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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Yves Bertot wrote:

> Now, Pierre's proposal to use a pair of mutually inductive types is viable 
> alternative.

Although it is easier to use, the disadvantage if the mutally inductive 
types proposal is that you have to rewrite all the theory about lists 
again for list_rose.  It is much better to go through the effort of 
writing a new inductive principle and reusing the list library.

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