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Artifact For Mtac2: Typed Tactics For Backward Reasoning In Coq

Authors: Jan-Oliver Kaiser; Beta Ziliani; Krebbers, Robbert; Régis-Gianas, Yann; Dreyer, Derek;

Artifact For Mtac2: Typed Tactics For Backward Reasoning In Coq

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Coq supports a range of built-in tactics, which are engineered primarily to support \emph{backward reasoning}. Starting from a desired goal, the Coq programmer can use these tactics to manipulate the proof state interactively, applying axioms or lemmas to break the goal into subgoals until all subgoals have been solved. Additionally, it provides support for \emph{tactic programming} via OCaml and Ltac, so that users can roll their own custom proof automation routines. Unfortunately, though, these tactic languages share a significant weakness. They do not offer the tactic programmer any static guarantees about the soundness of their custom tactics, making large tactic developments difficult to maintain. To address this limitation, Ziliani et al.\ previously proposed \textbf{Mtac}, a new typed approach to custom proof automation in Coq which provides the static guarantees that OCaml and Ltac are missing. However, despite its name, Mtac is really more of a metaprogramming language than it is a full-blown tactic language: it misses an essential feature of tactic programming, namely the ability to directly manipulate Coq's proof state and perform backward reasoning on it. In this paper, we present \textbf{Mtac2}, a next-generation version of Mtac that combines its support for typed metaprogramming with additional support for the programming of backward-reasoning tactics in the style of Ltac. In so doing, Mtac2 introduces a novel feature in tactic programming languages---what we call \emph{typed backward reasoning}. With this feature, Mtac2 is capable of statically ruling out several classes of errors that would otherwise remain undetected at tactic definition time. We demonstrate the utility of Mtac2's typed tactics by porting several tactics from a large Coq development, the Iris Proof Mode, from Ltac to Mtac2.

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Dependent Types, Tactic Languages, Theorem Proving, Coq, Metaprogramming

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