (those ending on
  8313     "_axioms") in the premise.
  8314     Resolve particular premise with <locale>.intro to obtain old form.
  8315   - Fixed bug in type inference ("unify_frozen") that prevented mix of target
  8316     specification and "includes" elements in goal statement.
  8317   - Rule sets <locale>.intro and <locale>.axioms no longer declared as
  8318     [intro?] and [elim?] (respectively) by default.
  8319   - Experimental command for instantiation of locales in proof contexts:
  8320         instantiate <label>[<attrs>]: <loc>
  8321     Instantiates locale <loc> and adds all its theorems to the current context
  8322     taking into account their attributes.  Label and attrs are optional
  8323     modifiers, like in theorem declarations.  If present, names of
  8324     instantiated theorems are qualified with <label>, and the attributes
  8325     <attrs> are applied after any attributes these theorems might have already.
  8326       If the locale has assumptions, a chained fact of the form
  8327     "<loc> t1 ... tn" is expected from which instantiations of the parameters
  8328     are derived.  The command does not support old-style locales declared
  8329     with "locale (open)".
  8330       A few (very simple) examples can be found in FOL/ex/LocaleInst.thy.
  8331 
  8332 * HOL: Tactic emulation methods induct_tac and case_tac understand static
  8333   (Isar) contexts.
  8334 
  8335 
  8336 *** HOL ***
  8337 
  8338 * Proof import: new image HOL4 contains the imported library from
  8339   the HOL4 system with about 2500 theorems. It is imported by
  8340   replaying proof terms produced by HOL4 in Isabelle. The HOL4 image
  8341   can be used like any other Isabelle image.  See
  8342   HOL/Import/HOL/README for more information.
  8343 
  8344 * Simplifier:
  8345   - Much improved handling of linear and partial orders.
  8346     Reasoners for linear and partial orders are set up for type classes
  8347     "linorder" and "order" respectively, and are added to the default simpset
  8348     as solvers.  This means that the simplifier can build transitivity chains
  8349     to solve goals from the assumptions.
  8350   - INCOMPATIBILITY: old proofs break occasionally.  Typically, applications
  8351     of blast or auto after simplification become unnecessary because the goal
  8352     is solved by simplification already.
  8353 
  8354 * Numerics: new theory Ring_and_Field contains over 250 basic numerical laws,
  8355     all proved in axiomatic type classes for semirings, rings and fields.
  8356 
  8357 * Numerics:
  8358   - Numeric types (nat, int, and in HOL-Complex rat, real, complex, etc.) are
  8359     now formalized using the Ring_and_Field theory mentioned above.
  8360   - INCOMPATIBILITY: simplification and arithmetic behaves somewhat differently
  8361     than before, because now they are set up once in a generic manner.
  8362   - INCOMPATIBILITY: many type-specific arithmetic laws have gone.
  8363     Look for the general versions in Ring_and_Field (and Power if they concern
  8364     exponentiation).
  8365 
  8366 * Type "rat" of the rational numbers is now available in HOL-Complex.
  8367 
  8368 * Records:
  8369   - Record types are now by default printed with their type abbreviation
  8370     instead of the list of all field types. This can be configured via
  8371     the reference "print_record_type_abbr".
  8372   - Simproc "record_upd_simproc" for simplification of multiple updates added
  8373     (not enabled by default).
  8374   - Simproc "record_ex_sel_eq_simproc" to simplify EX x. sel r = x resp.
  8375     EX x. x = sel r to True (not enabled by default).
  8376   - Tactic "record_split_simp_tac" to split and simplify records added.
  8377 
  8378 * 'specification' command added, allowing for definition by
  8379   specification.  There is also an 'ax_specification' command that
  8380   introduces the new constants axiomatically.
  8381 
  8382 * arith(_tac) is now able to generate counterexamples for reals as well.
  8383 
  8384 * HOL-Algebra: new locale "ring" for non-commutative rings.
  8385 
  8386 * HOL-ex: InductiveInvariant_examples illustrates advanced recursive function
  8387   definitions, thanks to Sava Krsti\'{c} and John Matthews.
  8388 
  8389 * HOL-Matrix: a first theory for matrices in HOL with an application of
  8390   matrix theory to linear programming.
  8391 
  8392 * Unions and Intersections:
  8393   The latex output syntax of UN and INT has been changed
  8394   from "\Union x \in A. B" to "\Union_{x \in A} B"
  8395   i.e. the index formulae has become a subscript.
  8396   Similarly for "\Union x. B", and for \Inter instead of \Union.
  8397 
  8398 * Unions and Intersections over Intervals:
  8399   There is new short syntax "UN i<=n. A" for "UN i:{0..n}. A". There is
  8400   also an x-symbol version with subscripts "\<Union>\<^bsub>i <= n\<^esub>. A"
  8401   like in normal math, and corresponding versions for < and for intersection.
  8402 
  8403 * HOL/List: Ordering "lexico" is renamed "lenlex" and the standard
  8404   lexicographic dictonary ordering has been added as "lexord".
  8405 
  8406 * ML: the legacy theory structures Int and List have been removed. They had
  8407   conflicted with ML Basis Library structures having the same names.
  8408 
  8409 * 'refute' command added to search for (finite) countermodels.  Only works
  8410   for a fragment of HOL.  The installation of an external SAT solver is
  8411   highly recommended.  See "HOL/Refute.thy" for details.
  8412 
  8413 * 'quickcheck' command: Allows to find counterexamples by evaluating
  8414   formulae under an assignment of free variables to random values.
  8415   In contrast to 'refute', it can deal with inductive datatypes,
  8416   but cannot handle quantifiers. See "HOL/ex/Quickcheck_Examples.thy"
  8417   for examples.
  8418 
  8419 
  8420 *** HOLCF ***
  8421 
  8422 * Streams now come with concatenation and are part of the HOLCF image
  8423 
  8424 
  8425 
  8426 New in Isabelle2003 (May 2003)
  8427 ------------------------------
  8428 
  8429 *** General ***
  8430 
  8431 * Provers/simplifier:
  8432 
  8433   - Completely reimplemented method simp (ML: Asm_full_simp_tac):
  8434     Assumptions are now subject to complete mutual simplification,
  8435     not just from left to right. The simplifier now preserves
  8436     the order of assumptions.
  8437 
  8438     Potential INCOMPATIBILITY:
  8439 
  8440     -- simp sometimes diverges where the old version did
  8441        not, e.g. invoking simp on the goal
  8442 
  8443         [| P (f x); y = x; f x = f y |] ==> Q
  8444 
  8445        now gives rise to the infinite reduction sequence
  8446 
  8447         P(f x) --(f x = f y)--> P(f y) --(y = x)--> P(f x) --(f x = f y)--> ...
  8448 
  8449        Using "simp (asm_lr)" (ML: Asm_lr_simp_tac) instead often solves this
  8450        kind of problem.
  8451 
  8452     -- Tactics combining classical reasoner and simplification (such as auto)
  8453        are also affected by this change, because many of them rely on
  8454        simp. They may sometimes diverge as well or yield a different numbers
  8455        of subgoals. Try to use e.g. force, fastsimp, or safe instead of auto
  8456        in case of problems. Sometimes subsequent calls to the classical
  8457        reasoner will fail because a preceeding call to the simplifier too
  8458        eagerly simplified the goal, e.g. deleted redundant premises.
  8459 
  8460   - The simplifier trace now shows the names of the applied rewrite rules
  8461 
  8462   - You can limit the number of recursive invocations of the simplifier
  8463     during conditional rewriting (where the simplifie tries to solve the
  8464     conditions before applying the rewrite rule):
  8465     ML "simp_depth_limit := n"
  8466     where n is an integer. Thus you can force termination where previously
  8467     the simplifier would diverge.
  8468 
  8469   - Accepts free variables as head terms in congruence rules.  Useful in Isar.
  8470 
  8471   - No longer aborts on failed congruence proof.  Instead, the
  8472     congruence is ignored.
  8473 
  8474 * Pure: New generic framework for extracting programs from constructive
  8475   proofs. See HOL/Extraction.thy for an example instantiation, as well
  8476   as HOL/Extraction for some case studies.
  8477 
  8478 * Pure: The main goal of the proof state is no longer shown by default, only
  8479 the subgoals. This behaviour is controlled by a new flag.
  8480    PG menu: Isabelle/Isar -> Settings -> Show Main Goal
  8481 (ML: Proof.show_main_goal).
  8482 
  8483 * Pure: You can find all matching introduction rules for subgoal 1, i.e. all
  8484 rules whose conclusion matches subgoal 1:
  8485       PG menu: Isabelle/Isar -> Show me -> matching rules
  8486 The rules are ordered by how closely they match the subgoal.
  8487 In particular, rules that solve a subgoal outright are displayed first
  8488 (or rather last, the way they are printed).
  8489 (ML: ProofGeneral.print_intros())
  8490 
  8491 * Pure: New flag trace_unify_fail causes unification to print
  8492 diagnostic information (PG: in trace buffer) when it fails. This is
  8493 useful for figuring out why single step proofs like rule, erule or
  8494 assumption failed.
  8495 
  8496 * Pure: Locale specifications now produce predicate definitions
  8497 according to the body of text (covering assumptions modulo local
  8498 definitions); predicate "loc_axioms" covers newly introduced text,
  8499 while "loc" is cumulative wrt. all included locale expressions; the
  8500 latter view is presented only on export into the global theory
  8501 context; potential INCOMPATIBILITY, use "(open)" option to fall back
  8502 on the old view without predicates;
  8503 
  8504 * Pure: predefined locales "var" and "struct" are useful for sharing
  8505 parameters (as in CASL, for example); just specify something like
  8506 ``var x + var y + struct M'' as import;
  8507 
  8508 * Pure: improved thms_containing: proper indexing of facts instead of
  8509 raw theorems; check validity of results wrt. current name space;
  8510 include local facts of proof configuration (also covers active
  8511 locales), cover fixed variables in index; may use "_" in term
  8512 specification; an optional limit for the number of printed facts may
  8513 be given (the default is 40);
  8514 
  8515 * Pure: disallow duplicate fact bindings within new-style theory files
  8516 (batch-mode only);
  8517 
  8518 * Provers: improved induct method: assumptions introduced by case
  8519 "foo" are split into "foo.hyps" (from the rule) and "foo.prems" (from
  8520 the goal statement); "foo" still refers to all facts collectively;
  8521 
  8522 * Provers: the function blast.overloaded has been removed: all constants
  8523 are regarded as potentially overloaded, which improves robustness in exchange
  8524 for slight decrease in efficiency;
  8525 
  8526 * Provers/linorder: New generic prover for transitivity reasoning over
  8527 linear orders.  Note: this prover is not efficient!
  8528 
  8529 * Isar: preview of problems to finish 'show' now produce an error
  8530 rather than just a warning (in interactive mode);
  8531 
  8532 
  8533 *** HOL ***
  8534 
  8535 * arith(_tac)
  8536 
  8537  - Produces a counter example if it cannot prove a goal.
  8538    Note that the counter example may be spurious if the goal is not a formula
  8539    of quantifier-free linear arithmetic.
  8540    In ProofGeneral the counter example appears in the trace buffer.
  8541 
  8542  - Knows about div k and mod k where k is a numeral of type nat or int.
  8543 
  8544  - Calls full Presburger arithmetic (by Amine Chaieb) if quantifier-free
  8545    linear arithmetic fails. This takes account of quantifiers and divisibility.
  8546    Presburger arithmetic can also be called explicitly via presburger(_tac).
  8547 
  8548 * simp's arithmetic capabilities have been enhanced a bit: it now
  8549 takes ~= in premises into account (by performing a case split);
  8550 
  8551 * simp reduces "m*(n div m) + n mod m" to n, even if the two summands
  8552 are distributed over a sum of terms;
  8553 
  8554 * New tactic "trans_tac" and method "trans" instantiate
  8555 Provers/linorder.ML for axclasses "order" and "linorder" (predicates
  8556 "<=", "<" and "=").
  8557 
  8558 * function INCOMPATIBILITIES: Pi-sets have been redefined and moved from main
  8559 HOL to Library/FuncSet; constant "Fun.op o" is now called "Fun.comp";
  8560 
  8561 * 'typedef' command has new option "open" to suppress the set
  8562 definition;
  8563 
  8564 * functions Min and Max on finite sets have been introduced (theory
  8565 Finite_Set);
  8566 
  8567 * attribute [symmetric] now works for relations as well; it turns
  8568 (x,y) : R^-1 into (y,x) : R, and vice versa;
  8569 
  8570 * induct over a !!-quantified statement (say !!x1..xn):
  8571   each "case" automatically performs "fix x1 .. xn" with exactly those names.
  8572 
  8573 * Map: `empty' is no longer a constant but a syntactic abbreviation for
  8574 %x. None. Warning: empty_def now refers to the previously hidden definition
  8575 of the empty set.
  8576 
  8577 * Algebra: formalization of classical algebra.  Intended as base for
  8578 any algebraic development in Isabelle.  Currently covers group theory
  8579 (up to Sylow's theorem) and ring theory (Universal Property of
  8580 Univariate Polynomials).  Contributions welcome;
  8581 
  8582 * GroupTheory: deleted, since its material has been moved to Algebra;
  8583 
  8584 * Complex: new directory of the complex numbers with numeric constants,
  8585 nonstandard complex numbers, and some complex analysis, standard and
  8586 nonstandard (Jacques Fleuriot);
  8587 
  8588 * HOL-Complex: new image for analysis, replacing HOL-Real and HOL-Hyperreal;
  8589 
  8590 * Hyperreal: introduced Gauge integration and hyperreal logarithms (Jacques
  8591 Fleuriot);
  8592 
  8593 * Real/HahnBanach: updated and adapted to locales;
  8594 
  8595 * NumberTheory: added Gauss's law of quadratic reciprocity (by Avigad,
  8596 Gray and Kramer);
  8597 
  8598 * UNITY: added the Meier-Sanders theory of progress sets;
  8599 
  8600 * MicroJava: bytecode verifier and lightweight bytecode verifier
  8601 as abstract algorithms, instantiated to the JVM;
  8602 
  8603 * Bali: Java source language formalization. Type system, operational
  8604 semantics, axiomatic semantics. Supported language features:
  8605 classes, interfaces, objects,virtual methods, static methods,
  8606 static/instance fields, arrays, access modifiers, definite
  8607 assignment, exceptions.
  8608 
  8609 
  8610 *** ZF ***
  8611 
  8612 * ZF/Constructible: consistency proof for AC (Gdel's constructible
  8613 universe, etc.);
  8614 
  8615 * Main ZF: virtually all theories converted to new-style format;
  8616 
  8617 
  8618 *** ML ***
  8619 
  8620 * Pure: Tactic.prove provides sane interface for internal proofs;
  8621 omits the infamous "standard" operation, so this is more appropriate
  8622 than prove_goalw_cterm in many situations (e.g. in simprocs);
  8623 
  8624 * Pure: improved error reporting of simprocs;
  8625 
  8626 * Provers: Simplifier.simproc(_i) provides sane interface for setting
  8627 up simprocs;
  8628 
  8629 
  8630 *** Document preparation ***
  8631 
  8632 * uses \par instead of \\ for line breaks in theory text. This may
  8633 shift some page breaks in large documents. To get the old behaviour
  8634 use \renewcommand{\isanewline}{\mbox{}\\\mbox{}} in root.tex.
  8635 
  8636 * minimized dependencies of isabelle.sty and isabellesym.sty on
  8637 other packages
  8638 
  8639 * \<euro> now needs package babel/greek instead of marvosym (which
  8640 broke \Rightarrow)
  8641 
  8642 * normal size for \<zero>...\<nine> (uses \mathbf instead of
  8643 textcomp package)
  8644 
  8645 
  8646 
  8647 New in Isabelle2002 (March 2002)
  8648 --------------------------------
  8649 
  8650 *** Document preparation ***
  8651 
  8652 * greatly simplified document preparation setup, including more
  8653 graceful interpretation of isatool usedir -i/-d/-D options, and more
  8654 instructive isatool mkdir; users should basically be able to get
  8655 started with "isatool mkdir HOL Test && isatool make"; alternatively,
  8656 users may run a separate document processing stage manually like this:
  8657 "isatool usedir -D output HOL Test && isatool document Test/output";
  8658 
  8659 * theory dependency graph may now be incorporated into documents;
  8660 isatool usedir -g true will produce session_graph.eps/.pdf for use
  8661 with \includegraphics of LaTeX;
  8662 
  8663 * proper spacing of consecutive markup elements, especially text
  8664 blocks after section headings;
  8665 
  8666 * support bold style (for single symbols only), input syntax is like
  8667 this: "\<^bold>\<alpha>" or "\<^bold>A";
  8668 
  8669 * \<bullet> is now output as bold \cdot by default, which looks much
  8670 better in printed text;
  8671 
  8672 * added default LaTeX bindings for \<tturnstile> and \<TTurnstile>;
  8673 note that these symbols are currently unavailable in Proof General /
  8674 X-Symbol; new symbols \<zero>, \<one>, ..., \<nine>, and \<euro>;
  8675 
  8676 * isatool latex no longer depends on changed TEXINPUTS, instead
  8677 isatool document copies the Isabelle style files to the target
  8678 location;
  8679 
  8680 
  8681 *** Isar ***
  8682 
  8683 * Pure/Provers: improved proof by cases and induction;
  8684   - 'case' command admits impromptu naming of parameters (such as
  8685     "case (Suc n)");
  8686   - 'induct' method divinates rule instantiation from the inductive
  8687     claim; no longer requires excessive ?P bindings for proper
  8688     instantiation of cases;
  8689   - 'induct' method properly enumerates all possibilities of set/type
  8690     rules; as a consequence facts may be also passed through *type*
  8691     rules without further ado;
  8692   - 'induct' method now derives symbolic cases from the *rulified*
  8693     rule (before it used to rulify cases stemming from the internal
  8694     atomized version); this means that the context of a non-atomic
  8695     statement becomes is included in the hypothesis, avoiding the
  8696     slightly cumbersome show "PROP ?case" form;
  8697   - 'induct' may now use elim-style induction rules without chaining
  8698     facts, using ``missing'' premises from the goal state; this allows
  8699     rules stemming from inductive sets to be applied in unstructured
  8700     scripts, while still benefitting from proper handling of non-atomic
  8701     statements; NB: major inductive premises need to be put first, all
  8702     the rest of the goal is passed through the induction;
  8703   - 'induct' proper support for mutual induction involving non-atomic
  8704     rule statements (uses the new concept of simultaneous goals, see
  8705     below);
  8706   - append all possible rule selections, but only use the first
  8707     success (no backtracking);
  8708   - removed obsolete "(simplified)" and "(stripped)" options of methods;
  8709   - undeclared rule case names default to numbers 1, 2, 3, ...;
  8710   - added 'print_induct_rules' (covered by help item in recent Proof
  8711     General versions);
  8712   - moved induct/cases attributes to Pure, methods to Provers;
  8713   - generic method setup instantiated for FOL and HOL;
  8714 
  8715 * Pure: support multiple simultaneous goal statements, for example
  8716 "have a: A and b: B" (same for 'theorem' etc.); being a pure
  8717 meta-level mechanism, this acts as if several individual goals had
  8718 been stated separately; in particular common proof methods need to be
  8719 repeated in order to cover all claims; note that a single elimination
  8720 step is *not* sufficient to establish the two conjunctions, so this
  8721 fails:
  8722 
  8723   assume "A & B" then have A and B ..   (*".." fails*)
  8724 
  8725 better use "obtain" in situations as above; alternative refer to
  8726 multi-step methods like 'auto', 'simp_all', 'blast+' etc.;
  8727 
  8728 * Pure: proper integration with ``locales''; unlike the original
  8729 version by Florian Kammller, Isar locales package high-level proof
  8730 contexts rather than raw logical ones (e.g. we admit to include
  8731 attributes everywhere); operations on locales include merge and
  8732 rename; support for implicit arguments (``structures''); simultaneous
  8733 type-inference over imports and text; see also HOL/ex/Locales.thy for
  8734 some examples;
  8735 
  8736 * Pure: the following commands have been ``localized'', supporting a
  8737 target locale specification "(in name)": 'lemma', 'theorem',
  8738 'corollary', 'lemmas', 'theorems', 'declare'; the results will be
  8739 stored both within the locale and at the theory level (exported and
  8740 qualified by the locale name);
  8741 
  8742 * Pure: theory goals may now be specified in ``long'' form, with
  8743 ad-hoc contexts consisting of arbitrary locale elements. for example
  8744 ``lemma foo: fixes x assumes "A x" shows "B x"'' (local syntax and
  8745 definitions may be given, too); the result is a meta-level rule with
  8746 the context elements being discharged in the obvious way;
  8747 
  8748 * Pure: new proof command 'using' allows to augment currently used
  8749 facts after a goal statement ('using' is syntactically analogous to
  8750 'apply', but acts on the goal's facts only); this allows chained facts
  8751 to be separated into parts given before and after a claim, as in
  8752 ``from a and b have C using d and e <proof>'';
  8753 
  8754 * Pure: renamed "antecedent" case to "rule_context";
  8755 
  8756 * Pure: new 'judgment' command records explicit information about the
  8757 object-logic embedding (used by several tools internally); no longer
  8758 use hard-wired "Trueprop";
  8759 
  8760 * Pure: added 'corollary' command;
  8761 
  8762 * Pure: fixed 'token_translation' command;
  8763 
  8764 * Pure: removed obsolete 'exported' attribute;
  8765 
  8766 * Pure: dummy pattern "_" in is/let is now automatically lifted over
  8767 bound variables: "ALL x. P x --> Q x" (is "ALL x. _ --> ?C x")
  8768 supersedes more cumbersome ... (is "ALL x. _ x --> ?C x");
  8769 
  8770 * Pure: method 'atomize' presents local goal premises as object-level
  8771 statements (atomic meta-level propositions); setup controlled via
  8772 rewrite rules declarations of 'atomize' attribute; example
  8773 application: 'induct' method with proper rule statements in improper
  8774 proof *scripts*;
  8775 
  8776 * Pure: emulation of instantiation tactics (rule_tac, cut_tac, etc.)
  8777 now consider the syntactic context of assumptions, giving a better
  8778 chance to get type-inference of the arguments right (this is
  8779 especially important for locales);
  8780 
  8781 * Pure: "sorry" no longer requires quick_and_dirty in interactive
  8782 mode;
  8783 
  8784 * Pure/obtain: the formal conclusion "thesis", being marked as
  8785 ``internal'', may no longer be reference directly in the text;
  8786 potential INCOMPATIBILITY, may need to use "?thesis" in rare
  8787 situations;
  8788 
  8789 * Pure: generic 'sym' attribute which declares a rule both as pure
  8790 'elim?' and for the 'symmetric' operation;
  8791 
  8792 * Pure: marginal comments ``--'' may now occur just anywhere in the
  8793 text; the fixed correlation with particular command syntax has been
  8794 discontinued;
  8795 
  8796 * Pure: new method 'rules' is particularly well-suited for proof
  8797 search in intuitionistic logic; a bit slower than 'blast' or 'fast',
  8798 but often produces more compact proof terms with less detours;
  8799 
  8800 * Pure/Provers/classical: simplified integration with pure rule
  8801 attributes and methods; the classical "intro?/elim?/dest?"
  8802 declarations coincide with the pure ones; the "rule" method no longer
  8803 includes classically swapped intros; "intro" and "elim" methods no
  8804 longer pick rules from the context; also got rid of ML declarations
  8805 AddXIs/AddXEs/AddXDs; all of this has some potential for
  8806 INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8807 
  8808 * Provers/classical: attribute 'swapped' produces classical inversions
  8809 of introduction rules;
  8810 
  8811 * Provers/simplifier: 'simplified' attribute may refer to explicit
  8812 rules instead of full simplifier context; 'iff' attribute handles
  8813 conditional rules;
  8814 
  8815 * HOL: 'typedef' now allows alternative names for Rep/Abs morphisms;
  8816 
  8817 * HOL: 'recdef' now fails on unfinished automated proofs, use
  8818 "(permissive)" option to recover old behavior;
  8819 
  8820 * HOL: 'inductive' no longer features separate (collective) attributes
  8821 for 'intros' (was found too confusing);
  8822 
  8823 * HOL: properly declared induction rules less_induct and
  8824 wf_induct_rule;
  8825 
  8826 
  8827 *** HOL ***
  8828 
  8829 * HOL: moved over to sane numeral syntax; the new policy is as
  8830 follows:
  8831 
  8832   - 0 and 1 are polymorphic constants, which are defined on any
  8833   numeric type (nat, int, real etc.);
  8834 
  8835   - 2, 3, 4, ... and -1, -2, -3, ... are polymorphic numerals, based
  8836   binary representation internally;
  8837 
  8838   - type nat has special constructor Suc, and generally prefers Suc 0
  8839   over 1::nat and Suc (Suc 0) over 2::nat;
  8840 
  8841 This change may cause significant problems of INCOMPATIBILITY; here
  8842 are some hints on converting existing sources:
  8843 
  8844   - due to the new "num" token, "-0" and "-1" etc. are now atomic
  8845   entities, so expressions involving "-" (unary or binary minus) need
  8846   to be spaced properly;
  8847 
  8848   - existing occurrences of "1" may need to be constraint "1::nat" or
  8849   even replaced by Suc 0; similar for old "2";
  8850 
  8851   - replace "#nnn" by "nnn", and "#-nnn" by "-nnn";
  8852 
  8853   - remove all special provisions on numerals in proofs;
  8854 
  8855 * HOL: simp rules nat_number expand numerals on nat to Suc/0
  8856 representation (depends on bin_arith_simps in the default context);
  8857 
  8858 * HOL: symbolic syntax for x^2 (numeral 2);
  8859 
  8860 * HOL: the class of all HOL types is now called "type" rather than
  8861 "term"; INCOMPATIBILITY, need to adapt references to this type class
  8862 in axclass/classes, instance/arities, and (usually rare) occurrences
  8863 in typings (of consts etc.); internally the class is called
  8864 "HOL.type", ML programs should refer to HOLogic.typeS;
  8865 
  8866 * HOL/record package improvements:
  8867   - new derived operations "fields" to build a partial record section,
  8868     "extend" to promote a fixed record to a record scheme, and
  8869     "truncate" for the reverse; cf. theorems "xxx.defs", which are *not*
  8870     declared as simp by default;
  8871   - shared operations ("more", "fields", etc.) now need to be always
  8872     qualified) --- potential INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8873   - removed "make_scheme" operations (use "make" with "extend") --
  8874     INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8875   - removed "more" class (simply use "term") -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8876   - provides cases/induct rules for use with corresponding Isar
  8877     methods (for concrete records, record schemes, concrete more
  8878     parts, and schematic more parts -- in that order);
  8879   - internal definitions directly based on a light-weight abstract
  8880     theory of product types over typedef rather than datatype;
  8881 
  8882 * HOL: generic code generator for generating executable ML code from
  8883 specifications; specific support for HOL constructs such as inductive
  8884 datatypes and sets, as well as recursive functions; can be invoked
  8885 via 'generate_code' theory section;
  8886 
  8887 * HOL: canonical cases/induct rules for n-tuples (n = 3..7);
  8888 
  8889 * HOL: consolidated and renamed several theories.  In particular:
  8890         Ord.thy has been absorbed into HOL.thy
  8891         String.thy has been absorbed into List.thy
  8892 
  8893 * HOL: concrete setsum syntax "\<Sum>i:A. b" == "setsum (%i. b) A"
  8894 (beware of argument permutation!);
  8895 
  8896 * HOL: linorder_less_split superseded by linorder_cases;
  8897 
  8898 * HOL/List: "nodups" renamed to "distinct";
  8899 
  8900 * HOL: added "The" definite description operator; move Hilbert's "Eps"
  8901 to peripheral theory "Hilbert_Choice"; some INCOMPATIBILITIES:
  8902   - Ex_def has changed, now need to use some_eq_ex
  8903 
  8904 * HOL: made split_all_tac safe; EXISTING PROOFS MAY FAIL OR LOOP, so
  8905 in this (rare) case use:
  8906 
  8907   delSWrapper "split_all_tac"
  8908   addSbefore ("unsafe_split_all_tac", unsafe_split_all_tac)
  8909 
  8910 * HOL: added safe wrapper "split_conv_tac" to claset; EXISTING PROOFS
  8911 MAY FAIL;
  8912 
  8913 * HOL: introduced f^n = f o ... o f; warning: due to the limits of
  8914 Isabelle's type classes, ^ on functions and relations has too general
  8915 a domain, namely ('a * 'b) set and 'a => 'b; this means that it may be
  8916 necessary to attach explicit type constraints;
  8917 
  8918 * HOL/Relation: the prefix name of the infix "O" has been changed from
  8919 "comp" to "rel_comp"; INCOMPATIBILITY: a few theorems have been
  8920 renamed accordingly (eg "compI" -> "rel_compI").
  8921 
  8922 * HOL: syntax translations now work properly with numerals and records
  8923 expressions;
  8924 
  8925 * HOL: bounded abstraction now uses syntax "%" / "\<lambda>" instead
  8926 of "lam" -- INCOMPATIBILITY;
  8927 
  8928 * HOL: got rid of some global declarations (potential INCOMPATIBILITY
  8929 for ML tools): const "()" renamed "Product_Type.Unity", type "unit"
  8930 renamed "Product_Type.unit";
  8931 
  8932 * HOL: renamed rtrancl_into_rtrancl2 to converse_rtrancl_into_rtrancl
  8933 
  8934 * HOL: removed obsolete theorem "optionE" (use "option.exhaust", or
  8935 the "cases" method);
  8936 
  8937 * HOL/GroupTheory: group theory examples including Sylow's theorem (by
  8938 Florian Kammller);
  8939 
  8940 * HOL/IMP: updated and converted to new-style theory format; several
  8941 parts turned into readable document, with proper Isar proof texts and
  8942 some explanations (by Gerwin Klein);
  8943 
  8944 * HOL-Real: added Complex_Numbers (by Gertrud Bauer);
  8945 
  8946 * HOL-Hyperreal is now a logic image;
  8947 
  8948 
  8949 *** HOLCF ***
  8950 
  8951 * Isar: consts/constdefs supports mixfix syntax for continuous
  8952 operations;
  8953 
  8954 * Isar: domain package adapted to new-style theory format, e.g. see
  8955 HOLCF/ex/Dnat.thy;
  8956 
  8957 * theory Lift: proper use of rep_datatype lift instead of ML hacks --
  8958 potential INCOMPATIBILITY; now use plain induct_tac instead of former
  8959 lift.induct_tac, always use UU instead of Undef;
  8960 
  8961 * HOLCF/IMP: updated and converted to new-style theory;
  8962 
  8963 
  8964 *** ZF ***
  8965 
  8966 * Isar: proper integration of logic-specific tools and packages,
  8967 including theory commands '(co)inductive', '(co)datatype',
  8968 'rep_datatype', 'inductive_cases', as well as methods 'ind_cases',
  8969 'induct_tac', 'case_tac', and 'typecheck' (with attribute 'TC');
  8970 
  8971 * theory Main no longer includes AC; for the Axiom of Choice, base
  8972 your theory on Main_ZFC;
  8973 
  8974 * the integer library now covers quotients and remainders, with many
  8975 laws relating division to addition, multiplication, etc.;
  8976 
  8977 * ZF/UNITY: Chandy and Misra's UNITY is now available in ZF, giving a
  8978 typeless version of the formalism;
  8979 
  8980 * ZF/AC, Coind, IMP, Resid: updated and converted to new-style theory
  8981 format;
  8982 
  8983 * ZF/Induct: new directory for examples of inductive definitions,
  8984 including theory Multiset for multiset orderings; converted to
  8985 new-style theory format;
  8986 
  8987 * ZF: many new theorems about lists, ordinals, etc.;
  8988 
  8989 
  8990 *** General ***
  8991 
  8992 * Pure/kernel: meta-level proof terms (by Stefan Berghofer); reference
  8993 variable proof controls level of detail: 0 = no proofs (only oracle
  8994 dependencies), 1 = lemma dependencies, 2 = compact proof terms; see
  8995 also ref manual for further ML interfaces;
  8996 
  8997 * Pure/axclass: removed obsolete ML interface
  8998 goal_subclass/goal_arity;
  8999 
  9000 * Pure/syntax: new token syntax "num" for plain numerals (without "#"
  9001 of "xnum"); potential INCOMPATIBILITY, since -0, -1 etc. are now
  9002 separate tokens, so expressions involving minus need to be spaced
  9003 properly;
  9004 
  9005 * Pure/syntax: support non-oriented infixes, using keyword "infix"
  9006 rather than "infixl" or "infixr";
  9007 
  9008 * Pure/syntax: concrete syntax for dummy type variables admits genuine
  9009 sort constraint specifications in type inference; e.g. "x::_::foo"
  9010 ensures that the type of "x" is of sort "foo" (but not necessarily a
  9011 type variable);
  9012 
  9013 * Pure/syntax: print modes "type_brackets" and "no_type_brackets"
  9014 control output of nested => (types); the default behavior is
  9015 "type_brackets";
  9016 
  9017 * Pure/syntax: builtin parse translation for "_constify" turns valued
  9018 tokens into AST constants;
  9019 
  9020 * Pure/syntax: prefer later declarations of translations and print
  9021 translation functions; potential INCOMPATIBILITY: need to reverse
  9022 multiple declarations for same syntax element constant;
  9023 
  9024 * Pure/show_hyps reset by default (in accordance to existing Isar
  9025 practice);
  9026 
  9027 * Provers/classical: renamed addaltern to addafter, addSaltern to
  9028 addSafter;
  9029 
  9030 * Provers/clasimp: ``iff'' declarations now handle conditional rules
  9031 as well;
  9032 
  9033 * system: tested support for MacOS X; should be able to get Isabelle +
  9034 Proof General to work in a plain Terminal after installing Poly/ML
  9035 (e.g. from the Isabelle distribution area) and GNU bash alone
  9036 (e.g. from http://www.apple.com); full X11, XEmacs and X-Symbol
  9037 support requires further installations, e.g. from
  9038 http://fink.sourceforge.net/);
  9039 
  9040 * system: support Poly/ML 4.1.1 (able to manage larger heaps);
  9041 
  9042 * system: reduced base memory usage by Poly/ML (approx. 20 MB instead
  9043 of 40 MB), cf. ML_OPTIONS;
  9044 
  9045 * system: Proof General keywords specification is now part of the
  9046 Isabelle distribution (see etc/isar-keywords.el);
  9047 
  9048 * system: support for persistent Proof General sessions (refrain from
  9049 outdating all loaded theories on startup); user may create writable
  9050 logic images like this: ``isabelle -q HOL Test'';
  9051 
  9052 * system: smart selection of Isabelle process versus Isabelle
  9053 interface, accommodates case-insensitive file systems (e.g. HFS+); may
  9054 run both "isabelle" and "Isabelle" even if file names are badly
  9055 damaged (executable inspects the case of the first letter of its own
  9056 name); added separate "isabelle-process" and "isabelle-interface";
  9057 
  9058 * system: refrain from any attempt at filtering input streams; no
  9059 longer support ``8bit'' encoding of old isabelle font, instead proper
  9060 iso-latin characters may now be used; the related isatools
  9061 "symbolinput" and "nonascii" have disappeared as well;
  9062 
  9063 * system: removed old "xterm" interface (the print modes "xterm" and
  9064 "xterm_color" are still available for direct use in a suitable
  9065 terminal);
  9066 
  9067 
  9068 
  9069 New in Isabelle99-2 (February 2001)
  9070 -----------------------------------
  9071 
  9072 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES ***
  9073 
  9074 * HOL: please note that theories in the Library and elsewhere often use the
  9075 new-style (Isar) format; to refer to their theorems in an ML script you must
  9076 bind them to ML identifers by e.g.      val thm_name = thm "thm_name";
  9077 
  9078 * HOL: inductive package no longer splits induction rule aggressively,
  9079 but only as far as specified by the introductions given; the old
  9080 format may be recovered via ML function complete_split_rule or attribute
  9081 'split_rule (complete)';
  9082 
  9083 * HOL: induct renamed to lfp_induct, lfp_Tarski to lfp_unfold,
  9084 gfp_Tarski to gfp_unfold;
  9085 
  9086 * HOL: contrapos, contrapos2 renamed to contrapos_nn, contrapos_pp;
  9087 
  9088 * HOL: infix "dvd" now has priority 50 rather than 70 (because it is a
  9089 relation); infix "^^" has been renamed "``"; infix "``" has been
  9090 renamed "`"; "univalent" has been renamed "single_valued";
  9091 
  9092 * HOL/Real: "rinv" and "hrinv" replaced by overloaded "inverse"
  9093 operation;
  9094 
  9095 * HOLCF: infix "`" has been renamed "$"; the symbol syntax is \<cdot>;
  9096 
  9097 * Isar: 'obtain' no longer declares "that" fact as simp/intro;
  9098 
  9099 * Isar/HOL: method 'induct' now handles non-atomic goals; as a
  9100 consequence, it is no longer monotonic wrt. the local goal context
  9101 (which is now passed through the inductive cases);
  9102 
  9103 * Document preparation: renamed standard symbols \<ll> to \<lless> and
  9104 \<gg> to \<ggreater>;
  9105 
  9106 
  9107 *** Document preparation ***
  9108 
  9109 * \isabellestyle{NAME} selects version of Isabelle output (currently
  9110 available: are "it" for near math-mode best-style output, "sl" for
  9111 slanted text style, and "tt" for plain type-writer; if no
  9112 \isabellestyle command is given, output is according to slanted
  9113 type-writer);
  9114 
  9115 * support sub/super scripts (for single symbols only), input syntax is
  9116 like this: "A\<^sup>*" or "A\<^sup>\<star>";
  9117 
  9118 * some more standard symbols; see Appendix A of the system manual for
  9119 the complete list of symbols defined in isabellesym.sty;
  9120 
  9121 * improved isabelle style files; more abstract symbol implementation
  9122 (should now use \isamath{...} and \isatext{...} in custom symbol
  9123 definitions);
  9124 
  9125 * antiquotation @{goals} and @{subgoals} for output of *dynamic* goals
  9126 state; Note that presentation of goal states does not conform to
  9127 actual human-readable proof documents.  Please do not include goal
  9128 states into document output unless you really know what you are doing!
  9129 
  9130 * proper indentation of antiquoted output with proportional LaTeX
  9131 fonts;
  9132 
  9133 * no_document ML operator temporarily disables LaTeX document
  9134 generation;
  9135 
  9136 * isatool unsymbolize tunes sources for plain ASCII communication;
  9137 
  9138 
  9139 *** Isar ***
  9140 
  9141 * Pure: Isar now suffers initial goal statements to contain unbound
  9142 schematic variables (this does not conform to actual readable proof
  9143 documents, due to unpredictable outcome and non-compositional proof
  9144 checking); users who know what they are doing may use schematic goals
  9145 for Prolog-style synthesis of proven results;
  9146 
  9147 * Pure: assumption method (an implicit finishing) now handles actual
  9148 rules as well;
  9149 
  9150 * Pure: improved 'obtain' --- moved to Pure, insert "that" into
  9151 initial goal, declare "that" only as Pure intro (only for single
  9152 steps); the "that" rule assumption may now be involved in implicit
  9153 finishing, thus ".." becomes a feasible for trivial obtains;
  9154 
  9155 * Pure: default proof step now includes 'intro_classes'; thus trivial
  9156 instance proofs may be performed by "..";
  9157 
  9158 * Pure: ?thesis / ?this / "..." now work for pure meta-level
  9159 statements as well;
  9160 
  9161 * Pure: more robust selection of calculational rules;
  9162 
  9163 * Pure: the builtin notion of 'finished' goal now includes the ==-refl
  9164 rule (as well as the assumption rule);
  9165 
  9166 * Pure: 'thm_deps' command visualizes dependencies of theorems and
  9167 lemmas, using the graph browser tool;
  9168 
  9169 * Pure: predict failure of "show" in interactive mode;
  9170 
  9171 * Pure: 'thms_containing' now takes actual terms as arguments;
  9172 
  9173 * HOL: improved method 'induct' --- now handles non-atomic goals
  9174 (potential INCOMPATIBILITY); tuned error handling;
  9175 
  9176 * HOL: cases and induct rules now provide explicit hints about the
  9177 number of facts to be consumed (0 for "type" and 1 for "set" rules);
  9178 any remaining facts are inserted into the goal verbatim;
  9179 
  9180 * HOL: local contexts (aka cases) may now contain term bindings as
  9181 well; the 'cases' and 'induct' methods new provide a ?case binding for
  9182 the result to be shown in each case;
  9183 
  9184 * HOL: added 'recdef_tc' command;
  9185 
  9186 * isatool convert assists in eliminating legacy ML scripts;
  9187 
  9188 
  9189 *** HOL ***
  9190 
  9191 * HOL/Library: a collection of generic theories to be used together
  9192 with main HOL; the theory loader path already includes this directory
  9193 by default; the following existing theories have been moved here:
  9194 HOL/Induct/Multiset, HOL/Induct/Acc (as Accessible_Part), HOL/While
  9195 (as While_Combinator), HOL/Lex/Prefix (as List_Prefix);
  9196 
  9197 * HOL/Unix: "Some aspects of Unix file-system security", a typical
  9198 modelling and verification task performed in Isabelle/HOL +
  9199 Isabelle/Isar + Isabelle document preparation (by Markus Wenzel).
  9200 
  9201 * HOL/Algebra: special summation operator SUM no longer exists, it has
  9202 been replaced by setsum; infix 'assoc' now has priority 50 (like
  9203 'dvd'); axiom 'one_not_zero' has been moved from axclass 'ring' to
  9204 'domain', this makes the theory consistent with mathematical
  9205 literature;
  9206 
  9207 * HOL basics: added overloaded operations "inverse" and "divide"
  9208 (infix "/"), syntax for generic "abs" operation, generic summation
  9209 operator \<Sum>;
  9210 
  9211 * HOL/typedef: simplified package, provide more useful rules (see also
  9212 HOL/subset.thy);
  9213 
  9214 * HOL/datatype: induction rule for arbitrarily branching datatypes is
  9215 now expressed as a proper nested rule (old-style tactic scripts may
  9216 require atomize_strip_tac to cope with non-atomic premises);
  9217 
  9218 * HOL: renamed theory "Prod" to "Product_Type", renamed "split" rule
  9219 to "split_conv" (old name still available for compatibility);
  9220 
  9221 * HOL: improved concrete syntax for strings (e.g. allows translation
  9222 rules with string literals);
  9223 
  9224 * HOL-Real-Hyperreal: this extends HOL-Real with the hyperreals
  9225  and Fleuriot's mechanization of analysis, including the transcendental
  9226  functions for the reals;
  9227 
  9228 * HOL/Real, HOL/Hyperreal: improved arithmetic simplification;
  9229 
  9230 
  9231 *** CTT ***
  9232 
  9233 * CTT: x-symbol support for Pi, Sigma, -->, : (membership); note that
  9234 "lam" is displayed as TWO lambda-symbols
  9235 
  9236 * CTT: theory Main now available, containing everything (that is, Bool
  9237 and Arith);
  9238 
  9239 
  9240 *** General ***
  9241 
  9242 * Pure: the Simplifier has been implemented properly as a derived rule
  9243 outside of the actual kernel (at last!); the overall performance
  9244 penalty in practical applications is about 50%, while reliability of
  9245 the Isabelle inference kernel has been greatly improved;
  9246 
  9247 * print modes "brackets" and "no_brackets" control output of nested =>
  9248 (types) and ==> (props); the default behaviour is "brackets";
  9249 
  9250 * Provers: fast_tac (and friends) now handle actual object-logic rules
  9251 as assumptions as well;
  9252 
  9253 * system: support Poly/ML 4.0;
  9254 
  9255 * system: isatool install handles KDE version 1 or 2;
  9256 
  9257 
  9258 
  9259 New in Isabelle99-1 (October 2000)
  9260 ----------------------------------
  9261 
  9262 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES ***
  9263 
  9264 * HOL: simplification of natural numbers is much changed; to partly
  9265 recover the old behaviour (e.g. to prevent n+n rewriting to #2*n)
  9266 issue the following ML commands:
  9267 
  9268   Delsimprocs Nat_Numeral_Simprocs.cancel_numerals;
  9269   Delsimprocs [Nat_Numeral_Simprocs.combine_numerals];
  9270 
  9271 * HOL: simplification no longer dives into case-expressions; this is
  9272 controlled by "t.weak_case_cong" for each datatype t;
  9273 
  9274 * HOL: nat_less_induct renamed to less_induct;
  9275 
  9276 * HOL: systematic renaming of the SOME (Eps) rules, may use isatool
  9277 fixsome to patch .thy and .ML sources automatically;
  9278 
  9279   select_equality  -> some_equality
  9280   select_eq_Ex     -> some_eq_ex
  9281   selectI2EX       -> someI2_ex
  9282   selectI2         -> someI2
  9283   selectI          -> someI
  9284   select1_equality -> some1_equality
  9285   Eps_sym_eq       -> some_sym_eq_trivial
  9286   Eps_eq           -> some_eq_trivial
  9287 
  9288 * HOL: exhaust_tac on datatypes superceded by new generic case_tac;
  9289 
  9290 * HOL: removed obsolete theorem binding expand_if (refer to split_if
  9291 instead);
  9292 
  9293 * HOL: the recursion equations generated by 'recdef' are now called
  9294 f.simps instead of f.rules;
  9295 
  9296 * HOL: qed_spec_mp now also handles bounded ALL as well;
  9297 
  9298 * HOL: 0 is now overloaded, so the type constraint ":: nat" may
  9299 sometimes be needed;
  9300 
  9301 * HOL: the constant for "f``x" is now "image" rather than "op ``";
  9302 
  9303 * HOL: the constant for "f-``x" is now "vimage" rather than "op -``";
  9304 
  9305 * HOL: the disjoint sum is now "<+>" instead of "Plus"; the cartesian
  9306 product is now "<*>" instead of "Times"; the lexicographic product is
  9307 now "<*lex*>" instead of "**";
  9308 
  9309 * HOL: theory Sexp is now in HOL/Induct examples (it used to be part
  9310 of main HOL, but was unused); better use HOL's datatype package;
  9311 
  9312 * HOL: removed "symbols" syntax for constant "override" of theory Map;
  9313 the old syntax may be recovered as follows:
  9314 
  9315   syntax (symbols)
  9316     override  :: "('a ~=> 'b) => ('a ~=> 'b) => ('a ~=> 'b)"
  9317       (infixl "\\<oplus>" 100)
  9318 
  9319 * HOL/Real: "rabs" replaced by overloaded "abs" function;
  9320 
  9321 * HOL/ML: even fewer consts are declared as global (see theories Ord,
  9322 Lfp, Gfp, WF); this only affects ML packages that refer to const names
  9323 internally;
  9324 
  9325 * HOL and ZF: syntax for quotienting wrt an equivalence relation
  9326 changed from A/r to A//r;
  9327 
  9328 * ZF: new treatment of arithmetic (nat & int) may break some old
  9329 proofs;
  9330 
  9331 * Isar: renamed some attributes (RS -> THEN, simplify -> simplified,
  9332 rulify -> rule_format, elimify -> elim_format, ...);
  9333 
  9334 * Isar/Provers: intro/elim/dest attributes changed; renamed
  9335 intro/intro!/intro!! flags to intro!/intro/intro? (in most cases, one
  9336 should have to change intro!! to intro? only); replaced "delrule" by
  9337 "rule del";
  9338 
  9339 * Isar/HOL: renamed "intrs" to "intros" in inductive definitions;
  9340 
  9341 * Provers: strengthened force_tac by using new first_best_tac;
  9342 
  9343 * LaTeX document preparation: several changes of isabelle.sty (see
  9344 lib/texinputs);
  9345 
  9346 
  9347 *** Document preparation ***
  9348 
  9349 * formal comments (text blocks etc.) in new-style theories may now
  9350 contain antiquotations of thm/prop/term/typ/text to be presented
  9351 according to latex print mode; concrete syntax is like this:
  9352 @{term[show_types] "f(x) = a + x"};
  9353 
  9354 * isatool mkdir provides easy setup of Isabelle session directories,
  9355 including proper document sources;
  9356 
  9357 * generated LaTeX sources are now deleted after successful run
  9358 (isatool document -c); may retain a copy somewhere else via -D option
  9359 of isatool usedir;
  9360 
  9361 * isatool usedir -D now lets isatool latex -o sty update the Isabelle
  9362 style files, achieving self-contained LaTeX sources and simplifying
  9363 LaTeX debugging;
  9364 
  9365 * old-style theories now produce (crude) LaTeX output as well;
  9366 
  9367 * browser info session directories are now self-contained (may be put
  9368 on WWW server seperately); improved graphs of nested sessions; removed
  9369 graph for 'all sessions';
  9370 
  9371 * several improvements in isabelle style files; \isabellestyle{it}
  9372 produces fake math mode output; \isamarkupheader is now \section by
  9373 default; see lib/texinputs/isabelle.sty etc.;
  9374 
  9375 
  9376 *** Isar ***
  9377 
  9378 * Isar/Pure: local results and corresponding term bindings are now
  9379 subject to Hindley-Milner polymorphism (similar to ML); this
  9380 accommodates incremental type-inference very nicely;
  9381 
  9382 * Isar/Pure: new derived language element 'obtain' supports
  9383 generalized existence reasoning;
  9384 
  9385 * Isar/Pure: new calculational elements 'moreover' and 'ultimately'
  9386 support accumulation of results, without applying any rules yet;
  9387 useful to collect intermediate results without explicit name
  9388 references, and for use with transitivity rules with more than 2
  9389 premises;
  9390 
  9391 * Isar/Pure: scalable support for case-analysis type proofs: new
  9392 'case' language element refers to local contexts symbolically, as
  9393 produced by certain proof methods; internally, case names are attached
  9394 to theorems as "tags";
  9395 
  9396 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'hide' removes declarations from
  9397 class/type/const name spaces;
  9398 
  9399 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'defs' supports option "(overloaded)" to
  9400 indicate potential overloading;
  9401 
  9402 * Isar/Pure: changed syntax of local blocks from {{ }} to { };
  9403 
  9404 * Isar/Pure: syntax of sorts made 'inner', i.e. have to write
  9405 "{a,b,c}" instead of {a,b,c};
  9406 
  9407 * Isar/Pure now provides its own version of intro/elim/dest
  9408 attributes; useful for building new logics, but beware of confusion
  9409 with the version in Provers/classical;
  9410 
  9411 * Isar/Pure: the local context of (non-atomic) goals is provided via
  9412 case name 'antecedent';
  9413 
  9414 * Isar/Pure: removed obsolete 'transfer' attribute (transfer of thms
  9415 to the current context is now done automatically);
  9416 
  9417 * Isar/Pure: theory command 'method_setup' provides a simple interface
  9418 for definining proof methods in ML;
  9419 
  9420 * Isar/Provers: intro/elim/dest attributes changed; renamed
  9421 intro/intro!/intro!! flags to intro!/intro/intro? (INCOMPATIBILITY, in
  9422 most cases, one should have to change intro!! to intro? only);
  9423 replaced "delrule" by "rule del";
  9424 
  9425 * Isar/Provers: new 'hypsubst' method, plain 'subst' method and
  9426 'symmetric' attribute (the latter supercedes [RS sym]);
  9427 
  9428 * Isar/Provers: splitter support (via 'split' attribute and 'simp'
  9429 method modifier); 'simp' method: 'only:' modifier removes loopers as
  9430 well (including splits);
  9431 
  9432 * Isar/Provers: Simplifier and Classical methods now support all kind
  9433 of modifiers used in the past, including 'cong', 'iff', etc.
  9434 
  9435 * Isar/Provers: added 'fastsimp' and 'clarsimp' methods (combination
  9436 of Simplifier and Classical reasoner);
  9437 
  9438 * Isar/HOL: new proof method 'cases' and improved version of 'induct'
  9439 now support named cases; major packages (inductive, datatype, primrec,
  9440 recdef) support case names and properly name parameters;
  9441 
  9442 * Isar/HOL: new transitivity rules for substitution in inequalities --
  9443 monotonicity conditions are extracted to be proven at end of
  9444 calculations;
  9445 
  9446 * Isar/HOL: removed 'case_split' thm binding, should use 'cases' proof
  9447 method anyway;
  9448 
  9449 * Isar/HOL: removed old expand_if = split_if; theorems if_splits =
  9450 split_if split_if_asm; datatype package provides theorems foo.splits =
  9451 foo.split foo.split_asm for each datatype;
  9452 
  9453 * Isar/HOL: tuned inductive package, rename "intrs" to "intros"
  9454 (potential INCOMPATIBILITY), emulation of mk_cases feature for proof
  9455 scripts: new 'inductive_cases' command and 'ind_cases' method; (Note:
  9456 use "(cases (simplified))" method in proper proof texts);
  9457 
  9458 * Isar/HOL: added global 'arith_split' attribute for 'arith' method;
  9459 
  9460 * Isar: names of theorems etc. may be natural numbers as well;
  9461 
  9462 * Isar: 'pr' command: optional arguments for goals_limit and
  9463 ProofContext.prems_limit; no longer prints theory contexts, but only
  9464 proof states;
  9465 
  9466 * Isar: diagnostic commands 'pr', 'thm', 'prop', 'term', 'typ' admit
  9467 additional print modes to be specified; e.g. "pr(latex)" will print
  9468 proof state according to the Isabelle LaTeX style;
  9469 
  9470 * Isar: improved support for emulating tactic scripts, including proof
  9471 methods 'rule_tac' etc., 'cut_tac', 'thin_tac', 'subgoal_tac',
  9472 'rename_tac', 'rotate_tac', 'tactic', and 'case_tac' / 'induct_tac'
  9473 (for HOL datatypes);
  9474 
  9475 * Isar: simplified (more robust) goal selection of proof methods: 1st
  9476 goal, all goals, or explicit goal specifier (tactic emulation); thus
  9477 'proof method scripts' have to be in depth-first order;
  9478 
  9479 * Isar: tuned 'let' syntax: replaced 'as' keyword by 'and';
  9480 
  9481 * Isar: removed 'help' command, which hasn't been too helpful anyway;
  9482 should instead use individual commands for printing items
  9483 (print_commands, print_methods etc.);
  9484 
  9485 * Isar: added 'nothing' --- the empty list of theorems;
  9486 
  9487 
  9488 *** HOL ***
  9489 
  9490 * HOL/MicroJava: formalization of a fragment of Java, together with a
  9491 corresponding virtual machine and a specification of its bytecode
  9492 verifier and a lightweight bytecode verifier, including proofs of
  9493 type-safety; by Gerwin Klein, Tobias Nipkow, David von Oheimb, and
  9494 Cornelia Pusch (see also the homepage of project Bali at
  9495 http://isabelle.in.tum.de/Bali/);
  9496 
  9497 * HOL/Algebra: new theory of rings and univariate polynomials, by
  9498 Clemens Ballarin;
  9499 
  9500 * HOL/NumberTheory: fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Chinese
  9501 Remainder Theorem, Fermat/Euler Theorem, Wilson's Theorem, by Thomas M
  9502 Rasmussen;
  9503 
  9504 * HOL/Lattice: fundamental concepts of lattice theory and order
  9505 structures, including duals, properties of bounds versus algebraic
  9506 laws, lattice operations versus set-theoretic ones, the Knaster-Tarski
  9507 Theorem for complete lattices etc.; may also serve as a demonstration
  9508 for abstract algebraic reasoning using axiomatic type classes, and
  9509 mathematics-style proof in Isabelle/Isar; by Markus Wenzel;
  9510 
  9511 * HOL/Prolog: a (bare-bones) implementation of Lambda-Prolog, by David
  9512 von Oheimb;
  9513 
  9514 * HOL/IMPP: extension of IMP with local variables and mutually
  9515 recursive procedures, by David von Oheimb;
  9516 
  9517 * HOL/Lambda: converted into new-style theory and document;
  9518 
  9519 * HOL/ex/Multiquote: example of multiple nested quotations and
  9520 anti-quotations -- basically a generalized version of de-Bruijn
  9521 representation; very useful in avoiding lifting of operations;
  9522 
  9523 * HOL/record: added general record equality rule to simpset; fixed
  9524 select-update simplification procedure to handle extended records as
  9525 well; admit "r" as field name;
  9526 
  9527 * HOL: 0 is now overloaded over the new sort "zero", allowing its use with
  9528 other numeric types and also as the identity of groups, rings, etc.;
  9529 
  9530 * HOL: new axclass plus_ac0 for addition with the AC-laws and 0 as identity.
  9531 Types nat and int belong to this axclass;
  9532 
  9533 * HOL: greatly improved simplification involving numerals of type nat, int, real:
  9534    (i + #8 + j) = Suc k simplifies to  #7 + (i + j) = k
  9535    i*j + k + j*#3*i     simplifies to  #4*(i*j) + k
  9536   two terms #m*u and #n*u are replaced by #(m+n)*u
  9537     (where #m, #n and u can implicitly be 1; this is simproc combine_numerals)
  9538   and the term/formula #m*u+x ~~ #n*u+y simplifies simplifies to #(m-n)+x ~~ y
  9539     or x ~~ #(n-m)+y, where ~~ is one of = < <= or - (simproc cancel_numerals);
  9540 
  9541 * HOL: meson_tac is available (previously in ex/meson.ML); it is a
  9542 powerful prover for predicate logic but knows nothing of clasets; see
  9543 ex/mesontest.ML and ex/mesontest2.ML for example applications;
  9544 
  9545 * HOL: new version of "case_tac" subsumes both boolean case split and
  9546 "exhaust_tac" on datatypes; INCOMPATIBILITY: exhaust_tac no longer
  9547 exists, may define val exhaust_tac = case_tac for ad-hoc portability;
  9548 
  9549 * HOL: simplification no longer dives into case-expressions: only the
  9550 selector expression is simplified, but not the remaining arms; to
  9551 enable full simplification of case-expressions for datatype t, you may
  9552 remove t.weak_case_cong from the simpset, either globally (Delcongs
  9553 [thm"t.weak_case_cong"];) or locally (delcongs [...]).
  9554 
  9555 * HOL/recdef: the recursion equations generated by 'recdef' for
  9556 function 'f' are now called f.simps instead of f.rules; if all
  9557 termination conditions are proved automatically, these simplification
  9558 rules are added to the simpset, as in primrec; rules may be named
  9559 individually as well, resulting in a separate list of theorems for
  9560 each equation;
  9561 
  9562 * HOL/While is a new theory that provides a while-combinator. It
  9563 permits the definition of tail-recursive functions without the
  9564 provision of a termination measure. The latter is necessary once the
  9565 invariant proof rule for while is applied.
  9566 
  9567 * HOL: new (overloaded) notation for the set of elements below/above
  9568 some element: {..u}, {..u(}, {l..}, {)l..}. See theory SetInterval.
  9569 
  9570 * HOL: theorems impI, allI, ballI bound as "strip";
  9571 
  9572 * HOL: new tactic induct_thm_tac: thm -> string -> int -> tactic
  9573 induct_tac th "x1 ... xn" expects th to have a conclusion of the form
  9574 P v1 ... vn and abbreviates res_inst_tac [("v1","x1"),...,("vn","xn")] th;
  9575 
  9576 * HOL/Real: "rabs" replaced by overloaded "abs" function;
  9577 
  9578 * HOL: theory Sexp now in HOL/Induct examples (it used to be part of
  9579 main HOL, but was unused);
  9580 
  9581 * HOL: fewer consts declared as global (e.g. have to refer to
  9582 "Lfp.lfp" instead of "lfp" internally; affects ML packages only);
  9583 
  9584 * HOL: tuned AST representation of nested pairs, avoiding bogus output
  9585 in case of overlap with user translations (e.g. judgements over
  9586 tuples); (note that the underlying logical represenation is still
  9587 bogus);
  9588 
  9589 
  9590 *** ZF ***
  9591 
  9592 * ZF: simplification automatically cancels common terms in arithmetic
  9593 expressions over nat and int;
  9594 
  9595 * ZF: new treatment of nat to minimize type-checking: all operators
  9596 coerce their operands to a natural number using the function natify,
  9597 making the algebraic laws unconditional;
  9598 
  9599 * ZF: as above, for int: operators coerce their operands to an integer
  9600 using the function intify;
  9601 
  9602 * ZF: the integer library now contains many of the usual laws for the
  9603 orderings, including $<=, and monotonicity laws for $+ and $*;
  9604 
  9605 * ZF: new example ZF/ex/NatSum to demonstrate integer arithmetic
  9606 simplification;
  9607 
  9608 * FOL and ZF: AddIffs now available, giving theorems of the form P<->Q
  9609 to the simplifier and classical reasoner simultaneously;
  9610 
  9611 
  9612 *** General ***
  9613 
  9614 * Provers: blast_tac now handles actual object-logic rules as
  9615 assumptions; note that auto_tac uses blast_tac internally as well;
  9616 
  9617 * Provers: new functions rulify/rulify_no_asm: thm -> thm for turning
  9618 outer -->/All/Ball into ==>/!!; qed_spec_mp now uses rulify_no_asm;
  9619 
  9620 * Provers: delrules now handles destruct rules as well (no longer need
  9621 explicit make_elim);
  9622 
  9623 * Provers: Blast_tac now warns of and ignores "weak elimination rules" e.g.
  9624   [| inj ?f;          ?f ?x = ?f ?y; ?x = ?y ==> ?W |] ==> ?W
  9625 use instead the strong form,
  9626   [| inj ?f; ~ ?W ==> ?f ?x = ?f ?y; ?x = ?y ==> ?W |] ==> ?W
  9627 in HOL, FOL and ZF the function cla_make_elim will create such rules
  9628 from destruct-rules;
  9629 
  9630 * Provers: Simplifier.easy_setup provides a fast path to basic
  9631 Simplifier setup for new object-logics;
  9632 
  9633 * Pure: AST translation rules no longer require constant head on LHS;
  9634 
  9635 * Pure: improved name spaces: ambiguous output is qualified; support
  9636 for hiding of names;
  9637 
  9638 * system: smart setup of canonical ML_HOME, ISABELLE_INTERFACE, and
  9639 XSYMBOL_HOME; no longer need to do manual configuration in most
  9640 situations;
  9641 
  9642 * system: compression of ML heaps images may now be controlled via -c
  9643 option of isabelle and isatool usedir (currently only observed by
  9644 Poly/ML);
  9645 
  9646 * system: isatool installfonts may handle X-Symbol fonts as well (very
  9647 useful for remote X11);
  9648 
  9649 * system: provide TAGS file for Isabelle sources;
  9650 
  9651 * ML: infix 'OF' is a version of 'MRS' with more appropriate argument
  9652 order;
  9653 
  9654 * ML: renamed flags Syntax.trace_norm_ast to Syntax.trace_ast; global
  9655 timing flag supersedes proof_timing and Toplevel.trace;
  9656 
  9657 * ML: new combinators |>> and |>>> for incremental transformations
  9658 with secondary results (e.g. certain theory extensions):
  9659 
  9660 * ML: PureThy.add_defs gets additional argument to indicate potential
  9661 overloading (usually false);
  9662 
  9663 * ML: PureThy.add_thms/add_axioms/add_defs now return theorems as
  9664 results;
  9665 
  9666 
  9667 
  9668 New in Isabelle99 (October 1999)
  9669 --------------------------------
  9670 
  9671 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
  9672 
  9673 * HOL: The THEN and ELSE parts of conditional expressions (if P then x else y)
  9674 are no longer simplified.  (This allows the simplifier to unfold recursive
  9675 functional programs.)  To restore the old behaviour, declare
  9676 
  9677     Delcongs [if_weak_cong];
  9678 
  9679 * HOL: Removed the obsolete syntax "Compl A"; use -A for set
  9680 complement;
  9681 
  9682 * HOL: the predicate "inj" is now defined by translation to "inj_on";
  9683 
  9684 * HOL/datatype: mutual_induct_tac no longer exists --
  9685   use induct_tac "x_1 ... x_n" instead of mutual_induct_tac ["x_1", ..., "x_n"]
  9686 
  9687 * HOL/typedef: fixed type inference for representing set; type
  9688 arguments now have to occur explicitly on the rhs as type constraints;
  9689 
  9690 * ZF: The con_defs part of an inductive definition may no longer refer
  9691 to constants declared in the same theory;
  9692 
  9693 * HOL, ZF: the function mk_cases, generated by the inductive
  9694 definition package, has lost an argument.  To simplify its result, it
  9695 uses the default simpset instead of a supplied list of theorems.
  9696 
  9697 * HOL/List: the constructors of type list are now Nil and Cons;
  9698 
  9699 * Simplifier: the type of the infix ML functions
  9700         setSSolver addSSolver setSolver addSolver
  9701 is now  simpset * solver -> simpset  where `solver' is a new abstract type
  9702 for packaging solvers. A solver is created via
  9703         mk_solver: string -> (thm list -> int -> tactic) -> solver
  9704 where the string argument is only a comment.
  9705 
  9706 
  9707 *** Proof tools ***
  9708 
  9709 * Provers/Arith/fast_lin_arith.ML contains a functor for creating a
  9710 decision procedure for linear arithmetic. Currently it is used for
  9711 types `nat', `int', and `real' in HOL (see below); it can, should and
  9712 will be instantiated for other types and logics as well.
  9713 
  9714 * The simplifier now accepts rewrite rules with flexible heads, eg
  9715      hom ?f ==> ?f(?x+?y) = ?f ?x + ?f ?y
  9716   They are applied like any rule with a non-pattern lhs, i.e. by first-order
  9717   matching.
  9718 
  9719 
  9720 *** General ***
  9721 
  9722 * New Isabelle/Isar subsystem provides an alternative to traditional
  9723 tactical theorem proving; together with the ProofGeneral/isar user
  9724 interface it offers an interactive environment for developing human
  9725 readable proof documents (Isar == Intelligible semi-automated
  9726 reasoning); for further information see isatool doc isar-ref,
  9727 src/HOL/Isar_examples and http://isabelle.in.tum.de/Isar/
  9728 
  9729 * improved and simplified presentation of theories: better HTML markup
  9730 (including colors), graph views in several sizes; isatool usedir now
  9731 provides a proper interface for user theories (via -P option); actual
  9732 document preparation based on (PDF)LaTeX is available as well (for
  9733 new-style theories only); see isatool doc system for more information;
  9734 
  9735 * native support for Proof General, both for classic Isabelle and
  9736 Isabelle/Isar;
  9737 
  9738 * ML function thm_deps visualizes dependencies of theorems and lemmas,
  9739 using the graph browser tool;
  9740 
  9741 * Isabelle manuals now also available as PDF;
  9742 
  9743 * theory loader rewritten from scratch (may not be fully
  9744 bug-compatible); old loadpath variable has been replaced by show_path,
  9745 add_path, del_path, reset_path functions; new operations such as
  9746 update_thy, touch_thy, remove_thy, use/update_thy_only (see also
  9747 isatool doc ref);
  9748 
  9749 * improved isatool install: option -k creates KDE application icon,
  9750 option -p DIR installs standalone binaries;
  9751 
  9752 * added ML_PLATFORM setting (useful for cross-platform installations);
  9753 more robust handling of platform specific ML images for SML/NJ;
  9754 
  9755 * the settings environment is now statically scoped, i.e. it is never
  9756 created again in sub-processes invoked from isabelle, isatool, or
  9757 Isabelle;
  9758 
  9759 * path element specification '~~' refers to '$ISABELLE_HOME';
  9760 
  9761 * in locales, the "assumes" and "defines" parts may be omitted if
  9762 empty;
  9763 
  9764 * new print_mode "xsymbols" for extended symbol support (e.g. genuine
  9765 long arrows);
  9766 
  9767 * new print_mode "HTML";
  9768 
  9769 * new flag show_tags controls display of tags of theorems (which are
  9770 basically just comments that may be attached by some tools);
  9771 
  9772 * Isamode 2.6 requires patch to accomodate change of Isabelle font
  9773 mode and goal output format:
  9774 
  9775 diff -r Isamode-2.6/elisp/isa-load.el Isamode/elisp/isa-load.el
  9776 244c244
  9777 <       (list (isa-getenv "ISABELLE") "-msymbols" logic-name)
  9778 ---
  9779 >       (list (isa-getenv "ISABELLE") "-misabelle_font" "-msymbols" logic-name)
  9780 diff -r Isabelle-2.6/elisp/isa-proofstate.el Isamode/elisp/isa-proofstate.el
  9781 181c181
  9782 < (defconst proofstate-proofstart-regexp "^Level [0-9]+$"
  9783 ---
  9784 > (defconst proofstate-proofstart-regexp "^Level [0-9]+"
  9785 
  9786 * function bind_thms stores lists of theorems (cf. bind_thm);
  9787 
  9788 * new shorthand tactics ftac, eatac, datac, fatac;
  9789 
  9790 * qed (and friends) now accept "" as result name; in that case the
  9791 theorem is not stored, but proper checks and presentation of the
  9792 result still apply;
  9793 
  9794 * theorem database now also indexes constants "Trueprop", "all",
  9795 "==>", "=="; thus thms_containing, findI etc. may retrieve more rules;
  9796 
  9797 
  9798 *** HOL ***
  9799 
  9800 ** HOL arithmetic **
  9801 
  9802 * There are now decision procedures for linear arithmetic over nat and
  9803 int:
  9804 
  9805 1. arith_tac copes with arbitrary formulae involving `=', `<', `<=',
  9806 `+', `-', `Suc', `min', `max' and numerical constants; other subterms
  9807 are treated as atomic; subformulae not involving type `nat' or `int'
  9808 are ignored; quantified subformulae are ignored unless they are
  9809 positive universal or negative existential. The tactic has to be
  9810 invoked by hand and can be a little bit slow. In particular, the
  9811 running time is exponential in the number of occurrences of `min' and
  9812 `max', and `-' on `nat'.
  9813 
  9814 2. fast_arith_tac is a cut-down version of arith_tac: it only takes
  9815 (negated) (in)equalities among the premises and the conclusion into
  9816 account (i.e. no compound formulae) and does not know about `min' and
  9817 `max', and `-' on `nat'. It is fast and is used automatically by the
  9818 simplifier.
  9819 
  9820 NB: At the moment, these decision procedures do not cope with mixed
  9821 nat/int formulae where the two parts interact, such as `m < n ==>
  9822 int(m) < int(n)'.
  9823 
  9824 * HOL/Numeral provides a generic theory of numerals (encoded
  9825 efficiently as bit strings); setup for types nat/int/real is in place;
  9826 INCOMPATIBILITY: since numeral syntax is now polymorphic, rather than
  9827 int, existing theories and proof scripts may require a few additional
  9828 type constraints;
  9829 
  9830 * integer division and remainder can now be performed on constant
  9831 arguments;
  9832 
  9833 * many properties of integer multiplication, division and remainder
  9834 are now available;
  9835 
  9836 * An interface to the Stanford Validity Checker (SVC) is available through the
  9837 tactic svc_tac.  Propositional tautologies and theorems of linear arithmetic
  9838 are proved automatically.  SVC must be installed separately, and its results
  9839 must be TAKEN ON TRUST (Isabelle does not check the proofs, but tags any
  9840 invocation of the underlying oracle).  For SVC see
  9841   http://verify.stanford.edu/SVC
  9842 
  9843 * IsaMakefile: the HOL-Real target now builds an actual image;
  9844 
  9845 
  9846 ** HOL misc **
  9847 
  9848 * HOL/Real/HahnBanach: the Hahn-Banach theorem for real vector spaces
  9849 (in Isabelle/Isar) -- by Gertrud Bauer;
  9850 
  9851 * HOL/BCV: generic model of bytecode verification, i.e. data-flow
  9852 analysis for assembly languages with subtypes;
  9853 
  9854 * HOL/TLA (Lamport's Temporal Logic of Actions): major reorganization
  9855 -- avoids syntactic ambiguities and treats state, transition, and
  9856 temporal levels more uniformly; introduces INCOMPATIBILITIES due to
  9857 changed syntax and (many) tactics;
  9858 
  9859 * HOL/inductive: Now also handles more general introduction rules such
  9860   as "ALL y. (y, x) : r --> y : acc r ==> x : acc r"; monotonicity
  9861   theorems are now maintained within the theory (maintained via the
  9862   "mono" attribute);
  9863 
  9864 * HOL/datatype: Now also handles arbitrarily branching datatypes
  9865   (using function types) such as
  9866 
  9867   datatype 'a tree = Atom 'a | Branch "nat => 'a tree"
  9868 
  9869 * HOL/record: record_simproc (part of the default simpset) takes care
  9870 of selectors applied to updated records; record_split_tac is no longer
  9871 part of the default claset; update_defs may now be removed from the
  9872 simpset in many cases; COMPATIBILITY: old behavior achieved by
  9873 
  9874   claset_ref () := claset() addSWrapper record_split_wrapper;
  9875   Delsimprocs [record_simproc]
  9876 
  9877 * HOL/typedef: fixed type inference for representing set; type
  9878 arguments now have to occur explicitly on the rhs as type constraints;
  9879 
  9880 * HOL/recdef (TFL): 'congs' syntax now expects comma separated list of theorem
  9881 names rather than an ML expression;
  9882 
  9883 * HOL/defer_recdef (TFL): like recdef but the well-founded relation can be
  9884 supplied later.  Program schemes can be defined, such as
  9885     "While B C s = (if B s then While B C (C s) else s)"
  9886 where the well-founded relation can be chosen after B and C have been given.
  9887 
  9888 * HOL/List: the constructors of type list are now Nil and Cons;
  9889 INCOMPATIBILITY: while [] and infix # syntax is still there, of
  9890 course, ML tools referring to List.list.op # etc. have to be adapted;
  9891 
  9892 * HOL_quantifiers flag superseded by "HOL" print mode, which is
  9893 disabled by default; run isabelle with option -m HOL to get back to
  9894 the original Gordon/HOL-style output;
  9895 
  9896 * HOL/Ord.thy: new bounded quantifier syntax (input only): ALL x<y. P,
  9897 ALL x<=y. P, EX x<y. P, EX x<=y. P;
  9898 
  9899 * HOL basic syntax simplified (more orthogonal): all variants of
  9900 All/Ex now support plain / symbolic / HOL notation; plain syntax for
  9901 Eps operator is provided as well: "SOME x. P[x]";
  9902 
  9903 * HOL/Sum.thy: sum_case has been moved to HOL/Datatype;
  9904 
  9905 * HOL/Univ.thy: infix syntax <*>, <+>, <**>, <+> eliminated and made
  9906 thus available for user theories;
  9907 
  9908 * HOLCF/IOA/Sequents: renamed 'Cons' to 'Consq' to avoid clash with
  9909 HOL/List; hardly an INCOMPATIBILITY since '>>' syntax is used all the
  9910 time;
  9911 
  9912 * HOL: new tactic smp_tac: int -> int -> tactic, which applies spec
  9913 several times and then mp;
  9914 
  9915 
  9916 *** LK ***
  9917 
  9918 * the notation <<...>> is now available as a notation for sequences of
  9919 formulas;
  9920 
  9921 * the simplifier is now installed
  9922 
  9923 * the axiom system has been generalized (thanks to Soren Heilmann)
  9924 
  9925 * the classical reasoner now has a default rule database
  9926 
  9927 
  9928 *** ZF ***
  9929 
  9930 * new primrec section allows primitive recursive functions to be given
  9931 directly (as in HOL) over datatypes and the natural numbers;
  9932 
  9933 * new tactics induct_tac and exhaust_tac for induction (or case
  9934 analysis) over datatypes and the natural numbers;
  9935 
  9936 * the datatype declaration of type T now defines the recursor T_rec;
  9937 
  9938 * simplification automatically does freeness reasoning for datatype
  9939 constructors;
  9940 
  9941 * automatic type-inference, with AddTCs command to insert new
  9942 type-checking rules;
  9943 
  9944 * datatype introduction rules are now added as Safe Introduction rules
  9945 to the claset;
  9946 
  9947 * the syntax "if P then x else y" is now available in addition to
  9948 if(P,x,y);
  9949 
  9950 
  9951 *** Internal programming interfaces ***
  9952 
  9953 * tuned simplifier trace output; new flag debug_simp;
  9954 
  9955 * structures Vartab / Termtab (instances of TableFun) offer efficient
  9956 tables indexed by indexname_ord / term_ord (compatible with aconv);
  9957 
  9958 * AxClass.axclass_tac lost the theory argument;
  9959 
  9960 * tuned current_goals_markers semantics: begin / end goal avoids
  9961 printing empty lines;
  9962 
  9963 * removed prs and prs_fn hook, which was broken because it did not
  9964 include \n in its semantics, forcing writeln to add one
  9965 uncoditionally; replaced prs_fn by writeln_fn; consider std_output:
  9966 string -> unit if you really want to output text without newline;
  9967 
  9968 * Symbol.output subject to print mode; INCOMPATIBILITY: defaults to
  9969 plain output, interface builders may have to enable 'isabelle_font'
  9970 mode to get Isabelle font glyphs as before;
  9971 
  9972 * refined token_translation interface; INCOMPATIBILITY: output length
  9973 now of type real instead of int;
  9974 
  9975 * theory loader actions may be traced via new ThyInfo.add_hook
  9976 interface (see src/Pure/Thy/thy_info.ML); example application: keep
  9977 your own database of information attached to *whole* theories -- as
  9978 opposed to intra-theory data slots offered via TheoryDataFun;
  9979 
  9980 * proper handling of dangling sort hypotheses (at last!);
  9981 Thm.strip_shyps and Drule.strip_shyps_warning take care of removing
  9982 extra sort hypotheses that can be witnessed from the type signature;
  9983 the force_strip_shyps flag is gone, any remaining shyps are simply
  9984 left in the theorem (with a warning issued by strip_shyps_warning);
  9985 
  9986 
  9987 
  9988 New in Isabelle98-1 (October 1998)
  9989 ----------------------------------
  9990 
  9991 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
  9992 
  9993 * several changes of automated proof tools;
  9994 
  9995 * HOL: major changes to the inductive and datatype packages, including
  9996 some minor incompatibilities of theory syntax;
  9997 
  9998 * HOL: renamed r^-1 to 'converse' from 'inverse'; 'inj_onto' is now
  9999 called `inj_on';
 10000 
 10001 * HOL: removed duplicate thms in Arith:
 10002   less_imp_add_less  should be replaced by  trans_less_add1
 10003   le_imp_add_le      should be replaced by  trans_le_add1
 10004 
 10005 * HOL: unary minus is now overloaded (new type constraints may be
 10006 required);
 10007 
 10008 * HOL and ZF: unary minus for integers is now #- instead of #~.  In
 10009 ZF, expressions such as n#-1 must be changed to n#- 1, since #-1 is
 10010 now taken as an integer constant.
 10011 
 10012 * Pure: ML function 'theory_of' renamed to 'theory';
 10013 
 10014 
 10015 *** Proof tools ***
 10016 
 10017 * Simplifier:
 10018   1. Asm_full_simp_tac is now more aggressive.
 10019      1. It will sometimes reorient premises if that increases their power to
 10020         simplify.
 10021      2. It does no longer proceed strictly from left to right but may also
 10022         rotate premises to achieve further simplification.
 10023      For compatibility reasons there is now Asm_lr_simp_tac which is like the
 10024      old Asm_full_simp_tac in that it does not rotate premises.
 10025   2. The simplifier now knows a little bit about nat-arithmetic.
 10026 
 10027 * Classical reasoner: wrapper mechanism for the classical reasoner now
 10028 allows for selected deletion of wrappers, by introduction of names for
 10029 wrapper functionals.  This implies that addbefore, addSbefore,
 10030 addaltern, and addSaltern now take a pair (name, tactic) as argument,
 10031 and that adding two tactics with the same name overwrites the first
 10032 one (emitting a warning).
 10033   type wrapper = (int -> tactic) -> (int -> tactic)
 10034   setWrapper, setSWrapper, compWrapper and compSWrapper are replaced by
 10035   addWrapper, addSWrapper: claset * (string * wrapper) -> claset
 10036   delWrapper, delSWrapper: claset *  string            -> claset
 10037   getWrapper is renamed to appWrappers, getSWrapper to appSWrappers;
 10038 
 10039 * Classical reasoner: addbefore/addSbefore now have APPEND/ORELSE
 10040 semantics; addbefore now affects only the unsafe part of step_tac
 10041 etc.; this affects addss/auto_tac/force_tac, so EXISTING PROOFS MAY
 10042 FAIL, but proofs should be fixable easily, e.g. by replacing Auto_tac
 10043 by Force_tac;
 10044 
 10045 * Classical reasoner: setwrapper to setWrapper and compwrapper to
 10046 compWrapper; added safe wrapper (and access functions for it);
 10047 
 10048 * HOL/split_all_tac is now much faster and fails if there is nothing
 10049 to split.  Some EXISTING PROOFS MAY REQUIRE ADAPTION because the order
 10050 and the names of the automatically generated variables have changed.
 10051 split_all_tac has moved within claset() from unsafe wrappers to safe
 10052 wrappers, which means that !!-bound variables are split much more
 10053 aggressively, and safe_tac and clarify_tac now split such variables.
 10054 If this splitting is not appropriate, use delSWrapper "split_all_tac".
 10055 Note: the same holds for record_split_tac, which does the job of
 10056 split_all_tac for record fields.
 10057 
 10058 * HOL/Simplifier: Rewrite rules for case distinctions can now be added
 10059 permanently to the default simpset using Addsplits just like
 10060 Addsimps. They can be removed via Delsplits just like
 10061 Delsimps. Lower-case versions are also available.
 10062 
 10063 * HOL/Simplifier: The rule split_if is now part of the default
 10064 simpset. This means that the simplifier will eliminate all occurrences
 10065 of if-then-else in the conclusion of a goal. To prevent this, you can
 10066 either remove split_if completely from the default simpset by
 10067 `Delsplits [split_if]' or remove it in a specific call of the
 10068 simplifier using `... delsplits [split_if]'.  You can also add/delete
 10069 other case splitting rules to/from the default simpset: every datatype
 10070 generates suitable rules `split_t_case' and `split_t_case_asm' (where
 10071 t is the name of the datatype).
 10072 
 10073 * Classical reasoner / Simplifier combination: new force_tac (and
 10074 derivatives Force_tac, force) combines rewriting and classical
 10075 reasoning (and whatever other tools) similarly to auto_tac, but is
 10076 aimed to solve the given subgoal completely.
 10077 
 10078 
 10079 *** General ***
 10080 
 10081 * new top-level commands `Goal' and `Goalw' that improve upon `goal'
 10082 and `goalw': the theory is no longer needed as an explicit argument -
 10083 the current theory context is used; assumptions are no longer returned
 10084 at the ML-level unless one of them starts with ==> or !!; it is
 10085 recommended to convert to these new commands using isatool fixgoal
 10086 (backup your sources first!);
 10087 
 10088 * new top-level commands 'thm' and 'thms' for retrieving theorems from
 10089 the current theory context, and 'theory' to lookup stored theories;
 10090 
 10091 * new theory section 'locale' for declaring constants, assumptions and
 10092 definitions that have local scope;
 10093 
 10094 * new theory section 'nonterminals' for purely syntactic types;
 10095 
 10096 * new theory section 'setup' for generic ML setup functions
 10097 (e.g. package initialization);
 10098 
 10099 * the distribution now includes Isabelle icons: see
 10100 lib/logo/isabelle-{small,tiny}.xpm;
 10101 
 10102 * isatool install - install binaries with absolute references to
 10103 ISABELLE_HOME/bin;
 10104 
 10105 * isatool logo -- create instances of the Isabelle logo (as EPS);
 10106 
 10107 * print mode 'emacs' reserved for Isamode;
 10108 
 10109 * support multiple print (ast) translations per constant name;
 10110 
 10111 * theorems involving oracles are now printed with a suffixed [!];
 10112 
 10113 
 10114 *** HOL ***
 10115 
 10116 * there is now a tutorial on Isabelle/HOL (do 'isatool doc tutorial');
 10117 
 10118 * HOL/inductive package reorganized and improved: now supports mutual
 10119 definitions such as
 10120 
 10121   inductive EVEN ODD
 10122     intrs
 10123       null "0 : EVEN"
 10124       oddI "n : EVEN ==> Suc n : ODD"
 10125       evenI "n : ODD ==> Suc n : EVEN"
 10126 
 10127 new theorem list "elims" contains an elimination rule for each of the
 10128 recursive sets; inductive definitions now handle disjunctive premises
 10129 correctly (also ZF);
 10130 
 10131 INCOMPATIBILITIES: requires Inductive as an ancestor; component
 10132 "mutual_induct" no longer exists - the induction rule is always
 10133 contained in "induct";
 10134 
 10135 
 10136 * HOL/datatype package re-implemented and greatly improved: now
 10137 supports mutually recursive datatypes such as
 10138 
 10139   datatype
 10140     'a aexp = IF_THEN_ELSE ('a bexp) ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10141             | SUM ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10142             | DIFF ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10143             | NUM 'a
 10144   and
 10145     'a bexp = LESS ('a aexp) ('a aexp)
 10146             | AND ('a bexp) ('a bexp)
 10147             | OR ('a bexp) ('a bexp)
 10148 
 10149 as well as indirectly recursive datatypes such as
 10150 
 10151   datatype
 10152     ('a, 'b) term = Var 'a
 10153                   | App 'b ((('a, 'b) term) list)
 10154 
 10155 The new tactic  mutual_induct_tac [<var_1>, ..., <var_n>] i  performs
 10156 induction on mutually / indirectly recursive datatypes.
 10157 
 10158 Primrec equations are now stored in theory and can be accessed via
 10159 <function_name>.simps.
 10160 
 10161 INCOMPATIBILITIES:
 10162 
 10163   - Theories using datatypes must now have theory Datatype as an
 10164     ancestor.
 10165   - The specific <typename>.induct_tac no longer exists - use the
 10166     generic induct_tac instead.
 10167   - natE has been renamed to nat.exhaust - use exhaust_tac
 10168     instead of res_inst_tac ... natE. Note that the variable
 10169     names in nat.exhaust differ from the names in natE, this
 10170     may cause some "fragile" proofs to fail.
 10171   - The theorems split_<typename>_case and split_<typename>_case_asm
 10172     have been renamed to <typename>.split and <typename>.split_asm.
 10173   - Since default sorts of type variables are now handled correctly,
 10174     some datatype definitions may have to be annotated with explicit
 10175     sort constraints.
 10176   - Primrec definitions no longer require function name and type
 10177     of recursive argument.
 10178 
 10179 Consider using isatool fixdatatype to adapt your theories and proof
 10180 scripts to the new package (backup your sources first!).
 10181 
 10182 
 10183 * HOL/record package: considerably improved implementation; now
 10184 includes concrete syntax for record types, terms, updates; theorems
 10185 for surjective pairing and splitting !!-bound record variables; proof
 10186 support is as follows:
 10187 
 10188   1) standard conversions (selectors or updates applied to record
 10189 constructor terms) are part of the standard simpset;
 10190 
 10191   2) inject equations of the form ((x, y) = (x', y')) == x=x' & y=y' are
 10192 made part of standard simpset and claset via addIffs;
 10193 
 10194   3) a tactic for record field splitting (record_split_tac) is part of
 10195 the standard claset (addSWrapper);
 10196 
 10197 To get a better idea about these rules you may retrieve them via
 10198 something like 'thms "foo.simps"' or 'thms "foo.iffs"', where "foo" is
 10199 the name of your record type.
 10200 
 10201 The split tactic 3) conceptually simplifies by the following rule:
 10202 
 10203   "(!!x. PROP ?P x) == (!!a b. PROP ?P (a, b))"
 10204 
 10205 Thus any record variable that is bound by meta-all will automatically
 10206 blow up into some record constructor term, consequently the
 10207 simplifications of 1), 2) apply.  Thus force_tac, auto_tac etc. shall
 10208 solve record problems automatically.
 10209 
 10210 
 10211 * reorganized the main HOL image: HOL/Integ and String loaded by
 10212 default; theory Main includes everything;
 10213 
 10214 * automatic simplification of integer sums and comparisons, using cancellation;
 10215 
 10216 * added option_map_eq_Some and not_Some_eq to the default simpset and claset;
 10217 
 10218 * added disj_not1 = "(~P | Q) = (P --> Q)" to the default simpset;
 10219 
 10220 * many new identities for unions, intersections, set difference, etc.;
 10221 
 10222 * expand_if, expand_split, expand_sum_case and expand_nat_case are now
 10223 called split_if, split_split, split_sum_case and split_nat_case (to go
 10224 with add/delsplits);
 10225 
 10226 * HOL/Prod introduces simplification procedure unit_eq_proc rewriting
 10227 (?x::unit) = (); this is made part of the default simpset, which COULD
 10228 MAKE EXISTING PROOFS FAIL under rare circumstances (consider
 10229 'Delsimprocs [unit_eq_proc];' as last resort); also note that
 10230 unit_abs_eta_conv is added in order to counter the effect of
 10231 unit_eq_proc on (%u::unit. f u), replacing it by f rather than by
 10232 %u.f();
 10233 
 10234 * HOL/Fun INCOMPATIBILITY: `inj_onto' is now called `inj_on' (which
 10235 makes more sense);
 10236 
 10237 * HOL/Set INCOMPATIBILITY: rule `equals0D' is now a well-formed destruct rule;
 10238   It and 'sym RS equals0D' are now in the default  claset, giving automatic
 10239   disjointness reasoning but breaking a few old proofs.
 10240 
 10241 * HOL/Relation INCOMPATIBILITY: renamed the relational operator r^-1
 10242 to 'converse' from 'inverse' (for compatibility with ZF and some
 10243 literature);
 10244 
 10245 * HOL/recdef can now declare non-recursive functions, with {} supplied as
 10246 the well-founded relation;
 10247 
 10248 * HOL/Set INCOMPATIBILITY: the complement of set A is now written -A instead of
 10249     Compl A.  The "Compl" syntax remains available as input syntax for this
 10250     release ONLY.
 10251 
 10252 * HOL/Update: new theory of function updates:
 10253     f(a:=b) == %x. if x=a then b else f x
 10254 may also be iterated as in f(a:=b,c:=d,...);
 10255 
 10256 * HOL/Vimage: new theory for inverse image of a function, syntax f-``B;
 10257 
 10258 * HOL/List:
 10259   - new function list_update written xs[i:=v] that updates the i-th
 10260     list position. May also be iterated as in xs[i:=a,j:=b,...].
 10261   - new function `upt' written [i..j(] which generates the list
 10262     [i,i+1,...,j-1], i.e. the upper bound is excluded. To include the upper
 10263     bound write [i..j], which is a shorthand for [i..j+1(].
 10264   - new lexicographic orderings and corresponding wellfoundedness theorems.
 10265 
 10266 * HOL/Arith:
 10267   - removed 'pred' (predecessor) function;
 10268   - generalized some theorems about n-1;
 10269   - many new laws about "div" and "mod";
 10270   - new laws about greatest common divisors (see theory ex/Primes);
 10271 
 10272 * HOL/Relation: renamed the relational operator r^-1 "converse"
 10273 instead of "inverse";
 10274 
 10275 * HOL/Induct/Multiset: a theory of multisets, including the wellfoundedness
 10276   of the multiset ordering;
 10277 
 10278 * directory HOL/Real: a construction of the reals using Dedekind cuts
 10279   (not included by default);
 10280 
 10281 * directory HOL/UNITY: Chandy and Misra's UNITY formalism;
 10282 
 10283 * directory HOL/Hoare: a new version of Hoare logic which permits many-sorted
 10284   programs, i.e. different program variables may have different types.
 10285 
 10286 * calling (stac rew i) now fails if "rew" has no effect on the goal
 10287   [previously, this check worked only if the rewrite rule was unconditional]
 10288   Now rew can involve either definitions or equalities (either == or =).
 10289 
 10290 
 10291 *** ZF ***
 10292 
 10293 * theory Main includes everything; INCOMPATIBILITY: theory ZF.thy contains
 10294   only the theorems proved on ZF.ML;
 10295 
 10296 * ZF INCOMPATIBILITY: rule `equals0D' is now a well-formed destruct rule;
 10297   It and 'sym RS equals0D' are now in the default  claset, giving automatic
 10298   disjointness reasoning but breaking a few old proofs.
 10299 
 10300 * ZF/Update: new theory of function updates
 10301     with default rewrite rule  f(x:=y) ` z = if(z=x, y, f`z)
 10302   may also be iterated as in f(a:=b,c:=d,...);
 10303 
 10304 * in  let x=t in u(x), neither t nor u(x) has to be an FOL term.
 10305 
 10306 * calling (stac rew i) now fails if "rew" has no effect on the goal
 10307   [previously, this check worked only if the rewrite rule was unconditional]
 10308   Now rew can involve either definitions or equalities (either == or =).
 10309 
 10310 * case_tac provided for compatibility with HOL
 10311     (like the old excluded_middle_tac, but with subgoals swapped)
 10312 
 10313 
 10314 *** Internal programming interfaces ***
 10315 
 10316 * Pure: several new basic modules made available for general use, see
 10317 also src/Pure/README;
 10318 
 10319 * improved the theory data mechanism to support encapsulation (data
 10320 kind name replaced by private Object.kind, acting as authorization
 10321 key); new type-safe user interface via functor TheoryDataFun; generic
 10322 print_data function becomes basically useless;
 10323 
 10324 * removed global_names compatibility flag -- all theory declarations
 10325 are qualified by default;
 10326 
 10327 * module Pure/Syntax now offers quote / antiquote translation
 10328 functions (useful for Hoare logic etc. with implicit dependencies);
 10329 see HOL/ex/Antiquote for an example use;
 10330 
 10331 * Simplifier now offers conversions (asm_)(full_)rewrite: simpset ->
 10332 cterm -> thm;
 10333 
 10334 * new tactical CHANGED_GOAL for checking that a tactic modifies a
 10335 subgoal;
 10336 
 10337 * Display.print_goals function moved to Locale.print_goals;
 10338 
 10339 * standard print function for goals supports current_goals_markers
 10340 variable for marking begin of proof, end of proof, start of goal; the
 10341 default is ("", "", ""); setting current_goals_markers := ("<proof>",
 10342 "</proof>", "<goal>") causes SGML like tagged proof state printing,
 10343 for example;
 10344 
 10345 
 10346 
 10347 New in Isabelle98 (January 1998)
 10348 --------------------------------
 10349 
 10350 *** Overview of INCOMPATIBILITIES (see below for more details) ***
 10351 
 10352 * changed lexical syntax of terms / types: dots made part of long
 10353 identifiers, e.g. "%x.x" no longer possible, should be "%x. x";
 10354 
 10355 * simpset (and claset) reference variable replaced by functions
 10356 simpset / simpset_ref;
 10357 
 10358 * no longer supports theory aliases (via merge) and non-trivial
 10359 implicit merge of thms' signatures;
 10360 
 10361 * most internal names of constants changed due to qualified names;
 10362 
 10363 * changed Pure/Sequence interface (see Pure/seq.ML);
 10364 
 10365 
 10366 *** General Changes ***
 10367 
 10368 * hierachically structured name spaces (for consts, types, axms, thms
 10369 etc.); new lexical class 'longid' (e.g. Foo.bar.x) may render much of
 10370 old input syntactically incorrect (e.g. "%x.x"); COMPATIBILITY:
 10371 isatool fixdots ensures space after dots (e.g. "%x. x"); set
 10372 long_names for fully qualified output names; NOTE: ML programs
 10373 (special tactics, packages etc.) referring to internal names may have
 10374 to be adapted to cope with fully qualified names; in case of severe
 10375 backward campatibility problems try setting 'global_names' at compile
 10376 time to have enrything declared within a flat name space; one may also
 10377 fine tune name declarations in theories via the 'global' and 'local'
 10378 section;
 10379 
 10380 * reimplemented the implicit simpset and claset using the new anytype
 10381 data filed in signatures; references simpset:simpset ref etc. are
 10382 replaced by functions simpset:unit->simpset and
 10383 simpset_ref:unit->simpset ref; COMPATIBILITY: use isatool fixclasimp
 10384 to patch your ML files accordingly;
 10385 
 10386 * HTML output now includes theory graph data for display with Java
 10387 applet or isatool browser; data generated automatically via isatool
 10388 usedir (see -i option, ISABELLE_USEDIR_OPTIONS);
 10389 
 10390 * defs may now be conditional; improved rewrite_goals_tac to handle
 10391 conditional equations;
 10392 
 10393 * defs now admits additional type arguments, using TYPE('a) syntax;
 10394 
 10395 * theory aliases via merge (e.g. M=A+B+C) no longer supported, always
 10396 creates a new theory node; implicit merge of thms' signatures is
 10397 restricted to 'trivial' ones; COMPATIBILITY: one may have to use
 10398 transfer:theory->thm->thm in (rare) cases;
 10399 
 10400 * improved handling of draft signatures / theories; draft thms (and
 10401 ctyps, cterms) are automatically promoted to real ones;
 10402 
 10403 * slightly changed interfaces for oracles: admit many per theory, named
 10404 (e.g. oracle foo = mlfun), additional name argument for invoke_oracle;
 10405 
 10406 * print_goals: optional output of const types (set show_consts and
 10407 show_types);
 10408 
 10409 * improved output of warnings (###) and errors (***);
 10410 
 10411 * subgoal_tac displays a warning if the new subgoal has type variables;
 10412 
 10413 * removed old README and Makefiles;
 10414 
 10415 * replaced print_goals_ref hook by print_current_goals_fn and result_error_fn;
 10416 
 10417 * removed obsolete init_pps and init_database;
 10418 
 10419 * deleted the obsolete tactical STATE, which was declared by
 10420     fun STATE tacfun st = tacfun st st;
 10421 
 10422 * cd and use now support path variables, e.g. $ISABELLE_HOME, or ~
 10423 (which abbreviates $HOME);
 10424 
 10425 * changed Pure/Sequence interface (see Pure/seq.ML); COMPATIBILITY:
 10426 use isatool fixseq to adapt your ML programs (this works for fully
 10427 qualified references to the Sequence structure only!);
 10428 
 10429 * use_thy no longer requires writable current directory; it always
 10430 reloads .ML *and* .thy file, if either one is out of date;
 10431 
 10432 
 10433 *** Classical Reasoner ***
 10434 
 10435 * Clarify_tac, clarify_tac, clarify_step_tac, Clarify_step_tac: new
 10436 tactics that use classical reasoning to simplify a subgoal without
 10437 splitting it into several subgoals;
 10438 
 10439 * Safe_tac: like safe_tac but uses the default claset;
 10440 
 10441 
 10442 *** Simplifier ***
 10443 
 10444 * added simplification meta rules:
 10445     (asm_)(full_)simplify: simpset -> thm -> thm;
 10446 
 10447 * simplifier.ML no longer part of Pure -- has to be loaded by object
 10448 logics (again);
 10449 
 10450 * added prems argument to simplification procedures;
 10451 
 10452 * HOL, FOL, ZF: added infix function `addsplits':
 10453   instead of `<simpset> setloop (split_tac <thms>)'
 10454   you can simply write `<simpset> addsplits <thms>'
 10455 
 10456 
 10457 *** Syntax ***
 10458 
 10459 * TYPE('a) syntax for type reflection terms;
 10460 
 10461 * no longer handles consts with name "" -- declare as 'syntax' instead;
 10462 
 10463 * pretty printer: changed order of mixfix annotation preference (again!);
 10464 
 10465 * Pure: fixed idt/idts vs. pttrn/pttrns syntactic categories;
 10466 
 10467 
 10468 *** HOL ***
 10469 
 10470 * HOL: there is a new splitter `split_asm_tac' that can be used e.g.
 10471   with `addloop' of the simplifier to faciliate case splitting in premises.
 10472 
 10473 * HOL/TLA: Stephan Merz's formalization of Lamport's Temporal Logic of Actions;
 10474 
 10475 * HOL/Auth: new protocol proofs including some for the Internet
 10476   protocol TLS;
 10477 
 10478 * HOL/Map: new theory of `maps' a la VDM;
 10479 
 10480 * HOL/simplifier: simplification procedures nat_cancel_sums for
 10481 cancelling out common nat summands from =, <, <= (in)equalities, or
 10482 differences; simplification procedures nat_cancel_factor for
 10483 cancelling common factor from =, <, <= (in)equalities over natural
 10484 sums; nat_cancel contains both kinds of procedures, it is installed by
 10485 default in Arith.thy -- this COULD MAKE EXISTING PROOFS FAIL;
 10486 
 10487 * HOL/simplifier: terms of the form
 10488   `? x. P1(x) & ... & Pn(x) & x=t & Q1(x) & ... Qn(x)'  (or t=x)
 10489   are rewritten to
 10490   `P1(t) & ... & Pn(t) & Q1(t) & ... Qn(t)',
 10491   and those of the form
 10492   `! x. P1(x) & ... & Pn(x) & x=t & Q1(x) & ... Qn(x) --> R(x)'  (or t=x)
 10493   are rewritten to
 10494   `P1(t) & ... & Pn(t) & Q1(t) & ... Qn(t) --> R(t)',
 10495 
 10496 * HOL/datatype
 10497   Each datatype `t' now comes with a theorem `split_t_case' of the form
 10498 
 10499   P(t_case f1 ... fn x) =
 10500      ( (!y1 ... ym1. x = C1 y1 ... ym1 --> P(f1 y1 ... ym1)) &
 10501         ...
 10502        (!y1 ... ymn. x = Cn y1 ... ymn --> P(f1 y1 ... ymn))
 10503      )
 10504 
 10505   and a theorem `split_t_case_asm' of the form
 10506 
 10507   P(t_case f1 ... fn x) =
 10508     ~( (? y1 ... ym1. x = C1 y1 ... ym1 & ~P(f1 y1 ... ym1)) |
 10509         ...
 10510        (? y1 ... ymn. x = Cn y1 ... ymn & ~P(f1 y1 ... ymn))
 10511      )
 10512   which can be added to a simpset via `addsplits'. The existing theorems
 10513   expand_list_case and expand_option_case have been renamed to
 10514   split_list_case and split_option_case.
 10515 
 10516 * HOL/Arithmetic:
 10517   - `pred n' is automatically converted to `n-1'.
 10518     Users are strongly encouraged not to use `pred' any longer,
 10519     because it will disappear altogether at some point.
 10520   - Users are strongly encouraged to write "0 < n" rather than
 10521     "n ~= 0". Theorems and proof tools have been modified towards this
 10522     `standard'.
 10523 
 10524 * HOL/Lists:
 10525   the function "set_of_list" has been renamed "set" (and its theorems too);
 10526   the function "nth" now takes its arguments in the reverse order and
 10527   has acquired the infix notation "!" as in "xs!n".
 10528 
 10529 * HOL/Set: UNIV is now a constant and is no longer translated to Compl{};
 10530 
 10531 * HOL/Set: The operator (UN x.B x) now abbreviates (UN x:UNIV. B x) and its
 10532   specialist theorems (like UN1_I) are gone.  Similarly for (INT x.B x);
 10533 
 10534 * HOL/record: extensible records with schematic structural subtyping
 10535 (single inheritance); EXPERIMENTAL version demonstrating the encoding,
 10536 still lacks various theorems and concrete record syntax;
 10537 
 10538 
 10539 *** HOLCF ***
 10540 
 10541 * removed "axioms" and "generated by" sections;
 10542 
 10543 * replaced "ops" section by extended "consts" section, which is capable of
 10544   handling the continuous function space "->" directly;
 10545 
 10546 * domain package:
 10547   . proves theorems immediately and stores them in the theory,
 10548   . creates hierachical name space,
 10549   . now uses normal mixfix annotations (instead of cinfix...),
 10550   . minor changes to some names and values (for consistency),
 10551   . e.g. cases -> casedist, dists_eq -> dist_eqs, [take_lemma] -> take_lemmas,
 10552   . separator between mutual domain defs: changed "," to "and",
 10553   . improved handling of sort constraints;  now they have to
 10554     appear on the left-hand side of the equations only;
 10555 
 10556 * fixed LAM <x,y,zs>.b syntax;
 10557 
 10558 * added extended adm_tac to simplifier in HOLCF -- can now discharge
 10559 adm (%x. P (t x)), where P is chainfinite and t continuous;
 10560 
 10561 
 10562 *** FOL and ZF ***
 10563 
 10564 * FOL: there is a new splitter `split_asm_tac' that can be used e.g.
 10565   with `addloop' of the simplifier to faciliate case splitting in premises.
 10566 
 10567 * qed_spec_mp, qed_goal_spec_mp, qed_goalw_spec_mp are available, as
 10568 in HOL, they strip ALL and --> from proved theorems;
 10569 
 10570 
 10571 
 10572 New in Isabelle94-8 (May 1997)
 10573 ------------------------------
 10574 
 10575 *** General Changes ***
 10576 
 10577 * new utilities to build / run / maintain Isabelle etc. (in parts
 10578 still somewhat experimental); old Makefiles etc. still functional;
 10579 
 10580 * new 'Isabelle System Manual';
 10581 
 10582 * INSTALL text, together with ./configure and ./build scripts;
 10583 
 10584 * reimplemented type inference for greater efficiency, better error
 10585 messages and clean internal interface;
 10586 
 10587 * prlim command for dealing with lots of subgoals (an easier way of
 10588 setting goals_limit);
 10589 
 10590 
 10591 *** Syntax ***
 10592 
 10593 * supports alternative (named) syntax tables (parser and pretty
 10594 printer); internal interface is provided by add_modesyntax(_i);
 10595 
 10596 * Pure, FOL, ZF, HOL, HOLCF now support symbolic input and output; to
 10597 be used in conjunction with the Isabelle symbol font; uses the
 10598 "symbols" syntax table;
 10599 
 10600 * added token_translation interface (may translate name tokens in
 10601 arbitrary ways, dependent on their type (free, bound, tfree, ...) and
 10602 the current print_mode); IMPORTANT: user print translation functions
 10603 are responsible for marking newly introduced bounds
 10604 (Syntax.mark_boundT);
 10605 
 10606 * token translations for modes "xterm" and "xterm_color" that display
 10607 names in bold, underline etc. or colors (which requires a color
 10608 version of xterm);
 10609 
 10610 * infixes may now be declared with names independent of their syntax;
 10611 
 10612 * added typed_print_translation (like print_translation, but may
 10613 access type of constant);
 10614 
 10615 
 10616 *** Classical Reasoner ***
 10617 
 10618 Blast_tac: a new tactic!  It is often more powerful than fast_tac, but has
 10619 some limitations.  Blast_tac...
 10620   + ignores addss, addbefore, addafter; this restriction is intrinsic
 10621   + ignores elimination rules that don't have the correct format
 10622         (the conclusion MUST be a formula variable)
 10623   + ignores types, which can make HOL proofs fail
 10624   + rules must not require higher-order unification, e.g. apply_type in ZF
 10625     [message "Function Var's argument not a bound variable" relates to this]
 10626   + its proof strategy is more general but can actually be slower
 10627 
 10628 * substitution with equality assumptions no longer permutes other
 10629 assumptions;
 10630 
 10631 * minor changes in semantics of addafter (now called addaltern); renamed
 10632 setwrapper to setWrapper and compwrapper to compWrapper; added safe wrapper
 10633 (and access functions for it);
 10634 
 10635 * improved combination of classical reasoner and simplifier:
 10636   + functions for handling clasimpsets
 10637   + improvement of addss: now the simplifier is called _after_ the
 10638     safe steps.
 10639   + safe variant of addss called addSss: uses safe simplifications
 10640     _during_ the safe steps. It is more complete as it allows multiple
 10641     instantiations of unknowns (e.g. with slow_tac).
 10642 
 10643 *** Simplifier ***
 10644 
 10645 * added interface for simplification procedures (functions that
 10646 produce *proven* rewrite rules on the fly, depending on current
 10647 redex);
 10648 
 10649 * ordering on terms as parameter (used for ordered rewriting);
 10650 
 10651 * new functions delcongs, deleqcongs, and Delcongs. richer rep_ss;
 10652 
 10653 * the solver is now split into a safe and an unsafe part.
 10654 This should be invisible for the normal user, except that the
 10655 functions setsolver and addsolver have been renamed to setSolver and
 10656 addSolver; added safe_asm_full_simp_tac;
 10657 
 10658 
 10659 *** HOL ***
 10660 
 10661 * a generic induction tactic `induct_tac' which works for all datatypes and
 10662 also for type `nat';
 10663 
 10664 * a generic case distinction tactic `exhaust_tac' which works for all
 10665 datatypes and also for type `nat';
 10666 
 10667 * each datatype comes with a function `size';
 10668 
 10669 * patterns in case expressions allow tuple patterns as arguments to
 10670 constructors, for example `case x of [] => ... | (x,y,z)#ps => ...';
 10671 
 10672 * primrec now also works with type nat;
 10673 
 10674 * recdef: a new declaration form, allows general recursive functions to be
 10675 defined in theory files.  See HOL/ex/Fib, HOL/ex/Primes, HOL/Subst/Unify.
 10676 
 10677 * the constant for negation has been renamed from "not" to "Not" to
 10678 harmonize with FOL, ZF, LK, etc.;
 10679 
 10680 * HOL/ex/LFilter theory of a corecursive "filter" functional for
 10681 infinite lists;
 10682 
 10683 * HOL/Modelcheck demonstrates invocation of model checker oracle;
 10684 
 10685 * HOL/ex/Ring.thy declares cring_simp, which solves equational
 10686 problems in commutative rings, using axiomatic type classes for + and *;
 10687 
 10688 * more examples in HOL/MiniML and HOL/Auth;
 10689 
 10690 * more default rewrite rules for quantifiers, union/intersection;
 10691 
 10692 * a new constant `arbitrary == @x.False';
 10693 
 10694 * HOLCF/IOA replaces old HOL/IOA;
 10695 
 10696 * HOLCF changes: derived all rules and arities
 10697   + axiomatic type classes instead of classes
 10698   + typedef instead of faking type definitions
 10699   + eliminated the internal constants less_fun, less_cfun, UU_fun, UU_cfun etc.
 10700   + new axclasses cpo, chfin, flat with flat < chfin < pcpo < cpo < po
 10701   + eliminated the types void, one, tr
 10702   + use unit lift and bool lift (with translations) instead of one and tr
 10703   + eliminated blift from Lift3.thy (use Def instead of blift)
 10704   all eliminated rules are derived as theorems --> no visible changes ;
 10705 
 10706 
 10707 *** ZF ***
 10708 
 10709 * ZF now has Fast_tac, Simp_tac and Auto_tac.  Union_iff is a now a default
 10710 rewrite rule; this may affect some proofs.  eq_cs is gone but can be put back
 10711 as ZF_cs addSIs [equalityI];
 10712 
 10713 
 10714 
 10715 New in Isabelle94-7 (November 96)
 10716 ---------------------------------
 10717 
 10718 * allowing negative levels (as offsets) in prlev and choplev;
 10719 
 10720 * super-linear speedup for large simplifications;
 10721 
 10722 * FOL, ZF and HOL now use miniscoping: rewriting pushes
 10723 quantifications in as far as possible (COULD MAKE EXISTING PROOFS
 10724 FAIL); can suppress it using the command Delsimps (ex_simps @
 10725 all_simps); De Morgan laws are also now included, by default;
 10726 
 10727 * improved printing of ==>  :  ~:
 10728 
 10729 * new object-logic "Sequents" adds linear logic, while replacing LK
 10730 and Modal (thanks to Sara Kalvala);
 10731 
 10732 * HOL/Auth: correctness proofs for authentication protocols;
 10733 
 10734 * HOL: new auto_tac combines rewriting and classical reasoning (many
 10735 examples on HOL/Auth);
 10736 
 10737 * HOL: new command AddIffs for declaring theorems of the form P=Q to
 10738 the rewriter and classical reasoner simultaneously;
 10739 
 10740 * function uresult no longer returns theorems in "standard" format;
 10741 regain previous version by: val uresult = standard o uresult;
 10742 
 10743 
 10744 
 10745 New in Isabelle94-6
 10746 -------------------
 10747 
 10748 * oracles -- these establish an interface between Isabelle and trusted
 10749 external reasoners, which may deliver results as theorems;
 10750 
 10751 * proof objects (in particular record all uses of oracles);
 10752 
 10753 * Simp_tac, Fast_tac, etc. that refer to implicit simpset / claset;
 10754 
 10755 * "constdefs" section in theory files;
 10756 
 10757 * "primrec" section (HOL) no longer requires names;
 10758 
 10759 * internal type "tactic" now simply "thm -> thm Sequence.seq";
 10760 
 10761 
 10762 
 10763 New in Isabelle94-5
 10764 -------------------
 10765 
 10766 * reduced space requirements;
 10767 
 10768 * automatic HTML generation from theories;
 10769 
 10770 * theory files no longer require "..." (quotes) around most types;
 10771 
 10772 * new examples, including two proofs of the Church-Rosser theorem;
 10773 
 10774 * non-curried (1994) version of HOL is no longer distributed;
 10775 
 10776 
 10777 
 10778 New in Isabelle94-4
 10779 -------------------
 10780 
 10781 * greatly reduced space requirements;
 10782 
 10783 * theory files (.thy) no longer require \...\ escapes at line breaks;
 10784 
 10785 * searchable theorem database (see the section "Retrieving theorems" on
 10786 page 8 of the Reference Manual);
 10787 
 10788 * new examples, including Grabczewski's monumental case study of the
 10789 Axiom of Choice;
 10790 
 10791 * The previous version of HOL renamed to Old_HOL;
 10792 
 10793 * The new version of HOL (previously called CHOL) uses a curried syntax
 10794 for functions.  Application looks like f a b instead of f(a,b);
 10795 
 10796 * Mutually recursive inductive definitions finally work in HOL;
 10797 
 10798 * In ZF, pattern-matching on tuples is now available in all abstractions and
 10799 translates to the operator "split";
 10800 
 10801 
 10802 
 10803 New in Isabelle94-3
 10804 -------------------
 10805 
 10806 * new infix operator, addss, allowing the classical reasoner to
 10807 perform simplification at each step of its search.  Example:
 10808         fast_tac (cs addss ss)
 10809 
 10810 * a new logic, CHOL, the same as HOL, but with a curried syntax
 10811 for functions.  Application looks like f a b instead of f(a,b).  Also pairs
 10812 look like (a,b) instead of <a,b>;
 10813 
 10814 * PLEASE NOTE: CHOL will eventually replace HOL!
 10815 
 10816 * In CHOL, pattern-matching on tuples is now available in all abstractions.
 10817 It translates to the operator "split".  A new theory of integers is available;
 10818 
 10819 * In ZF, integer numerals now denote two's-complement binary integers.
 10820 Arithmetic operations can be performed by rewriting.  See ZF/ex/Bin.ML;
 10821 
 10822 * Many new examples: I/O automata, Church-Rosser theorem, equivalents
 10823 of the Axiom of Choice;
 10824 
 10825 
 10826 
 10827 New in Isabelle94-2
 10828 -------------------
 10829 
 10830 * Significantly faster resolution;
 10831 
 10832 * the different sections in a .thy file can now be mixed and repeated
 10833 freely;
 10834 
 10835 * Database of theorems for FOL, HOL and ZF.  New
 10836 commands including qed, qed_goal and bind_thm store theorems in the database.
 10837 
 10838 * Simple database queries: return a named theorem (get_thm) or all theorems of
 10839 a given theory (thms_of), or find out what theory a theorem was proved in
 10840 (theory_of_thm);
 10841 
 10842 * Bugs fixed in the inductive definition and datatype packages;
 10843 
 10844 * The classical reasoner provides deepen_tac and depth_tac, making FOL_dup_cs
 10845 and HOL_dup_cs obsolete;
 10846 
 10847 * Syntactic ambiguities caused by the new treatment of syntax in Isabelle94-1
 10848 have been removed;
 10849 
 10850 * Simpler definition of function space in ZF;
 10851 
 10852 * new results about cardinal and ordinal arithmetic in ZF;
 10853 
 10854 * 'subtype' facility in HOL for introducing new types as subsets of existing
 10855 types;
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