On 13/02/14 04:46, Vincent Aravantinos wrote:

> Then considering leaving the goal unchanged, well it is a matter of taste... I
> know it is the standard to leave the goal unchanged. But I personally met many
> buggy situations that I hardly detected because HOL {4,Light} was just 
> allowing
> a rewrite (in the middle of a big script) to leave a goal unchanged whereas a
> rewrite should have happened. It was so hard to debug that I went to the
> conclusion to raise an exception instead....

Note that one can transform a tactic of one type into the other with

  CHANGED_TAC  (silently lets things not change --> exception)

and

  TRY          (exception --> silently lets things not change)

Given this, I think it's probably better to have the primitives conform to the
default behaviour (if only because of the principle of least surprise).

Michael



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