Hi Makarius,

> On 10 May 2016, at 22:48, Makarius <makar...@sketis.net> wrote:
> 
> On 03/03/16 14:19, Dmitriy Traytel wrote:
> 
>> I wondered whether named_theorems (or more generally all dynamic facts) 
>> deserve to be more visible. In particular when I search for
>> 
>>      "(?a < ?c - ?b) = (?a + ?b < ?c)”
>> 
>> with find_theorems, I’d like to be reminded of algebra_simps (instead or 
>> rather in addition to Groups.ordered_ab_group_add_class.less_diff_eq).
>> 
>> Looking at the named_theorems that we have today (with grep), I see two 
>> kinds: those relevant for the working formalizer (algebra_simps, 
>> derivative_intros, ...), and those mostly relevant for tools (transfer_raw, 
>> …). It would be good to make the former ones easily discoverable (via 
>> find_theorems, potentially also Sledgehammer). If something is really 
>> irrelevant for the working formalizer, it(s binding) could in principle be 
>> concealed (preventing find_theorems from showing it).
> 
> See now the following change:
> 
> changeset:   63080:8326aa594273
> tag:         tip
> user:        wenzelm
> date:        Tue May 10 22:25:06 2016 +0200
> files:       src/Pure/Isar/proof_context.ML
> src/Pure/Tools/find_theorems.ML src/Pure/facts.ML
> description:
> find dynamic facts as well, but static ones are preferred;
> tuned;
> 
> 
> It is not precisely what you have described, but it is a
> straight-forward continuation of the existing fact retrieval.
> 
> Note that the "Duplicates" option makes a difference if dynamic facts
> actually show up. The details of these policies are from a different
> continent, and not totally clear to me.
> 
>> PS: The real reason why I am interested in this is that in the forthcoming 
>> package for non-primitive corecursion (joint work with Jasmin Blanchette, 
>> Aymeric Bouzy, Andreas Lochbihler, Andrei Popescu), we would like to 
>> generate dynamic theorems for coinduction up to congruence (because the 
>> coinduction principles gets stronger with every non-primitively corecursive 
>> function defined). But this only makes sense if users are aware of those 
>> dynamic theorems, i.e. can find them easily.
> 
> Is the above sufficient for this application?

Yes, thanks!

Ticking “Duplicates” makes the result even more as I expected. But I can 
imagine that showing no duplicates (with static theorems preferred) is a 
reasonable default.

Dmitriy


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