Projects like mathlib like to define projection functions with extra
structure, for example one could imagine defining `Multiset.card :
Multiset α →+ Nat`, which bundles the fact that `Multiset.card (m1 + m2)
= Multiset.card m1 + Multiset.card m2` for all `m1 m2 : Multiset α`. A
problem though is that so far this has prevented dot notation from
working: you can't write `(m1 + m2).card = m1.card + m2.card`.
With this PR, now you can. The way it works is that "LValue resolution"
will apply CoeFun instances when trying to resolve which argument should
receive the object of dot notation.
A contrived-yet-representative example:
```lean
structure Equiv (α β : Sort _) where
toFun : α → β
invFun : β → α
infixl:25 " ≃ " => Equiv
instance: CoeFun (α ≃ β) fun _ => α → β where
coe := Equiv.toFun
structure Foo where
n : Nat
def Foo.n' : Foo ≃ Nat := ⟨Foo.n, Foo.mk⟩
variable (f : Foo)
#check f.n'
-- Foo.n'.toFun f : Nat
```
Design note 1: While LValue resolution attempts to make use of named
arguments when positional arguments cannot be used, when we apply CoeFun
instances we disallow making use of named arguments. The rationale is
that argument names for CoeFun instances tend to be random, which could
lead dot notation randomly succeeding or failing. It is better to be
uniform, and so it uniformly fails in this case.
Design note 2: There is a limitation in that this will *not* make use of
the values of any of the provided arguments when synthesizing the CoeFun
instances (see the tests for an example), since argument elaboration
takes place after LValue resolution. However, we make sure that
synthesis will fail rather than choose the wrong CoeFun instance.
Performance note: Such instances will be synthesized twice, once during
LValue resolution, and again when applying arguments.
This also adds in a small optimization to the parameter list computation
in LValue resolution so that it lazily reduces when a relevant parameter
hasn't been found yet, rather than using `forallTelescopeReducing`. It
also switches to using `forallMetaTelescope` to make sure the CoeFun
synthesis will fail if multiple instances could apply.
Getting this to pretty print will be deferred to future work.
Closes#1910
a026bc7edb