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jrr6
5f4e6a86d5
feat: update and explain "unknown constant" and "failed to infer type" errors (#9423)
This PR updates the formatting of, and adds explanations for, "unknown
identifier" errors as well as "failed to infer type" errors for binders
and definitions.

It attempts to ameliorate some of the confusion encountered in #1592 by
modifying the wording of the "header is elaborated before body is
processed" note and adding further discussion and examples of this
behavior in the corresponding error explanation.
2025-07-18 19:20:31 +00:00
Kyle Miller
23bd9dfb09
fix: make rewrite/rw tactic abort on elaboration errors (#6891)
This PR modifies `rewrite`/`rw` to abort rewriting if the elaborated
lemma has any immediate elaboration errors (detected by presence of
synthetic sorries). Rewriting still proceeds if there are elaboration
issues arising from pending synthetic metavariables, like instance
synthesis failures. The purpose of the change is to avoid obscure
"tactic 'rewrite' failed, equality or iff proof expected ?m.5" errors
when for example a lemma does not exist.

This helps error reporting for the natural number game.
https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/113489-new-members/topic/Why.20doesn't.20add_left_comm.20work.20here.3F/near/497060022
2025-02-04 14:40:11 +00:00