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[ cleanup ] Make Nat's NonZero to be an alias for IsSucc #3405

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@buzden buzden commented Oct 29, 2024

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Historically for some strange reason in Data.Nat we have two equivalent definitions: IsSucc and NonZero. Other standard types have standard pattern of Is<Constructor> type, ItIs<Constructor> constructor of proof and isIt<Constructor> for Dec Is<Consturctor>. IsSucc follows this pattern, when NonZero does not. However, NonZero is a handy name for this.

But the fact that there are two different types for this and the fact that some standard and non-standard functions use one of them, and others use the other, triggers a lot of people (I personally know around five of them).

What I suggest is to make NonZero to be an alias for IsSucc and to declare a deprecated alias for original constructor of NonZero to be backward compatible at least on usages at RHS.

Should this change go in the CHANGELOG?

  • If this is a fix, user-facing change, a compiler change, or a new paper
    implementation, I have updated CHANGELOG_NEXT.md (and potentially also
    CONTRIBUTORS.md).

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If we can fix frex, this looks good to me

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buzden commented Oct 30, 2024

If we can fix frex, this looks good to me

Right, this seems to be not much a strech for frex, I made a PR there

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