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diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-cic.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-cic.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 2695c5eee..000000000 --- a/doc/refman/RefMan-cic.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1881 +0,0 @@ -\chapter[Calculus of Inductive Constructions]{Calculus of Inductive Constructions -\label{Cic} -\index{Cic@\textsc{CIC}} -\index{Calculus of Inductive Constructions}} -%HEVEA\cutname{cic.html} - -The underlying formal language of {\Coq} is a {\em Calculus of -Inductive Constructions} (\CIC) whose inference rules are presented in -this chapter. The history of this formalism as well as pointers to related work -are provided in a separate chapter; see {\em Credits}. - -\section[The terms]{The terms\label{Terms}} - -The expressions of the {\CIC} are {\em terms} and all terms have a {\em type}. -There are types for functions (or -programs), there are atomic types (especially datatypes)... but also -types for proofs and types for the types themselves. -Especially, any object handled in the formalism must belong to a -type. For instance, universal quantification is relative to a type and -takes the form {\it ``for all x -of type T, P''}. The expression {\it ``x of type T''} is -written {\it ``x:T''}. Informally, {\it ``x:T''} can be thought as -{\it ``x belongs to T''}. - -The types of types are {\em sorts}. Types and sorts are themselves -terms so that terms, types and sorts are all components of a common -syntactic language of terms which is described in -Section~\ref{cic:terms} but, first, we describe sorts. - -\subsection[Sorts]{Sorts\label{Sorts} -\index{Sorts}} -All sorts have a type and there is an infinite well-founded -typing hierarchy of sorts whose base sorts are {\Prop} and {\Set}. - -The sort {\Prop} intends to be the type of logical propositions. If -$M$ is a logical proposition then it denotes the class of terms -representing proofs of $M$. An object $m$ belonging to $M$ witnesses -the fact that $M$ is provable. An object of type {\Prop} is called a -proposition. - -The sort {\Set} intends to be the type of small sets. This includes data -types such as booleans and naturals, but also products, subsets, and -function types over these data types. - -{\Prop} and {\Set} themselves can be manipulated as ordinary -terms. Consequently they also have a type. Because assuming simply -that {\Set} has type {\Set} leads to an inconsistent theory~\cite{Coq86}, the -language of {\CIC} has infinitely many sorts. There are, in addition -to {\Set} and {\Prop} a hierarchy of universes {\Type$(i)$} for any -integer $i$. - -Like {\Set}, all of the sorts {\Type$(i)$} contain small sets such as -booleans, natural numbers, as well as products, subsets and function -types over small sets. But, unlike {\Set}, they also contain large -sets, namely the sorts {\Set} and {\Type$(j)$} for $j<i$, and all -products, subsets and function types over these sorts. - -Formally, we call {\Sort} the set of sorts which is defined by: -\index{Type@{\Type}}% -\index{Prop@{\Prop}}% -\index{Set@{\Set}}% -\[\Sort \equiv \{\Prop,\Set,\Type(i)\;|\; i \in \NN\} \] -Their properties, such as: -{\Prop:\Type$(1)$}, {\Set:\Type$(1)$}, and {\Type$(i)$:\Type$(i+1)$}, -are defined in Section~\ref{subtyping-rules}. - -The user does not have to mention explicitly the index $i$ when referring to -the universe \Type$(i)$. One only writes \Type. The -system itself generates for each instance of \Type\ a new -index for the universe and checks that the constraints between these -indexes can be solved. From the user point of view we consequently -have {\Type}:{\Type}. -We shall make precise in the typing rules the constraints between the -indexes. - -\paragraph{Implementation issues} -In practice, the {\Type} hierarchy is implemented using -{\em algebraic universes}\index{algebraic universe}. -An algebraic universe $u$ is either a variable (a qualified -identifier with a number) or a successor of an algebraic universe (an -expression $u+1$), or an upper bound of algebraic universes (an -expression $max(u_1,...,u_n)$), or the base universe (the expression -$0$) which corresponds, in the arity of template polymorphic inductive -types (see Section \ref{Template-polymorphism}), -to the predicative sort {\Set}. A graph of constraints between -the universe variables is maintained globally. To ensure the existence -of a mapping of the universes to the positive integers, the graph of -constraints must remain acyclic. Typing expressions that violate the -acyclicity of the graph of constraints results in a \errindex{Universe -inconsistency} error (see also Section~\ref{PrintingUniverses}). - -%% HH: This looks to me more like source of confusion than helpful - -%% \subsection{Constants} - -%% Constants refers to -%% objects in the global environment. These constants may denote previously -%% defined objects, but also objects related to inductive definitions -%% (either the type itself or one of its constructors or destructors). - -%% \medskip\noindent {\bf Remark. } In other presentations of \CIC, -%% the inductive objects are not seen as -%% external declarations but as first-class terms. Usually the -%% definitions are also completely ignored. This is a nice theoretical -%% point of view but not so practical. An inductive definition is -%% specified by a possibly huge set of declarations, clearly we want to -%% share this specification among the various inductive objects and not -%% to duplicate it. So the specification should exist somewhere and the -%% various objects should refer to it. We choose one more level of -%% indirection where the objects are just represented as constants and -%% the environment gives the information on the kind of object the -%% constant refers to. - -%% \medskip -%% Our inductive objects will be manipulated as constants declared in the -%% environment. This roughly corresponds to the way they are actually -%% implemented in the \Coq\ system. It is simple to map this presentation -%% in a theory where inductive objects are represented by terms. - -\subsection{Terms} -\label{cic:terms} - -Terms are built from sorts, variables, constants, -%constructors, inductive types, -abstractions, applications, local definitions, -%case analysis, fixpoints, cofixpoints -and products. -From a syntactic point of view, types cannot be distinguished from terms, -except that they cannot start by an abstraction or a constructor. -More precisely the language of the {\em Calculus of Inductive - Constructions} is built from the following rules. -% -\begin{enumerate} -\item the sorts {\Set}, {\Prop}, ${\Type(i)}$ are terms. -\item variables, hereafter ranged over by letters $x$, $y$, etc., are terms -\item constants, hereafter ranged over by letters $c$, $d$, etc., are terms. -%\item constructors, hereafter ranged over by letter $C$, are terms. -%\item inductive types, hereafter ranged over by letter $I$, are terms. -\item\index{products} if $x$ is a variable and $T$, $U$ are terms then $\forall~x:T,U$ - ($\kw{forall}~x:T,~U$ in \Coq{} concrete syntax) is a term. If $x$ - occurs in $U$, $\forall~x:T,U$ reads as {\it ``for all x of type T, - U''}. As $U$ depends on $x$, one says that $\forall~x:T,U$ is a - {\em dependent product}. If $x$ does not occur in $U$ then - $\forall~x:T,U$ reads as {\it ``if T then U''}. A {\em non dependent - product} can be written: $T \ra U$. -\item if $x$ is a variable and $T$, $u$ are terms then $\lb x:T \mto u$ - ($\kw{fun}~x:T~ {\tt =>}~ u$ in \Coq{} concrete syntax) is a term. This is a - notation for the $\lambda$-abstraction of - $\lambda$-calculus\index{lambda-calculus@$\lambda$-calculus} - \cite{Bar81}. The term $\lb x:T \mto u$ is a function which maps - elements of $T$ to the expression $u$. -\item if $t$ and $u$ are terms then $(t\ u)$ is a term - ($t~u$ in \Coq{} concrete syntax). The term $(t\ - u)$ reads as {\it ``t applied to u''}. -\item if $x$ is a variable, and $t$, $T$ and $u$ are terms then - $\kw{let}~x:=t:T~\kw{in}~u$ is a - term which denotes the term $u$ where the variable $x$ is locally - bound to $t$ of type $T$. This stands for the common ``let-in'' - construction of functional programs such as ML or Scheme. -%\item case ... -%\item fixpoint ... -%\item cofixpoint ... -\end{enumerate} - -\paragraph{Free variables.} -The notion of free variables is defined as usual. In the expressions -$\lb x:T\mto U$ and $\forall x:T, U$ the occurrences of $x$ in $U$ -are bound. - -\paragraph[Substitution.]{Substitution.\index{Substitution}} -The notion of substituting a term $t$ to free occurrences of a -variable $x$ in a term $u$ is defined as usual. The resulting term -is written $\subst{u}{x}{t}$. - -\paragraph[The logical vs programming readings.]{The logical vs programming readings.} - -The constructions of the {\CIC} can be used to express both logical -and programming notions, accordingly to the Curry-Howard -correspondence between proofs and programs, and between propositions -and types~\cite{Cur58,How80,Bru72}. - -For instance, let us assume that \nat\ is the type of natural numbers -with zero element written $0$ and that ${\tt True}$ is the always true -proposition. Then $\ra$ is used both to denote $\nat\ra\nat$ which is -the type of functions from \nat\ to \nat, to denote ${\tt True}\ra{\tt - True}$ which is an implicative proposition, to denote $\nat \ra -\Prop$ which is the type of unary predicates over the natural numbers, -etc. - -Let us assume that ${\tt mult}$ is a function of type $\nat\ra\nat\ra -\nat$ and ${\tt eqnat}$ a predicate of type $\nat\ra\nat\ra \Prop$. -The $\lambda$-abstraction can serve to build ``ordinary'' functions as -in $\lambda x:\nat.({\tt mult}~x~x)$ (i.e. $\kw{fun}~x:\nat ~{\tt =>}~ -{\tt mult} ~x~x$ in {\Coq} notation) but may build also predicates -over the natural numbers. For instance $\lambda x:\nat.({\tt eqnat}~ -x~0)$ (i.e. $\kw{fun}~x:\nat ~{\tt =>}~ {\tt eqnat}~ x~0$ in {\Coq} -notation) will represent the predicate of one variable $x$ which -asserts the equality of $x$ with $0$. This predicate has type $\nat -\ra \Prop$ and it can be applied to any expression of type ${\nat}$, -say $t$, to give an object $P~t$ of type \Prop, namely a proposition. - -Furthermore $\kw{forall}~x:\nat,\,P\;x$ will represent the type of -functions which associate to each natural number $n$ an object of type -$(P~n)$ and consequently represent the type of proofs of the formula -``$\forall x.\,P(x)$''. - -\section[Typing rules]{Typing rules\label{Typed-terms}} - -As objects of type theory, terms are subjected to {\em type -discipline}. The well typing of a term depends on -a global environment and a local context. - -\paragraph{Local context.\index{Local context}} -A {\em local context} is an ordered list of -{\em local declarations\index{declaration!local}} of names which we call {\em variables\index{variable}}. -The declaration of some variable $x$ is -either a {\em local assumption\index{assumption!local}}, written $x:T$ ($T$ is a type) or a {\em local definition\index{definition!local}}, -written $x:=t:T$. We use brackets to write local contexts. A -typical example is $[x:T;y:=u:U;z:V]$. Notice that the variables -declared in a local context must be distinct. If $\Gamma$ declares some $x$, -we write $x \in \Gamma$. By writing $(x:T) \in \Gamma$ we mean that -either $x:T$ is an assumption in $\Gamma$ or that there exists some $t$ such -that $x:=t:T$ is a definition in $\Gamma$. If $\Gamma$ defines some -$x:=t:T$, we also write $(x:=t:T) \in \Gamma$. -For the rest of the chapter, the $\Gamma::(y:T)$ denotes the local context -$\Gamma$ enriched with the local assumption $y:T$. -Similarly, $\Gamma::(y:=t:T)$ denotes the local context -$\Gamma$ enriched with the local definition $(y:=t:T)$. -The notation $[]$ denotes the empty local context. -By $\Gamma_1; \Gamma_2$ we mean concatenation of the local context $\Gamma_1$ -and the local context $\Gamma_2$. - -% Does not seem to be used further... -% Si dans l'explication WF(E)[Gamma] concernant les constantes -% definies ds un contexte - -%We define the inclusion of two local contexts $\Gamma$ and $\Delta$ (written -%as $\Gamma \subset \Delta$) as the property, for all variable $x$, -%type $T$ and term $t$, if $(x:T) \in \Gamma$ then $(x:T) \in \Delta$ -%and if $(x:=t:T) \in \Gamma$ then $(x:=t:T) \in \Delta$. -%We write -% $|\Delta|$ for the length of the context $\Delta$, that is for the number -% of declarations (assumptions or definitions) in $\Delta$. - -\paragraph[Global environment.]{Global environment.\index{Global environment}} -%Because we are manipulating global declarations (global constants and global -%assumptions), we also need to consider a global environment $E$. - -A {\em global environment} is an ordered list of {\em global declarations\index{declaration!global}}. -Global declarations are either {\em global assumptions\index{assumption!global}} or {\em global -definitions\index{definition!global}}, but also declarations of inductive objects. Inductive objects themselves declare both inductive or coinductive types and constructors -(see Section~\ref{Cic-inductive-definitions}). - -A {\em global assumption} will be represented in the global environment as -$(c:T)$ which assumes the name $c$ to be of some type $T$. -A {\em global definition} will -be represented in the global environment as $c:=t:T$ which defines -the name $c$ to have value $t$ and type $T$. -We shall call such names {\em constants}. -For the rest of the chapter, the $E;c:T$ denotes the global environment -$E$ enriched with the global assumption $c:T$. -Similarly, $E;c:=t:T$ denotes the global environment -$E$ enriched with the global definition $(c:=t:T)$. - -The rules for inductive definitions (see Section -\ref{Cic-inductive-definitions}) have to be considered as assumption -rules to which the following definitions apply: if the name $c$ is -declared in $E$, we write $c \in E$ and if $c:T$ or $c:=t:T$ is -declared in $E$, we write $(c : T) \in E$. - -\paragraph[Typing rules.]{Typing rules.\label{Typing-rules}\index{Typing rules}} -In the following, we define simultaneously two -judgments. The first one \WTEG{t}{T} means the term $t$ is well-typed -and has type $T$ in the global environment $E$ and local context $\Gamma$. The -second judgment \WFE{\Gamma} means that the global environment $E$ is -well-formed and the local context $\Gamma$ is a valid local context in this -global environment. -% HH: This looks to me complicated. I think it would be better to talk -% about ``discharge'' as a transformation of global environments, -% rather than as keeping a local context next to global constants. -% -%% It also means a third property which makes sure that any -%%constant in $E$ was defined in an environment which is included in -%%$\Gamma$ -%%\footnote{This requirement could be relaxed if we instead introduced -%% an explicit mechanism for instantiating constants. At the external -%% level, the Coq engine works accordingly to this view that all the -%% definitions in the environment were built in a local sub-context of the -%% current local context.}. - -A term $t$ is well typed in a global environment $E$ iff there exists a -local context $\Gamma$ and a term $T$ such that the judgment \WTEG{t}{T} can -be derived from the following rules. -\begin{description} -\item[W-Empty] \inference{\WF{[]}{}} -\item[W-Local-Assum] % Ce n'est pas vrai : x peut apparaitre plusieurs fois dans Gamma -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{T}{s}~~~~s \in \Sort~~~~x \not\in \Gamma % \cup E - }{\WFE{\Gamma::(x:T)}}} -\item[W-Local-Def] -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{t}{T}~~~~x \not\in \Gamma % \cup E - }{\WFE{\Gamma::(x:=t:T)}}} -\item[W-Global-Assum] \inference{\frac{\WTE{}{T}{s}~~~~s \in \Sort~~~~c \notin E} - {\WF{E;c:T}{}}} -\item[W-Global-Def] \inference{\frac{\WTE{}{t}{T}~~~c \notin E} - {\WF{E;c:=t:T}{}}} -\item[Ax-Prop] \index{Typing rules!Ax-Prop} -\inference{\frac{\WFE{\Gamma}}{\WTEG{\Prop}{\Type(1)}}} -\item[Ax-Set] \index{Typing rules!Ax-Set} -\inference{\frac{\WFE{\Gamma}}{\WTEG{\Set}{\Type(1)}}} -\item[Ax-Type] \index{Typing rules!Ax-Type} -\inference{\frac{\WFE{\Gamma}}{\WTEG{\Type(i)}{\Type(i+1)}}} -\item[Var]\index{Typing rules!Var} - \inference{\frac{ \WFE{\Gamma}~~~~~(x:T) \in \Gamma~~\mbox{or}~~(x:=t:T) \in \Gamma~\mbox{for some $t$}}{\WTEG{x}{T}}} -\item[Const] \index{Typing rules!Const} -\inference{\frac{\WFE{\Gamma}~~~~(c:T) \in E~~\mbox{or}~~(c:=t:T) \in E~\mbox{for some $t$} }{\WTEG{c}{T}}} -\item[Prod-Prop] \index{Typing rules!Prod-Prop} -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{T}{s}~~~~s \in \Sort~~~ - \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{U}{\Prop}} - { \WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{\Prop}}} -\item[Prod-Set] \index{Typing rules!Prod-Set} -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{T}{s}~~~~s \in\{\Prop, \Set\}~~~~~~ - \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{U}{\Set}} - { \WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{\Set}}} -\item[Prod-Type] \index{Typing rules!Prod-Type} -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{T}{\Type(i)}~~~~ - \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{U}{\Type(i)}} - {\WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{\Type(i)}}} -\item[Lam]\index{Typing rules!Lam} -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{s}~~~~ \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{t}{U}} - {\WTEG{\lb x:T\mto t}{\forall x:T, U}}} -\item[App]\index{Typing rules!App} - \inference{\frac{\WTEG{t}{\forall~x:U,T}~~~~\WTEG{u}{U}} - {\WTEG{(t\ u)}{\subst{T}{x}{u}}}} -\item[Let]\index{Typing rules!Let} -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{t}{T}~~~~ \WTE{\Gamma::(x:=t:T)}{u}{U}} - {\WTEG{\letin{x}{t:T}{u}}{\subst{U}{x}{t}}}} -\end{description} - -\Rem Prod$_1$ and Prod$_2$ typing-rules make sense if we consider the semantic -difference between {\Prop} and {\Set}: -\begin{itemize} - \item All values of a type that has a sort {\Set} are extractable. - \item No values of a type that has a sort {\Prop} are extractable. -\end{itemize} - -\Rem We may have $\kw{let}~x:=t:T~\kw{in}~u$ -well-typed without having $((\lb x:T\mto u)~t)$ well-typed (where -$T$ is a type of $t$). This is because the value $t$ associated to $x$ -may be used in a conversion rule (see Section~\ref{conv-rules}). - -\section[Conversion rules]{Conversion rules\index{Conversion rules} -\label{conv-rules}} - -In \CIC, there is an internal reduction mechanism. In particular, it -can decide if two programs are {\em intentionally} equal (one -says {\em convertible}). Convertibility is described in this section. - -\paragraph[$\beta$-reduction.]{$\beta$-reduction.\label{beta}\index{beta-reduction@$\beta$-reduction}} - -We want to be able to identify some terms as we can identify the -application of a function to a given argument with its result. For -instance the identity function over a given type $T$ can be written -$\lb x:T\mto x$. In any global environment $E$ and local context $\Gamma$, we want to identify any object $a$ (of type $T$) with the -application $((\lb x:T\mto x)~a)$. We define for this a {\em reduction} (or a -{\em conversion}) rule we call $\beta$: -\[ \WTEGRED{((\lb x:T\mto - t)~u)}{\triangleright_{\beta}}{\subst{t}{x}{u}} \] -We say that $\subst{t}{x}{u}$ is the {\em $\beta$-contraction} of -$((\lb x:T\mto t)~u)$ and, conversely, that $((\lb x:T\mto t)~u)$ -is the {\em $\beta$-expansion} of $\subst{t}{x}{u}$. - -According to $\beta$-reduction, terms of the {\em Calculus of - Inductive Constructions} enjoy some fundamental properties such as -confluence, strong normalization, subject reduction. These results are -theoretically of great importance but we will not detail them here and -refer the interested reader to \cite{Coq85}. - -\paragraph[$\iota$-reduction.]{$\iota$-reduction.\label{iota}\index{iota-reduction@$\iota$-reduction}} -A specific conversion rule is associated to the inductive objects in -the global environment. We shall give later on (see Section~\ref{iotared}) the -precise rules but it just says that a destructor applied to an object -built from a constructor behaves as expected. This reduction is -called $\iota$-reduction and is more precisely studied in -\cite{Moh93,Wer94}. - - -\paragraph[$\delta$-reduction.]{$\delta$-reduction.\label{delta}\index{delta-reduction@$\delta$-reduction}} - -We may have variables defined in local contexts or constants defined in the global -environment. It is legal to identify such a reference with its value, -that is to expand (or unfold) it into its value. This -reduction is called $\delta$-reduction and shows as follows. - -$$\WTEGRED{x}{\triangleright_{\delta}}{t}~~~~~\mbox{if $(x:=t:T) \in \Gamma$}~~~~~~~~~\WTEGRED{c}{\triangleright_{\delta}}{t}~~~~~\mbox{if $(c:=t:T) \in E$}$$ - - -\paragraph[$\zeta$-reduction.]{$\zeta$-reduction.\label{zeta}\index{zeta-reduction@$\zeta$-reduction}} - -{\Coq} allows also to remove local definitions occurring in terms by -replacing the defined variable by its value. The declaration being -destroyed, this reduction differs from $\delta$-reduction. It is -called $\zeta$-reduction and shows as follows. - -$$\WTEGRED{\kw{let}~x:=u~\kw{in}~t}{\triangleright_{\zeta}}{\subst{t}{x}{u}}$$ - -\paragraph{$\eta$-expansion.% -\label{eta}% -\index{eta-expansion@$\eta$-expansion}% -%\index{eta-reduction@$\eta$-reduction} -}% -Another important concept is $\eta$-expansion. It is legal to identify any -term $t$ of functional type $\forall x:T, U$ with its so-called -$\eta$-expansion $\lb x:T\mto (t\ x)$ for $x$ an arbitrary variable -name fresh in $t$. - -\Rem We deliberately do not define $\eta$-reduction: -\begin{latexonly}% - $$\lb x:T\mto (t\ x)\not\triangleright_\eta\hskip.3em t$$ -\end{latexonly}% -\begin{htmlonly} - $$\lb x:T\mto (t\ x)~\not\triangleright_\eta~t$$ -\end{htmlonly} -This is because, in general, the type of $t$ need not to be convertible to the type of $\lb x:T\mto (t\ x)$. -E.g., if we take $f$ such that: -\begin{latexonly}% - $$f\hskip.5em:\hskip.5em\forall x:Type(2),Type(1)$$ -\end{latexonly}% -\begin{htmlonly} - $$f~:~\forall x:Type(2),Type(1)$$ -\end{htmlonly} -then -\begin{latexonly}% - $$\lb x:Type(1),(f\, x)\hskip.5em:\hskip.5em\forall x:Type(1),Type(1)$$ -\end{latexonly}% -\begin{htmlonly} - $$\lb x:Type(1),(f\, x)~:~\forall x:Type(1),Type(1)$$ -\end{htmlonly} -We could not allow -\begin{latexonly}% - $$\lb x:Type(1),(f\,x)\hskip.4em\not\triangleright_\eta\hskip.6em f$$ -\end{latexonly}% -\begin{htmlonly} - $$\lb x:Type(1),(f\,x)~\not\triangleright_\eta~f$$ -\end{htmlonly} -because the type of the reduced term $\forall x:Type(2),Type(1)$ -would not be convertible to the type of the original term $\forall x:Type(1),Type(1)$. - -\paragraph[Convertibility.]{Convertibility.\label{convertibility} -\index{beta-reduction@$\beta$-reduction}\index{iota-reduction@$\iota$-reduction}\index{delta-reduction@$\delta$-reduction}\index{zeta-reduction@$\zeta$-reduction}} - -Let us write $\WTEGRED{t}{\triangleright}{u}$ for the contextual closure of the relation $t$ reduces to $u$ in the global environment $E$ and local context $\Gamma$ with one of the previous reduction $\beta$, $\iota$, $\delta$ or $\zeta$. - -We say that two terms $t_1$ and $t_2$ are {\em - $\beta\iota\delta\zeta\eta$-convertible}, or simply {\em - convertible}, or {\em equivalent}, in the global environment $E$ and -local context $\Gamma$ iff there exist terms $u_1$ and $u_2$ such that -$\WTEGRED{t_1}{\triangleright \ldots \triangleright}{u_1}$ and -$\WTEGRED{t_2}{\triangleright \ldots \triangleright}{u_2}$ and either -$u_1$ and $u_2$ are identical, or they are convertible up to -$\eta$-expansion, i.e. $u_1$ is $\lb x:T\mto u'_1$ and $u_2\,x$ is -recursively convertible to $u'_1$, or, symmetrically, $u_2$ is $\lb -x:T\mto u'_2$ and $u_1\,x$ is recursively convertible to $u'_2$. We -then write $\WTEGCONV{t_1}{t_2}$. - -Apart from this we consider two instances of polymorphic and cumulative (see Chapter~\ref{Universes-full}) inductive types (see below) -convertible $\WTEGCONV{t\ w_1 \dots w_m}{t\ w_1' \dots w_m'}$ if we have subtypings (see below) in both directions, i.e., -$\WTEGLECONV{t\ w_1 \dots w_m}{t\ w_1' \dots w_m'}$ and $\WTEGLECONV{t\ w_1' \dots w_m'}{t\ w_1 \dots w_m}$. -Furthermore, we consider $\WTEGCONV{c\ v_1 \dots v_m}{c'\ v_1' \dots v_m'}$ convertible if $\WTEGCONV{v_i}{v_i'}$ -and we have that $c$ and $c'$ are the same constructors of different instances the same inductive types (differing only in universe levels) -such that $\WTEG{c\ v_1 \dots v_m}{t\ w_1 \dots w_m}$ and $\WTEG{c'\ v_1' \dots v_m'}{t'\ w_1' \dots w_m'}$ and we have $\WTEGCONV{t\ w_1 \dots w_m}{t\ w_1' \dots w_m'}$. - -The convertibility relation allows introducing a new typing rule -which says that two convertible well-formed types have the same -inhabitants. - -\section[Subtyping rules]{Subtyping rules\index{Subtyping rules} -\label{subtyping-rules}} - -At the moment, we did not take into account one rule between universes -which says that any term in a universe of index $i$ is also a term in -the universe of index $i+1$ (this is the {\em cumulativity} rule of -{\CIC}). This property extends the equivalence relation of -convertibility into a {\em subtyping} relation inductively defined by: -\begin{enumerate} -\item if $\WTEGCONV{t}{u}$ then $\WTEGLECONV{t}{u}$, -\item if $i \leq j$ then $\WTEGLECONV{\Type(i)}{\Type(j)}$, -\item for any $i$, $\WTEGLECONV{\Set}{\Type(i)}$, -\item $\WTEGLECONV{\Prop}{\Set}$, hence, by transitivity, - $\WTEGLECONV{\Prop}{\Type(i)}$, for any $i$ -\item if $\WTEGCONV{T}{U}$ and $\WTELECONV{\Gamma::(x:T)}{T'}{U'}$ then $\WTEGLECONV{\forall~x:T, T'}{\forall~x:U, U'}$. -\item if $\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C}$ is a universe polymorphic and cumulative (see Chapter~\ref{Universes-full}) - inductive type (see below) and $(t : \forall\Gamma_P,\forall\Gamma_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}, \Sort)\in\Gamma_I$ - and $(t' : \forall\Gamma_P',\forall\Gamma_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}', \Sort')\in\Gamma_I$ - are two different instances of \emph{the same} inductive type (differing only in universe levels) with constructors - \[[c_1: \forall\Gamma_P,\forall T_{1,1} \dots T_{1,n_1},t\ v_{1,1} \dots v_{1,m}; \dots; c_k: \forall\Gamma_P,\forall T_{k, 1} \dots T_{k,n_k},t\ v_{n,1}\dots v_{n,m}]\] - and - \[[c_1: \forall\Gamma_P',\forall T_{1,1}' \dots T_{1,n_1}',t'\ v_{1,1}' \dots v_{1,m}'; \dots; c_k: \forall\Gamma_P',\forall T_{k, 1}' \dots T_{k,n_k}',t\ v_{n,1}'\dots v_{n,m}']\] - respectively then $\WTEGLECONV{t\ w_1 \dots w_m}{t\ w_1' \dots w_m'}$ (notice that $t$ and $t'$ are both fully applied, i.e., they have a sort as a type) - if $\WTEGCONV{w_i}{w_i'}$ for $1 \le i \le m$ and we have - \[ \WTEGLECONV{T_{i,j}}{T_{i,j}'} \text{ and } \WTEGLECONV{A_i}{A_i'}\] - where $\Gamma_{\mathit{Arr}(t)} = [a_1 : A_1; a_1 : A_l]$ and $\Gamma_{\mathit{Arr}(t)} = [a_1 : A_1'; a_1 : A_l']$. -\end{enumerate} - -The conversion rule up to subtyping is now exactly: - -\begin{description}\label{Conv} -\item[Conv]\index{Typing rules!Conv} - \inference{ - \frac{\WTEG{U}{s}~~~~\WTEG{t}{T}~~~~\WTEGLECONV{T}{U}}{\WTEG{t}{U}}} - \end{description} - - -\paragraph[Normal form.]{Normal form.\index{Normal form}\label{Normal-form}\label{Head-normal-form}\index{Head normal form}} -A term which cannot be any more reduced is said to be in {\em normal - form}. There are several ways (or strategies) to apply the reduction -rules. Among them, we have to mention the {\em head reduction} which -will play an important role (see Chapter~\ref{Tactics}). Any term can -be written as $\lb x_1:T_1\mto \ldots \lb x_k:T_k \mto -(t_0\ t_1\ldots t_n)$ where -$t_0$ is not an application. We say then that $t_0$ is the {\em head - of $t$}. If we assume that $t_0$ is $\lb x:T\mto u_0$ then one step of -$\beta$-head reduction of $t$ is: -\[\lb x_1:T_1\mto \ldots \lb x_k:T_k\mto (\lb x:T\mto u_0\ t_1\ldots t_n) -~\triangleright ~ \lb (x_1:T_1)\ldots(x_k:T_k)\mto -(\subst{u_0}{x}{t_1}\ t_2 \ldots t_n)\] -Iterating the process of head reduction until the head of the reduced -term is no more an abstraction leads to the {\em $\beta$-head normal - form} of $t$: -\[ t \triangleright \ldots \triangleright -\lb x_1:T_1\mto \ldots\lb x_k:T_k\mto (v\ u_1 -\ldots u_m)\] -where $v$ is not an abstraction (nor an application). Note that the -head normal form must not be confused with the normal form since some -$u_i$ can be reducible. -% -Similar notions of head-normal forms involving $\delta$, $\iota$ and $\zeta$ -reductions or any combination of those can also be defined. - -\section[Inductive definitions]{Inductive Definitions\label{Cic-inductive-definitions}} - -% Here we assume that the reader knows what is an inductive definition. - -Formally, we can represent any {\em inductive definition\index{definition!inductive}} as \Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C} where: -\begin{itemize} - \item $\Gamma_I$ determines the names and types of inductive types; - \item $\Gamma_C$ determines the names and types of constructors of these inductive types; - \item $p$ determines the number of parameters of these inductive types. -\end{itemize} -These inductive definitions, together with global assumptions and global definitions, then form the global environment. -% -Additionally, for any $p$ there always exists $\Gamma_P=[a_1:A_1;\dots;a_p:A_p]$ -such that each $T$ in $(t:T)\in\Gamma_I\cup\Gamma_C$ can be written as: -$\forall\Gamma_P, T^\prime$ where $\Gamma_P$ is called the {\em context of parameters\index{context of parameters}}. -Furthermore, we must have that each $T$ in $(t:T)\in\Gamma_I$ can be written as: -$\forall\Gamma_P,\forall\Gamma_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}, \Sort$ where $\Gamma_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}$ is called the -{\em Arity} of the inductive type\index{arity of inductive type} $t$ and -$\Sort$ is called the sort of the inductive type $t$. - -\paragraph{Examples} - - \newcommand\ind[3]{$\mathsf{Ind}~[#1]\left(\hskip-.4em - \begin{array}{r@{\mathrm{~:=~}}l} - #2 & #3 \\ - \end{array} - \hskip-.4em - \right)$} - \def\colon{@{\hskip.5em:\hskip.5em}} - -The declaration for parameterized lists is: -\begin{latexonly} - \vskip.5em - - \ind{1}{[\List:\Set\ra\Set]}{\left[\begin{array}{r@{:}l} - \Nil & \forall A:\Set,\List~A \\ - \cons & \forall A:\Set, A \ra \List~A \ra \List~A - \end{array} - \right]} - \vskip.5em -\end{latexonly} -\begin{rawhtml}<pre><table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr style="vertical-align:middle"> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center;font-family:sans-serif;font-style:italic">Ind</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center">[1]</td> - <td style="width:5pt;text-align:center">⎛<br>⎝</td> - <td style="width:120pt;text-align:center">[ <span style="font-family:monospace">list : Set → Set</span> ]</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:=</td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎡<br>⎣</td> - <td> - <table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">nil</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:=</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">∀A : Set, list A</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">cons</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:=</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">∀A : Set, A → list A → list A</td> - </tr> - </table> - </td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎤<br>⎦</td> - <td style="width:5pt;text-align:center">⎞<br>⎠</td> - </tr> -</table></pre> -\end{rawhtml} -\noindent which corresponds to the result of the \Coq\ declaration: -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive list (A:Set) : Set := - | nil : list A - | cons : A -> list A -> list A. -\end{coq_example*} - -\noindent The declaration for a mutual inductive definition of {\tree} and {\forest} is: -\begin{latexonly} - \vskip.5em -\ind{~}{\left[\begin{array}{r@{:}l}\tree&\Set\\\forest&\Set\end{array}\right]} - {\left[\begin{array}{r@{:}l} - \node & \forest \ra \tree\\ - \emptyf & \forest\\ - \consf & \tree \ra \forest \ra \forest\\ - \end{array}\right]} - \vskip.5em -\end{latexonly} -\begin{rawhtml}<pre><table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr style="vertical-align:middle"> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center;font-family:sans-serif;font-style:italic">Ind</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center">[1]</td> - <td style="width:5pt;text-align:center">⎛<br>⎜<br>⎝</td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎡<br>⎣</td> - <td> - <table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">tree</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">Set</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">forest</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">Set</td> - </tr> - </table> - </td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎤<br>⎦</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:=</td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎡<br>⎢<br>⎣</td> - <td> - <table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">node</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">forest → tree</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">emptyf</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">forest</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">consf</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">tree → forest → forest</td> - </tr> - </table> - </td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎤<br>⎥<br>⎦</td> - <td style="width:5pt;text-align:center">⎞<br>⎟<br>⎠</td> - </tr> -</table></pre> -\end{rawhtml} -\noindent which corresponds to the result of the \Coq\ -declaration: -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive tree : Set := - node : forest -> tree -with forest : Set := - | emptyf : forest - | consf : tree -> forest -> forest. -\end{coq_example*} - -\noindent The declaration for a mutual inductive definition of {\even} and {\odd} is: -\begin{latexonly} - \newcommand\GammaI{\left[\begin{array}{r@{:}l} - \even & \nat\ra\Prop \\ - \odd & \nat\ra\Prop - \end{array} - \right]} - \newcommand\GammaC{\left[\begin{array}{r@{:}l} - \evenO & \even~\nO \\ - \evenS & \forall n : \nat, \odd~n \ra \even~(\nS~n)\\ - \oddS & \forall n : \nat, \even~n \ra \odd~(\nS~n) - \end{array} - \right]} - \vskip.5em - \ind{1}{\GammaI}{\GammaC} - \vskip.5em -\end{latexonly} -\begin{rawhtml}<pre><table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr style="vertical-align:middle"> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center;font-family:sans-serif;font-style:italic">Ind</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center">[1]</td> - <td style="width:5pt;text-align:center">⎛<br>⎜<br>⎝</td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎡<br>⎣</td> - <td> - <table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">even</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">nat → Prop</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">odd</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">nat → Prop</td> - </tr> - </table> - </td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎤<br>⎦</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:=</td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎡<br>⎢<br>⎣</td> - <td> - <table style="border-spacing:0"> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">even_O</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">even O</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">even_S</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">∀n : nat, odd n → even (S n)</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:right;font-family:monospace">odd_S</td> - <td style="width:20pt;text-align:center;font-family:monospace">:</td> - <td style="text-align:left;font-family:monospace">∀n : nat, even n → odd (S n)</td> - </tr> - </table> - </td> - <td style="width:10pt;text-align:center">⎤<br>⎥<br>⎦</td> - <td style="width:5pt;text-align:center">⎞<br>⎟<br>⎠</td> - </tr> -</table></pre> -\end{rawhtml} -\noindent which corresponds to the result of the \Coq\ -declaration: -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive even : nat -> Prop := - | even_O : even 0 - | even_S : forall n, odd n -> even (S n) -with odd : nat -> Prop := - | odd_S : forall n, even n -> odd (S n). -\end{coq_example*} - -\subsection{Types of inductive objects} -We have to give the type of constants in a global environment $E$ which -contains an inductive declaration. - -\begin{description} -\item[Ind] \index{Typing rules!Ind} - \inference{\frac{\WFE{\Gamma}~~~~~~~~\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C} \in E~~~~~~~~(a:A)\in\Gamma_I}{\WTEG{a}{A}}} -\item[Constr] \index{Typing rules!Constr} - \inference{\frac{\WFE{\Gamma}~~~~~~~~\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C} \in E~~~~~~~~(c:C)\in\Gamma_C}{\WTEG{c}{C}}} -\end{description} - -\begin{latexonly}% -\paragraph{Example.} -Provided that our environment $E$ contains inductive definitions we showed before, -these two inference rules above enable us to conclude that: -\vskip.5em -\newcommand\prefix{E[\Gamma]\vdash\hskip.25em} -$\begin{array}{@{}l} - \prefix\even : \nat\ra\Prop\\ - \prefix\odd : \nat\ra\Prop\\ - \prefix\evenO : \even~\nO\\ - \prefix\evenS : \forall~n:\nat, \odd~n \ra \even~(\nS~n)\\ - \prefix\oddS : \forall~n:\nat, \even~n \ra \odd~(\nS~n) - \end{array}$ -\end{latexonly}% - -%\paragraph{Parameters.} -%%The parameters introduce a distortion between the inside specification -%%of the inductive declaration where parameters are supposed to be -%%instantiated (this representation is appropriate for checking the -%%correctness or deriving the destructor principle) and the outside -%%typing rules where the inductive objects are seen as objects -%%abstracted with respect to the parameters. - -%In the definition of \List\ or \haslength\, $A$ is a parameter because -%what is effectively inductively defined is $\ListA$ or $\haslengthA$ for -%a given $A$ which is constant in the type of constructors. But when -%we define $(\haslengthA~l~n)$, $l$ and $n$ are not parameters because the -%constructors manipulate different instances of this family. - -\subsection{Well-formed inductive definitions} -We cannot accept any inductive declaration because some of them lead -to inconsistent systems. -We restrict ourselves to definitions which -satisfy a syntactic criterion of positivity. Before giving the formal -rules, we need a few definitions: - -\paragraph[Definition]{Definition\index{Arity}\label{Arity}} -A type $T$ is an {\em arity of sort $s$} if it converts -to the sort $s$ or to a product $\forall~x:T,U$ with $U$ an arity -of sort $s$. - -\paragraph[Examples]{Examples} -$A\ra \Set$ is an arity of sort $\Set$. -$\forall~A:\Prop,A\ra \Prop$ is an arity of sort \Prop. - -\paragraph[Definition]{Definition} -A type $T$ is an {\em arity} if there is a $s\in\Sort$ -such that $T$ is an arity of sort $s$. - -\paragraph[Examples]{Examples} -$A\ra \Set$ and $\forall~A:\Prop,A\ra \Prop$ are arities. - -\paragraph[Definition]{Definition\index{type of constructor}} -We say that $T$ is a {\em type of constructor of $I$\index{type of constructor}} -in one of the following two cases: -\begin{itemize} - \item $T$ is $(I~t_1\ldots ~t_n)$ - \item $T$ is $\forall x:U,T^\prime$ where $T^\prime$ is also a type of constructor of $I$ -\end{itemize} - -\paragraph[Examples]{Examples} -$\nat$ and $\nat\ra\nat$ are types of constructors of $\nat$.\\ -$\forall A:\Type,\List~A$ and $\forall A:\Type,A\ra\List~A\ra\List~A$ are constructors of $\List$. - -\paragraph[Definition]{Definition\index{Positivity}\label{Positivity}} -The type of constructor $T$ will be said to {\em satisfy the positivity -condition} for a constant $X$ in the following cases: - -\begin{itemize} -\item $T=(X~t_1\ldots ~t_n)$ and $X$ does not occur free in -any $t_i$ -\item $T=\forall~x:U,V$ and $X$ occurs only strictly positively in $U$ and -the type $V$ satisfies the positivity condition for $X$ -\end{itemize} -% -The constant $X$ {\em occurs strictly positively} in $T$ in the -following cases: -% -\begin{itemize} -\item $X$ does not occur in $T$ -\item $T$ converts to $(X~t_1 \ldots ~t_n)$ and $X$ does not occur in - any of $t_i$ -\item $T$ converts to $\forall~x:U,V$ and $X$ does not occur in - type $U$ but occurs strictly positively in type $V$ -\item $T$ converts to $(I~a_1 \ldots ~a_m ~ t_1 \ldots ~t_p)$ where - $I$ is the name of an inductive declaration of the form - $\Ind{\Gamma}{m}{I:A}{c_1:\forall p_1:P_1,\ldots \forall - p_m:P_m,C_1;\ldots;c_n:\forall p_1:P_1,\ldots \forall - p_m:P_m,C_n}$ - (in particular, it is not mutually defined and it has $m$ - parameters) and $X$ does not occur in any of the $t_i$, and the - (instantiated) types of constructor $C_i\{p_j/a_j\}_{j=1\ldots m}$ - of $I$ satisfy - the nested positivity condition for $X$ -%\item more generally, when $T$ is not a type, $X$ occurs strictly -%positively in $T[x:U]u$ if $X$ does not occur in $U$ but occurs -%strictly positively in $u$ -\end{itemize} -% -The type of constructor $T$ of $I$ {\em satisfies the nested -positivity condition} for a constant $X$ in the following -cases: - -\begin{itemize} -\item $T=(I~b_1\ldots b_m~u_1\ldots ~u_{p})$, $I$ is an inductive - definition with $m$ parameters and $X$ does not occur in -any $u_i$ -\item $T=\forall~x:U,V$ and $X$ occurs only strictly positively in $U$ and -the type $V$ satisfies the nested positivity condition for $X$ -\end{itemize} - -\newcommand\vv{\textSFxi} % │ -\newcommand\hh{\textSFx} % ─ -\newcommand\vh{\textSFviii} % ├ -\newcommand\hv{\textSFii} % └ -\newlength\framecharacterwidth -\settowidth\framecharacterwidth{\hh} -\newcommand\ws{\hbox{}\hskip\the\framecharacterwidth} -\newcommand\ruleref[1]{\hskip.25em\dots\hskip.2em{\em (bullet #1)}} -\newcommand{\NatTree}{\mbox{\textsf{nattree}}} -\newcommand{\NatTreeA}{\mbox{\textsf{nattree}}~\ensuremath{A}} -\newcommand{\cnode}{\mbox{\textsf{node}}} -\newcommand{\cleaf}{\mbox{\textsf{leaf}}} - -\noindent For instance, if one considers the following variant of a tree type branching over the natural numbers - -\begin{verbatim} -Inductive nattree (A:Type) : Type := - | leaf : nattree A - | node : A -> (nat -> nattree A) -> nattree A -\end{verbatim} - -\begin{latexonly} -\noindent Then every instantiated constructor of $\NatTreeA$ satisfies the nested positivity condition for $\NatTree$\\ -\noindent -\ws\ws\vv\\ -\ws\ws\vh\hh\ws concerning type $\NatTreeA$ of constructor $\cleaf$:\\ -\ws\ws\vv\ws\ws\ws\ws Type $\NatTreeA$ of constructor $\cleaf$ satisfies the positivity condition for $\NatTree$\\ -\ws\ws\vv\ws\ws\ws\ws because $\NatTree$ does not appear in any (real) arguments of the type of that constructor\\ -\ws\ws\vv\ws\ws\ws\ws (primarily because $\NatTree$ does not have any (real) arguments)\ruleref1\\ -\ws\ws\vv\\ -\ws\ws\hv\hh\ws concerning type $\forall~A\ra(\NN\ra\NatTreeA)\ra\NatTreeA$ of constructor $\cnode$:\\ - \ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws Type $\forall~A:\Type,A\ra(\NN\ra\NatTreeA)\ra\NatTreeA$ of constructor $\cnode$\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws satisfies the positivity condition for $\NatTree$ because:\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\vv\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\vh\hh\ws $\NatTree$ occurs only strictly positively in $\Type$\ruleref1\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\vv\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\vh\hh\ws $\NatTree$ occurs only strictly positively in $A$\ruleref1\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\vv\\ - \ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\vh\hh\ws $\NatTree$ occurs only strictly positively in $\NN\ra\NatTreeA$\ruleref{3+2}\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\vv\\ -\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\ws\hv\hh\ws $\NatTree$ satisfies the positivity condition for $\NatTreeA$\ruleref1 -\end{latexonly} -\begin{rawhtml} -<pre> -<span style="font-family:serif">Then every instantiated constructor of <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree A</span> satisfies the nested positivity condition for <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span></span> - │ - ├─ <span style="font-family:serif">concerning type <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree A</span> of constructor <span style="font-family:monospace">nil</span>:</span> - │ <span style="font-family:serif">Type <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree A</span> of constructor <span style="font-family:monospace">nil</span> satisfies the positivity condition for <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span></span> - │ <span style="font-family:serif">because <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span> does not appear in any (real) arguments of the type of that constructor</span> - │ <span style="font-family:serif">(primarily because nattree does not have any (real) arguments) ... <span style="font-style:italic">(bullet 1)</span></span> - │ - ╰─ <span style="font-family:serif">concerning type <span style="font-family:monospace">∀ A → (nat → nattree A) → nattree A</span> of constructor <span style="font-family:monospace">cons</span>:</span> - <span style="font-family:serif">Type <span style="font-family:monospace">∀ A : Type, A → (nat → nattree A) → nattree A</span> of constructor <span style="font-family:monospace">cons</span></span> - <span style="font-family:serif">satisfies the positivity condition for <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span> because:</span> - │ - ├─ <span style="font-family:serif"><span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span> occurs only strictly positively in <span style="font-family:monospace">Type</span> ... <span style="font-style:italic">(bullet 1)</span></span> - │ - ├─ <span style="font-family:serif"><span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span> occurs only strictly positively in <span style="font-family:monospace">A</span> ... <span style="font-style:italic">(bullet 1)</span></span> - │ - ├─ <span style="font-family:serif"><span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span> occurs only strictly positively in <span style="font-family:monospace">nat → nattree A</span> ... <span style="font-style:italic">(bullet 3+2)</span></span> - │ - ╰─ <span style="font-family:serif"><span style="font-family:monospace">nattree</span> satisfies the positivity condition for <span style="font-family:monospace">nattree A</span> ... <span style="font-style:italic">(bullet 1)</span></span> -</pre> -\end{rawhtml} - -\paragraph{Correctness rules.} -We shall now describe the rules allowing the introduction of a new -inductive definition. - -\begin{description} -\item[W-Ind] Let $E$ be a global environment and - $\Gamma_P,\Gamma_I,\Gamma_C$ are contexts such that - $\Gamma_I$ is $[I_1:\forall \Gamma_P,A_1;\ldots;I_k:\forall - \Gamma_P,A_k]$ and $\Gamma_C$ is - $[c_1:\forall \Gamma_P,C_1;\ldots;c_n:\forall \Gamma_P,C_n]$. -\inference{ - \frac{ - (\WTE{\Gamma_P}{A_j}{s'_j})_{j=1\ldots k} - ~~~~~~~~ (\WTE{\Gamma_I;\Gamma_P}{C_i}{s_{q_i}})_{i=1\ldots n} -} - {\WF{E;\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C}}{\Gamma}}} -provided that the following side conditions hold: -\begin{itemize} -\item $k>0$ and all of $I_j$ and $c_i$ are distinct names for $j=1\ldots k$ and $i=1\ldots n$, -\item $p$ is the number of parameters of \NInd{}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C} - and $\Gamma_P$ is the context of parameters, -\item for $j=1\ldots k$ we have that $A_j$ is an arity of sort $s_j$ and $I_j - \notin E$, -\item for $i=1\ldots n$ we have that $C_i$ is a type of constructor of - $I_{q_i}$ which satisfies the positivity condition for $I_1 \ldots I_k$ - and $c_i \notin \Gamma \cup E$. -\end{itemize} -\end{description} -One can remark that there is a constraint between the sort of the -arity of the inductive type and the sort of the type of its -constructors which will always be satisfied for the impredicative sort -{\Prop} but may fail to define inductive definition -on sort \Set{} and generate constraints between universes for -inductive definitions in the {\Type} hierarchy. - -\paragraph{Examples.} -It is well known that existential quantifier can be encoded as an -inductive definition. -The following declaration introduces the second-order existential -quantifier $\exists X.P(X)$. -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive exProp (P:Prop->Prop) : Prop := - exP_intro : forall X:Prop, P X -> exProp P. -\end{coq_example*} -The same definition on \Set{} is not allowed and fails: -% (********** The following is not correct and should produce **********) -% (*** Error: Large non-propositional inductive types must be in Type***) -\begin{coq_example} -Fail Inductive exSet (P:Set->Prop) : Set := - exS_intro : forall X:Set, P X -> exSet P. -\end{coq_example} -It is possible to declare the same inductive definition in the -universe \Type. -The \texttt{exType} inductive definition has type $(\Type_i \ra\Prop)\ra -\Type_j$ with the constraint that the parameter \texttt{X} of \texttt{exT\_intro} has type $\Type_k$ with $k<j$ and $k\leq i$. -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive exType (P:Type->Prop) : Type := - exT_intro : forall X:Type, P X -> exType P. -\end{coq_example*} -%We shall assume for the following definitions that, if necessary, we -%annotated the type of constructors such that we know if the argument -%is recursive or not. We shall write the type $(x:_R T)C$ if it is -%a recursive argument and $(x:_P T)C$ if the argument is not recursive. - -\paragraph[Template polymorphism.]{Template polymorphism.\index{Template polymorphism}} -\label{Template-polymorphism} - -Inductive types declared in {\Type} are -polymorphic over their arguments in {\Type}. -If $A$ is an arity of some sort and $s$ is a sort, we write $A_{/s}$ for the arity -obtained from $A$ by replacing its sort with $s$. Especially, if $A$ -is well-typed in some global environment and local context, then $A_{/s}$ is typable -by typability of all products in the Calculus of Inductive Constructions. -The following typing rule is added to the theory. - -\begin{description} -\item[Ind-Family] Let $\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C}$ be an - inductive definition. Let $\Gamma_P = [p_1:P_1;\ldots;p_{p}:P_{p}]$ - be its context of parameters, $\Gamma_I = [I_1:\forall - \Gamma_P,A_1;\ldots;I_k:\forall \Gamma_P,A_k]$ its context of - definitions and $\Gamma_C = [c_1:\forall - \Gamma_P,C_1;\ldots;c_n:\forall \Gamma_P,C_n]$ its context of - constructors, with $c_i$ a constructor of $I_{q_i}$. - - Let $m \leq p$ be the length of the longest prefix of parameters - such that the $m$ first arguments of all occurrences of all $I_j$ in - all $C_k$ (even the occurrences in the hypotheses of $C_k$) are - exactly applied to $p_1~\ldots~p_m$ ($m$ is the number of {\em - recursively uniform parameters} and the $p-m$ remaining parameters - are the {\em recursively non-uniform parameters}). Let $q_1$, - \ldots, $q_r$, with $0\leq r\leq m$, be a (possibly) partial - instantiation of the recursively uniform parameters of - $\Gamma_P$. We have: - -\inference{\frac -{\left\{\begin{array}{l} -\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C} \in E\\ -(E[] \vdash q_l : P'_l)_{l=1\ldots r}\\ -(\WTELECONV{}{P'_l}{\subst{P_l}{p_u}{q_u}_{u=1\ldots l-1}})_{l=1\ldots r}\\ -1 \leq j \leq k -\end{array} -\right.} -{E[] \vdash I_j\,q_1\,\ldots\,q_r:\forall [p_{r+1}:P_{r+1};\ldots;p_{p}:P_{p}], (A_j)_{/s_j}} -} - -provided that the following side conditions hold: - -\begin{itemize} -\item $\Gamma_{P'}$ is the context obtained from $\Gamma_P$ by -replacing each $P_l$ that is an arity with $P'_l$ for $1\leq l \leq r$ (notice that -$P_l$ arity implies $P'_l$ arity since $\WTELECONV{}{P'_l}{ \subst{P_l}{p_u}{q_u}_{u=1\ldots l-1}}$); -\item there are sorts $s_i$, for $1 \leq i \leq k$ such that, for - $\Gamma_{I'} = [I_1:\forall - \Gamma_{P'},(A_1)_{/s_1};\ldots;I_k:\forall \Gamma_{P'},(A_k)_{/s_k}]$ -we have $(\WTE{\Gamma_{I'};\Gamma_{P'}}{C_i}{s_{q_i}})_{i=1\ldots n}$; -\item the sorts $s_i$ are such that all eliminations, to {\Prop}, {\Set} and - $\Type(j)$, are allowed (see Section~\ref{allowedeleminationofsorts}). -\end{itemize} -\end{description} -% -Notice that if $I_j\,q_1\,\ldots\,q_r$ is typable using the rules {\bf -Ind-Const} and {\bf App}, then it is typable using the rule {\bf -Ind-Family}. Conversely, the extended theory is not stronger than the -theory without {\bf Ind-Family}. We get an equiconsistency result by -mapping each $\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C}$ occurring into a -given derivation into as many different inductive types and constructors -as the number of different (partial) replacements of sorts, needed for -this derivation, in the parameters that are arities (this is possible -because $\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C}$ well-formed implies -that $\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_{I'}}{\Gamma_{C'}}$ is well-formed and -has the same allowed eliminations, where -$\Gamma_{I'}$ is defined as above and $\Gamma_{C'} = [c_1:\forall -\Gamma_{P'},C_1;\ldots;c_n:\forall \Gamma_{P'},C_n]$). That is, -the changes in the types of each partial instance -$q_1\,\ldots\,q_r$ can be characterized by the ordered sets of arity -sorts among the types of parameters, and to each signature is -associated a new inductive definition with fresh names. Conversion is -preserved as any (partial) instance $I_j\,q_1\,\ldots\,q_r$ or -$C_i\,q_1\,\ldots\,q_r$ is mapped to the names chosen in the specific -instance of $\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C}$. - -\newcommand{\Single}{\mbox{\textsf{Set}}} - -In practice, the rule {\bf Ind-Family} is used by {\Coq} only when all the -inductive types of the inductive definition are declared with an arity whose -sort is in the $\Type$ -hierarchy. Then, the polymorphism is over the parameters whose -type is an arity of sort in the {\Type} hierarchy. -The sort $s_j$ are -chosen canonically so that each $s_j$ is minimal with respect to the -hierarchy ${\Prop}\subset{\Set_p}\subset\Type$ where $\Set_p$ is -predicative {\Set}. -%and ${\Prop_u}$ is the sort of small singleton -%inductive types (i.e. of inductive types with one single constructor -%and that contains either proofs or inhabitants of singleton types -%only). -More precisely, an empty or small singleton inductive definition -(i.e. an inductive definition of which all inductive types are -singleton -- see paragraph~\ref{singleton}) is set in -{\Prop}, a small non-singleton inductive type is set in {\Set} (even -in case {\Set} is impredicative -- see Section~\ref{impredicativity}), -and otherwise in the {\Type} hierarchy. - -Note that the side-condition about allowed elimination sorts in the -rule~{\bf Ind-Family} is just to avoid to recompute the allowed -elimination sorts at each instance of a pattern-matching (see -section~\ref{elimdep}). -As an example, let us consider the following definition: -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive option (A:Type) : Type := -| None : option A -| Some : A -> option A. -\end{coq_example*} -% -As the definition is set in the {\Type} hierarchy, it is used -polymorphically over its parameters whose types are arities of a sort -in the {\Type} hierarchy. Here, the parameter $A$ has this property, -hence, if \texttt{option} is applied to a type in {\Set}, the result is -in {\Set}. Note that if \texttt{option} is applied to a type in {\Prop}, -then, the result is not set in \texttt{Prop} but in \texttt{Set} -still. This is because \texttt{option} is not a singleton type (see -section~\ref{singleton}) and it would lose the elimination to {\Set} and -{\Type} if set in {\Prop}. - -\begin{coq_example} -Check (fun A:Set => option A). -Check (fun A:Prop => option A). -\end{coq_example} -% -Here is another example. -% -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive prod (A B:Type) : Type := pair : A -> B -> prod A B. -\end{coq_example*} -% -As \texttt{prod} is a singleton type, it will be in {\Prop} if applied -twice to propositions, in {\Set} if applied twice to at least one type -in {\Set} and none in {\Type}, and in {\Type} otherwise. In all cases, -the three kind of eliminations schemes are allowed. - -\begin{coq_example} -Check (fun A:Set => prod A). -Check (fun A:Prop => prod A A). -Check (fun (A:Prop) (B:Set) => prod A B). -Check (fun (A:Type) (B:Prop) => prod A B). -\end{coq_example} - -\Rem Template polymorphism used to be called ``sort-polymorphism of -inductive types'' before universe polymorphism (see -Chapter~\ref{Universes-full}) was introduced. - -\subsection{Destructors} -The specification of inductive definitions with arities and -constructors is quite natural. But we still have to say how to use an -object in an inductive type. - -This problem is rather delicate. There are actually several different -ways to do that. Some of them are logically equivalent but not always -equivalent from the computational point of view or from the user point -of view. - -From the computational point of view, we want to be able to define a -function whose domain is an inductively defined type by using a -combination of case analysis over the possible constructors of the -object and recursion. - -Because we need to keep a consistent theory and also we prefer to keep -a strongly normalizing reduction, we cannot accept any sort of -recursion (even terminating). So the basic idea is to restrict -ourselves to primitive recursive functions and functionals. - -For instance, assuming a parameter $A:\Set$ exists in the local context, we -want to build a function \length\ of type $\ListA\ra \nat$ which -computes the length of the list, so such that $(\length~(\Nil~A)) = \nO$ -and $(\length~(\cons~A~a~l)) = (\nS~(\length~l))$. We want these -equalities to be recognized implicitly and taken into account in the -conversion rule. - -From the logical point of view, we have built a type family by giving -a set of constructors. We want to capture the fact that we do not -have any other way to build an object in this type. So when trying to -prove a property about an object $m$ in an inductive definition it is -enough to enumerate all the cases where $m$ starts with a different -constructor. - -In case the inductive definition is effectively a recursive one, we -want to capture the extra property that we have built the smallest -fixed point of this recursive equation. This says that we are only -manipulating finite objects. This analysis provides induction -principles. -For instance, in order to prove $\forall l:\ListA,(\haslengthA~l~(\length~l))$ -it is enough to prove: -% -\begin{itemize} - \item $(\haslengthA~(\Nil~A)~(\length~(\Nil~A)))$ - \item $\forall a:A, \forall l:\ListA, (\haslengthA~l~(\length~l)) \ra\\ - \ra (\haslengthA~(\cons~A~a~l)~(\length~(\cons~A~a~l)))$ -\end{itemize} -% -which given the conversion equalities satisfied by \length\ is the -same as proving: -% -\begin{itemize} - \item $(\haslengthA~(\Nil~A)~\nO)$ - \item $\forall a:A, \forall l:\ListA, (\haslengthA~l~(\length~l)) \ra\\ - \ra (\haslengthA~(\cons~A~a~l)~(\nS~(\length~l)))$ -\end{itemize} -% -One conceptually simple way to do that, following the basic scheme -proposed by Martin-L\"of in his Intuitionistic Type Theory, is to -introduce for each inductive definition an elimination operator. At -the logical level it is a proof of the usual induction principle and -at the computational level it implements a generic operator for doing -primitive recursion over the structure. - -But this operator is rather tedious to implement and use. We choose in -this version of {\Coq} to factorize the operator for primitive recursion -into two more primitive operations as was first suggested by Th. Coquand -in~\cite{Coq92}. One is the definition by pattern-matching. The second one is a definition by guarded fixpoints. - -\subsubsection[The {\tt match\ldots with \ldots end} construction.]{The {\tt match\ldots with \ldots end} construction.\label{Caseexpr} -\index{match@{\tt match\ldots with\ldots end}}} - -The basic idea of this operator is that we have an object -$m$ in an inductive type $I$ and we want to prove a property -which possibly depends on $m$. For this, it is enough to prove the -property for $m = (c_i~u_1\ldots u_{p_i})$ for each constructor of $I$. -The \Coq{} term for this proof will be written: -\[\kw{match}~m~\kw{with}~ (c_1~x_{11}~...~x_{1p_1}) \Ra f_1 ~|~\ldots~|~ - (c_n~x_{n1}~...~x_{np_n}) \Ra f_n~ \kw{end}\] -In this expression, if -$m$ eventually happens to evaluate to $(c_i~u_1\ldots u_{p_i})$ then -the expression will behave as specified in its $i$-th branch and -it will reduce to $f_i$ where the $x_{i1}$\ldots $x_{ip_i}$ are replaced -by the $u_1\ldots u_{p_i}$ according to the $\iota$-reduction. - -Actually, for type-checking a \kw{match\ldots with\ldots end} -expression we also need to know the predicate $P$ to be proved by case -analysis. In the general case where $I$ is an inductively defined -$n$-ary relation, $P$ is a predicate over $n+1$ arguments: the $n$ first ones -correspond to the arguments of $I$ (parameters excluded), and the last -one corresponds to object $m$. \Coq{} can sometimes infer this -predicate but sometimes not. The concrete syntax for describing this -predicate uses the \kw{as\ldots in\ldots return} construction. For -instance, let us assume that $I$ is an unary predicate with one -parameter and one argument. The predicate is made explicit using the syntax: -\[\kw{match}~m~\kw{as}~ x~ \kw{in}~ I~\verb!_!~a~ \kw{return}~ P - ~\kw{with}~ (c_1~x_{11}~...~x_{1p_1}) \Ra f_1 ~|~\ldots~|~ - (c_n~x_{n1}~...~x_{np_n}) \Ra f_n \kw{end}\] -The \kw{as} part can be omitted if either the result type does not -depend on $m$ (non-dependent elimination) or $m$ is a variable (in -this case, $m$ can occur in $P$ where it is considered a bound variable). -The \kw{in} part can be -omitted if the result type does not depend on the arguments of -$I$. Note that the arguments of $I$ corresponding to parameters -\emph{must} be \verb!_!, because the result type is not generalized to -all possible values of the parameters. -The other arguments of $I$ -(sometimes called indices in the literature) -% NOTE: e.g. http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~sacchini/papers/types08.pdf -have to be variables -($a$ above) and these variables can occur in $P$. -The expression after \kw{in} -must be seen as an \emph{inductive type pattern}. Notice that -expansion of implicit arguments and notations apply to this pattern. -% -For the purpose of presenting the inference rules, we use a more -compact notation: -\[ \Case{(\lb a x \mto P)}{m}{ \lb x_{11}~...~x_{1p_1} \mto f_1 ~|~\ldots~|~ - \lb x_{n1}...x_{np_n} \mto f_n}\] - -%% CP 06/06 Obsolete avec la nouvelle syntaxe et incompatible avec la -%% presentation theorique qui suit -% \paragraph{Non-dependent elimination.} -% -% When defining a function of codomain $C$ by case analysis over an -% object in an inductive type $I$, we build an object of type $I -% \ra C$. The minimality principle on an inductively defined logical -% predicate $I$ of type $A \ra \Prop$ is often used to prove a property -% $\forall x:A,(I~x)\ra (C~x)$. These are particular cases of the dependent -% principle that we stated before with a predicate which does not depend -% explicitly on the object in the inductive definition. - -% For instance, a function testing whether a list is empty -% can be -% defined as: -% \[\kw{fun} l:\ListA \Ra \kw{match}~l~\kw{with}~ \Nil \Ra \true~ -% |~(\cons~a~m) \Ra \false \kw{end}\] -% represented by -% \[\lb l:\ListA \mto\Case{\bool}{l}{\true~ |~ \lb a~m,~\false}\] -%\noindent {\bf Remark. } - -% In the system \Coq\ the expression above, can be -% written without mentioning -% the dummy abstraction: -% \Case{\bool}{l}{\Nil~ \mbox{\tt =>}~\true~ |~ (\cons~a~m)~ -% \mbox{\tt =>}~ \false} - -\paragraph[Allowed elimination sorts.]{Allowed elimination sorts.\index{Elimination sorts}} -\label{allowedeleminationofsorts} - -An important question for building the typing rule for \kw{match} is -what can be the type of $\lb a x \mto P$ with respect to the type of $m$. If -$m:I$ and -$I:A$ and -$\lb a x \mto P : B$ -then by \compat{I:A}{B} we mean that one can use $\lb a x \mto P$ with $m$ in the above -match-construct. - -\paragraph{Notations.} -The \compat{I:A}{B} is defined as the smallest relation satisfying the -following rules: -We write \compat{I}{B} for \compat{I:A}{B} where $A$ is the type of -$I$. - -The case of inductive definitions in sorts \Set\ or \Type{} is simple. -There is no restriction on the sort of the predicate to be -eliminated. -% -\begin{description} -\item[Prod] \inference{\frac{\compat{(I~x):A'}{B'}} - {\compat{I:\forall x:A, A'}{\forall x:A, B'}}} -\item[{\Set} \& \Type] \inference{\frac{ - s_1 \in \{\Set,\Type(j)\}~~~~~~~~s_2 \in \Sort}{\compat{I:s_1}{I\ra s_2}}} -\end{description} -% -The case of Inductive definitions of sort \Prop{} is a bit more -complicated, because of our interpretation of this sort. The only -harmless allowed elimination, is the one when predicate $P$ is also of -sort \Prop. -\begin{description} -\item[\Prop] \inference{\compat{I:\Prop}{I\ra\Prop}} -\end{description} -\Prop{} is the type of logical propositions, the proofs of properties -$P$ in \Prop{} could not be used for computation and are consequently -ignored by the extraction mechanism. -Assume $A$ and $B$ are two propositions, and the logical disjunction -$A\vee B$ is defined inductively by: -\begin{coq_example*} -Inductive or (A B:Prop) : Prop := - or_introl : A -> or A B | or_intror : B -> or A B. -\end{coq_example*} -The following definition which computes a boolean value by case over -the proof of \texttt{or A B} is not accepted: -% (***************************************************************) -% (*** This example should fail with ``Incorrect elimination'' ***) -\begin{coq_example} -Fail Definition choice (A B: Prop) (x:or A B) := - match x with or_introl _ _ a => true | or_intror _ _ b => false end. -\end{coq_example} -From the computational point of view, the structure of the proof of -\texttt{(or A B)} in this term is needed for computing the boolean -value. - -In general, if $I$ has type \Prop\ then $P$ cannot have type $I\ra -\Set$, because it will mean to build an informative proof of type -$(P~m)$ doing a case analysis over a non-computational object that -will disappear in the extracted program. But the other way is safe -with respect to our interpretation we can have $I$ a computational -object and $P$ a non-computational one, it just corresponds to proving -a logical property of a computational object. - -% Also if $I$ is in one of the sorts \{\Prop, \Set\}, one cannot in -% general allow an elimination over a bigger sort such as \Type. But -% this operation is safe whenever $I$ is a {\em small inductive} type, -% which means that all the types of constructors of -% $I$ are small with the following definition:\\ -% $(I~t_1\ldots t_s)$ is a {\em small type of constructor} and -% $\forall~x:T,C$ is a small type of constructor if $C$ is and if $T$ -% has type \Prop\ or \Set. \index{Small inductive type} - -% We call this particular elimination which gives the possibility to -% compute a type by induction on the structure of a term, a {\em strong -% elimination}\index{Strong elimination}. - -In the same spirit, elimination on $P$ of type $I\ra -\Type$ cannot be allowed because it trivially implies the elimination -on $P$ of type $I\ra \Set$ by cumulativity. It also implies that there -are two proofs of the same property which are provably different, -contradicting the proof-irrelevance property which is sometimes a -useful axiom: -\begin{coq_example} -Axiom proof_irrelevance : forall (P : Prop) (x y : P), x=y. -\end{coq_example} -\begin{coq_eval} -Reset proof_irrelevance. -\end{coq_eval} -The elimination of an inductive definition of type \Prop\ on a -predicate $P$ of type $I\ra \Type$ leads to a paradox when applied to -impredicative inductive definition like the second-order existential -quantifier \texttt{exProp} defined above, because it give access to -the two projections on this type. - -%\paragraph{Warning: strong elimination} -%\index{Elimination!Strong elimination} -%In previous versions of Coq, for a small inductive definition, only the -%non-informative strong elimination on \Type\ was allowed, because -%strong elimination on \Typeset\ was not compatible with the current -%extraction procedure. In this version, strong elimination on \Typeset\ -%is accepted but a dummy element is extracted from it and may generate -%problems if extracted terms are explicitly used such as in the -%{\tt Program} tactic or when extracting ML programs. - -\paragraph[Empty and singleton elimination]{Empty and singleton elimination\label{singleton} -\index{Elimination!Singleton elimination} -\index{Elimination!Empty elimination}} - -There are special inductive definitions in \Prop\ for which more -eliminations are allowed. -\begin{description} -\item[\Prop-extended] -\inference{ - \frac{I \mbox{~is an empty or singleton - definition}~~~s \in \Sort}{\compat{I:\Prop}{I\ra s}} -} -\end{description} -% -% A {\em singleton definition} has always an informative content, -% even if it is a proposition. -% -A {\em singleton -definition} has only one constructor and all the arguments of this -constructor have type \Prop. In that case, there is a canonical -way to interpret the informative extraction on an object in that type, -such that the elimination on any sort $s$ is legal. Typical examples are -the conjunction of non-informative propositions and the equality. -If there is an hypothesis $h:a=b$ in the local context, it can be used for -rewriting not only in logical propositions but also in any type. -% In that case, the term \verb!eq_rec! which was defined as an axiom, is -% now a term of the calculus. -\begin{coq_eval} -Require Extraction. -\end{coq_eval} -\begin{coq_example} -Print eq_rec. -Extraction eq_rec. -\end{coq_example} -An empty definition has no constructors, in that case also, -elimination on any sort is allowed. - -\paragraph{Type of branches.} -Let $c$ be a term of type $C$, we assume $C$ is a type of constructor -for an inductive type $I$. Let $P$ be a term that represents the -property to be proved. -We assume $r$ is the number of parameters and $p$ is the number of arguments. - -We define a new type \CI{c:C}{P} which represents the type of the -branch corresponding to the $c:C$ constructor. -\[ -\begin{array}{ll} -\CI{c:(I~p_1\ldots p_r\ t_1 \ldots t_p)}{P} &\equiv (P~t_1\ldots ~t_p~c) \\[2mm] -\CI{c:\forall~x:T,C}{P} &\equiv \forall~x:T,\CI{(c~x):C}{P} -\end{array} -\] -We write \CI{c}{P} for \CI{c:C}{P} with $C$ the type of $c$. - -\paragraph{Example.} -The following term in concrete syntax: -\begin{verbatim} -match t as l return P' with -| nil _ => t1 -| cons _ hd tl => t2 -end -\end{verbatim} -can be represented in abstract syntax as $$\Case{P}{t}{f_1\,|\,f_2}$$ -where -\begin{eqnarray*} - P & = & \lambda~l~.~P^\prime\\ - f_1 & = & t_1\\ - f_2 & = & \lambda~(hd:\nat)~.~\lambda~(tl:\List~\nat)~.~t_2 -\end{eqnarray*} -According to the definition: -\begin{latexonly}\vskip.5em\noindent\end{latexonly}% -\begin{htmlonly} - -\end{htmlonly} -$ \CI{(\Nil~\nat)}{P} \equiv \CI{(\Nil~\nat) : (\List~\nat)}{P} \equiv (P~(\Nil~\nat))$ -\begin{latexonly}\vskip.5em\noindent\end{latexonly}% -\begin{htmlonly} - -\end{htmlonly} -$ \CI{(\cons~\nat)}{P} - \equiv\CI{(\cons~\nat) : (\nat\ra\List~\nat\ra\List~\nat)}{P} \equiv\\ - \equiv\forall n:\nat, \CI{(\cons~\nat~n) : \List~\nat\ra\List~\nat)}{P} \equiv\\ - \equiv\forall n:\nat, \forall l:\List~\nat, \CI{(\cons~\nat~n~l) : \List~\nat)}{P} \equiv\\ -\equiv\forall n:\nat, \forall l:\List~\nat,(P~(\cons~\nat~n~l))$. -\begin{latexonly}\vskip.5em\noindent\end{latexonly}% -\begin{htmlonly} - -\end{htmlonly} -Given some $P$, then \CI{(\Nil~\nat)}{P} represents the expected type of $f_1$, and -\CI{(\cons~\nat)}{P} represents the expected type of $f_2$. - -\paragraph{Typing rule.} - -Our very general destructor for inductive definition enjoys the -following typing rule -% , where we write -% \[ -% \Case{P}{c}{[x_{11}:T_{11}]\ldots[x_{1p_1}:T_{1p_1}]g_1\ldots -% [x_{n1}:T_{n1}]\ldots[x_{np_n}:T_{np_n}]g_n} -% \] -% for -% \[ -% \Case{P}{c}{(c_1~x_{11}~...~x_{1p_1}) \Ra g_1 ~|~\ldots~|~ -% (c_n~x_{n1}...x_{np_n}) \Ra g_n } -% \] - -\begin{description} -\item[match] \label{elimdep} \index{Typing rules!match} -\inference{ -\frac{\WTEG{c}{(I~q_1\ldots q_r~t_1\ldots t_s)}~~ - \WTEG{P}{B}~~\compat{(I~q_1\ldots q_r)}{B} - ~~ -(\WTEG{f_i}{\CI{(c_{p_i}~q_1\ldots q_r)}{P}})_{i=1\ldots l}} -{\WTEG{\Case{P}{c}{f_1|\ldots |f_l}}{(P\ t_1\ldots t_s\ c)}}}%\\[3mm] - -provided $I$ is an inductive type in a definition -\Ind{}{r}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C} with -$\Gamma_C = [c_1:C_1;\ldots;c_n:C_n]$ and $c_{p_1}\ldots c_{p_l}$ are the -only constructors of $I$. -\end{description} - -\paragraph{Example.} - -Below is a typing rule for the term shown in the previous example: -\inference{ - \frac{% - \WTEG{t}{(\List~\nat)}~~~~% - \WTEG{P}{B}~~~~% - \compat{(\List~\nat)}{B}~~~~% - \WTEG{f_1}{\CI{(\Nil~\nat)}{P}}~~~~% - \WTEG{f_2}{\CI{(\cons~\nat)}{P}}% - } -{\WTEG{\Case{P}{t}{f_1|f_2}}{(P~t)}}} - -\paragraph[Definition of $\iota$-reduction.]{Definition of $\iota$-reduction.\label{iotared} -\index{iota-reduction@$\iota$-reduction}} -We still have to define the $\iota$-reduction in the general case. - -A $\iota$-redex is a term of the following form: -\[\Case{P}{(c_{p_i}~q_1\ldots q_r~a_1\ldots a_m)}{f_1|\ldots | - f_l}\] -with $c_{p_i}$ the $i$-th constructor of the inductive type $I$ with $r$ -parameters. - -The $\iota$-contraction of this term is $(f_i~a_1\ldots a_m)$ leading -to the general reduction rule: -\[ \Case{P}{(c_{p_i}~q_1\ldots q_r~a_1\ldots a_m)}{f_1|\ldots | - f_n} \triangleright_{\iota} (f_i~a_1\ldots a_m) \] - -\subsection[Fixpoint definitions]{Fixpoint definitions\label{Fix-term} \index{Fix@{\tt Fix}}} -The second operator for elimination is fixpoint definition. -This fixpoint may involve several mutually recursive definitions. -The basic concrete syntax for a recursive set of mutually recursive -declarations is (with $\Gamma_i$ contexts): -\[\kw{fix}~f_1 (\Gamma_1) :A_1:=t_1~\kw{with} \ldots \kw{with}~ f_n -(\Gamma_n) :A_n:=t_n\] -The terms are obtained by projections from this set of declarations -and are written -\[\kw{fix}~f_1 (\Gamma_1) :A_1:=t_1~\kw{with} \ldots \kw{with}~ f_n -(\Gamma_n) :A_n:=t_n~\kw{for}~f_i\] -In the inference rules, we represent such a -term by -\[\Fix{f_i}{f_1:A_1':=t_1' \ldots f_n:A_n':=t_n'}\] -with $t_i'$ (resp. $A_i'$) representing the term $t_i$ abstracted -(resp. generalized) with -respect to the bindings in the context $\Gamma_i$, namely -$t_i'=\lb \Gamma_i \mto t_i$ and $A_i'=\forall \Gamma_i, A_i$. - -\subsubsection{Typing rule} -The typing rule is the expected one for a fixpoint. - -\begin{description} -\item[Fix] \index{Typing rules!Fix} -\inference{\frac{(\WTEG{A_i}{s_i})_{i=1\ldots n}~~~~ - (\WTE{\Gamma,f_1:A_1,\ldots,f_n:A_n}{t_i}{A_i})_{i=1\ldots n}} - {\WTEG{\Fix{f_i}{f_1:A_1:=t_1 \ldots f_n:A_n:=t_n}}{A_i}}} -\end{description} -% -Any fixpoint definition cannot be accepted because non-normalizing terms -allow proofs of absurdity. -% -The basic scheme of recursion that should be allowed is the one needed for -defining primitive -recursive functionals. In that case the fixpoint enjoys a special -syntactic restriction, namely one of the arguments belongs to an -inductive type, the function starts with a case analysis and recursive -calls are done on variables coming from patterns and representing subterms. -% -For instance in the case of natural numbers, a proof of the induction -principle of type -\[\forall P:\nat\ra\Prop, (P~\nO)\ra(\forall n:\nat, (P~n)\ra(P~(\nS~n)))\ra -\forall n:\nat, (P~n)\] -can be represented by the term: -\[\begin{array}{l} -\lb P:\nat\ra\Prop\mto\lb f:(P~\nO)\mto \lb g:(\forall n:\nat, -(P~n)\ra(P~(\nS~n))) \mto\\ -\Fix{h}{h:\forall n:\nat, (P~n):=\lb n:\nat\mto \Case{P}{n}{f~|~\lb - p:\nat\mto (g~p~(h~p))}} -\end{array} -\] -% -Before accepting a fixpoint definition as being correctly typed, we -check that the definition is ``guarded''. A precise analysis of this -notion can be found in~\cite{Gim94}. -% -The first stage is to precise on which argument the fixpoint will be -decreasing. The type of this argument should be an inductive -definition. -% -For doing this, the syntax of fixpoints is extended and becomes - \[\Fix{f_i}{f_1/k_1:A_1:=t_1 \ldots f_n/k_n:A_n:=t_n}\] -where $k_i$ are positive integers. -Each $k_i$ represents the index of pararameter of $f_i$, on which $f_i$ is decreasing. -Each $A_i$ should be a type (reducible to a term) starting with at least -$k_i$ products $\forall y_1:B_1,\ldots \forall y_{k_i}:B_{k_i}, A'_i$ -and $B_{k_i}$ an is unductive type. - -Now in the definition $t_i$, if $f_j$ occurs then it should be applied -to at least $k_j$ arguments and the $k_j$-th argument should be -syntactically recognized as structurally smaller than $y_{k_i}$ - - -The definition of being structurally smaller is a bit technical. -One needs first to define the notion of -{\em recursive arguments of a constructor}\index{Recursive arguments}. -For an inductive definition \Ind{}{r}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C}, -if the type of a constructor $c$ has the form -$\forall p_1:P_1,\ldots \forall p_r:P_r, -\forall x_1:T_1, \ldots \forall x_r:T_r, (I_j~p_1\ldots -p_r~t_1\ldots t_s)$, then the recursive arguments will correspond to $T_i$ in -which one of the $I_l$ occurs. - -The main rules for being structurally smaller are the following:\\ -Given a variable $y$ of type an inductive -definition in a declaration -\Ind{}{r}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C} -where $\Gamma_I$ is $[I_1:A_1;\ldots;I_k:A_k]$, and $\Gamma_C$ is - $[c_1:C_1;\ldots;c_n:C_n]$. -The terms structurally smaller than $y$ are: -\begin{itemize} -\item $(t~u)$ and $\lb x:u \mto t$ when $t$ is structurally smaller than $y$. -\item \Case{P}{c}{f_1\ldots f_n} when each $f_i$ is structurally - smaller than $y$. \\ - If $c$ is $y$ or is structurally smaller than $y$, its type is an inductive - definition $I_p$ part of the inductive - declaration corresponding to $y$. - Each $f_i$ corresponds to a type of constructor $C_q \equiv - \forall p_1:P_1,\ldots,\forall p_r:P_r, \forall y_1:B_1, \ldots \forall y_k:B_k, (I~a_1\ldots a_k)$ - and can consequently be - written $\lb y_1:B'_1\mto \ldots \lb y_k:B'_k\mto g_i$. - ($B'_i$ is obtained from $B_i$ by substituting parameters variables) - the variables $y_j$ occurring - in $g_i$ corresponding to recursive arguments $B_i$ (the ones in - which one of the $I_l$ occurs) are structurally smaller than $y$. -\end{itemize} -The following definitions are correct, we enter them using the -{\tt Fixpoint} command as described in Section~\ref{Fixpoint} and show -the internal representation. -\begin{coq_example} -Fixpoint plus (n m:nat) {struct n} : nat := - match n with - | O => m - | S p => S (plus p m) - end. -Print plus. -Fixpoint lgth (A:Set) (l:list A) {struct l} : nat := - match l with - | nil _ => O - | cons _ a l' => S (lgth A l') - end. -Print lgth. -Fixpoint sizet (t:tree) : nat := let (f) := t in S (sizef f) - with sizef (f:forest) : nat := - match f with - | emptyf => O - | consf t f => plus (sizet t) (sizef f) - end. -Print sizet. -\end{coq_example} - - -\subsubsection[Reduction rule]{Reduction rule\index{iota-reduction@$\iota$-reduction}} -Let $F$ be the set of declarations: $f_1/k_1:A_1:=t_1 \ldots -f_n/k_n:A_n:=t_n$. -The reduction for fixpoints is: -\[ (\Fix{f_i}{F}~a_1\ldots -a_{k_i}) \triangleright_{\iota} \substs{t_i}{f_k}{\Fix{f_k}{F}}{k=1\ldots n} -~a_1\ldots a_{k_i}\] -when $a_{k_i}$ starts with a constructor. -This last restriction is needed in order to keep strong normalization -and corresponds to the reduction for primitive recursive operators. -% -The following reductions are now possible: -\def\plus{\mathsf{plus}} -\def\tri{\triangleright_\iota} -\begin{eqnarray*} - \plus~(\nS~(\nS~\nO))~(\nS~\nO) & \tri & \nS~(\plus~(\nS~\nO)~(\nS~\nO))\\ - & \tri & \nS~(\nS~(\plus~\nO~(\nS~\nO)))\\ - & \tri & \nS~(\nS~(\nS~\nO))\\ -\end{eqnarray*} - -% La disparition de Program devrait rendre la construction Match obsolete -% \subsubsection{The {\tt Match \ldots with \ldots end} expression} -% \label{Matchexpr} -% %\paragraph{A unary {\tt Match\ldots with \ldots end}.} -% \index{Match...with...end@{\tt Match \ldots with \ldots end}} -% The {\tt Match} operator which was a primitive notion in older -% presentations of the Calculus of Inductive Constructions is now just a -% macro definition which generates the good combination of {\tt Case} -% and {\tt Fix} operators in order to generate an operator for primitive -% recursive definitions. It always considers an inductive definition as -% a single inductive definition. - -% The following examples illustrates this feature. -% \begin{coq_example} -% Definition nat_pr : (C:Set)C->(nat->C->C)->nat->C -% :=[C,x,g,n]Match n with x g end. -% Print nat_pr. -% \end{coq_example} -% \begin{coq_example} -% Definition forest_pr -% : (C:Set)C->(tree->forest->C->C)->forest->C -% := [C,x,g,n]Match n with x g end. -% \end{coq_example} - -% Cet exemple faisait error (HH le 12/12/96), j'ai change pour une -% version plus simple -%\begin{coq_example} -%Definition forest_pr -% : (P:forest->Set)(P emptyf)->((t:tree)(f:forest)(P f)->(P (consf t f))) -% ->(f:forest)(P f) -% := [C,x,g,n]Match n with x g end. -%\end{coq_example} - -\subsubsection{Mutual induction} - -The principles of mutual induction can be automatically generated -using the {\tt Scheme} command described in Section~\ref{Scheme}. - -\section{Admissible rules for global environments} - -From the original rules of the type system, one can show the -admissibility of rules which change the local context of definition of -objects in the global environment. We show here the admissible rules -that are used used in the discharge mechanism at the end of a section. - -% This is obsolete: Abstraction over defined constants actually uses a -% let-in since there are let-ins in Coq - -%% \paragraph{Mechanism of substitution.} - -%% One rule which can be proved valid, is to replace a term $c$ by its -%% value in the global environment. As we defined the substitution of a term for -%% a variable in a term, one can define the substitution of a term for a -%% constant. One easily extends this substitution to local contexts and global -%% environments. - -%% \paragraph{Substitution Property:} -%% \inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:=t:T; E'}{\Gamma}} -%% {\WF{E; \subst{E'}{c}{t}}{\subst{\Gamma}{c}{t}}}} - -\paragraph{Abstraction.} - -One can modify a global declaration by generalizing it over a -previously assumed constant $c$. For doing that, we need to modify the -reference to the global declaration in the subsequent global -environment and local context by explicitly applying this constant to -the constant $c'$. - -Below, if $\Gamma$ is a context of the form -$[y_1:A_1;\ldots;y_n:A_n]$, we write $\forall -x:U,\subst{\Gamma}{c}{x}$ to mean -$[y_1:\forall~x:U,\subst{A_1}{c}{x};\ldots;y_n:\forall~x:U,\subst{A_n}{c}{x}]$ -and -$\subst{E}{|\Gamma|}{|\Gamma|c}$. -to mean the parallel substitution -$\subst{\subst{E}{y_1}{(y_1~c)}\ldots}{y_n}{(y_n~c)}$. - -\paragraph{First abstracting property:} - \inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:U;E';c':=t:T;E''}{\Gamma}} - {\WF{E;c:U;E';c':=\lb x:U\mto \subst{t}{c}{x}:\forall~x:U,\subst{T}{c}{x}; - \subst{E''}{c'}{(c'~c)}}{\subst{\Gamma}{c}{(c~c')}}}} - - \inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:U;E';c':T;E''}{\Gamma}} - {\WF{E;c:U;E';c':\forall~x:U,\subst{T}{c}{x}; - \subst{E''}{c'}{(c'~c)}}{\subst{\Gamma}{c}{(c~c')}}}} - - \inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:U;E';\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C};E''}{\Gamma}} - {\WFTWOLINES{E;c:U;E';\Ind{}{p+1}{\forall x:U,\subst{\Gamma_I}{c}{x}}{\forall x:U,\subst{\Gamma_C}{c}{x}};\subst{E''}{|\Gamma_I,\Gamma_C|}{|\Gamma_I,\Gamma_C|~c}}{\subst{\Gamma}{|\Gamma_I,\Gamma_C|}{|\Gamma_I,\Gamma_C|~c}}}} -% -One can similarly modify a global declaration by generalizing it over -a previously defined constant~$c'$. Below, if $\Gamma$ is a context -of the form $[y_1:A_1;\ldots;y_n:A_n]$, we write $ -\subst{\Gamma}{c}{u}$ to mean -$[y_1:\subst{A_1}{c}{u};\ldots;y_n:\subst{A_n}{c}{u}]$. - -\paragraph{Second abstracting property:} - \inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:=u:U;E';c':=t:T;E''}{\Gamma}} - {\WF{E;c:=u:U;E';c':=(\letin{x}{u:U}{\subst{t}{c}{x}}):\subst{T}{c}{u};E''}{\Gamma}}} - - \inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:=u:U;E';c':T;E''}{\Gamma}} - {\WF{E;c:=u:U;E';c':\subst{T}{c}{u};E''}{\Gamma}}} - - \inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:=u:U;E';\Ind{}{p}{\Gamma_I}{\Gamma_C};E''}{\Gamma}} - {\WF{E;c:=u:U;E';\Ind{}{p}{\subst{\Gamma_I}{c}{u}}{\subst{\Gamma_C}{c}{u}};E''}{\Gamma}}} - -\paragraph{Pruning the local context.} -If one abstracts or substitutes constants with the above rules then it -may happen that some declared or defined constant does not occur any -more in the subsequent global environment and in the local context. One can -consequently derive the following property. - -\paragraph{First pruning property:} -\inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:U;E'}{\Gamma} \qquad c \mbox{ does not occur in $E'$ and $\Gamma$}} - {\WF{E;E'}{\Gamma}}} - -\paragraph{Second pruning property:} -\inference{\frac{\WF{E;c:=u:U;E'}{\Gamma} \qquad c \mbox{ does not occur in $E'$ and $\Gamma$}} - {\WF{E;E'}{\Gamma}}} - -\section{Co-inductive types} -The implementation contains also co-inductive definitions, which are -types inhabited by infinite objects. -More information on co-inductive definitions can be found -in~\cite{Gimenez95b,Gim98,GimCas05}. -%They are described in Chapter~\ref{Co-inductives}. - -\section[The Calculus of Inductive Construction with - impredicative \Set]{The Calculus of Inductive Construction with - impredicative \Set\label{impredicativity}} - -\Coq{} can be used as a type-checker for the -Calculus of Inductive Constructions with an impredicative sort \Set{} -by using the compiler option \texttt{-impredicative-set}. -% -For example, using the ordinary \texttt{coqtop} command, the following -is rejected. -% (** This example should fail ******************************* -% Error: The term forall X:Set, X -> X has type Type -% while it is expected to have type Set ***) -\begin{coq_example} -Fail Definition id: Set := forall X:Set,X->X. -\end{coq_example} -while it will type-check, if one uses instead the \texttt{coqtop - -impredicative-set} command. - -The major change in the theory concerns the rule for product formation -in the sort \Set, which is extended to a domain in any sort: -\begin{description} -\item [Prod] \index{Typing rules!Prod (impredicative Set)} -\inference{\frac{\WTEG{T}{s}~~~~s \in \Sort~~~~~~ - \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{U}{\Set}} - { \WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{\Set}}} -\end{description} -This extension has consequences on the inductive definitions which are -allowed. -In the impredicative system, one can build so-called {\em large inductive - definitions} like the example of second-order existential -quantifier (\texttt{exSet}). - -There should be restrictions on the eliminations which can be -performed on such definitions. The eliminations rules in the -impredicative system for sort \Set{} become: -\begin{description} -\item[\Set] \inference{\frac{s \in - \{\Prop, \Set\}}{\compat{I:\Set}{I\ra s}} -~~~~\frac{I \mbox{~is a small inductive definition}~~~~s \in - \{\Type(i)\}} - {\compat{I:\Set}{I\ra s}}} -\end{description} - -%%% Local Variables: -%%% mode: latex -%%% TeX-master: "Reference-Manual" -%%% End: - - diff --git a/doc/refman/Reference-Manual.tex b/doc/refman/Reference-Manual.tex index c7a98fce4..ec36304a6 100644 --- a/doc/refman/Reference-Manual.tex +++ b/doc/refman/Reference-Manual.tex @@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ Options A and B of the licence are {\em not} elected.} %END LATEX \include{RefMan-gal.v}% Gallina \include{RefMan-lib.v}% The coq library -\include{RefMan-cic.v}% The Calculus of Constructions \include{RefMan-modr}% The module system diff --git a/doc/sphinx/index.rst b/doc/sphinx/index.rst index f2e444c0c..928ea85be 100644 --- a/doc/sphinx/index.rst +++ b/doc/sphinx/index.rst @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Table of contents :caption: The language language/gallina-extensions + language/cic .. toctree:: :caption: The proof engine diff --git a/doc/sphinx/language/cic.rst b/doc/sphinx/language/cic.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7ed652409 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/sphinx/language/cic.rst @@ -0,0 +1,1845 @@ +.. include:: ../preamble.rst +.. include:: ../replaces.rst + +.. _calculusofinductiveconstructions: + + +Calculus of Inductive Constructions +==================================== + +The underlying formal language of |Coq| is a *Calculus of Inductive +Constructions* (|Cic|) whose inference rules are presented in this +chapter. The history of this formalism as well as pointers to related +work are provided in a separate chapter; see *Credits*. + + +.. _The-terms: + +The terms +------------- + +The expressions of the |Cic| are *terms* and all terms have a *type*. +There are types for functions (or programs), there are atomic types +(especially datatypes)... but also types for proofs and types for the +types themselves. Especially, any object handled in the formalism must +belong to a type. For instance, universal quantification is relative +to a type and takes the form "*for all x of type T, P* ". The expression +“x of type T” is written :g:`x:T`. Informally, :g:`x:T` can be thought as +“x belongs to T”. + +The types of types are *sorts*. Types and sorts are themselves terms +so that terms, types and sorts are all components of a common +syntactic language of terms which is described in Section :ref:`terms` but, +first, we describe sorts. + + +.. _Sorts: + +Sorts +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +All sorts have a type and there is an infinite well-founded typing +hierarchy of sorts whose base sorts are :math:`\Prop` and :math:`\Set`. + +The sort :math:`\Prop` intends to be the type of logical propositions. If :math:`M` is a +logical proposition then it denotes the class of terms representing +proofs of :math:`M`. An object :math:`m` belonging to :math:`M` witnesses the fact that :math:`M` is +provable. An object of type :math:`\Prop` is called a proposition. + +The sort :math:`\Set` intends to be the type of small sets. This includes data +types such as booleans and naturals, but also products, subsets, and +function types over these data types. + +:math:`\Prop` and :math:`\Set` themselves can be manipulated as ordinary terms. +Consequently they also have a type. Because assuming simply that :math:`\Set` +has type :math:`\Set` leads to an inconsistent theory :cite:`Coq86`, the language of +|Cic| has infinitely many sorts. There are, in addition to :math:`\Set` and :math:`\Prop` +a hierarchy of universes :math:`\Type(i)` for any integer :math:`i`. + +Like :math:`\Set`, all of the sorts :math:`\Type(i)` contain small sets such as +booleans, natural numbers, as well as products, subsets and function +types over small sets. But, unlike :math:`\Set`, they also contain large sets, +namely the sorts :math:`\Set` and :math:`\Type(j)` for :math:`j<i`, and all products, subsets +and function types over these sorts. + +Formally, we call :math:`\Sort` the set of sorts which is defined by: + +.. math:: + + \Sort \equiv \{\Prop,\Set,\Type(i)\;|\; i~∈ ℕ\} + +Their properties, such as: :math:`\Prop:\Type(1)`, :math:`\Set:\Type(1)`, and +:math:`\Type(i):\Type(i+1)`, are defined in Section :ref:`subtyping-rules`. + +The user does not have to mention explicitly the index :math:`i` when +referring to the universe :math:`\Type(i)`. One only writes :math:`\Type`. The system +itself generates for each instance of :math:`\Type` a new index for the +universe and checks that the constraints between these indexes can be +solved. From the user point of view we consequently have :math:`\Type:\Type`. We +shall make precise in the typing rules the constraints between the +indices. + + +.. _Implementation-issues: + +**Implementation issues** In practice, the Type hierarchy is +implemented using *algebraic +universes*. An algebraic universe :math:`u` is either a variable (a qualified +identifier with a number) or a successor of an algebraic universe (an +expression :math:`u+1`), or an upper bound of algebraic universes (an +expression :math:`\max(u 1 ,...,u n )`), or the base universe (the expression +:math:`0`) which corresponds, in the arity of template polymorphic inductive +types (see Section +:ref:`well-formed-inductive-definitions`), +to the predicative sort :math:`\Set`. A graph of +constraints between the universe variables is maintained globally. To +ensure the existence of a mapping of the universes to the positive +integers, the graph of constraints must remain acyclic. Typing +expressions that violate the acyclicity of the graph of constraints +results in a Universe inconsistency error (see also Section +:ref:`TODO-2.10`). + + +.. _Terms: + +Terms +~~~~~ + + + +Terms are built from sorts, variables, constants, abstractions, +applications, local definitions, and products. From a syntactic point +of view, types cannot be distinguished from terms, except that they +cannot start by an abstraction or a constructor. More precisely the +language of the *Calculus of Inductive Constructions* is built from +the following rules. + + +#. the sorts :math:`\Set`, :math:`\Prop`, :math:`\Type(i)` are terms. +#. variables, hereafter ranged over by letters :math:`x`, :math:`y`, etc., are terms +#. constants, hereafter ranged over by letters :math:`c`, :math:`d`, etc., are terms. +#. if :math:`x` is a variable and :math:`T`, :math:`U` are terms then + :math:`∀ x:T,U` (:g:`forall x:T, U` in |Coq| concrete syntax) is a term. + If :math:`x` occurs in :math:`U`, :math:`∀ x:T,U` reads as + “for all :math:`x` of type :math:`T`, :math:`U`”. + As :math:`U` depends on :math:`x`, one says that :math:`∀ x:T,U` is + a *dependent product*. If :math:`x` does not occur in :math:`U` then + :math:`∀ x:T,U` reads as + “if :math:`T` then :math:`U`”. A *non dependent product* can be + written: :math:`T \rightarrow U`. +#. if :math:`x` is a variable and :math:`T`, :math:`u` are terms then + :math:`λ x:T . u` (:g:`fun x:T => u` + in |Coq| concrete syntax) is a term. This is a notation for the + λ-abstraction of λ-calculus :cite:`Bar81`. The term :math:`λ x:T . u` is a function + which maps elements of :math:`T` to the expression :math:`u`. +#. if :math:`t` and :math:`u` are terms then :math:`(t~u)` is a term + (:g:`t u` in |Coq| concrete + syntax). The term :math:`(t~u)` reads as “t applied to u”. +#. if :g:`x` is a variable, and :math:`t`, :math:`T` and :math:`u` are + terms then :g:`let x:=t:T in u` is + a term which denotes the term :math:`u` where the variable :math:`x` is locally bound + to :math:`t` of type :math:`T`. This stands for the common “let-in” construction of + functional programs such as ML or Scheme. + + + +.. _Free-variables: + +**Free variables.** +The notion of free variables is defined as usual. In the expressions +:g:`λx:T. U` and :g:`∀ x:T, U` the occurrences of :math:`x` in :math:`U` are bound. + + +.. _Substitution: + +**Substitution.** +The notion of substituting a term :math:`t` to free occurrences of a variable +:math:`x` in a term :math:`u` is defined as usual. The resulting term is written +:math:`\subst{u}{x}{t}`. + + +.. _The-logical-vs-programming-readings: + +**The logical vs programming readings.** +The constructions of the |Cic| can be used to express both logical and +programming notions, accordingly to the Curry-Howard correspondence +between proofs and programs, and between propositions and types +:cite:`Cur58,How80,Bru72`. + +For instance, let us assume that :math:`\nat` is the type of natural numbers +with zero element written :math:`0` and that :g:`True` is the always true +proposition. Then :math:`→` is used both to denote :math:`\nat→\nat` which is the type +of functions from :math:`\nat` to :math:`\nat`, to denote True→True which is an +implicative proposition, to denote :math:`\nat →\Prop` which is the type of +unary predicates over the natural numbers, etc. + +Let us assume that ``mult`` is a function of type :math:`\nat→\nat→\nat` and ``eqnat`` a +predicate of type \nat→\nat→ \Prop. The λ-abstraction can serve to build +“ordinary” functions as in :math:`λ x:\nat.(\kw{mult}~x~x)` (i.e. +:g:`fun x:nat => mult x x` +in |Coq| notation) but may build also predicates over the natural +numbers. For instance :math:`λ x:\nat.(\kw{eqnat}~x~0)` +(i.e. :g:`fun x:nat => eqnat x 0` +in |Coq| notation) will represent the predicate of one variable :math:`x` which +asserts the equality of :math:`x` with :math:`0`. This predicate has type +:math:`\nat → \Prop` +and it can be applied to any expression of type :math:`\nat`, say :math:`t`, to give an +object :math:`P~t` of type :math:`\Prop`, namely a proposition. + +Furthermore :g:`forall x:nat, P x` will represent the type of functions +which associate to each natural number :math:`n` an object of type :math:`(P~n)` and +consequently represent the type of proofs of the formula “:math:`∀ x. P(x`)”. + + +.. _Typing-rules: + +Typing rules +---------------- + +As objects of type theory, terms are subjected to *type discipline*. +The well typing of a term depends on a global environment and a local +context. + + +.. _Local-context: + +**Local context.** +A *local context* is an ordered list of *local declarations* of names +which we call *variables*. The declaration of some variable :math:`x` is +either a *local assumption*, written :math:`x:T` (:math:`T` is a type) or a *local +definition*, written :math:`x:=t:T`. We use brackets to write local contexts. +A typical example is :math:`[x:T;y:=u:U;z:V]`. Notice that the variables +declared in a local context must be distinct. If :math:`Γ` is a local context +that declares some :math:`x`, we +write :math:`x ∈ Γ`. By writing :math:`(x:T) ∈ Γ` we mean that either :math:`x:T` is an +assumption in :math:`Γ` or that there exists some :math:`t` such that :math:`x:=t:T` is a +definition in :math:`Γ`. If :math:`Γ` defines some :math:`x:=t:T`, we also write :math:`(x:=t:T) ∈ Γ`. +For the rest of the chapter, :math:`Γ::(y:T)` denotes the local context :math:`Γ` +enriched with the local assumption :math:`y:T`. Similarly, :math:`Γ::(y:=t:T)` denotes +the local context :math:`Γ` enriched with the local definition :math:`(y:=t:T)`. The +notation :math:`[]` denotes the empty local context. By :math:`Γ_1 ; Γ_2` we mean +concatenation of the local context :math:`Γ_1` and the local context :math:`Γ_2` . + + +.. _Global-environment: + +**Global environment.** +A *global environment* is an ordered list of *global declarations*. +Global declarations are either *global assumptions* or *global +definitions*, but also declarations of inductive objects. Inductive +objects themselves declare both inductive or coinductive types and +constructors (see Section :ref:`inductive-definitions`). + +A *global assumption* will be represented in the global environment as +:math:`(c:T)` which assumes the name :math:`c` to be of some type :math:`T`. A *global +definition* will be represented in the global environment as :math:`c:=t:T` +which defines the name :math:`c` to have value :math:`t` and type :math:`T`. We shall call +such names *constants*. For the rest of the chapter, the :math:`E;c:T` denotes +the global environment :math:`E` enriched with the global assumption :math:`c:T`. +Similarly, :math:`E;c:=t:T` denotes the global environment :math:`E` enriched with the +global definition :math:`(c:=t:T)`. + +The rules for inductive definitions (see Section +:ref:`inductive-definitions`) have to be considered as assumption +rules to which the following definitions apply: if the name :math:`c` +is declared in :math:`E`, we write :math:`c ∈ E` and if :math:`c:T` or +:math:`c:=t:T` is declared in :math:`E`, we write :math:`(c : T) ∈ E`. + + +.. _Typing-rules2: + +**Typing rules.** +In the following, we define simultaneously two judgments. The first +one :math:`\WTEG{t}{T}` means the term :math:`t` is well-typed and has type :math:`T` in the +global environment :math:`E` and local context :math:`Γ`. The second judgment :math:`\WFE{Γ}` +means that the global environment :math:`E` is well-formed and the local +context :math:`Γ` is a valid local context in this global environment. + +A term :math:`t` is well typed in a global environment :math:`E` iff +there exists a local context :math:`\Gamma` and a term :math:`T` such +that the judgment :math:`\WTEG{t}{T}` can be derived from the +following rules. + +.. inference:: W-Empty + + --------- + \WF{[]}{} + +.. inference:: W-Local-Assum + + \WTEG{T}{s} + s \in \Sort + x \not\in \Gamma % \cup E + ------------------------- + \WFE{\Gamma::(x:T)} + +.. inference:: W-Local-Def + + \WTEG{t}{T} + x \not\in \Gamma % \cup E + ------------------------- + \WFE{\Gamma::(x:=t:T)} + +.. inference:: W-Global-Assum + + \WTE{}{T}{s} + s \in \Sort + c \notin E + ------------ + \WF{E;c:T}{} + +.. inference:: W-Global-Def + + \WTE{}{t}{T} + c \notin E + --------------- + \WF{E;c:=t:T}{} + +.. inference:: Ax-Prop + + \WFE{\Gamma} + ---------------------- + \WTEG{\Prop}{\Type(1)} + +.. inference:: Ax-Set + + \WFE{\Gamma} + --------------------- + \WTEG{\Set}{\Type(1)} + +.. inference:: Ax-Type + + \WFE{\Gamma} + --------------------------- + \WTEG{\Type(i)}{\Type(i+1)} + +.. inference:: Var + + \WFE{\Gamma} + (x:T) \in \Gamma~~\mbox{or}~~(x:=t:T) \in \Gamma~\mbox{for some $t$} + -------------------------------------------------------------------- + \WTEG{x}{T} + +.. inference:: Const + + \WFE{\Gamma} + (c:T) \in E~~\mbox{or}~~(c:=t:T) \in E~\mbox{for some $t$} + ---------------------------------------------------------- + \WTEG{c}{T} + +.. inference:: Prod-Prop + + \WTEG{T}{s} + s \in {\Sort} + \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{U}{\Prop} + ----------------------------- + \WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{\Prop} + +.. inference:: Prod-Set + + \WTEG{T}{s} + s \in \{\Prop, \Set\} + \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{U}{\Set} + ---------------------------- + \WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{\Set} + +.. inference:: Prod-Type + + \WTEG{T}{\Type(i)} + \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{U}{\Type(i)} + -------------------------------- + \WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{\Type(i)} + +.. inference:: Lam + + \WTEG{\forall~x:T,U}{s} + \WTE{\Gamma::(x:T)}{t}{U} + ------------------------------------ + \WTEG{\lb x:T\mto t}{\forall x:T, U} + +.. inference:: App + + \WTEG{t}{\forall~x:U,T} + \WTEG{u}{U} + ------------------------------ + \WTEG{(t\ u)}{\subst{T}{x}{u}} + +.. inference:: Let + + \WTEG{t}{T} + \WTE{\Gamma::(x:=t:T)}{u}{U} + ----------------------------------------- + \WTEG{\letin{x}{t:T}{u}}{\subst{U}{x}{t}} + + + +**Remark**: **Prod-Prop** and **Prod-Set** typing-rules make sense if we consider the +semantic difference between :math:`\Prop` and :math:`\Set`: + + ++ All values of a type that has a sort :math:`\Set` are extractable. ++ No values of a type that has a sort :math:`\Prop` are extractable. + + + +**Remark**: We may have :math:`\letin{x}{t:T}{u}` well-typed without having +:math:`((λ x:T.u) t)` well-typed (where :math:`T` is a type of +:math:`t`). This is because the value :math:`t` associated to +:math:`x` may be used in a conversion rule (see Section :ref:`Conversion-rules`). + + +.. _Conversion-rules: + +Conversion rules +-------------------- + +In |Cic|, there is an internal reduction mechanism. In particular, it +can decide if two programs are *intentionally* equal (one says +*convertible*). Convertibility is described in this section. + + +.. _β-reduction: + +**β-reduction.** +We want to be able to identify some terms as we can identify the +application of a function to a given argument with its result. For +instance the identity function over a given type T can be written +:math:`λx:T. x`. In any global environment :math:`E` and local context +:math:`Γ`, we want to identify any object :math:`a` (of type +:math:`T`) with the application :math:`((λ x:T. x) a)`. We define for +this a *reduction* (or a *conversion*) rule we call :math:`β`: + +.. math:: + + E[Γ] ⊢ ((λx:T. t) u)~\triangleright_β~\subst{t}{x}{u} + +We say that :math:`\subst{t}{x}{u}` is the *β-contraction* of +:math:`((λx:T. t) u)` and, conversely, that :math:`((λ x:T. t) u)` is the +*β-expansion* of :math:`\subst{t}{x}{u}`. + +According to β-reduction, terms of the *Calculus of Inductive +Constructions* enjoy some fundamental properties such as confluence, +strong normalization, subject reduction. These results are +theoretically of great importance but we will not detail them here and +refer the interested reader to :cite:`Coq85`. + + +.. _ι-reduction: + +**ι-reduction.** +A specific conversion rule is associated to the inductive objects in +the global environment. We shall give later on (see Section +:ref:`Well-formed-inductive-definitions`) the precise rules but it +just says that a destructor applied to an object built from a +constructor behaves as expected. This reduction is called ι-reduction +and is more precisely studied in :cite:`Moh93,Wer94`. + + +.. _δ-reduction: + +**δ-reduction.** +We may have variables defined in local contexts or constants defined +in the global environment. It is legal to identify such a reference +with its value, that is to expand (or unfold) it into its value. This +reduction is called δ-reduction and shows as follows. + +.. inference:: Delta-Local + + \WFE{\Gamma} + (x:=t:T) ∈ Γ + -------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ x~\triangleright_Δ~t + +.. inference:: Delta-Global + + \WFE{\Gamma} + (c:=t:T) ∈ E + -------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ c~\triangleright_δ~t + + +.. _ζ-reduction: + +**ζ-reduction.** +|Coq| allows also to remove local definitions occurring in terms by +replacing the defined variable by its value. The declaration being +destroyed, this reduction differs from δ-reduction. It is called +ζ-reduction and shows as follows. + +.. inference:: Zeta + + \WFE{\Gamma} + \WTEG{u}{U} + \WTE{\Gamma::(x:=u:U)}{t}{T} + -------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ \letin{x}{u}{t}~\triangleright_ζ~\subst{t}{x}{u} + + +.. _η-expansion: + +**η-expansion.** +Another important concept is η-expansion. It is legal to identify any +term :math:`t` of functional type :math:`∀ x:T, U` with its so-called η-expansion + +.. math:: + λx:T. (t~x) + +for :math:`x` an arbitrary variable name fresh in :math:`t`. + + +**Remark**: We deliberately do not define η-reduction: + +.. math:: + λ x:T. (t~x) \not\triangleright_η t + +This is because, in general, the type of :math:`t` need not to be convertible +to the type of :math:`λ x:T. (t~x)`. E.g., if we take :math:`f` such that: + +.. math:: + f : ∀ x:\Type(2),\Type(1) + +then + +.. math:: + λ x:\Type(1),(f~x) : ∀ x:\Type(1),\Type(1) + +We could not allow + +.. math:: + λ x:Type(1),(f x) \triangleright_η f + +because the type of the reduced term :math:`∀ x:\Type(2),\Type(1)` would not be +convertible to the type of the original term :math:`∀ x:\Type(1),\Type(1).` + + +.. _Convertibility: + +**Convertibility.** +Let us write :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ t \triangleright u` for the contextual closure of the +relation :math:`t` reduces to :math:`u` in the global environment +:math:`E` and local context :math:`Γ` with one of the previous +reductions β, ι, δ or ζ. + +We say that two terms :math:`t_1` and :math:`t_2` are +*βιδζη-convertible*, or simply *convertible*, or *equivalent*, in the +global environment :math:`E` and local context :math:`Γ` iff there +exist terms :math:`u_1` and :math:`u_2` such that :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ t_1 \triangleright +… \triangleright u_1` and :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ t_2 \triangleright … \triangleright u_2` and either :math:`u_1` and +:math:`u_2` are identical, or they are convertible up to η-expansion, +i.e. :math:`u_1` is :math:`λ x:T. u_1'` and :math:`u_2 x` is +recursively convertible to :math:`u_1'` , or, symmetrically, +:math:`u_2` is :math:`λx:T. u_2'` +and :math:`u_1 x` is recursively convertible to u_2′ . We then write +:math:`E[Γ] ⊢ t_1 =_{βδιζη} t_2` . + +Apart from this we consider two instances of polymorphic and +cumulative (see Chapter :ref:`polymorphicuniverses`) inductive types +(see below) convertible + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ t~w_1 … w_m =_{βδιζη} t~w_1' … w_m' + +if we have subtypings (see below) in both directions, i.e., + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ t~w_1 … w_m ≤_{βδιζη} t~w_1' … w_m' + +and + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ t~w_1' … w_m' ≤_{βδιζη} t~w_1 … w_m. + +Furthermore, we consider + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ c~v_1 … v_m =_{βδιζη} c'~v_1' … v_m' + +convertible if + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ v_i =_{βδιζη} v_i' + +and we have that :math:`c` and :math:`c'` +are the same constructors of different instances of the same inductive +types (differing only in universe levels) such that + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ c~v_1 … v_m : t~w_1 … w_m + +and + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ c'~v_1' … v_m' : t'~ w_1' … w_m ' + +and we have + +.. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ t~w_1 … w_m =_{βδιζη} t~w_1' … w_m'. + +The convertibility relation allows introducing a new typing rule which +says that two convertible well-formed types have the same inhabitants. + + +.. _subtyping-rules: + +Subtyping rules +------------------- + +At the moment, we did not take into account one rule between universes +which says that any term in a universe of index i is also a term in +the universe of index i+1 (this is the *cumulativity* rule of|Cic|). +This property extends the equivalence relation of convertibility into +a *subtyping* relation inductively defined by: + + +#. if :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ t =_{βδιζη} u` then :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ t ≤_{βδιζη} u`, +#. if :math:`i ≤ j` then :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ \Type(i) ≤_{βδιζη} \Type(j)`, +#. for any :math:`i`, :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ \Set ≤_{βδιζη} \Type(i)`, +#. :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ \Prop ≤_{βδιζη} \Set`, hence, by transitivity, + :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ \Prop ≤_{βδιζη} \Type(i)`, for any :math:`i` +#. if :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ T =_{βδιζη} U` and + :math:`E[Γ::(x:T)] ⊢ T' ≤_{βδιζη} U'` then + :math:`E[Γ] ⊢ ∀x:T, T′ ≤_{βδιζη} ∀ x:U, U′`. +#. if :math:`\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` is a universe polymorphic and cumulative + (see Chapter :ref:`polymorphicuniverses`) inductive type (see below) + and + :math:`(t : ∀Γ_P ,∀Γ_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}, \Sort)∈Γ_I` + and + :math:`(t' : ∀Γ_P' ,∀Γ_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}', \Sort')∈Γ_I` + are two different instances of *the same* inductive type (differing only in + universe levels) with constructors + + .. math:: + [c_1 : ∀Γ_P ,∀ T_{1,1} … T_{1,n_1} , t~v_{1,1} … v_{1,m} ;…; + c_k : ∀Γ_P ,∀ T_{k,1} … T_{k,n_k} ,t~v_{n,1} … v_{n,m} ] + + and + + .. math:: + [c_1 : ∀Γ_P' ,∀ T_{1,1}' … T_{1,n_1}' , t'~v_{1,1}' … v_{1,m}' ;…; + c_k : ∀Γ_P' ,∀ T_{k,1}' … T_{k,n_k}' ,t'~v_{n,1}' … v_{n,m}' ] + + respectively then + + .. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ t~w_1 … w_m ≤_{βδιζη} t~w_1' … w_m' + + (notice that :math:`t` and :math:`t'` are both + fully applied, i.e., they have a sort as a type) if + + .. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ w_i =_{βδιζη} w_i' + + for :math:`1 ≤ i ≤ m` and we have + + + .. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ T_{i,j} ≤_{βδιζη} T_{i,j}' + + and + + .. math:: + E[Γ] ⊢ A_i ≤_{βδιζη} A_i' + + where :math:`Γ_{\mathit{Arr}(t)} = [a_1 : A_1 ; … ; a_l : A_l ]` and + :math:`Γ_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}' = [a_1 : A_1'; … ; a_l : A_l']`. + + +The conversion rule up to subtyping is now exactly: + +.. inference:: Conv + + E[Γ] ⊢ U : s + E[Γ] ⊢ t : T + E[Γ] ⊢ T ≤_{βδιζη} U + -------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ t : U + + +.. _Normal-form: + +**Normal form**. A term which cannot be any more reduced is said to be in *normal +form*. There are several ways (or strategies) to apply the reduction +rules. Among them, we have to mention the *head reduction* which will +play an important role (see Chapter :ref:`tactics`). Any term :math:`t` can be written as +:math:`λ x_1 :T_1 . … λ x_k :T_k . (t_0~t_1 … t_n )` where :math:`t_0` is not an +application. We say then that :math:`t~0` is the *head of* :math:`t`. If we assume +that :math:`t_0` is :math:`λ x:T. u_0` then one step of β-head reduction of :math:`t` is: + +.. math:: + λ x_1 :T_1 . … λ x_k :T_k . (λ x:T. u_0~t_1 … t_n ) \triangleright + λ (x_1 :T_1 )…(x_k :T_k ). (\subst{u_0}{x}{t_1}~t_2 … t_n ) + +Iterating the process of head reduction until the head of the reduced +term is no more an abstraction leads to the *β-head normal form* of :math:`t`: + +.. math:: + t \triangleright … \triangleright λ x_1 :T_1 . …λ x_k :T_k . (v~u_1 … u_m ) + +where :math:`v` is not an abstraction (nor an application). Note that the head +normal form must not be confused with the normal form since some :math:`u_i` +can be reducible. Similar notions of head-normal forms involving δ, ι +and ζ reductions or any combination of those can also be defined. + + +.. _inductive-definitions: + +Inductive Definitions +------------------------- + +Formally, we can represent any *inductive definition* as +:math:`\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` where: + ++ :math:`Γ_I` determines the names and types of inductive types; ++ :math:`Γ_C` determines the names and types of constructors of these + inductive types; ++ :math:`p` determines the number of parameters of these inductive types. + + +These inductive definitions, together with global assumptions and +global definitions, then form the global environment. Additionally, +for any :math:`p` there always exists :math:`Γ_P =[a_1 :A_1 ;…;a_p :A_p ]` such that +each :math:`T` in :math:`(t:T)∈Γ_I \cup Γ_C` can be written as: :math:`∀Γ_P , T'` where :math:`Γ_P` is +called the *context of parameters*. Furthermore, we must have that +each :math:`T` in :math:`(t:T)∈Γ_I` can be written as: :math:`∀Γ_P,∀Γ_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}, S` where +:math:`Γ_{\mathit{Arr}(t)}` is called the *Arity* of the inductive type t and :math:`S` is called +the sort of the inductive type t (not to be confused with :math:`\Sort` which is the set of sorts). + + +** Examples** The declaration for parameterized lists is: + +.. math:: + \ind{1}{[\List:\Set→\Set]}{\left[\begin{array}{rcl} + \Nil & : & \forall A:\Set,\List~A \\ + \cons & : & \forall A:\Set, A→ \List~A→ \List~A + \end{array} + \right]} + +which corresponds to the result of the |Coq| declaration: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: in + + Inductive list (A:Set) : Set := + | nil : list A + | cons : A -> list A -> list A. + +The declaration for a mutual inductive definition of tree and forest +is: + +.. math:: + \ind{~}{\left[\begin{array}{rcl}\tree&:&\Set\\\forest&:&\Set\end{array}\right]} + {\left[\begin{array}{rcl} + \node &:& \forest → \tree\\ + \emptyf &:& \forest\\ + \consf &:& \tree → \forest → \forest\\ + \end{array}\right]} + +which corresponds to the result of the |Coq| declaration: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: in + + Inductive tree : Set := + | node : forest -> tree + with forest : Set := + | emptyf : forest + | consf : tree -> forest -> forest. + +The declaration for a mutual inductive definition of even and odd is: + +.. math:: + \ind{1}{\left[\begin{array}{rcl}\even&:&\nat → \Prop \\ + \odd&:&\nat → \Prop \end{array}\right]} + {\left[\begin{array}{rcl} + \evenO &:& \even~0\\ + \evenS &:& \forall n, \odd~n -> \even~(\kw{S}~n)\\ + \oddS &:& \forall n, \even~n -> \odd~(\kw{S}~n) + \end{array}\right]} + +which corresponds to the result of the |Coq| declaration: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: in + + Inductive even : nat -> prop := + | even_O : even 0 + | even_S : forall n, odd n -> even (S n) + with odd : nat -> prop := + | odd_S : forall n, even n -> odd (S n). + + + +.. _Types-of-inductive-objects: + +Types of inductive objects +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +We have to give the type of constants in a global environment E which +contains an inductive declaration. + +.. inference:: Ind + + \WFE{Γ} + \ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C} ∈ E + (a:A)∈Γ_I + --------------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ a : A + +.. inference:: Constr + + \WFE{Γ} + \ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C} ∈ E + (c:C)∈Γ_C + --------------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ c : C + +**Example.** +Provided that our environment :math:`E` contains inductive definitions we showed before, +these two inference rules above enable us to conclude that: + +.. math:: + \begin{array}{l} + E[Γ] ⊢ \even : \nat→\Prop\\ + E[Γ] ⊢ \odd : \nat→\Prop\\ + E[Γ] ⊢ \even\_O : \even~O\\ + E[Γ] ⊢ \even\_S : \forall~n:\nat, \odd~n → \even~(S~n)\\ + E[Γ] ⊢ \odd\_S : \forall~n:\nat, \even~n → \odd~(S~n) + \end{array} + + + + +.. _Well-formed-inductive-definitions: + +Well-formed inductive definitions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +We cannot accept any inductive declaration because some of them lead +to inconsistent systems. We restrict ourselves to definitions which +satisfy a syntactic criterion of positivity. Before giving the formal +rules, we need a few definitions: + + +**Type is an Arity of Sort S.** +A type :math:`T` is an *arity of sort s* if it converts to the sort s or to a +product :math:`∀ x:T,U` with :math:`U` an arity of sort s. + +.. example:: + + :math:`A→\Set` is an arity of sort :math:`\Set`. :math:`∀ A:\Prop,A→ \Prop` is an arity of sort + :math:`\Prop`. + + +**Type is an Arity.** +A type :math:`T` is an *arity* if there is a :math:`s∈ \Sort` such that :math:`T` is an arity of +sort s. + + +.. example:: + + :math:`A→ Set` and :math:`∀ A:\Prop,A→ \Prop` are arities. + + +**Type of Constructor of I.** +We say that T is a *type of constructor of I* in one of the following +two cases: + + ++ :math:`T` is :math:`(I~t_1 … t_n )` ++ :math:`T` is :math:`∀ x:U,T'` where :math:`T'` is also a type of constructor of :math:`I` + + + +.. example:: + + :math:`\nat` and :math:`\nat→\nat` are types of constructor of :math:`\nat`. + :math:`∀ A:Type,\List~A` and :math:`∀ A:Type,A→\List~A→\List~A` are types of constructor of :math:`\List`. + +**Positivity Condition.** +The type of constructor :math:`T` will be said to *satisfy the positivity +condition* for a constant :math:`X` in the following cases: + + ++ :math:`T=(X~t_1 … t_n )` and :math:`X` does not occur free in any :math:`t_i` ++ :math:`T=∀ x:U,V` and :math:`X` occurs only strictly positively in :math:`U` and the type :math:`V` + satisfies the positivity condition for :math:`X`. + + +**Occurs Strictly Positively.** +The constant :math:`X` *occurs strictly positively* in :math:`T` in the following +cases: + + ++ :math:`X` does not occur in :math:`T` ++ :math:`T` converts to :math:`(X~t_1 … t_n )` and :math:`X` does not occur in any of :math:`t_i` ++ :math:`T` converts to :math:`∀ x:U,V` and :math:`X` does not occur in type :math:`U` but occurs + strictly positively in type :math:`V` ++ :math:`T` converts to :math:`(I~a_1 … a_m~t_1 … t_p )` where :math:`I` is the name of an + inductive declaration of the form + + .. math:: + \ind{m}{I:A}{c_1 :∀ p_1 :P_1 ,… ∀p_m :P_m ,C_1 ;…;c_n :∀ p_1 :P_1 ,… ∀p_m :P_m ,C_n} + + (in particular, it is + not mutually defined and it has :math:`m` parameters) and :math:`X` does not occur in + any of the :math:`t_i`, and the (instantiated) types of constructor + :math:`\subst{C_i}{p_j}{a_j}_{j=1… m}` of :math:`I` satisfy the nested positivity condition for :math:`X` + +**Nested Positivity Condition.** +The type of constructor :math:`T` of :math:`I` *satisfies the nested positivity +condition* for a constant :math:`X` in the following cases: + + ++ :math:`T=(I~b_1 … b_m~u_1 … u_p)`, :math:`I` is an inductive definition with :math:`m` + parameters and :math:`X` does not occur in any :math:`u_i` ++ :math:`T=∀ x:U,V` and :math:`X` occurs only strictly positively in :math:`U` and the type :math:`V` + satisfies the nested positivity condition for :math:`X` + + +For instance, if one considers the type + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Module TreeExample. + Inductive tree (A:Type) : Type := + | leaf : tree A + | node : A -> (nat -> tree A) -> tree A. + End TreeExample. + +:: + + [TODO Note: This commentary does not seem to correspond to the + preceding example. Instead it is referring to the first example + in Inductive Definitions section. It seems we should either + delete the preceding example and refer the the example above of + type `list A`, or else we should rewrite the commentary below.] + + Then every instantiated constructor of list A satisfies the nested positivity + condition for list + │ + ├─ concerning type list A of constructor nil: + │ Type list A of constructor nil satisfies the positivity condition for list + │ because list does not appear in any (real) arguments of the type of that + | constructor (primarily because list does not have any (real) + | arguments) ... (bullet 1) + │ + ╰─ concerning type ∀ A → list A → list A of constructor cons: + Type ∀ A : Type, A → list A → list A of constructor cons + satisfies the positivity condition for list because: + │ + ├─ list occurs only strictly positively in Type ... (bullet 3) + │ + ├─ list occurs only strictly positively in A ... (bullet 3) + │ + ├─ list occurs only strictly positively in list A ... (bullet 4) + │ + ╰─ list satisfies the positivity condition for list A ... (bullet 1) + + + + +.. _Correctness-rules: + +**Correctness rules.** +We shall now describe the rules allowing the introduction of a new +inductive definition. + +Let :math:`E` be a global environment and :math:`Γ_P`, :math:`Γ_I`, :math:`Γ_C` be contexts +such that :math:`Γ_I` is :math:`[I_1 :∀ Γ_P ,A_1 ;…;I_k :∀ Γ_P ,A_k]`, and +:math:`Γ_C` is :math:`[c_1:∀ Γ_P ,C_1 ;…;c_n :∀ Γ_P ,C_n ]`. Then + +.. inference:: W-Ind + + \WFE{Γ_P} + (E[Γ_P ] ⊢ A_j : s_j' )_{j=1… k} + (E[Γ_I ;Γ_P ] ⊢ C_i : s_{q_i} )_{i=1… n} + ------------------------------------------ + \WF{E;\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}}{Γ} + + +provided that the following side conditions hold: + + + :math:`k>0` and all of :math:`I_j` and :math:`c_i` are distinct names for :math:`j=1… k` and :math:`i=1… n`, + + :math:`p` is the number of parameters of :math:`\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` and :math:`Γ_P` is the + context of parameters, + + for :math:`j=1… k` we have that :math:`A_j` is an arity of sort :math:`s_j` and :math:`I_j ∉ E`, + + for :math:`i=1… n` we have that :math:`C_i` is a type of constructor of :math:`I_{q_i}` which + satisfies the positivity condition for :math:`I_1 … I_k` and :math:`c_i ∉ Γ ∪ E`. + +One can remark that there is a constraint between the sort of the +arity of the inductive type and the sort of the type of its +constructors which will always be satisfied for the impredicative +sortProp but may fail to define inductive definition on sort Set and +generate constraints between universes for inductive definitions in +the Type hierarchy. + + +**Examples**. It is well known that the existential quantifier can be encoded as an +inductive definition. The following declaration introduces the second- +order existential quantifier :math:`∃ X.P(X)`. + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: in + + Inductive exProp (P:Prop->Prop) : Prop := + | exP_intro : forall X:Prop, P X -> exProp P. + +The same definition on Set is not allowed and fails: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Fail Inductive exSet (P:Set->Prop) : Set := + exS_intro : forall X:Set, P X -> exSet P. + +It is possible to declare the same inductive definition in the +universe Type. The exType inductive definition has type +:math:`(\Type(i)→\Prop)→\Type(j)` with the constraint that the parameter :math:`X` of :math:`\kw{exT_intro}` +has type :math:`\Type(k)` with :math:`k<j` and :math:`k≤ i`. + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Inductive exType (P:Type->Prop) : Type := + exT_intro : forall X:Type, P X -> exType P. + + + +.. _Template-polymorphism: + +**Template polymorphism.** +Inductive types declared in Type are polymorphic over their arguments +in Type. If :math:`A` is an arity of some sort and s is a sort, we write :math:`A_{/s}` +for the arity obtained from :math:`A` by replacing its sort with s. +Especially, if :math:`A` is well-typed in some global environment and local +context, then :math:`A_{/s}` is typable by typability of all products in the +Calculus of Inductive Constructions. The following typing rule is +added to the theory. + +Let :math:`\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` be an inductive definition. Let +:math:`Γ_P = [p_1 :P_1 ;…;p_p :P_p ]` be its context of parameters, +:math:`Γ_I = [I_1:∀ Γ_P ,A_1 ;…;I_k :∀ Γ_P ,A_k ]` its context of definitions and +:math:`Γ_C = [c_1 :∀ Γ_P ,C_1 ;…;c_n :∀ Γ_P ,C_n]` its context of constructors, +with :math:`c_i` a constructor of :math:`I_{q_i}`. Let :math:`m ≤ p` be the length of the +longest prefix of parameters such that the :math:`m` first arguments of all +occurrences of all :math:`I_j` in all :math:`C_k` (even the occurrences in the +hypotheses of :math:`C_k`) are exactly applied to :math:`p_1 … p_m` (:math:`m` is the number +of *recursively uniform parameters* and the :math:`p−m` remaining parameters +are the *recursively non-uniform parameters*). Let :math:`q_1 , …, q_r` , with +:math:`0≤ r≤ m`, be a (possibly) partial instantiation of the recursively +uniform parameters of :math:`Γ_P` . We have: + +.. inference:: Ind-Family + + \left\{\begin{array}{l} + \ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C} \in E\\ + (E[] ⊢ q_l : P'_l)_{l=1\ldots r}\\ + (E[] ⊢ P'_l ≤_{βδιζη} \subst{P_l}{p_u}{q_u}_{u=1\ldots l-1})_{l=1\ldots r}\\ + 1 \leq j \leq k + \end{array} + \right. + ----------------------------- + E[] ⊢ I_j~q_1 … q_r :∀ [p_{r+1} :P_{r+1} ;…;p_p :P_p], (A_j)_{/s_j} + +provided that the following side conditions hold: + + + :math:`Γ_{P′}` is the context obtained from :math:`Γ_P` by replacing each :math:`P_l` that is + an arity with :math:`P_l'` for :math:`1≤ l ≤ r` (notice that :math:`P_l` arity implies :math:`P_l'` + arity since :math:`(E[] ⊢ P_l' ≤_{βδιζη} \subst{P_l}{p_u}{q_u}_{u=1\ldots l-1} )`; + + there are sorts :math:`s_i` , for :math:`1 ≤ i ≤ k` such that, for + :math:`Γ_{I'} = [I_1 :∀ Γ_{P'} ,(A_1)_{/s_1} ;…;I_k :∀ Γ_{P'} ,(A_k)_{/s_k}]` + we have :math:`(E[Γ_{I′} ;Γ_{P′}] ⊢ C_i : s_{q_i})_{i=1… n}` ; + + the sorts :math:`s_i` are such that all eliminations, to + :math:`\Prop`, :math:`\Set` and :math:`\Type(j)`, are allowed + (see Section Destructors_). + + + +Notice that if :math:`I_j~q_1 … q_r` is typable using the rules **Ind-Const** and +**App**, then it is typable using the rule **Ind-Family**. Conversely, the +extended theory is not stronger than the theory without **Ind-Family**. We +get an equiconsistency result by mapping each :math:`\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` +occurring into a given derivation into as many different inductive +types and constructors as the number of different (partial) +replacements of sorts, needed for this derivation, in the parameters +that are arities (this is possible because :math:`\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` well-formed +implies that :math:`\ind{p}{Γ_{I'}}{Γ_{C'}}` is well-formed and has the +same allowed eliminations, where :math:`Γ_{I′}` is defined as above and +:math:`Γ_{C′} = [c_1 :∀ Γ_{P′} ,C_1 ;…;c_n :∀ Γ_{P′} ,C_n ]`). That is, the changes in the +types of each partial instance :math:`q_1 … q_r` can be characterized by the +ordered sets of arity sorts among the types of parameters, and to each +signature is associated a new inductive definition with fresh names. +Conversion is preserved as any (partial) instance :math:`I_j~q_1 … q_r` or +:math:`C_i~q_1 … q_r` is mapped to the names chosen in the specific instance of +:math:`\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}`. + +In practice, the rule **Ind-Family** is used by |Coq| only when all the +inductive types of the inductive definition are declared with an arity +whose sort is in the Type hierarchy. Then, the polymorphism is over +the parameters whose type is an arity of sort in the Type hierarchy. +The sorts :math:`s_j` are chosen canonically so that each :math:`s_j` is minimal with +respect to the hierarchy :math:`\Prop ⊂ \Set_p ⊂ \Type` where :math:`\Set_p` is predicative +:math:`\Set`. More precisely, an empty or small singleton inductive definition +(i.e. an inductive definition of which all inductive types are +singleton – see paragraph Destructors_) is set in :math:`\Prop`, a small non-singleton +inductive type is set in :math:`\Set` (even in case :math:`\Set` is impredicative – see +Section The-Calculus-of-Inductive-Construction-with-impredicative-Set_), +and otherwise in the Type hierarchy. + +Note that the side-condition about allowed elimination sorts in the +rule **Ind-Family** is just to avoid to recompute the allowed elimination +sorts at each instance of a pattern-matching (see section Destructors_). As +an example, let us consider the following definition: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: in + + Inductive option (A:Type) : Type := + | None : option A + | Some : A -> option A. + +As the definition is set in the Type hierarchy, it is used +polymorphically over its parameters whose types are arities of a sort +in the Type hierarchy. Here, the parameter :math:`A` has this property, hence, +if :g:`option` is applied to a type in :math:`\Set`, the result is in :math:`\Set`. Note that +if :g:`option` is applied to a type in :math:`\Prop`, then, the result is not set in +:math:`\Prop` but in :math:`\Set` still. This is because :g:`option` is not a singleton type +(see section Destructors_) and it would lose the elimination to :math:`\Set` and :math:`\Type` +if set in :math:`\Prop`. + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Check (fun A:Set => option A). + Check (fun A:Prop => option A). + +Here is another example. + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: in + + Inductive prod (A B:Type) : Type := pair : A -> B -> prod A B. + +As :g:`prod` is a singleton type, it will be in :math:`\Prop` if applied twice to +propositions, in :math:`\Set` if applied twice to at least one type in :math:`\Set` and +none in :math:`\Type`, and in :math:`\Type` otherwise. In all cases, the three kind of +eliminations schemes are allowed. + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Check (fun A:Set => prod A). + Check (fun A:Prop => prod A A). + Check (fun (A:Prop) (B:Set) => prod A B). + Check (fun (A:Type) (B:Prop) => prod A B). + +Remark: Template polymorphism used to be called “sort-polymorphism of +inductive types” before universe polymorphism (see Chapter :ref:`polymorphicuniverses`) was +introduced. + + +.. _Destructors: + +Destructors +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The specification of inductive definitions with arities and +constructors is quite natural. But we still have to say how to use an +object in an inductive type. + +This problem is rather delicate. There are actually several different +ways to do that. Some of them are logically equivalent but not always +equivalent from the computational point of view or from the user point +of view. + +From the computational point of view, we want to be able to define a +function whose domain is an inductively defined type by using a +combination of case analysis over the possible constructors of the +object and recursion. + +Because we need to keep a consistent theory and also we prefer to keep +a strongly normalizing reduction, we cannot accept any sort of +recursion (even terminating). So the basic idea is to restrict +ourselves to primitive recursive functions and functionals. + +For instance, assuming a parameter :g:`A:Set` exists in the local context, +we want to build a function length of type :g:`list A -> nat` which computes +the length of the list, so such that :g:`(length (nil A)) = O` and :g:`(length +(cons A a l)) = (S (length l))`. We want these equalities to be +recognized implicitly and taken into account in the conversion rule. + +From the logical point of view, we have built a type family by giving +a set of constructors. We want to capture the fact that we do not have +any other way to build an object in this type. So when trying to prove +a property about an object :math:`m` in an inductive definition it is enough +to enumerate all the cases where :math:`m` starts with a different +constructor. + +In case the inductive definition is effectively a recursive one, we +want to capture the extra property that we have built the smallest +fixed point of this recursive equation. This says that we are only +manipulating finite objects. This analysis provides induction +principles. For instance, in order to prove :g:`∀ l:list A,(has_length A l +(length l))` it is enough to prove: + + ++ :g:`(has_length A (nil A) (length (nil A)))` ++ :g:`∀ a:A, ∀ l:list A, (has_length A l (length l)) →` + :g:`(has_length A (cons A a l) (length (cons A a l)))` + + +which given the conversion equalities satisfied by length is the same +as proving: + + ++ :g:`(has_length A (nil A) O)` ++ :g:`∀ a:A, ∀ l:list A, (has_length A l (length l)) →` + :g:`(has_length A (cons A a l) (S (length l)))` + + +One conceptually simple way to do that, following the basic scheme +proposed by Martin-Löf in his Intuitionistic Type Theory, is to +introduce for each inductive definition an elimination operator. At +the logical level it is a proof of the usual induction principle and +at the computational level it implements a generic operator for doing +primitive recursion over the structure. + +But this operator is rather tedious to implement and use. We choose in +this version of |Coq| to factorize the operator for primitive recursion +into two more primitive operations as was first suggested by Th. +Coquand in :cite:`Coq92`. One is the definition by pattern-matching. The +second one is a definition by guarded fixpoints. + + +.. _The-match…with-end-construction: + +**The match…with …end construction** +The basic idea of this operator is that we have an object :math:`m` in an +inductive type :math:`I` and we want to prove a property which possibly +depends on :math:`m`. For this, it is enough to prove the property for +:math:`m = (c_i~u_1 … u_{p_i} )` for each constructor of :math:`I`. +The |Coq| term for this proof +will be written: + +.. math:: + \Match~m~\with~(c_1~x_{11} ... x_{1p_1} ) ⇒ f_1 | … | (c_n~x_{n1} ... x_{np_n} ) ⇒ f_n \endkw + +In this expression, if :math:`m` eventually happens to evaluate to +:math:`(c_i~u_1 … u_{p_i})` then the expression will behave as specified in its :math:`i`-th branch +and it will reduce to :math:`f_i` where the :math:`x_{i1} …x_{ip_i}` are replaced by the +:math:`u_1 … u_{p_i}` according to the ι-reduction. + +Actually, for type-checking a :math:`\Match…\with…\endkw` expression we also need +to know the predicate P to be proved by case analysis. In the general +case where :math:`I` is an inductively defined :math:`n`-ary relation, :math:`P` is a predicate +over :math:`n+1` arguments: the :math:`n` first ones correspond to the arguments of :math:`I` +(parameters excluded), and the last one corresponds to object :math:`m`. |Coq| +can sometimes infer this predicate but sometimes not. The concrete +syntax for describing this predicate uses the :math:`\as…\In…\return` +construction. For instance, let us assume that :math:`I` is an unary predicate +with one parameter and one argument. The predicate is made explicit +using the syntax: + +.. math:: + \Match~m~\as~x~\In~I~\_~a~\return~P~\with~ + (c_1~x_{11} ... x_{1p_1} ) ⇒ f_1 | … + | (c_n~x_{n1} ... x_{np_n} ) ⇒ f_n~\endkw + +The :math:`\as` part can be omitted if either the result type does not depend +on :math:`m` (non-dependent elimination) or :math:`m` is a variable (in this case, :math:`m` +can occur in :math:`P` where it is considered a bound variable). The :math:`\In` part +can be omitted if the result type does not depend on the arguments +of :math:`I`. Note that the arguments of :math:`I` corresponding to parameters *must* +be :math:`\_`, because the result type is not generalized to all possible +values of the parameters. The other arguments of :math:`I` (sometimes called +indices in the literature) have to be variables (:math:`a` above) and these +variables can occur in :math:`P`. The expression after :math:`\In` must be seen as an +*inductive type pattern*. Notice that expansion of implicit arguments +and notations apply to this pattern. For the purpose of presenting the +inference rules, we use a more compact notation: + +.. math:: + \case(m,(λ a x . P), λ x_{11} ... x_{1p_1} . f_1~| … |~λ x_{n1} ...x_{np_n} . f_n ) + + +.. _Allowed-elimination-sorts: + +**Allowed elimination sorts.** An important question for building the typing rule for match is what +can be the type of :math:`λ a x . P` with respect to the type of :math:`m`. If :math:`m:I` +and :math:`I:A` and :math:`λ a x . P : B` then by :math:`[I:A|B]` we mean that one can use +:math:`λ a x . P` with :math:`m` in the above match-construct. + + +.. _Notations: + +**Notations.** The :math:`[I:A|B]` is defined as the smallest relation satisfying the +following rules: We write :math:`[I|B]` for :math:`[I:A|B]` where :math:`A` is the type of :math:`I`. + +The case of inductive definitions in sorts :math:`\Set` or :math:`\Type` is simple. +There is no restriction on the sort of the predicate to be eliminated. + +.. inference:: Prod + + [(I~x):A′|B′] + ----------------------- + [I:∀ x:A, A′|∀ x:A, B′] + + +.. inference:: Set & Type + + s_1 ∈ \{\Set,\Type(j)\} + s_2 ∈ \Sort + ---------------- + [I:s_1 |I→ s_2 ] + + +The case of Inductive definitions of sort :math:`\Prop` is a bit more +complicated, because of our interpretation of this sort. The only +harmless allowed elimination, is the one when predicate :math:`P` is also of +sort :math:`\Prop`. + +.. inference:: Prop + + ~ + --------------- + [I:Prop|I→Prop] + + +:math:`\Prop` is the type of logical propositions, the proofs of properties :math:`P` in +:math:`\Prop` could not be used for computation and are consequently ignored by +the extraction mechanism. Assume :math:`A` and :math:`B` are two propositions, and the +logical disjunction :math:`A ∨ B` is defined inductively by: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: in + + Inductive or (A B:Prop) : Prop := + or_introl : A -> or A B | or_intror : B -> or A B. + + +The following definition which computes a boolean value by case over +the proof of :g:`or A B` is not accepted: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Fail Definition choice (A B: Prop) (x:or A B) := + match x with or_introl _ _ a => true | or_intror _ _ b => false end. + +From the computational point of view, the structure of the proof of +:g:`(or A B)` in this term is needed for computing the boolean value. + +In general, if :math:`I` has type :math:`\Prop` then :math:`P` cannot have type :math:`I→Set,` because +it will mean to build an informative proof of type :math:`(P~m)` doing a case +analysis over a non-computational object that will disappear in the +extracted program. But the other way is safe with respect to our +interpretation we can have :math:`I` a computational object and :math:`P` a +non-computational one, it just corresponds to proving a logical property +of a computational object. + +In the same spirit, elimination on :math:`P` of type :math:`I→Type` cannot be allowed +because it trivially implies the elimination on :math:`P` of type :math:`I→ Set` by +cumulativity. It also implies that there are two proofs of the same +property which are provably different, contradicting the proof- +irrelevance property which is sometimes a useful axiom: + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Axiom proof_irrelevance : forall (P : Prop) (x y : P), x=y. + +The elimination of an inductive definition of type :math:`\Prop` on a predicate +:math:`P` of type :math:`I→ Type` leads to a paradox when applied to impredicative +inductive definition like the second-order existential quantifier +:g:`exProp` defined above, because it give access to the two projections on +this type. + + +.. _Empty-and-singleton-elimination: + +**Empty and singleton elimination.** There are special inductive definitions in +:math:`\Prop` for which more eliminations are allowed. + +.. inference:: Prop-extended + + I~\kw{is an empty or singleton definition} + s ∈ \Sort + ------------------------------------- + [I:Prop|I→ s] + +A *singleton definition* has only one constructor and all the +arguments of this constructor have type Prop. In that case, there is a +canonical way to interpret the informative extraction on an object in +that type, such that the elimination on any sort :math:`s` is legal. Typical +examples are the conjunction of non-informative propositions and the +equality. If there is an hypothesis :math:`h:a=b` in the local context, it can +be used for rewriting not only in logical propositions but also in any +type. + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Print eq_rec. + Require Extraction. + Extraction eq_rec. + +An empty definition has no constructors, in that case also, +elimination on any sort is allowed. + + +.. _Type-of-branches: + +**Type of branches.** +Let :math:`c` be a term of type :math:`C`, we assume :math:`C` is a type of constructor for an +inductive type :math:`I`. Let :math:`P` be a term that represents the property to be +proved. We assume :math:`r` is the number of parameters and :math:`p` is the number of +arguments. + +We define a new type :math:`\{c:C\}^P` which represents the type of the branch +corresponding to the :math:`c:C` constructor. + +.. math:: + \begin{array}{ll} + \{c:(I~p_1\ldots p_r\ t_1 \ldots t_p)\}^P &\equiv (P~t_1\ldots ~t_p~c) \\ + \{c:\forall~x:T,C\}^P &\equiv \forall~x:T,\{(c~x):C\}^P + \end{array} + +We write :math:`\{c\}^P` for :math:`\{c:C\}^P` with :math:`C` the type of :math:`c`. + + +**Example.** +The following term in concrete syntax:: + + match t as l return P' with + | nil _ => t1 + | cons _ hd tl => t2 + end + + +can be represented in abstract syntax as + +.. math:: + \case(t,P,f 1 | f 2 ) + +where + +.. math:: + \begin{eqnarray*} + P & = & \lambda~l~.~P^\prime\\ + f_1 & = & t_1\\ + f_2 & = & \lambda~(hd:\nat)~.~\lambda~(tl:\List~\nat)~.~t_2 + \end{eqnarray*} + +According to the definition: + +.. math:: + \{(\kw{nil}~\nat)\}^P ≡ \{(\kw{nil}~\nat) : (\List~\nat)\}^P ≡ (P~(\kw{nil}~\nat)) + +.. math:: + + \begin{array}{rl} + \{(\kw{cons}~\nat)\}^P & ≡\{(\kw{cons}~\nat) : (\nat→\List~\nat→\List~\nat)\}^P \\ + & ≡∀ n:\nat, \{(\kw{cons}~\nat~n) : \List~\nat→\List~\nat)\}^P \\ + & ≡∀ n:\nat, ∀ l:\List~\nat, \{(\kw{cons}~\nat~n~l) : \List~\nat)\}^P \\ + & ≡∀ n:\nat, ∀ l:\List~\nat,(P~(\kw{cons}~\nat~n~l)). + \end{array} + +Given some :math:`P` then :math:`\{(\kw{nil}~\nat)\}^P` represents the expected type of :math:`f_1` , +and :math:`\{(\kw{cons}~\nat)\}^P` represents the expected type of :math:`f_2`. + + +.. _Typing-rule: + +**Typing rule.** +Our very general destructor for inductive definition enjoys the +following typing rule + +.. inference:: match + + \begin{array}{l} + E[Γ] ⊢ c : (I~q_1 … q_r~t_1 … t_s ) \\ + E[Γ] ⊢ P : B \\ + [(I~q_1 … q_r)|B] \\ + (E[Γ] ⊢ f_i : \{(c_{p_i}~q_1 … q_r)\}^P)_{i=1… l} + \end{array} + ------------------------------------------------ + E[Γ] ⊢ \case(c,P,f_1 |… |f_l ) : (P~t_1 … t_s~c) + +provided :math:`I` is an inductive type in a +definition :math:`\ind{r}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` with :math:`Γ_C = [c_1 :C_1 ;…;c_n :C_n ]` and +:math:`c_{p_1} … c_{p_l}` are the only constructors of :math:`I`. + + + +**Example.** +Below is a typing rule for the term shown in the previous example: + +.. inference:: list example + + \begin{array}{l} + E[Γ] ⊢ t : (\List ~\nat) \\ + E[Γ] ⊢ P : B \\ + [(\List ~\nat)|B] \\ + E[Γ] ⊢ f_1 : {(\kw{nil} ~\nat)}^P \\ + E[Γ] ⊢ f_2 : {(\kw{cons} ~\nat)}^P + \end{array} + ------------------------------------------------ + E[Γ] ⊢ \case(t,P,f_1 |f_2 ) : (P~t) + + +.. _Definition-of-ι-reduction: + +**Definition of ι-reduction.** +We still have to define the ι-reduction in the general case. + +An ι-redex is a term of the following form: + +.. math:: + \case((c_{p_i}~q_1 … q_r~a_1 … a_m ),P,f_1 |… |f_l ) + +with :math:`c_{p_i}` the :math:`i`-th constructor of the inductive type :math:`I` with :math:`r` +parameters. + +The ι-contraction of this term is :math:`(f_i~a_1 … a_m )` leading to the +general reduction rule: + +.. math:: + \case((c_{p_i}~q_1 … q_r~a_1 … a_m ),P,f_1 |… |f_n ) \triangleright_ι (f_i~a_1 … a_m ) + + +.. _Fixpoint-definitions: + +Fixpoint definitions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The second operator for elimination is fixpoint definition. This +fixpoint may involve several mutually recursive definitions. The basic +concrete syntax for a recursive set of mutually recursive declarations +is (with :math:`Γ_i` contexts): + +.. math:: + \fix~f_1 (Γ_1 ) :A_1 :=t_1 \with … \with~f_n (Γ_n ) :A_n :=t_n + + +The terms are obtained by projections from this set of declarations +and are written + +.. math:: + \fix~f_1 (Γ_1 ) :A_1 :=t_1 \with … \with~f_n (Γ_n ) :A_n :=t_n \for~f_i + +In the inference rules, we represent such a term by + +.. math:: + \Fix~f_i\{f_1 :A_1':=t_1' … f_n :A_n':=t_n'\} + +with :math:`t_i'` (resp. :math:`A_i'`) representing the term :math:`t_i` abstracted (resp. +generalized) with respect to the bindings in the context Γ_i , namely +:math:`t_i'=λ Γ_i . t_i` and :math:`A_i'=∀ Γ_i , A_i`. + + +Typing rule ++++++++++++ + +The typing rule is the expected one for a fixpoint. + +.. inference:: Fix + + (E[Γ] ⊢ A_i : s_i )_{i=1… n} + (E[Γ,f_1 :A_1 ,…,f_n :A_n ] ⊢ t_i : A_i )_{i=1… n} + ------------------------------------------------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ \Fix~f_i\{f_1 :A_1 :=t_1 … f_n :A_n :=t_n \} : A_i + + +Any fixpoint definition cannot be accepted because non-normalizing +terms allow proofs of absurdity. The basic scheme of recursion that +should be allowed is the one needed for defining primitive recursive +functionals. In that case the fixpoint enjoys a special syntactic +restriction, namely one of the arguments belongs to an inductive type, +the function starts with a case analysis and recursive calls are done +on variables coming from patterns and representing subterms. For +instance in the case of natural numbers, a proof of the induction +principle of type + +.. math:: + ∀ P:\nat→\Prop, (P~O)→(∀ n:\nat, (P~n)→(P~(\kw{S}~n)))→ ∀ n:\nat, (P~n) + +can be represented by the term: + +.. math:: + \begin{array}{l} + λ P:\nat→\Prop. λ f:(P~O). λ g:(∀ n:\nat, (P~n)→(P~(S~n))).\\ + \Fix~h\{h:∀ n:\nat, (P~n):=λ n:\nat. \case(n,P,f | λp:\nat. (g~p~(h~p)))\} + \end{array} + +Before accepting a fixpoint definition as being correctly typed, we +check that the definition is “guarded”. A precise analysis of this +notion can be found in :cite:`Gim94`. The first stage is to precise on which +argument the fixpoint will be decreasing. The type of this argument +should be an inductive definition. For doing this, the syntax of +fixpoints is extended and becomes + +.. math:: + \Fix~f_i\{f_1/k_1 :A_1':=t_1' … f_n/k_n :A_n':=t_n'\} + + +where :math:`k_i` are positive integers. Each :math:`k_i` represents the index of +parameter of :math:`f_i` , on which :math:`f_i` is decreasing. Each :math:`A_i` should be a +type (reducible to a term) starting with at least :math:`k_i` products +:math:`∀ y_1 :B_1 ,… ∀ y_{k_i} :B_{k_i} , A_i'` and :math:`B_{k_i}` an inductive type. + +Now in the definition :math:`t_i`, if :math:`f_j` occurs then it should be applied to +at least :math:`k_j` arguments and the :math:`k_j`-th argument should be +syntactically recognized as structurally smaller than :math:`y_{k_i}`. + +The definition of being structurally smaller is a bit technical. One +needs first to define the notion of *recursive arguments of a +constructor*. For an inductive definition :math:`\ind{r}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}`, if the +type of a constructor :math:`c` has the form +:math:`∀ p_1 :P_1 ,… ∀ p_r :P_r, ∀ x_1:T_1, … ∀ x_r :T_r, (I_j~p_1 … p_r~t_1 … t_s )`, +then the recursive +arguments will correspond to :math:`T_i` in which one of the :math:`I_l` occurs. + +The main rules for being structurally smaller are the following. +Given a variable :math:`y` of type an inductive definition in a declaration +:math:`\ind{r}{Γ_I}{Γ_C}` where :math:`Γ_I` is :math:`[I_1 :A_1 ;…;I_k :A_k]`, and :math:`Γ_C` is +:math:`[c_1 :C_1 ;…;c_n :C_n ]`, the terms structurally smaller than :math:`y` are: + + ++ :math:`(t~u)` and :math:`λ x:u . t` when :math:`t` is structurally smaller than :math:`y`. ++ :math:`\case(c,P,f_1 … f_n)` when each :math:`f_i` is structurally smaller than :math:`y`. + If :math:`c` is :math:`y` or is structurally smaller than :math:`y`, its type is an inductive + definition :math:`I_p` part of the inductive declaration corresponding to :math:`y`. + Each :math:`f_i` corresponds to a type of constructor + :math:`C_q ≡ ∀ p_1 :P_1 ,…,∀ p_r :P_r , ∀ y_1 :B_1 , … ∀ y_k :B_k , (I~a_1 … a_k )` + and can consequently be written :math:`λ y_1 :B_1' . … λ y_k :B_k'. g_i`. (:math:`B_i'` is + obtained from :math:`B_i` by substituting parameters variables) the variables + :math:`y_j` occurring in :math:`g_i` corresponding to recursive arguments :math:`B_i` (the + ones in which one of the :math:`I_l` occurs) are structurally smaller than y. + + +The following definitions are correct, we enter them using the ``Fixpoint`` +command as described in Section :ref:`TODO-1.3.4` and show the internal +representation. + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Fixpoint plus (n m:nat) {struct n} : nat := + match n with + | O => m + | S p => S (plus p m) + end. + + Print plus. + Fixpoint lgth (A:Set) (l:list A) {struct l} : nat := + match l with + | nil _ => O + | cons _ a l' => S (lgth A l') + end. + Print lgth. + Fixpoint sizet (t:tree) : nat := let (f) := t in S (sizef f) + with sizef (f:forest) : nat := + match f with + | emptyf => O + | consf t f => plus (sizet t) (sizef f) + end. + Print sizet. + +.. _Reduction-rule: + +Reduction rule +++++++++++++++ + +Let :math:`F` be the set of declarations: +:math:`f_1 /k_1 :A_1 :=t_1 …f_n /k_n :A_n:=t_n`. +The reduction for fixpoints is: + +.. math:: + (\Fix~f_i \{F\} a_1 …a_{k_i}) \triangleright_ι \subst{t_i}{f_k}{\Fix~f_k \{F\}}_{k=1… n} ~a_1 … a_{k_i} + +when :math:`a_{k_i}` starts with a constructor. This last restriction is needed +in order to keep strong normalization and corresponds to the reduction +for primitive recursive operators. The following reductions are now +possible: + +.. math:: + \def\plus{\mathsf{plus}} + \def\tri{\triangleright_\iota} + \begin{eqnarray*} + \plus~(\nS~(\nS~\nO))~(\nS~\nO) & \tri & \nS~(\plus~(\nS~\nO)~(\nS~\nO))\\ + & \tri & \nS~(\nS~(\plus~\nO~(\nS~\nO)))\\ + & \tri & \nS~(\nS~(\nS~\nO))\\ + \end{eqnarray*} + +.. _Mutual-induction: + +**Mutual induction** + +The principles of mutual induction can be automatically generated +using the Scheme command described in Section :ref:`TODO-13.1`. + + +.. _Admissible-rules-for-global-environments: + +Admissible rules for global environments +-------------------------------------------- + +From the original rules of the type system, one can show the +admissibility of rules which change the local context of definition of +objects in the global environment. We show here the admissible rules +that are used in the discharge mechanism at the end of a section. + + +.. _Abstraction: + +**Abstraction.** +One can modify a global declaration by generalizing it over a +previously assumed constant :math:`c`. For doing that, we need to modify the +reference to the global declaration in the subsequent global +environment and local context by explicitly applying this constant to +the constant :math:`c'`. + +Below, if :math:`Γ` is a context of the form :math:`[y_1 :A_1 ;…;y_n :A_n]`, we write +:math:`∀x:U,\subst{Γ}{c}{x}` to mean +:math:`[y_1 :∀ x:U,\subst{A_1}{c}{x};…;y_n :∀ x:U,\subst{A_n}{c}{x}]` +and :math:`\subst{E}{|Γ|}{|Γ|c}` to mean the parallel substitution +:math:`E\{y_1 /(y_1~c)\}…\{y_n/(y_n~c)\}`. + + +.. _First-abstracting-property: + +**First abstracting property:** + +.. math:: + \frac{\WF{E;c:U;E′;c′:=t:T;E″}{Γ}} + {\WF{E;c:U;E′;c′:=λ x:U. \subst{t}{c}{x}:∀x:U,\subst{T}{c}{x};\subst{E″}{c′}{(c′~c)}} + {\subst{Γ}{c}{(c~c′)}}} + + +.. math:: + \frac{\WF{E;c:U;E′;c′:T;E″}{Γ}} + {\WF{E;c:U;E′;c′:∀ x:U,\subst{T}{c}{x};\subst{E″}{c′}{(c′~c)}}{Γ{c/(c~c′)}}} + +.. math:: + \frac{\WF{E;c:U;E′;\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C};E″}{Γ}} + {\WFTWOLINES{E;c:U;E′;\ind{p+1}{∀ x:U,\subst{Γ_I}{c}{x}}{∀ x:U,\subst{Γ_C}{c}{x}}; + \subst{E″}{|Γ_I ,Γ_C |}{|Γ_I ,Γ_C | c}} + {\subst{Γ}{|Γ_I ,Γ_C|}{|Γ_I ,Γ_C | c}}} + +One can similarly modify a global declaration by generalizing it over +a previously defined constant :math:`c′`. Below, if :math:`Γ` is a context of the form +:math:`[y_1 :A_1 ;…;y_n :A_n]`, we write :math:`\subst{Γ}{c}{u}` to mean +:math:`[y_1 :\subst{A_1} {c}{u};…;y_n:\subst{A_n} {c}{u}]`. + + +.. _Second-abstracting-property: + +**Second abstracting property:** + +.. math:: + \frac{\WF{E;c:=u:U;E′;c′:=t:T;E″}{Γ}} + {\WF{E;c:=u:U;E′;c′:=(\letin{x}{u:U}{\subst{t}{c}{x}}):\subst{T}{c}{u};E″}{Γ}} + +.. math:: + \frac{\WF{E;c:=u:U;E′;c′:T;E″}{Γ}} + {\WF{E;c:=u:U;E′;c′:\subst{T}{c}{u};E″}{Γ}} + +.. math:: + \frac{\WF{E;c:=u:U;E′;\ind{p}{Γ_I}{Γ_C};E″}{Γ}} + {\WF{E;c:=u:U;E′;\ind{p}{\subst{Γ_I}{c}{u}}{\subst{Γ_C}{c}{u}};E″}{Γ}} + +.. _Pruning-the-local-context: + +**Pruning the local context.** +If one abstracts or substitutes constants with the above rules then it +may happen that some declared or defined constant does not occur any +more in the subsequent global environment and in the local context. +One can consequently derive the following property. + + +.. _First-pruning-property: + +.. inference:: First pruning property: + + \WF{E;c:U;E′}{Γ} + c~\kw{does not occur in}~E′~\kw{and}~Γ + -------------------------------------- + \WF{E;E′}{Γ} + + +.. _Second-pruning-property: + +.. inference:: Second pruning property: + + \WF{E;c:=u:U;E′}{Γ} + c~\kw{does not occur in}~E′~\kw{and}~Γ + -------------------------------------- + \WF{E;E′}{Γ} + + +.. _Co-inductive-types: + +Co-inductive types +---------------------- + +The implementation contains also co-inductive definitions, which are +types inhabited by infinite objects. More information on co-inductive +definitions can be found in :cite:`Gimenez95b,Gim98,GimCas05`. + + +.. _The-Calculus-of-Inductive-Construction-with-impredicative-Set: + +The Calculus of Inductive Construction with impredicative Set +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +|Coq| can be used as a type-checker for the Calculus of Inductive +Constructions with an impredicative sort :math:`\Set` by using the compiler +option ``-impredicative-set``. For example, using the ordinary `coqtop` +command, the following is rejected, + +.. example:: + .. coqtop:: all + + Fail Definition id: Set := forall X:Set,X->X. + +while it will type-check, if one uses instead the `coqtop` +``-impredicative-set`` option.. + +The major change in the theory concerns the rule for product formation +in the sort Set, which is extended to a domain in any sort: + +.. inference:: ProdImp + + E[Γ] ⊢ T : s + s ∈ {\Sort} + E[Γ::(x:T)] ⊢ U : Set + --------------------- + E[Γ] ⊢ ∀ x:T,U : Set + +This extension has consequences on the inductive definitions which are +allowed. In the impredicative system, one can build so-called *large +inductive definitions* like the example of second-order existential +quantifier (exSet). + +There should be restrictions on the eliminations which can be +performed on such definitions. The eliminations rules in the +impredicative system for sort Set become: + + + +.. inference:: Set1 + + s ∈ \{Prop, Set\} + ----------------- + [I:Set|I→ s] + +.. inference:: Set2 + + I~\kw{is a small inductive definition} + s ∈ \{\Type(i)\} + ---------------- + [I:Set|I→ s] + + |