Abstract

. The second author has implemented a reference version of the HOL logic (henceforth called gtt). This version, written in Standard ML, is as simple as possible, making as few assumptions as necessary to present the essence of HOL. This simplicity makes the implementation easy to understand, to port, to develop, to change, and to informally reason about. The first author has ported gtt to another dialect of ML, and developed the parsing, prettyprinting, and typechecking support needed to take gtt beyond its initial rudimentary conception. The implementation of gtt has already been of use in developing a variant of the HOL logic. As of this writing, there are at least four or five extant implementations of the HOL logic. These have been intensively developed, in some cases over decades, which leads us to an overwhelming question: why another? In particular, why gtt? There are several answers to this, stemming from different desires and needs in the HOL community. Changing the logic a ...

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