CookBook/Recipes/Antiquotes.thy
changeset 74 f6f8f8ba1eb1
parent 72 7b8c4fe235aa
child 114 13fd0a83d3c3
--- a/CookBook/Recipes/Antiquotes.thy	Thu Jan 15 13:42:28 2009 +0000
+++ b/CookBook/Recipes/Antiquotes.thy	Fri Jan 16 14:57:36 2009 +0000
@@ -15,18 +15,21 @@
   Document antiquotations can be used for ensuring consistent type-setting of
   various entities in a document. They can also be used for sophisticated
   \LaTeX-hacking. If you type @{text "Ctrl-c Ctrl-a h A"} inside ProofGeneral, you
-  obtain a list of all available document antiquotations and their options.
+  obtain a list of all currently available document antiquotations and their options.
 
   Below we give the code for two additional antiquotations that can be used to typeset
   ML-code and also to check whether the given code actually compiles. This
   provides a sanity check for the code and also allows one to keep documents
   in sync with other code, for example Isabelle.
 
-  We first describe the antiquotation @{text "@{ML_checked \"expr\"}"}. This
-  antiquotation takes a piece of code as argument. The code is checked
-  by sending the ML-expression @{text [quotes] "val _ = \<dots>"} containing the
-  given argument to the ML-compiler (i.e.~the function @{ML "ML_Context.eval_in"}
-  in Line 4 below). The complete code of the antiquotation is as follows:
+  We first describe the antiquotation @{text "ML_checked"} with the syntax:
+ 
+  @{text [display] "@{ML_checked \"a_piece_of_code\"}"}
+
+  The code is checked by sending the ML-expression @{text [quotes] "val _ =
+  a_piece_of_code"} to the ML-compiler (i.e.~the function @{ML
+  "ML_Context.eval_in"} in Line 4 below). The complete code of the
+  antiquotation is as follows:
 
 *}
 
@@ -44,16 +47,16 @@
 
   Note that the parser @{ML "(Scan.lift Args.name)"} in line 9 parses a string, 
   in this case the code given as argument. As mentioned before, this argument 
-  is send to the ML-compiler in the line 4 using the function @{ML ml_val},
-  which constructs an apropriate ML-expression.
+  is sent to the ML-compiler in the line 4 using the function @{ML ml_val},
+  which constructs the appropriate ML-expression.
   If the code is ``approved'' by the compiler, then the output function @{ML
   "ThyOutput.output_list (fn _ => fn s => Pretty.str s)"} in the next line pretty prints the
   code. This function expects that the code is a list of strings where each
   string correspond to a line in the output. Therefore the use of 
   @{ML "(space_explode \"\\n\" txt)" for txt} 
   which produces this list according to linebreaks.  There are a number of options for antiquotations
-  that are observed by @{ML ThyOutput.output_list} when printing the code (for
-  example @{text "[display]"}, @{text "[quotes]"} and @{text "[source]"}).
+  that are observed by @{ML ThyOutput.output_list} when printing the code (including
+  @{text "[display]"}, @{text "[quotes]"} and @{text "[source]"}).
 
   \begin{readmore}
   For more information about options of antiquotations see \rsccite{sec:antiq}).
@@ -62,7 +65,6 @@
   Since we used the argument @{ML "Position.none"}, the compiler cannot give specific 
   information about the line number, in case an error is detected. We 
   can improve the code above slightly by writing 
-
 *}
 
 ML%linenumbers{*fun output_ml src ctxt (code_txt,pos) =
@@ -84,22 +86,24 @@
   somebody changes the definition of \mbox{@{ML "(op +)"}}.
 
 
-  The second antiquotation extends the first by allowing also to give
-  hints what the result of the ML-code should be and to check the consistency of 
-  the actual result with these hints. For this we are going to implement the 
-  antiquotation  
-  @{text "@{ML_resp \"expr\" \"pat\"}"}
-  whose first argument is the ML-code and the second is a pattern specifying
-  the result. To add some convenience and allow dealing with large outputs,
-  the user can give a partial specification including abbreviations 
-  @{text [quotes] "\<dots>"}.
+  The second antiquotation we describe extends the first by allowing also to give
+  a pattern that specifies what the result of the ML-code should be and to check 
+  the consistency of the actual result with the given pattern. For this we are going 
+  to implement the antiquotation  
+  
+  @{text [display] "@{ML_resp \"a_piece_of_code\" \"pattern\"}"}
+  
+  To add some convenience and also to deal with large outputs,
+  the user can give a partial specification by giving the abbreviation 
+  @{text [quotes] "\<dots>"}. For example @{text "(\<dots>,\<dots>)"} for a pair.
 
-  Whereas in the antiquotation @{text "@{ML_checked \"expr\"}"} above, we have
-  sent the expression 
-  @{text [quotes] "val _ = expr"} to the compiler, in this antiquotation the wildcard
-  @{text "_"} we will be replaced by a proper pattern constructed the hints. To
-  do this we need to replace the @{text [quotes] "\<dots>"} by @{text [quotes] "_"} 
-  before sending the code to the compiler. The following function will do this:
+  Whereas in the antiquotation @{text "@{ML_checked \"piece_of_code\"}"} above, 
+  we have sent the expression 
+  @{text [quotes] "val _ = piece_of_code"} to the compiler, in the second the 
+  wildcard @{text "_"} we will be replaced by a proper pattern. To do this we 
+  need to replace the @{text [quotes] "\<dots>"} by 
+  @{text [quotes] "_"}  before sending the code to the compiler. The following 
+  function will do this:
 
 *}
 
@@ -154,8 +158,8 @@
   @{ML_resp [display] "let val i = 3 in (i * i,\"foo\") end" "(9,\<dots>)"} 
 
   In both cases, the check by the compiler ensures that code and result match. A limitation
-  of this antiquotation is that the hints can only be given for results that can actually
-  be constructed as a pattern. This excludes values that are abstract datatypes, like 
+  of this antiquotation, however, is that the hints can only be given in case
+  they can be constructed as a pattern. This excludes values that are abstract datatypes, like 
   theorems or cterms.
 
 *}