PRUNE_CONV : conv
STRUCTURE
SYNOPSIS
Prunes all hidden variables.
LIBRARY
unwind
DESCRIPTION
PRUNE_CONV "?l1 ... lr. t1 /\ ... /\ eqn1 /\ ... /\ eqnr /\ ... /\ tp" returns a theorem of the form:
   |- (?l1 ... lr. t1 /\ ... /\ eqn1 /\ ... /\ eqnr /\ ... /\ tp) =
      (t1 /\ ... /\ tp)
where each eqni has the form "!y1 ... ym. li x1 ... xn = b" and li does not appear free in any of the other conjuncts or in b. The conversion works if one or more of the eqni’s are not present, that is if li is not free in any of the conjuncts, but does not work if li appears free in more than one of the conjuncts. p may be zero, that is, all the conjuncts may be eqni’s. In this case the result will be simply T (true). Also, for each eqni, m and n may be zero.
FAILURE
Fails if the argument term is not of the specified form or if any of the li’s are free in more than one of the conjuncts or if the equation for any li is recursive.
EXAMPLE
#PRUNE_CONV
# "?l2 l1.
#   (!(x:num). l1 x = F) /\ (!x. l2 x = ~(out x)) /\ (!(x:num). out x = T)";;
|- (?l2 l1. (!x. l1 x = F) /\ (!x. l2 x = ~out x) /\ (!x. out x = T)) =
   (!x. out x = T)
SEEALSO
HOL  Kananaskis-14