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Deriving Proved Equality Tests in Coq-Elpi: Stronger Induction Principles for Containers in Coq
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10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019)
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- Publication date: 2019-09-05
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Enrico Tassi. Deriving Proved Equality Tests in Coq-Elpi: Stronger Induction Principles for Containers in Coq. In 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 141, pp. 29:1-29:18, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.29
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2019.29
Abstract
We describe a procedure to derive equality tests and their correctness proofs from inductive type declarations in Coq. Programs and proofs are derived compositionally, reusing code and proofs derived previously.
The key steps are two. First, we design appropriate induction principles for data types defined using parametric containers. Second, we develop a technique to work around the modularity limitations imposed by the purely syntactic termination check Coq performs on recursive proofs. The unary parametricity translation of inductive data types turns out to be the key to both steps.
Last but not least, we provide an implementation of the procedure for the Coq proof assistant based on the Elpi [Dunchev et al., 2015] extension language.
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- Software and its engineering → General programming languages
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- Coq
- Containers
- Induction
- Equality test
- Parametricity translation
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