[tlaplus] Re: Why is TLA_ complaining about this? (

[ns <nedsri1988@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have any objection to what you just stated but I'm not seeing how it addresses my question. Consider the following

    [](p => []q)                                           (1)

This is saying that for every state, if p holds then henceforth in every state q must hold. By the same reasoning, I don't see why you can't have an "action oriented" version of this

    [] [A => [][B]_vars]_vars                              (2)
which would read "for every step, if A holds of that step then henceforth B in every step or UNCHANGED vars must hold, or UNCHANGED vars". I hope that conveys my question a little better.

thanks

On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 6:20:26 PM UTC-7 andrew...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

The logical formula in your action property must be true or false of a pair of states. The []F temporal operator is true or false of an infinite series of states.

Andrew

On Friday, April 23, 2021 at 3:38:28 PM UTC-4 ns wrote:

If I have a property of the form

    [][A => (p /\  [] (q  =>  r))]_vars                                           (1)

where A is an action and p,q,r are state predicates, I get two complaints:

Level error in applying operator $SquareAct:

The level of argument 1 exceeds the maximum level allowed by the operator.

and

=> has both temporal formula and action as arguments.

If I remove the nested [] then both complaints go away (and TLC is fine with too)

    [][A => (p /\  (q  =>  r))]_vars                                                     (2)

However, even if I replace the A with another state predicate the second complaint still remains. 

Could someone tell me where I'm going wrong. I don't recall seeing any restriction on nesting of temporal operators in the Specifying Systems book but I could have quite easily missed it. Regarding why TLC accepts the second formula (2), I assume its "nice" because its considered a Box-Action formula?

thanks

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