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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 
anoun AT labri.fr
 wrote:

> If we have a current goal of the form
> ============================
> c1 a1 a2 ..an=c1 b1 b2 ...bn
>
> Is there a direct tactic that simplifies this goal into n sub-goals ai=bi
> (i=1..n)
> ? Of course we can use the cut tactic n times,but it's not what I'm looking 
> for,
> I need a generic tactic ...

I think adding such a tactic would be a good idea.  I was looking to do
this sort of thing last week, but I just wrote myself a lemma.

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