Hi all, > > In the short term, we could move the FinFun theory into the HOL library > > of the development version after Isabelle 2012 and the AFP 2012 has been > > released, if we agree that this moves this contribution in the right > > direction.
some remarks on my behalf: a) Ideally, tools and library theories span a product space: tools should provide configuration means such that theories »not forseen by the author« can be integrated into its scope, typically by a series of declarations. AFP library theories are a nice case study for this – if the AFP infrastructure would not allow for such organization (dependencies etc.), it does not fullfil its promise. b) In the particular case of FinFun, more and more tools seem to regard this as so fundamental (or fundamentally helpful) that incorporation into the distribution could indeed be the answer. Nevertheless, I would like to see explicit statements on this. For the moment, we have a claim for Nominal. I want to add that I would like to see a type for executable mappings in the distribution, and FinFuns seems to be the most reasonable candidate. More claims? c) I strongly object to clutter the HOL syntax even more than now by incorporating just another fancy syntax. I would prefer the lattice solution (delete syntax immediately after use and provide a library theory to optionally include it later), or maybe it is also possible to use context blocks for this (another nice case study). d) In personal conversation Alex and I discussed whether it would be preferable to swap FinFun.thy into HOL-Main and Map.thy into HOL-Library, but I don't recall the arguments in particular. Cheers, Florian -- PGP available: http://home.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/haftmann/pgp/florian_haftmann_at_informatik_tu_muenchen_de
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