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Refactor `applyRule` and `applyEquation` to check `requires`/`ensures` in separate functions. This will make reviewing #4022 easier.
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why do we throw here?? i would expect at the base case to simply check the regular requires clauses...
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As I understand, the simplifications marked as syntactic must be only applied "syntactically", which means their side condition must not go to Z3. If we do not stop here, we will proceed to trying to discharge a syntactic simplification as a regular one, and, as far as I understand, we do not want that. We want them either to succeed fast or to fail fast. @PetarMax do you agree?
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Regarding the code: we never want to transfer control to checkRequiresSemantically from checkRequiresSyntactically.
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So the semantics of the syntactic(1) attribute is:
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simplificationis syntactic, Z3 is never called - the clause 1 is the driver clause which learns its variables from the known truth, and the the substitution for these learned variables is applied to all other clauses
I.e. the whole simplification is syntactic, not a clause of a simplification
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So, for me, the clauses marked as syntactic should be checked syntactically, the other ones should be checked semantically. A simplification can have both syntactic and semantic clauses.
This still does mean, I think, that checkRequiresSyntactically should not call checkRequiresSemantically.
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But also, all syntactics should be handled first, I think.
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Thanks @PetarMax, we'll modify the code to do that then. |
…g variables that only appear in the requires clause with syntactic
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Fixes #3861