[Agda] very basic question about False

Dan Licata drl at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Apr 18 18:51:17 CEST 2011


Hi Vincent,

You use an absurd pattern, which is written (), and then leave of the
right-hand side:

False_rec : (A : Set) -> False -> A
False_rec A ()

-Dan

On Apr18, Vincent Siles wrote:
> Hi,
> I just started to play a bit with Agda, and I wonder how
> can I define the following function:
> 
> data False where
> 
> False_rec : (A : Set) -> False -> A
> False_rec A f = **stuck**
> 
> Is there a way to pattern match against False
> to kill a goal ?
> 


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