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Re: [Coq-Club] functional induction, Equations plugin


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  • From: Pierre Courtieu <pierre.courtieu AT gmail.com>
  • To: AUGER Cédric <sedrikov AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: Gert Smolka <smolka AT ps.uni-saarland.de>, "coq-club AT inria.fr" <coq-club AT inria.fr>
  • Subject: Re: [Coq-Club] functional induction, Equations plugin
  • Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:12:55 +0100

I realize that my first answer to Gert Smolka was not cced to this
list and that it makes my other messages difficult to understand.
I copy it here and ask again: Has anyone ever used successfully
"induction X" where X is something else than a variable?

Best regards,
Pierre

> Indeed, functional induction is similar to induction (it *is* a call
> to induction actually): it mostly works on variables. We could modify
> functional induction (and induction actually) to always do a
> "remember" when applied to non variable terms. I wonder if this would
> break some strange usage of induction.
>
> Has anyone ever used successfully "induction X" where X is something
> else than a variable?
> Best regards,
> Pierre



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