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I) Implicit Arguments
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1) Strict Implicit Arguments 

  "Set Implicit Arguments" changes its meaning in v8: the default is
to turn implicit only the arguments that are _strictly_ implicit (or
rigid), i.e. that remains inferable whatever the other arguments
are. E.g "x" inferable from "P x" is not strictly inferable since it
can disappears if "P" is instanciated by a term which erase "x".

  If you really wish to keep the old meaning of "Set Implicit
Arguments", you have to replace every occurrence of it by

  Set Implicit Arguments.
  Unset Strict Implicits.

  Warning: Changing the number of implicit arguments can break the notations.
Then use the V8only modifier of Notations.

2) Implicit Arguments in standard library

  Main definitions of standard library have now implicit
arguments. These arguments are dropped in the translated files. This
can exceptionally be a source of incompatibilities which has to be
solved by hand.

II) Notations
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  Grammar (on constr) and Syntax are no longer supported. Replace them by
Notation before translation.

  Precedence levels are now from 0 to 250. Typical level are:

  /\ : 60
  \/ : 70
  <-> : 80
  ~ : 50
  =, <=, >=, <> : 50
  +, - : 40
  *, / : 30

  The new scale can induce incompatibilities. To set the level an
operator should have after translation, use the V8only modifier of
Infix or Notation in the v7 file, as e.g.:

   Infix 6 "<=" le  V8only 50.
   Notation "( x , y )" := (pair ? ? x y)  V8only "x , y" (at level 0).
   Infix 3 "*" mult : nat_scope  V8only (left associativity).

  The default for precedence is to multiply the level by 10. Notice
that you can change not only the precedence but also the
associativity and the syntax itself.

III) Main examples for new syntax
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1) Constructions

  Applicative terms don't any longer require to be surrounded by parentheses as
e.g in

  "x = f y -> S x = S (f y)"


  Product is written

     "forall x y : T, U"
     "forall x y, U"
     "forall (x y : T) z (v w : V), U"
     etc.

  Abstraction is written

     "fun x y : T, U"
     "fun x y, U"
     "fun (x y : T) z (v w : V), U"
     etc.

  Pattern-matching is written

     "match x with c1 x1 x2 => t | c2 y as z => u end"
     "match v1, v2 with c1 x1 x2, _ => t | c2 y, d z => u end"
     "match v1 as y in le _ n, v2 as z in I p q return P n y p q z with
         c1 x1 x2, _ => t | c2 y, d z => u end"

     The last example is the new form of what was written

    "<[n;y:(le ? n);p;q;z:(I p q)](P n y p q z)>Cases v1 v2 of
         (c1 x1 x2) _ => t | (c2 y) (d z) => u end"

  Pattern-matching of type with one constructors and no dependencies
of the arguments in the resulting type can be written

    "let (x,y,z) as u return P u := t in v"
     
  Local fixpoints are written

    "Fix f (n m:nat) z (x : X) {struct m} : nat := ...
     with ..."

    and "struct" tells which argument is structurally decreasing.

  Explicitation of implicit arguments is written

     "f @1:=u v @3:=w t"
     "@f u v w t"

2) Tactics

  The main change is that tactics names are now lowercase. Besides
this, the following renaming are applied:

  "NewDestruct" -> "destruct"
  "NewInduction" -> "induction"
  "Induction" -> "oldinduction"
  "Destruct" -> "olddestruct"

  For tactics with occurrences, the occurrences now comes after and
  repeated uses is separated by coma as in

  "Pattern 1 3 c d 4 e" -> "pattern c 3 1, d, e 4"
  "Unfold 1 3 f 4 g" -> "unfold f 1 3, g 4"
  "Simpl 1 3 e" -> "simpl e 1 3"

3) Tactic language

  Definition are now introduced with keyword "Ltac" (instead of
"Tactic"/"Meta" "Definition") and are implicitly recursive
("Recursive" is no longer used).

  The new rule for simple quotes is:

  Quote any tactic in argument position and any construction in head position.

4) Vernacular language