I always intended auto to be initial rather than terminal. I'm not aware of the 
unsafe mode you refer to, but it may have been introduced later.
Larry

On 1 Sep 2010, at 14:40, Thomas Sewell wrote:

> Good point - I think of auto as terminal. My understanding was that auto had 
> both a safe and unsafe mode internally, where safe exploration is 
> clarsimp-like and seen by the user, and unsafe exploration is fastsimp-like 
> and kept only if it solves the goal. For tactics which continue after auto, 
> this would put it in the clarsimp/safe group. This fits with my experience in 
> writing the supplied patch, where some subgoal_tacs which came after autos 
> had to be adjusted slightly.

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