The problem is that unique names depend on the order compilation units are initialized. The order of initialization is not specified by the C++ standard. Then, different compilers (or even the same compiler) may produce different initialization orders, and consequently the metavariable prefix is going to be different for different builds. This is not a bug, but it makes unit tests to fail since the output produced by different builds is different for the same input file.
Avoiding unique name feature in the default metavariable prefix avoids this problem.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo de Moura <leonardo@microsoft.com>
It was not a good idea to use heterogeneous equality as the default equality in Lean.
It creates the following problems.
- Heterogeneous equality does not propagate constraints in the elaborator.
For example, suppose that l has type (List Int), then the expression
l = nil
will not propagate the type (List Int) to nil.
- It is easy to write false. For example, suppose x has type Real, and the user
writes x = 0. This is equivalent to false, since 0 has type Nat. The elaborator cannot introduce
the coercion since x = 0 is a type correct expression.
Homogeneous equality does not suffer from the problems above.
We keep heterogeneous equality because it is useful for generating proof terms.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo de Moura <leonardo@microsoft.com>
The printer and formatter objects are not trusted code.
We moved them to the kernel to be able to provide them as an argument to the trace objects.
Another motivation is to eliminate the kernel_exception_formatter hack.
With the formatter in the kernel, we can implement the pretty printer for kernel exceptions as a virtual method.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo de Moura <leonardo@microsoft.com>
