Ok

For lists only of a specified length, the name is a bit generic anyway.

Peter 

On 4 Aug 2022 18:03, Tobias Nipkow <[email protected]> wrote:



On 04/08/2022 17:49, Peter Lammich wrote:
> In the AFP we have four separate copies of the definition
>>>
>>> definition list :: "nat \<Rightarrow> 'a set \<Rightarrow> 'a list set"
>>> where
>>>   "list n A = {xs. size xs = n \<and> set xs \<subseteq> A}"
>>>
> The naming of the lemmas suggests that this function should be named lists, not
> list.

The motivation for "list" what is that in should mimic the name of the type
constructor "list". On the level of types of rules omitted, e.g. nat not nats.

However I think these days I would also use the plural of the term level.

Tobias

> --
>
>    Peter
>
>
>>> Interestingly, the exact same concept is coded in three different ways in the
>>> four definitions. We also have a number of theorems in the repository
>>> referring to this concept:
>>>
>>> finite_lists_length_eq
>>> set_n_lists
>>> card_lists_length_eq
>>> lists_length_Suc_eq
>>>
>>> And we have three copies of Listn.thy in MicroJava and JinjaThreads. Could
>>> maybe some fragment of this, if not the whole thing, be moved into Library?
>>
>> Definitely, go ahead! (I obviously prefer the def you quoted above)
>>
>> Tobias
>>
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