EVAL : conv
STRUCTURE
SYNOPSIS
Evaluate a term by deduction.
DESCRIPTION
An invocation EVAL M symbolically evaluates M by applying the defining equations of constants occurring in M. These equations are held in a mutable datastructure that is automatically added to by Hol_datatype, Define, and tprove. The underlying algorithm is call-by-value with a few differences, see the entry for CBV_CONV for details.

FAILURE
Never fails, but may diverge.
EXAMPLE
- EVAL (Term `REVERSE (MAP (\x. x + a) [x;y;z])`);
> val it = |- REVERSE (MAP (\x. x + a) [x; y; z]) = [z + a; y + a; x + a]
   : thm
COMMENTS
In order for recursive functions over numbers to be applied by EVAL, pattern matching over SUC and 0 needs to be replaced by destructors. For example, the equations for FACT would have to be rephrased as FACT n = if n = 0 then 1 else n * FACT (n-1).
SEEALSO
HOL  Trindemossen-1