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From: reetz <reetz@ira.uka.de>
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Subject: RE: HOL improvement survey
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John Harrison wrote:
 
> As promised at the Vancouver meeting, I'm organizing a survey to
> collect views on how the HOL system should be improved.

Regarding the bunch of reactions we got about
``num_CONV and pretty printer and...'', it is a
topic of interest to add an arithmetic library in
the way it was discussed in info-HOL, I think. 
As I myself see it, it might be in some sense 
something like the coming word-library.

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