[Agda] Re: Orange highlights in EMACS Agda mode

Roly Perera roly.perera at dynamicaspects.org
Fri Nov 27 12:59:40 CET 2009


Ok, to attempt to answer my own question...looking more carefully at
the annotations I'm guessing it's something to do with termination
checking.  Are there any introductory tutorials on this topic?

2009/11/27 Roly Perera <roly.perera at dynamicaspects.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Agda for a few weeks but have only recently
> encountered the orange highlighting in the EMACS mode.  I'm remember
> reading about it somewhere but I can't find any mention of it now in
> the documentation, on the Wiki or by searching the mailing list
> archives.
>
> I'm sure it's something basic.  It seems to have arisen since I
> started developing a largish mutually recursive definition in a
> stepwise fashion by introducing postulates for some of the functions
> which will be eventually be defined in the mutual block (not sure if
> that is a legitimate way to proceed anyway, but that's another
> question).  Some things are now highlighted in orange but no actual
> message comes back from the Agda compiler, so I've no idea what it
> means.  Could someone please clarify?
>
> thanks,
> Roly
>


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