There is no requirement or guarantee that theorems in general are in any
kind of normal form.

Tobias

Thomas Sewell schrieb:
> Hello Isabelle developers.
> 
> I was about to have another attempt at speeding up a tactic we implemented 
> for L4.verified using net-matching. In reading Pure/net.ML I spotted the 
> comment "Requires operands to be beta-eta-normal." In rereading the existing 
> biresolution_from_nets_tac code, however, I didn't spot any attempt to 
> beta/eta normalise the terms passed.
> 
> It occurs to me that I don't even know whether theorems in Isabelle can be 
> assumed to be beta/eta normal. Does anyone have any quick pointers on that? 
> Is there a potential bug here? Don't go searching for it - I'm happy to build 
> some test cases and search for the answer myself if noone knows.
> 
> Yours,
>     Thomas.
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