(* Title: HOL/HOLCF/IMP/HoareEx.thy Author: Tobias Nipkow, TUM Copyright 1997 TUM *) section "Correctness of Hoare by Fixpoint Reasoning" theory HoareEx imports Denotational begin text \ An example from the HOLCF paper by Mueller, Nipkow, Oheimb, Slotosch @{cite MuellerNvOS99}. It demonstrates fixpoint reasoning by showing the correctness of the Hoare rule for while-loops. \ type_synonym assn = "state \ bool" definition hoare_valid :: "[assn, com, assn] \ bool" ("|= {(1_)}/ (_)/ {(1_)}" 50) where "|= {P} c {Q} = (\s t. P s \ D c\(Discr s) = Def t \ Q t)" lemma WHILE_rule_sound: "|= {A} c {A} \ |= {A} WHILE b DO c {\s. A s \ \ bval b s}" apply (unfold hoare_valid_def) apply (simp (no_asm)) apply (rule fix_ind) apply (simp (no_asm)) \ \simplifier with enhanced \adm\-tactic\ apply (simp (no_asm)) apply (simp (no_asm)) apply blast done end