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Golfing the classy hack
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| Conor McBride's "classy hack" for getting HOAS notation for FOAS: https://mazzo.li/epilogue/index.html%3Fp=773.html | |
| The following is a code-golfed version where we observe that by sprinkling some singletons | |
| in the standard FOAS definition of terms, we get an equivalent definition (because singletons are | |
| contractible) which supports HOAS notation directly. | |
| -} | |
| {-# OPTIONS --backtracking-instance-search #-} | |
| open import Relation.Binary.PropositionalEquality | |
| open import Data.Product | |
| infixr 4 _⇒_ | |
| data Ty : Set where | |
| ι : Ty | |
| _⇒_ : Ty → Ty → Ty | |
| infixl 3 _▶_ | |
| data Con : Set where | |
| ∙ : Con | |
| _▶_ : Con → Ty → Con | |
| variable | |
| Γ Δ : Con | |
| A B C : Ty | |
| Sing : ∀ {i}{A : Set i} → A → Set i | |
| Sing x = ∃ λ x' → x' ≡ x | |
| data _≤_ : Con → Con → Set where | |
| instance here : Γ ≤ Γ | |
| instance there : ⦃ _ : Γ ≤ Δ ⦄ → Γ ≤ (Δ ▶ A) | |
| data Tm Γ : Ty → Set where | |
| var : Sing (Δ ▶ A) → ⦃ _ : (Δ ▶ A) ≤ Γ ⦄ → Tm Γ A | |
| lam : (Sing (Γ ▶ A) → Tm (Γ ▶ A) B) → Tm Γ (A ⇒ B) | |
| app : Tm Γ (A ⇒ B) → Tm Γ A → Tm Γ B | |
| ex : Tm ∙ ((ι ⇒ ι ⇒ ι) ⇒ ι ⇒ ι ⇒ ι) | |
| ex = lam λ f → lam λ x → lam λ y → app (app (var f) (var y)) (var x) |
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