Questions tagged [discussion]
Use if the question you're asking is designed to reflect different opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Are software-level questions about proof assistants questions on-topic? Like how to install/run/open Coq/Lean?
It's mainly regarding this question.
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Proof Assistants's Moderator election #2 has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates for a competitive election, we simply appointed the candidates who nominated themselves:
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Election phase
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Why are we having an election?
An election was just announced: Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2024, however no explanation was given about the reason for this election.
We already had an election in 2022 and we have three ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election for 2024
Summary: Proof Assistants Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 9th, 2024 to bring in 2 more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement ...
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Are we out of beta yet?
Can someone explain whether we are out of beta, and if we're not, what needs to happen? Or is it the case that the site banner has not been updated, but we are otherwise out of beta?
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Hobbled math processing on this site?
In a site about proof assistants, I'd expect to be able to format mathematics reasonably smoothly, but many things ( cases, newline, and set-brackets are just two of the things that I've found so far )...
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What do we do about the Coq tag wrt the rename to Rocq?
Since the language Coq has been renamed to Rocq, should we also rename or redirect the tag?
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Are questions about automated theorem provers on topic?
I asked the what is needed to move from design by contract to using a proof assistant?
not realizing that proof assistant seems to imply interactivity.
I now realize I meant something else - automated ...
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New SE site for Programming Language Design
As Proof Assistants is one of the newest SE sites, many of you might remember the process that's in place for getting a new site approved, and many of you might remember how exciting it is to be one ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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On tags for technical support
I doubt that tags like installation is of any use. No one is probably going to watch or use this tag, because people don't tend to learn everything about the installation of every proof assistant.
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Engineerings questions on internal details of Proof Assistant implementations, usage and modifications?
I am trying to understand if PA.SE is more for maths or for programming. I have a detailed question on the internals of Coq and cannot decide if to put it here or to put it in the regular stack ...
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User Abusing the System for Homework Problem?
I witness a user, called "learner123", posting similar questions on Stackoverflow and ProofAssistants Stackexchange, then suddenly all his questions are "voluntarily removed". See:
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Code Reviews on topic?
There are two related questions here:
Question 1: Reviewing proof scripts? I just formalized a type system in Coq (and I'm almost certain it is not "idiomatic Coq"), would it be appropriate ...
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Renaming "extensional-equality" to "extensional-type-theory"
Is there any better suggestion or reasons against changing extensional-equality to extensional-type-theory? As Couchy suggests, the current tag is slightly ambiguous. If there is no objection, I think ...
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Are questions about categorical logic on topic?
Are questions about categorical logic and the related category theory are on topic on this website? Categorical logic is strongly connected to type theory and the semantic of (many) proof assistants, ...
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How to write a tag wiki excerpt?
I'm hoping to establish some sort of guideline for writing tag wiki excerpts (or usage guidance).
Examples of tag wiki excerpts I find usually fall into two categories. The first references the tag ...
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Should I create tags for common components in proof assistant implementations?
I'm asking questions about certain type-checking phases of a proof assistant (conversion-check, elaboration, ...
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How detailed should tags be?
I saw a tag coq-definition. Should there be $\forall l\in \text{ProofAssistants}, l\text{-definition}$ tag? Should there be like ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #1 on Proof Assistants has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be your initial pro-tem moderator team — please thank them for ...
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Candidate changes in 2022 Moderator Election – review your ballot
TL;DR: There's been a change in the candidate list for the 2022 Moderator Election. If you've already voted, you should confirm your votes still accurately represent your preferences. Details follow.
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How can the actual count of those eligible to vote be determined?
In the election chat room I gave a count of the number of users allowed to vote: 126 users. I did this by looking at the users page and just counting them by hand. It started a series of others ...
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What is wrong with the question "Formalizations of unsolved problems"?
There are comments suggesting that the question Formalization of unsolved problems should be closed because it doesn't contain the big-list tag. I don't understand this. Am I missing something?
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
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Leaving Private Beta & Initial Pro-Tem Moderator Election!
Congratulations! You've met the participation and engagement expectations for an active private beta site and will be going into public beta tomorrow!
As we’re getting ready to wrap up the private ...
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Is there a post that compares major proof assistants?
Is there a post that compares major Proof Assistants and provides suggestions of when to use each one, e.g. comparing: Agda, Coq, Idris, Isabelle, and Lean? With suggestions
If not, can create a post?
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How to get more daily views?
The weakest point on the Area 51 Site is our views. We need to get a lot more if the site wants to leave beta.
But, how can we do this? As it says:
Eventually, 90% of a site's traffic should come ...
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Should we have a Citation Helper?
It looks like a great deal of questions so far are about theoretical aspects of proof assistants and the underlying type theories. The answers to these questions rely on academic papers and conference ...
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Tags concerning variables and bindings
Should the tags bound-variables binders (and possibly de-bruijn-indexing) be merged? There probably won't be any question exclusively discussing binders and not bound variables. De bruijn indices, in ...
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Where do we define and keep track of the scope of the site
I recently voted to close What is known about minimal sets of axioms?, because I think it would be better suited for (say) maths.SE.
The close vote options are:
This question does not appear to be ...
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Tag for questions about definitions and approach
I asked this question about Coq recently.
I'm curious what the correct tag would be for this type of question. In the linked question, I'm asking about the possible ways of taking a pre-existing type ...
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Policies on answers porting code
In questions such as this, the OP asks for proofs, definitions, methodology etc. on a specific topic, but does not require a specific proof assistant*. There will imaginably be answers that are purely ...
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Should we allow Rosetta-Stone style questions?
This question was raised in the comments of this question about idiomatic ways to prove the associativity of append.
A Rosetta Stone style question would describe some kind of task in a prover-neutral ...
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Making / keeping the site expert friendly
I'm a novice at this subject. There are many questions I could ask that are pretty basic. These sorts of questions may have some benefit to future readers, since getting a critical mass of knowledge ...
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Should "Proof Assistants for Vim Users" be made community wiki?
A while ago I asked a question about information regarding vim support for various proof assistants.
As I've had answers come in, I've started wondering if we should make it community wiki, since I ...
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Not correct to say that lean community is mostly mathematicians
I noticed Guy Coder made a number of edits to a lot of tags. I accepted them all since overall they were much better, but on the same time in a number of them he suggested that lean (especially Lean ...
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Is it possible to transfer my questions from other SE sites? [duplicate]
I have ~20 questions on Stack Overflow about Isabelle and Coq. Most of them (probably all of them) would be better suited here, and were only posted on SO because I had no better SE site to post to.
I ...
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Good "What is an X" questions & good answers to them
There are a lot of terms in the proof assistant / type theory literature that I'm either not familiar with or have an intuitive understanding of but not a definition for. I also think this type of ...
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Why is a question about dependent type theory off topic?
The question Elimination rule for identity types in Martin-Lof Type Theory [closed] was recently closed for being off-topic.
While I agree it should have been closed for being a duplicate, I don't see ...
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Low-quality tags
There are some tags that I don't think are really necessary. They look like someone wanted to come up with more tags that would apply to their question and just lifted some words from the question; ...
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Does [theorem-proving] need to exist?
I think the theorem-proving tag should be deleted, because it is too general - almost every question will be related to theorem proving. Should it be deleted?
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Is this for assistants only, excluding automated provers?
Do automated theorem provers fall under the scope of this new Stack Exchange sub-site, as well as Proof Assistants?
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Should there be a mathlib tag for Lean?
There are already a number of questions that are specifically about the monolithic math library mathlib created in Lean. Should we have these kinds of tags ...
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Why should I accept answers?
Why should you accept answers on questions? Why does this help when searching for questions?
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How are we doing in beta?
Beta sites do not automatically make it to a full site. There are requirements we have to meet.
See: What should the criteria be for Stack Exchange sites to leave beta?
Where can one see how the users ...
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Tags for Isabelle Locales and Classes
I believe having a locales for Isabelle will help with organizing questions. I have added Tag info but it is still pending in peer review.
Now the main question is about this question which is ...
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How to Ask Questions in Private Beta
I think it might be a good idea to give more visibility to the Help Center article How to Ask Questions in Private Beta through a Meta post (this was once suggested on Meta SE by Monica Cellio). So, ...
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Removing the [recommendations] tag
There is a recommendations tag on Proof Assistants.
Should this be deleted, as it encourages opinion-based answers?
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