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Nfix: a Coq extension for fixpoints on nested inductives ======================================================== Copyright 2010 Stéphane Lescuyer <stephane.lescuyer@inria.fr> Features ======== This plugin provides a syntactic extension that allows one to write mutual fixpoints over nested inductives. The typical example is the following [term] structure : Inductive term : Set := app : nat -> list term -> term. Coq allows such definitions where the recursive occurrences of [term] are nested in the [list] inductive ; unfortunately, Coq does not allow mutual fixpoints to be written in the following, natural way : Fixpoint size_term (t : term) : nat := match t with app _ l => size_lterm end with size_lterm (l : list term) : nat := match l with | nil => 0 | cons t q => size_term t + size_lterm q end. This plugin lets you write such a nested fixpoint, with the [Nested Fixpoint] command : Nested Fixpoint size_term (t : term) : nat := match t with app _ l => size_lterm end with size_lterm (l : list term) : nat := match l with | nil => 0 | cons t q => size_term t + size_lterm q end. This command is just a syntactic extension, it doesn't alter Coq's guard condition but only works around it. In the example above, it actually performs the following definitions : Definition size_lterm_ (size : term -> nat) := fix size_lterm (l : list term) : nat := match l with | nil => 0 | cons t q => size t + size_lterm q end. Fixpoint size_term (t : term) : nat := match t with | app _ l => size_lterm_ size_term l end. Definition size_lterm := size_lterm_ size_term. For now, the [Nested Fixpoint] command has the following restrictions : - all arguments' and return types must be given explicitely, as is the case with the Function extension ; - the argument on which is performed the induction must be the first argument ; - if the type on which the induction is performed is an inductive type with [n] mutually inductive components, and [m] distinct nested occurrences, the first [n] bodies passed to [Nested Fixpoint] must correspond to the mutually inductive components, and the next [m] bodies must be given in dependency order. To sum up, the accepted definitions have the form: Nested Fixpoint f1 (x:I1) : T1 := ... with fn (x:In) : Tn := ... with g1 (J1(I1,..,In)) : U1 := ... with gm (Jm(I1,..In)) : Um := ... end. where [I1,... ,In] is a mutual inductive block, and the [Jk(I1,...,In)] are the nested occurrences in this block. The [gk] can refer to all the [fi], and the [gi] with i smaller or equal to k. See tests/TestNfix.v for examples. Files ===== The archive has 3 subdirectories: src/ contains the code of the plugin in nfix.ml and a support file for building the plugin. theories/ contains Nfix.v used to load the plugin on the Coq side. tests/ just demonstrates a use of the plugin Installation ============ First, you should have coqc, ocamlc and make in your path. Then simply do: # coq_makefile -f make > Makefile To generate a makefile from the description in Make, then [make]. This will consecutively build the plugin, the supporting theories and the test file. You can then either install the plugin with # sudo ./install.sh or leave it in its current directory and to be able to import it from anywhere in Coq, simply add the following to ~/.coqrc: Add Rec LoadPath "path_to_nfix/theories" as Nfix. Add ML Path "path_to_nfix/src".
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