Dear Lars,

On 24/07/17 15:08, Lars Hupel wrote:
1) Function transformers: I want to run a function transformer in
special situations. But I can only register it globally (with
"Code_Preproc.add_functrans"). What I use is the following pattern:

val enabled = Attrib.setup_config_bool @{binding "constructor_funs"} (K
false)

fun functrans ctxt thms = (* implementation *)

val code_functrans = Code_Preproc.simple_functrans (fn ctxt =>
   if Config.get ctxt enabled then
     functrans ctxt
   else
     K NONE)

I'm not sure whether this is how attributes are meant to be used, but at
least I can enable this locally. But as far as I can tell there are only
three function transformers in total, so I'm not sure how relevant this is.
Well, we here at ETH have another function transformer, which can also be activated and deactivated basically with almost the same pattern. The only difference is that at the moment we use a command rather than a Config value because de- and reactivation in our case has to do a bit more than just enabling/disabling a function transformer. It also must swap a few code equations.

2) "Fake local" declarations: I want to change the representation of the
"char" type in declared code. By default, it is represented using
numerals in a "non-free" way (i.e. there are invalid representations).
I'd like to replace it with a free representation (bytes), but don't
want this to affect the global theory; or at least, I'd like to avoid
people importing my theory to be affected [0].

Here's my workaround:

ML‹
   fun code_attribute f = Thm.declaration_attribute (fn thm =>
Context.mapping (f thm) I)
›

attribute_setup "code_datatype" = ‹
   Scan.repeat1 Args.term >> (fn terms =>
     code_attribute (K (Code.declare_datatype_global (map dest_Const
terms))))
›

Now I can use the "bundle" target:


bundle char_byte_representation begin

declare [["code_datatype" char_of_byte]]

declare [[code drop: equal_char_inst.equal_char String.Char]]

(* more ... *)

declare char_byte_literals[code_unfold]

end

Importing this theory doesn't change the code setup. Only when I use
"unbundle" the changes become permanent. However, it doesn't work
properly in an unnamed context with "including" (this is as expected).
There are a lot of occurrences of "code_datatype", often leading to the
problem of artificially splitting up theories into an "abstract" and
"implementation" part.

This is an interesting idea. For the above-mentioned function transformer, we also have code_datatype declarations that must be switched back and forth. The big advantage of your approach seems to me that one can envision this alternative setup already where characters are defined (and similarly for int/nat/set/mapping/...). But I wonder whether these bundle targets can be extended later. That is, if is some unrelated theory, I write my own function for chars by pattern-matching on Char. If I then import your theory, can I add further declarations (code drop/code) to the bundle such that subsequent theories get a consistent setup no matter whether the unbundle the bundle or not?

Andreas
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