Re: [isabelle-dev] Deglobalizing HOL.thy

2010-08-19 Thread Jasmin Christian Blanchette
Am 19.08.2010 um 13:15 schrieb Florian Haftmann: >> One thing I don't get: if HOL.eq is already taken, why not map the equality >> symbol to something else? > > Well, eq seems more natural when looking at the traditional xsymbol > syntax \ (although the corresponding abbreviation is named > not

Re: [isabelle-dev] Deglobalizing HOL.thy

2010-08-19 Thread Florian Haftmann
> One thing I don't get: if HOL.eq is already taken, why not map the equality > symbol to something else? Well, eq seems more natural when looking at the traditional xsymbol syntax \ (although the corresponding abbreviation is named not_equal). When using HOL.equal, there is always an uncertaint

Re: [isabelle-dev] Deglobalizing HOL.thy

2010-08-19 Thread Gerwin Klein
Hi Florian, as always, it will hurt a bit I guess, but I think it is the right thing to do. Cheers, Gerwin On 19/08/2010, at 11:18 AM, Florian Haftmann wrote: > Hi all, > > with authentic syntax being default and thanks to antiquotations, we > have now reached a state where we could replace al

Re: [isabelle-dev] Deglobalizing HOL.thy

2010-08-19 Thread Lawrence Paulson
Your proposal makes sense to me. Naturally it should be announced on the mailing list so that our users have ample warning. One thing I don't get: if HOL.eq is already taken, why not map the equality symbol to something else? Larry On 19 Aug 2010, at 11:18, Florian Haftmann wrote: > a) Applica

[isabelle-dev] Deglobalizing HOL.thy

2010-08-19 Thread Florian Haftmann
Hi all, with authentic syntax being default and thanks to antiquotations, we have now reached a state where we could replace all the remaining unqualified symbol names in HOL.thy (between "global" and "local"). While this should be technically quite easy, there remain two open questions before pro