Interaction Trees
A Library for Representing Recursive and Impure Programs in Coq
Introduction
For a quick overview of the core features of the library, see
examples/ReadmeExample.v.
See also the tutorial.
The coqdoc documentation for this library is available here.
Join the Interaction Trees channel on Rocq's Zulip server if you have any questions.
Top-level modules
ITree.ITree: Definitions to program with interaction trees.ITree.ITreeFacts: Theorems to reason about interaction trees.ITree.Events: Some standard event types.
Installation
Via opam
Dependencies
See coq-itree.opam for version details.
Axioms
This library currently depends on UIP, functional extensionality, excluded middle,
and choice; see also theories/Axioms.v.
UIP
This library depends on UIP for the inversion lemma:
Lemma eqit_inv_Vis : eutt eq (Vis e k1) (Vis e k2) -> forall x, eutt eq (k1 x) (k2 x).
There are a few more lemmas that depend on it, but you might not actually need
it. For example, the compiler proof in tutorial doesn't need it and is
axiom-free.
That lemma also has a weaker, but axiom-free version using heterogeneous
equality: eqit_inv_Vis_weak.
The axiom that's technically used here is eq_rect_eq (and also JMeq_eq in
old versions of Coq), which is equivalent to UIP.
Functional extensionality
The closed category of functions assumes functional_extensionality,
in Basics.FunctionFacts.CartesianClosed_Fun.
Excluded middle and choice
In the itree-extra library, the theory of traces (extra/ITrace/)—which Dijkstra monads for ITree
depend on (extra/Dijkstra)—assumes excluded middle, to decide whether an
itree diverges, and a type-theoretic axiom of choice, which provides a strong
excluded middle in propositional contexts:
Theorem classicT_inhabited : inhabited (forall T : Type, T + (T -> False)).Exported: strong bisimulation is propositional equality
The library exports the following axiom for convenience, though it's unlikely you'll need it, and the rest of the library does not depend on it:
Axiom bisimulation_is_eq : t1 ≅ t2 -> t1 = t2.Contributions welcome
Feel free to open an issue or a pull request!
See also DEV.md for working on this library.