Discussion:
[Agda] nullary copattern matching
Christian Sattler
2018-03-20 22:12:27 UTC
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What is the syntax for copattern matching on a record with zero fields? I
could not find anything in the documentation. For pattern matching on a
data type with zero constructors, we have syntax for denoting an impossible
case, but what about the analogous situation for copatterns? Note that C-c
C-c will happily produce invalid code ("missing definition").

Christian
Andreas Abel
2018-03-20 23:20:43 UTC
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Post by Christian Sattler
What is the syntax for copattern matching on a record with zero fields?
There isn't any yet, although Jesper and I discussed adding it:

record True : Set where

triv : True
triv .()

The syntax would be a post-fix absurd projection pattern.

Do you have an interesting application for it? With eta-equality, there
is not so much use it seems, since the same can be obtained by

triv = _

Cheers,
Andreas
Post by Christian Sattler
What is the syntax for copattern matching on a record with zero fields?
I could not find anything in the documentation. For pattern matching on
a data type with zero constructors, we have syntax for denoting an
impossible case, but what about the analogous situation for copatterns?
Note that C-c C-c will happily produce invalid code ("missing definition").
Christian
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Thorsten Altenkirch
2018-03-21 11:00:21 UTC
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It would be relevant if we allow indexed records and coinductive types as discussed recently.

Thorsten
Post by Christian Sattler
What is the syntax for copattern matching on a record with zero fields?
There isn't any yet, although Jesper and I discussed adding it:

record True : Set where

triv : True
triv .()

The syntax would be a post-fix absurd projection pattern.

Do you have an interesting application for it? With eta-equality, there
is not so much use it seems, since the same can be obtained by

triv = _

Cheers,
Andreas
Post by Christian Sattler
What is the syntax for copattern matching on a record with zero fields?
I could not find anything in the documentation. For pattern matching on
a data type with zero constructors, we have syntax for denoting an
impossible case, but what about the analogous situation for copatterns?
Note that C-c C-c will happily produce invalid code ("missing definition").
Christian
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