/- Copyright (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. Module: data.examples.unencodable Author: Leonardo de Moura Small example showing that (nat → nat) is not encodable. -/ import data.encodable open nat encodable option section hypothesis nat_nat_encodable : encodable (nat → nat) private definition decode_fun (n : nat) : option (nat → nat) := @decode (nat → nat) nat_nat_encodable n private definition encode_fun (f : nat → nat) : nat := @encode (nat → nat) nat_nat_encodable f private lemma encodek_fun : ∀ f : nat → nat, decode_fun (encode_fun f) = some f := λ f, !encodek private definition f (n : nat) : nat := match decode_fun n with | some g := succ (g n) | none := 0 end private definition v : nat := encode_fun f private lemma f_eq : succ (f v) = f v := begin change (succ (f v) = match decode_fun (encode_fun f) with | some g := succ (g v) | none := 0 end), rewrite encodek_fun end end theorem not_encodable_nat_arrow_nat : (encodable (nat → nat)) → false := assume h, absurd (f_eq h) succ_ne_self