On Definitions of Constants and Types in HOL

Journal of Automated Reasoning
Rob Arthan

Abstract

This paper reports on a simpler and more powerful replacement for the principles for defining new constants that were previously provided in the various HOL implementations. We discuss the problems that the new principle is intended to solve and sketch the proofs that it is conservative and that it subsumes the earlier definitional principles. The new definitional principle for constants has been implemented in HOL4 and in ProofPower and has been adopted in OpenTheory and in the work of Kumar, Myreen and Owens on a fully verified implementation of HOL. Kumar et al. have formally verified that the new definitional principle is conservative with respect to the standard set theoretic semantics of HOL. We continue this line of thought with a look at the mechanisms for defining new types and consider potential improvements, one of which has now been adopted in OpenTheory.

Software Mentioned

HOL Light
HOL Zero
Isabelle
ProofPower
HOL
HOL4
OpenTheory
Omega

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