Performs boolean case analysis on a (free) term in the goal.
DESCRIPTION
When applied to a term x (which must be of type bool but need not be simply
a variable), and a goal A ?- t, the tactic BOOL_CASES_TAC generates the two
subgoals corresponding to A ?- t but with any free instances of x replaced
by F and T respectively.
A ?- t
============================ BOOL_CASES_TAC "x"
A ?- t[F/x] A ?- t[T/x]
The term given does not have to be free in the goal, but if it isn’t,
BOOL_CASES_TAC will merely duplicate the original goal twice.
FAILURE
Fails unless the term x has type bool.
EXAMPLE
The goal:
?- (b ==> ~b) ==> (b ==> a)
can be completely solved by using BOOL_CASES_TAC on the variable
b, then simply rewriting the two subgoals using only the inbuilt tautologies,
i.e. by applying the following tactic:
BOOL_CASES_TAC (Parse.Term `b:bool`) THEN REWRITE_TAC[]
USES
Avoiding fiddly logical proofs by brute-force case analysis, possibly only
over a key term as in the above example, possibly over all free boolean
variables.