Re: [ProofPower] Initialisation convention

2012-09-23 Thread Phil Clayton
On 22/09/12 10:45, Roger Bishop Jones wrote: I see that Potter Sinclair and Till An Introduction to Formal Specification Using Z 1991 use the primed version of the convention, and offer the following rationale (p43): Here we use Vocab' as the variable to suggest that initialisation is like an

Re: [ProofPower] Initialisation convention

2012-09-23 Thread Roger Bishop Jones
Phil, On Sunday 23 Sep 2012 21:11, Phil Clayton wrote: By making initialization an operation without a before state, the initialization can be used with schema operators such as composition and pre, e.g. Init ⨟ Op pre Init the latter being another way to write the following:

Re: [ProofPower] Trying to Prove my Zed Specifications

2012-09-23 Thread Jon Lockhart
Roger, I tried adding the exclamation point to the end of the pushed' line, but if gave me a paser error saying free types here not allowed. I have provided exactly the what the paragraph looked like I tried to parse and the error that was reported in the errorEncountered document. I went back