It's absolutely appropriate to send a message to 20 experts rather than 600 
users when the latter are very unlikely to have a clue what's going on here.

Anyway, it is a development matter. A behaviour where "..." denotes something 
other than the previous right-hand side needs to be fixed.

Larry

On 27 Feb 2013, at 12:23, Makarius <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Lawrence Paulson wrote:
> 
>> A student has forwarded this problem to me. It seems weird and unbelievable. 
>> What have I overlooked?
>> 
>> I tidied it up slightly (see below) but I get the same error message.
>> 
>> lemma "True"
>> proof -
>> have     "True = (∃x. (λy. True) x)" by simp
>> also have "... = (∃x. (λy. True) x)"
>> oops
> 
> This is off-topic for isabelle-dev, it is about an official Isabelle release, 
> and has nothing to do with the Isabelle development process itself.  Our main 
> "issue tracker" is isabelle-users.
> 
> When you say "bug" in the title, there is a already 50% chance that it is 
> just a misunderstanding by the user, and it is indeed the situation once 
> again.
> 
> There might be technical reasons for misunderstandings, and ways to avoid 
> them without moving backwards and forgetting important lessons from the past. 
> But that case here is actually an FAQ, one for isabelle-users and not 
> isabelle-dev.
> 
> 
>       Makarius

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