Re: [isabelle-dev] NEWS: toplevel theorem statements

2015-10-11 Thread Lawrence Paulson
This suggestion was mine. Although “proposition” can mean many things, we are talking about mathematical developments. Quite a common convention is to reserve “theorem” for one or two main results, and “lemma” for technical results of no general interest, leaving “proposition” as the main

Re: [isabelle-dev] Some thoughts on mixfix syntax partially applied [was: NEWS]

2015-10-11 Thread Tobias Nipkow
On 07/10/2015 00:37, Michael Norrish wrote: HOL4 and HOL Light both support the (sym) syntax to remove concrete syntax fixities. I don't think HOL Light supports comments at this level. HOL4 does, using SML's (* ... *). So, if you want to write the escaped *, you have to use our older