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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sphinx/credits.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sphinx/language/gallina-extensions.rst | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/sphinx/credits.rst b/doc/sphinx/credits.rst index 2562dec468..5d9324a656 100644 --- a/doc/sphinx/credits.rst +++ b/doc/sphinx/credits.rst @@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ Version 8.8 is the third release of |Coq| developed on a time-based development cycle. Its development spanned 6 months from the release of |Coq| 8.7 and was based on a public roadmap. The development process was coordinated by Matthieu Sozeau. Maxime Dénès was in charge of the -release process. +release process. Théo Zimmermann is the maintainer of this release. Many power users helped to improve the design of the new features via the bug tracker, the pull request system, the |Coq| development mailing diff --git a/doc/sphinx/language/gallina-extensions.rst b/doc/sphinx/language/gallina-extensions.rst index c21d8d4ec8..8fbd2ea4e7 100644 --- a/doc/sphinx/language/gallina-extensions.rst +++ b/doc/sphinx/language/gallina-extensions.rst @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ expressions. In this sense, the :cmd:`Record` construction allows defining .. _record_grammar: .. productionlist:: `sentence` - record : `record_keyword` `ident` [ `binders` ] [: `sort` ] := [ `ident` ] { [ `field` ; … ; `field` ] }. + record : `record_keyword` `record_body` with … with `record_body` record_keyword : Record | Inductive | CoInductive + record_body : `ident` [ `binders` ] [: `sort` ] := [ `ident` ] { [ `field` ; … ; `field` ] }. field : `ident` [ `binders` ] : `type` [ where `notation` ] : | `ident` [ `binders` ] [: `type` ] := `term` @@ -167,12 +168,13 @@ and the syntax `term.(@qualid` |term_1| |term_n| `)` to `@qualid` |term_1| `…` In each case, `term` is the object projected and the other arguments are the parameters of the inductive type. + .. note:: Records defined with the ``Record`` keyword are not allowed to be recursive (references to the record's name in the type of its field raises an error). To define recursive records, one can use the ``Inductive`` and ``CoInductive`` keywords, resulting in an inductive or co-inductive record. - A *caveat*, however, is that records cannot appear in mutually inductive - (or co-inductive) definitions. + Definition of mutal inductive or co-inductive records are also allowed, as long + as all of the types in the block are records. .. note:: Induction schemes are automatically generated for inductive records. Automatic generation of induction schemes for non-recursive records @@ -2226,7 +2228,7 @@ existential variable used in the same context as its context of definition is wr Check (fun x y => _) 0 1. Existential variables can be named by the user upon creation using -the syntax ``?``\ `ident`. This is useful when the existential +the syntax :n:`?[@ident]`. This is useful when the existential variable needs to be explicitly handled later in the script (e.g. with a named-goal selector, see :ref:`goal-selectors`). |