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authorHugo Herbelin2015-01-24 20:08:53 +0100
committerHugo Herbelin2015-01-24 22:27:43 +0100
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Reference Manual: Documenting new printing of evars and new effect of
Set Printing Existential Instances (see bug report #3951).
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@@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ Defined.
\subsection{\tt apply \term}
\tacindex{apply}
\label{apply}
+\label{eapply}
This tactic applies to any goal. The argument {\term} is a term
well-formed in the local context. The tactic {\tt apply} tries to
@@ -329,14 +330,13 @@ Section~\ref{pattern} to transform the goal so that it gets the form
generated by {\tt apply} {\term$_i$}, starting from the application
of {\term$_1$}.
-\item {\tt eapply \term}\tacindex{eapply}\label{eapply}
+\item {\tt eapply \term}\tacindex{eapply}
The tactic {\tt eapply} behaves like {\tt apply} but it does not fail
when no instantiations are deducible for some variables in the
- premises. Rather, it turns these variables into so-called
- existential variables which are variables still to instantiate. An
- existential variable is identified by a name of the form {\tt ?$n$}
- where $n$ is a number. The instantiation is intended to be found
+ premises. Rather, it turns these variables into
+ existential variables which are variables still to instantiate (see
+ Section~\ref{evars}). The instantiation is intended to be found
later in the proof.
\item {\tt simple apply {\term}} \tacindex{simple apply}