Stream: Mirror: Isabelle Users Mailing List

Topic: [isabelle] Nominal2 manual?


view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Apr 23 2022 at 15:31):

From: Joachim Breitner <mail@joachim-breitner.de>
Hello,

it’s been many years since I touched Isabelle and the Nominal2 package,
but I keep bragging about this way of handling bindings when talking to
users of Coq etc.

I might want to do some PLTish experiments, and maybe I’ll just try to
use Isabelle and Nominal2 again. But I can’t find a manual or tutorial
to refresh my memory… it seems that
https://isabelle.in.tum.de/nominal/download.html
is rather out of date, and
https://www.isa-afp.org/entries/Nominal2.html
contains the code, but not much in terms of guidance. 

I also found https://lmcs.episciences.org/813 which seems useful. Maybe
it should be linked from the two places above?

Is there any other material worth knowing?

(I just noticed that my own thesis has a intro section on nominal logic
and Nominal, but only very cursory, of course:
https://www.joachim-breitner.de/thesis/diss.pdf )

Cheers,
Joachim

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Apr 24 2022 at 22:41):

From: "\"Urban, Christian\"" <cl-isabelle-users@lists.cam.ac.uk>
Dear Joachim,

Yes, unfortunately documentation is lacking. The link

https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fisabelle.in.tum.de%2Fnominal%2Fdownload.html&data=05%7C01%7Cchristian.urban%40kcl.ac.uk%7C1fdf4cf1deaf4697bbb908da253e584a%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0%7C0%7C637863247817178536%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dpo1yBPa9r8%2B9aXpROxbgfHOgr3JTxrO3YN72OoMaWM%3D&reserved=0

is indeed outdated, but Nominal2 made it into the AFP as a module and the code is maintained for the latest Isabelle (as I am writing Isabelle 2021-1). In addition to the paper you quote, the following paper might be useful in order to understand how atoms and permutations work in Nominal 2 (vs Nominal 1).

Hope this helps,
Christian

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Apr 24 2022 at 22:42):

From: "\"Urban, Christian\"" <cl-isabelle-users@lists.cam.ac.uk>
Sorry link is here:

https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/christian.urban/Publications/nominal-atoms.pdf

Christian


Last updated: Apr 23 2024 at 20:15 UTC