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# Theory Composition | ||
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As theories get larger, it becomes more and more important to not build the | ||
entire theory from scratch. Not only is this tedious, it is also error-prone. | ||
From the beginning, Catlab and GATlab have supported single inheritance, which | ||
helps to some extent. In this document, we lay out other approaches to composing | ||
theories. | ||
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## Multiple Inheritance | ||
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In a GATlab `@theory`, one can use `using` to take the *union* of one theory | ||
with another theory. | ||
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The way this works is the following. Every time a new theory is created, the new | ||
definitions for that theory form a new scope, with a unique UUID. Union of | ||
theories operates on a scope tag level, taking the union of the sets of UUIDs | ||
and then producing a theory with all the bindings from the scopes tagged by | ||
those UUIDs. | ||
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If we never had to parse user-supplied expressions, then the names of the | ||
operations in the theories wouldn't matter, because identifiers come with scope | ||
tags. However, as a practical matter, we disallow unioning two theories with the | ||
same name declaration. | ||
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That being said, it is fine to union two theories which *overload* the same | ||
declaration. That is, if two theories have the declaration of a name in common, | ||
then they can overload that name as long as they don't give conflicting | ||
overloads, in the same way that overloading methods in Julia works. | ||
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This is akin to the way multiple inheritance works in frameworks such as | ||
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- Haskell typeclasses | ||
- [Object-oriented systems with multiple inheritance, like Scala](https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/book/domain-modeling-tools.html#traits) | ||
- [Module inclusion in OCaml](https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/chapters/modules/includes.html) | ||
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## Nesting | ||
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However, there are other ways of composing things like GATlab theories. In | ||
dependently typed languages used for theorem proving, algebraic structures are | ||
often represented by dependent records. For instance, in the agda unimath | ||
library, the [definition of a group](https://github.com/UniMath/agda-unimath/blob/master/src/group-theory/groups.lagda.md) is | ||
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```agda | ||
Semigroup : | ||
(l : Level) → UU (lsuc l) | ||
Semigroup l = Σ (Set l) has-associative-mul-Set | ||
Group : | ||
(l : Level) → UU (lsuc l) | ||
Group l = Σ (Semigroup l) is-group | ||
``` |
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# Composition of resource sharers | ||
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```julia | ||
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``` |
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