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Topic: [isabelle] Isabelle2014-RC2 issues: Output markup for ML-...


view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 15:46):

From: Lars Noschinski <noschinl@in.tum.de>
Hi,

consider the following code:

theory Scratch imports Pure begin

ML ‹
val x = 1
val y = yield_singleton Proof_Context.read_vars (@{binding x}, NONE,
NoSyn) @{context}

end

Then the output of the block is not attached to the ML command, but
rather to the "x" in the binding antiquotation.

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 15:47):

From: Dmitriy Traytel <traytel@in.tum.de>
The same happens even with just

ML ‹ @{binding x} ›

Dmitriy

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 15:47):

From: Makarius <makarius@sketis.net>
This behaviour has been for a long time, going back at least to
Isabelle2011-1 (October 2011), which was the first official release of the
Prover IDE. (It is interesting to run that today to sense the depth of
time of PIDE development.)

As a general principle, a PIDE message is attached to all source positions
that are mentioned in its body. The ML pretty printer for type binding
includes its original position. This was done as a normal default: when a
position is available it is included in output.

I can't say on the spot if it would be better of not doing that for ML
toplevel output. Note that @{make_string} uses the same mechanism and the
next incident might be a lack of a position where it is normally expected.
On the other hand, @{make_string} is just for one-shot experimentation
and debugging, and proper production code has to compose error messages
more carefully anyway, using Position.here or Binding.print explicitly.

Makarius

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 15:47):

From: Lars Noschinski <noschinl@in.tum.de>
What was confusing to me was the lack of any output for the ML block (it
is in the output window, but there are no gray lines under the "ML") --
the annotated @{binding x} was more a curiosity. So attaching the output
also to the ML command (and not only to the mentioned positions) would
remove the confusing part of this issue for me.

-- Lars

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 19 2022 at 15:47):

From: Makarius <makarius@sketis.net>
The general principle here: if a message mentions precise positions in its
header or its body it is attached to the corresponding spots in the source
text; if it lacks precise positions it is attached to the command keyword
instead. (And if it even lacks a proper transaction id in the header, it
is dumped on Raw Output.)

It seems that in the past 3 years there was rarely a situation to become
aware of that, which might be a good sign.

I will accumulate further possible refinements on the TODO list for the
time after the Isabelle2014 release.

Makarius


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