A Note on “Disjunctive” Predicates
During my talk yesterday, somebody raised an important point when I discussed the Hoare rule for non-deterministic choice in the recursive semantics and claimed that the postcondition couldn’t be disjunctive: What if it was the negation of a conjunction?
I think I waved this away with a gesture towards the constructive Coq proof assistant, but that was in error (the Coq real number library actually posits the decidability of the reals).… Read the rest