@kha: I decided to implement this change before I start the
type_context modifications. The change did not affect the corelib and
test suite much. The only annoying problem is that `out` cannot be
used to name locals anymore.
`{s with ...}` is now `{..., ..s}`, which more clearly expresses that the
result type is not necessarily equal to the type of `s` (in absence of an
expected type and a structure name, we still default to the type of `s`).
Multiple fallback sources can be given: `{..., ..s, ..t}` will fall back to
searching a field in `s`, then in `t`. The last component can also be `..`,
which will replace any missing fields with a placeholder.
The old notation will be removed in the future.
Function applications `(f ...)` were not being elaborated correctly when
`f` has implicit parameters occurring after auto_params.
The new test exposes the problem.
This bug was found when developing the red black tree module.
This commit also fixes the following bugs:
- Invoke type class resolution again after tactic execution at
synthesize method. Reason: metavariables occurring in type
class instances may have been synthesized by tactics.
- mctx.assign optimization at invoke_tactic was incorrect
when the metavariable was assigned by typing rules.
As described at issue #1760, the new error message is:
```
1760.lean:6:18: error: type mismatch at application
f x
term
x
has type
big_type : Type 1
but is expected to have type
?m_1 : Type
```
To make the equation compiler more convenient to use, we will add a
couple of preprocessing steps.
This commit adds the first one of them. In this step, we use
type inference to refine pattern variables, and we relax the
restrictions on inaccessible annotations.
We will also add a preprocessing step that implements the "complete
transition" step before we execute the elim_match step.
We need this feature for:
1) Defining nonlinear search patterns. Example: (?m <= ?m + 1)
2) Preprocessing recursive equations and support the pattern
refinement approach used in Agda. Example: in Agda, they accept
```
def append {A : Type} : Π (m n : nat), Vec A m -> Vec A n -> Vec A (m + n)
| m n nil ys := ys
| m n (cons m' x xs) ys := cons x (append m' n xs ys)
```
These equations have to be refined. For example, `m` has to be
replaced with `0` (in the first equation), and `succ m'` in the
second. To implement this kind of refinement, we need to convert
the pattern variables (local constants) into metavariables during
elaboration. Then, the unassigned metavariables become local constants
again. This preprocessing step will fix some of the issues on #1594.
To completely fix#1594, we will need yet another preprocessing step
which will implement "complete transition" used in the equation
compiler before we start elim_match.cpp
