I also wonder whether this would be better expressed as a $j comment rather
than another plain text comment in the doc string. It's not really
important user-facing information.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 12:57 PM 'Alexander van der Vekens' via Metamath <
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> On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 6:36:13 PM UTC+2 David A. Wheeler wrote:
>
>> I propose using these comment markings for assertions ($a and $p) where
>> hypotheses
>> are not used on *purpose*:
>> * "(Intentionally unused hypothesis)" if exactly one hypothesis is unused
>> * "(Intentionally unused hypotheses)" if more than one hypotheses are
>> unused
>>
>> I was originally going to propose both simply because that's how English
>> plurals work.
>> However, there's an error-detect advantage to making their meaning
>> different -
>> if you only intended 1 hypothesis to be unused, but more than one is, it
>> can still be caught.
>>
>
> This is a good idea, especially if there is a tool/script which checks
> automatically if there are (unintentionally) unused hypotheses. But from
> this tool perspective, I would suggest to have only one marking:
>
> * "(Intentionally unused hypotheses)" if at least one hypothesis is unused
>
> It is the responsibility of the contributor who uses such a marking that
> the hypotheses are as intended - the tool/script can check all other cases,
> which will be the vast majority.
>
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