Commit da1b090e authored by Adam Chlipala's avatar Adam Chlipala

A suggestion from sbriais: mention that Coq >=8.2 allows omitted match cases

parent ca86e959
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Unlike in ML, we cannot use inexhaustive pattern matching, because there is no conception of a %\texttt{%#<tt>#Match#</tt>#%}% exception to be thrown. We might try using an [in] clause somehow.
Unlike in ML, we cannot use inexhaustive pattern matching, because there is no conception of a %\texttt{%#<tt>#Match#</tt>#%}% exception to be thrown. In fact, recent versions of Coq %\textit{%#<i>#do#</i>#%}% allow this, by implicit translation to a [match] that considers all constructors. It is educational to discover that encoding ourselves directly. We might try using an [in] clause somehow.
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Definition hd n (ls : ilist (S n)) : A :=
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