lean4-htt/src/Lean.lean
Joachim Breitner 24cb133eb2
feat: explicit defeq attribute (#8419)
This PR introduces an explicit `defeq` attribute to mark theorems that
can be used by `dsimp`. The benefit of an explicit attribute over the
prior logic of looking at the proof body is that we can reliably omit
theorem bodies across module boundaries. It also helps with intra-file
parallelism.

If a theorem is syntactically defined by `:= rfl`, then the attribute is
assumed and need not given explicitly. This is a purely syntactic check
and can be fooled, e.g. if in the current namespace, `rfl` is not
actually “the” `rfl` of `Eq`. In that case, some other syntax has be
used, such as `:= (rfl)`. This is also the way to go if a theorem can be
proved by `defeq`, but one does not actually want `dsimp` to use this
fact.

The `defeq` attribute will look at the *type* of the declaration, not
the body, to check if it really holds definitionally. Because of
different reduction settings, this can sometimes go wrong. Then one
should also write `:= (rfl)`, if one does not want this to be a defeq
theorem. (If one does then this is currently not possible, but it’s
probably a bad idea anyways).

The `set_option debug.tactic.simp.checkDefEqAttr true`, `dsimp` will
warn if could not apply a lemma due to a missing `defeq` attribute.

With `set_option backward.dsimp.useDefEqAttr.get false` one can revert
to the old behavior of inferring rfl-ness based on the theorem body.

Both options will go away eventually (too bad we can’t mark them as
deprecated right away, see #7969)

Meta programs that generate theorems (e.g. equational theorems) can use
`inferDefEqAttr` to set the attribute based on the theorem body of the
just created declaration.

This builds on #8501 to update Init to `@[expose]` a fair amount of
definitions that, if not exposed, would prevent some existing `:= rfl`
theorems from being `defeq` theorems. In the interest of starting
backwards compatible, I exposed these function. Hopefully many can be
un-exposed later again.

A mathlib adaption branch exists that includes both the meta programming
fixes and changes to the theorems (e.g. changing `:= by rfl` to `:=
rfl`).

With the module system there is now no special handling for `defeq`
theorem bodies, because we don’t look at the body anymore. The previous
hack is removed. The `defeq`-ness of the theorem needs to be checked in
the context of the theorem’s *type*; the error message contains a hint
if the defeq check fails because of the exported context.
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/-
Copyright (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE.
Authors: Leonardo de Moura
-/
import Lean.Data
import Lean.Compiler
import Lean.Environment
import Lean.Modifiers
import Lean.ProjFns
import Lean.Runtime
import Lean.ResolveName
import Lean.Attributes
import Lean.Parser
import Lean.ReducibilityAttrs
import Lean.Elab
import Lean.Class
import Lean.LocalContext
import Lean.MetavarContext
import Lean.AuxRecursor
import Lean.Meta
import Lean.Util
import Lean.Structure
import Lean.PrettyPrinter
import Lean.CoreM
import Lean.ReservedNameAction
import Lean.InternalExceptionId
import Lean.Server
import Lean.ScopedEnvExtension
import Lean.DocString
import Lean.DeclarationRange
import Lean.LoadDynlib
import Lean.Widget
import Lean.Log
import Lean.Linter
import Lean.SubExpr
import Lean.LabelAttribute
import Lean.AddDecl
import Lean.Replay
import Lean.PrivateName
import Lean.PremiseSelection
import Lean.Namespace
import Lean.EnvExtension
import Lean.DefEqAttrib