After this commit, in the type checker, when checking convertability, we first compute a normal form without expanding opaque terms.
If the terms are convertible, then we are done, and saved a lot of time by not expanding unnecessary definitions.
If they are not, instead of throwing an error, we try again expanding the opaque terms.
This seems to be the best of both worlds.
The opaque flag is a hint for the type checker, but it would never prevent us from type checking a valid term.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo de Moura <leonardo@microsoft.com>
The environment object is a "smart-pointer".
Before this commit, the use of "const &" for environment objects was broken.
For example, suppose we have a function f that should not modify the input environment.
Before this commit, its signature would be
void f(environment const & env)
This is broken, f's implementation can easilty convert it to a read-write pointer by using
the copy constructor.
environment rw_env(env);
Now, f can use rw_env to update env.
To fix this issue, we now have ro_environment. It is a shared *const* pointer.
We can convert an environment into a ro_environment, but not the other way around.
ro_environment can also be seen as a form of documentation.
For example, now it is clear that type_inferer is not updating the environment, since its constructor takes a ro_environment.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo de Moura <leonardo@microsoft.com>
This commit allows us to build Lean without the pthread dependency.
It is also useful if we want to implement multi-threading on top of Boost.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo de Moura <leonardo@microsoft.com>
Recursive functions that may go very deep should invoke the function check_stack. It throws an exception if the amount of stack space is limited.
The function check_system() is syntax sugar for
check_interrupted();
check_stack();
Signed-off-by: Leonardo de Moura <leonardo@microsoft.com>
