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diff --git a/doc/sphinx/proofs/creating-tactics/index.rst b/doc/sphinx/proofs/creating-tactics/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1af1b0b726 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/sphinx/proofs/creating-tactics/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.. _writing-tactics: + +==================== +Creating new tactics +==================== + +The languages presented in this chapter allow one to build complex +tactics by combining existing ones with constructs such as +conditionals and looping. While :ref:`Ltac <ltac>` was initially +thought of as a language for doing some basic combinations, it has +been used successfully to build highly complex tactics as well, but +this has also highlighted its limits and fragility. The experimental +language :ref:`Ltac2 <ltac2>` is a typed and more principled variant +which is more adapted to building complex tactics. + +There are other solutions beyond these two tactic languages to write +new tactics: + +- `Mtac2 <https://github.com/Mtac2/Mtac2>`_ is an external plugin + which provides another typed tactic language. While Ltac2 belongs + to the ML language family, Mtac2 reuses the language of Coq itself + as the language to build Coq tactics. + +- The most traditional way of building new complex tactics is to write + a Coq plugin in OCaml. Beware that this also requires much more + effort and commitment. A tutorial for writing Coq plugins is + available in the Coq repository in `doc/plugin_tutorial + <https://github.com/coq/coq/tree/master/doc/plugin_tutorial>`_. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + ../../proof-engine/ltac + ../../proof-engine/ltac2 |