Fix SMT SetOf n-ary extensionality axiom - #266
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As noted in the related issue, TLAPS not supporting constructs binding more than one variable applies in a much broader sense than just for the SMT backend. While your fix may go some way for introducing support for the SMT backend specifically, supporting such constructs needs more pervasive changes to tlapm and the different backends. Note that outputs error message concerning SMT, Zenon, and Isabelle. |
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Thanks, that makes sense. I agree this PR does not implement general support for multi-variable binders across TLAPS and all backends. I will update the PR description to make the scope explicit: this is only an SMT backend arity fix for the existing SetOf_n encoding, not a full fix for #265. I will also change "Closes #265" to "Refs #265". If you prefer not to accept partial SMT-only support for this unsupported construct, I can close the PR. |
Signed-off-by: 叶落寒塘 <22316734+ylht@users.noreply.github.com>
… and survey them Two fixes to the upstream section. **tlaplus#286 is ours**, not an external reference, and the plan now says so plainly: same team, opened 2026-07-27, still unanswered, and its four patch families ARE our items 3, 6, 14, 15 and 20 -- already-public proposals re-implemented, not contributions of this branch. What the branch adds on them is what tlaplus#286 could not offer: single-topic reviewable commits with stated invariants and mechanical gates, and attribution per commit instead of per patch set. **Other people's PRs get their own section**, after checking upstream: `master` is at 4600b24, exactly this branch's base, so nothing has landed since the fork and only the open PRs matter. * tlaplus#284 (open, LGTM) kills orphaned provers via `exec setpriv --pdeathsig KILL` when *tlapm dies*. Same family as our item 2, complementary failure mode: ours covers tlapm alive but its kill ignored (SIGHUP set to SIG_IGN by nohup, inherited through exec). Neither subsumes the other, and tlaplus#284 supplies the SIGKILL escalation our fix lacks -- reference it, do not duplicate it. * tlaplus#285 (open) modifies `let_normalize`/`except_normalize`, the two functions item 15 calls per hypothesis. Textual conflict certain; the per-hypothesis equivalence argument must be re-established with the oracle afterwards. Kept in the survey for that reason only. * tlaplus#275 (open) makes SANY an opt-in parser, so item 7 keeps its value -- but the editor floor is now 95 % parse, and SANY does semantic analysis inside "parsing", which item 19 does not assume. * tlaplus#268 (open, extends the merged tlaplus#241) is the feature items 18-19 currently break: the decomposition code actions locate steps by range, and scoped re-elaboration leaves inner positions stale. This is why those modes stay flag-gated. * tlaplus#283 (merged) gives a deterministic Z3 budget -- worth adopting in measurement protocol P2 to remove prover-side variance. * tlaplus#266 (open) changes an SMT axiom, so item 3's subset gate must be re-run against it; tlaplus#248 (open) upgrades Z3 and invalidates absolutes. * tlaplus#264 closed without adopting an LLM policy -- escalated to the TLA+ Foundation board. The stated maintainer position (human first contact, per-commit disclosure of models used) is the one to assume, and the 441-lines-for-most-of-the-gain framing is what answers the review-workload concern behind it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUUoeEmuL3jsYhUb3UrhJH
Summary
Fix the SMT extensionality helper axiom for
SetOf_nso n-ary set comprehensions pass allnbound-domain arguments to the SMTSetOf_napplication.Refs #265.
Scope
This PR is intentionally limited to an SMT backend arity fix. It does not add general TLAPS support for TLA+ constructs that bind more than one variable, and it does not address support in the Zenon or Isabelle backends.
The broader multi-variable binding limitation is discussed in #265 and in the TLAPS unsupported features documentation.
Root Cause
SetOf_nis declared as takingndomain arguments plus one predicate/function argument:But
assert_issetof nencoded the assertion as if everySetOf_nwere unary:This is accidentally correct for
n = 1, but wrong forn >= 2.Changes
Pthe typeidv^n -> idvinassert_issetof n.nbound-domain arguments.SetOf_n(a1, ..., an, P)in the trigger and assertion.Validation
New regression test on the fixed binary:
Result:
The same test fails on
471b481with fingerprints disabled:Build: