Re: [isabelle-dev] Local Specification Mechanisms: Brief Experience Report

2010-12-17 Thread Florian Haftmann
Hi Tjark, some comments in addition to Clemens': * The documentation for local specification mechanisms is not very homogeneous. The tutorials on type classes and locales are valuable. From a user's perspective, however, a unifying discussion (with guidance on when to use which) is missing.

Re: [isabelle-dev] Local Specification Mechanisms: Brief Experience Report

2010-12-17 Thread Tjark Weber
Clemens, Thanks for your quick reply! On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:37 +0100, Clemens Ballarin wrote: Suggestions? The message also says that the relation is probably not terminating. Well, roundup bound is developer jargon. Sublocale relation probably not terminating points into the right

Re: [isabelle-dev] Local Specification Mechanisms: Brief Experience Report

2010-12-17 Thread Makarius
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Tjark Weber wrote: One could think about (tool support for) formally checked hyperlinks from ML sources into LaTeX (and other) documents. We have been moving towards that for several years. At least the manuals maintained by myself contain many formally checked

[isabelle-dev] Local Specification Mechanisms: Brief Experience Report

2010-12-16 Thread Tjark Weber
I've recently worked on an algebraic hierarchy, ranging from semi-groups to Kleene algebras and related structures, in Isabelle/HOL. It goes without saying that Isabelle's local specification mechanisms were well suited for the task. However, using classes and locales more extensively for the