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[Coq-Club] Re: Same symbol for functions and implication


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  • From: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu AT hri.res.in>
  • To: coq-club AT inria.fr
  • Subject: [Coq-Club] Re: Same symbol for functions and implication
  • Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:18:52 +0530
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At 2013-09-08T12:59:30+02:00, Guillaume Brunerie wrote:

> Because it's the same thing. A proof of the implication A -> B is a
> function taking a proof of A and returning a proof of B. This
> identification of a proposition with the type of its proofs (known as
> the Curry-Howard correspondence) is very fundamental to Coq and is
> probably explained in every Coq tutorial you can find.

Thanks for the reply. I should get around to reading about the
Curry-Howard correspondence seriously. Will come back here if I've
questions there.

Best regards,
Raghu.

--
N. Raghavendra
<raghu AT hri.res.in>,
http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/




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