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Topic: [isabelle] Dealing with Cases


view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 18 2022 at 19:40):

From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
Thanks for the tip! I am working with my own datatype, which I am
building up, and this is pretty new for me. Most things are working just
fine now, but I have not read up on what Datatype does to get the cases
and other nice little features yet, so I may have to do that some time in
the future to make working with my own datatype that much easier.

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 18 2022 at 19:40):

From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
Your examples help a lot. Thank you!

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 18 2022 at 20:05):

From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
Hey all:

I am now at the point where I need to start understanding a bit more
about cases and how to work with case statements. In particular, I have
read about this thing called split, and it sort of makes senses, but I
have not been able to use it very well. In some specific cases I have
been able to use the cases method quite well. Here is a simple one that
kind of has me stumped though, how do I show this?

(case X of Blah x y => f x y)
= f (case X of Blah x y => x) (case X of Blah x y => y)

I guess that I am not sure how cases work under the hood, so I am not
sure how I would go about handling this, as splitting twice does not seem
to quite work the way that I want.

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 18 2022 at 20:06):

From: Peter Gammie <peteg42@gmail.com>
Aaron,

If you have manifest case combinators (as you do here) then you can use the split rules that are created for the datatype.

datatype Blah = Blah nat nat

print_theorems

lemma "(case X of Blah x y \<Rightarrow> f x y) = f (case X of Blah x y \<Rightarrow> x) (case X of Blah x y \<Rightarrow> y)"
by (cases X) simp

lemma "(case X of Blah x y \<Rightarrow> f x y) = f (case X of Blah x y \<Rightarrow> x) (case X of Blah x y \<Rightarrow> y)"
by (simp split: Blah.splits)

This is covered in the (old?) Isabelle Tutorial, though I did find it opaque until I realised how the syntax for case was implemented. It pays to re-read that section on splitting as your understanding of other parts of the system deepens.

Take a look at the output of print_theorems to see what wonderful things datatype gives you for free.

cheers
peter

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 18 2022 at 20:07):

From: Makarius <makarius@sketis.net>
Just to understand the notation, you can use this in Isabelle2012 (e.g.
RC2) to disable the heavy sugar coating:

declare [[show_cases = false]]

Makarius


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