I'm trying to compute parity together with the floor of the half, over natural numbers:
data IsEven : Nat -> Nat -> Type where
Times2 : (n : Nat) -> IsEven (n + n) n
data IsOdd : Nat -> Nat -> Type where
Times2Plus1 : (n : Nat) -> IsOdd (S (n + n)) n
parity : (n : Nat) -> Either (Exists (IsEven n)) (Exists (IsOdd n))
I tried going with the obvious implementation of parity
:
parity Z = Left $ Evidence _ $ Times2 0
parity (S Z) = Right $ Evidence _ $ Times2Plus1 0
parity (S (S n)) with (parity n)
parity (S (S (k + k))) | Left (Evidence _ (Times2 k)) =
Left $ rewrite plusSuccRightSucc k k in Evidence _ $ Times2 (S k)
parity (S (S (S ((k + k))))) | Right (Evidence _ (Times2Plus1 k)) =
Right $ rewrite plusSuccRightSucc k k in Evidence _ $ Times2Plus1 (S k)
This typechecks and works as expected. However, if I try to mark parity
as total
, Idris starts complaining:
parity is possibly not total due to: with block in parity
The only with
block I see in parity
is the one with the recursive call from parity (S (S n))
to parity n
, but clearly that is well-founded, since n
is structurally smaller than S (S n)
.
How do I convince Idris that parity
is total?
It looks like a bug to me, because the following solution based on case
passes the totality checker:
total
parity : (n : Nat) -> Either (Exists (IsEven n)) (Exists (IsOdd n))
parity Z = Left $ Evidence _ $ Times2 0
parity (S Z) = Right $ Evidence _ $ Times2Plus1 0
parity (S (S k)) =
case (parity k) of
Left (Evidence k (Times2 k)) =>
Left $ rewrite plusSuccRightSucc k k in Evidence _ $ Times2 (S k)
Right (Evidence k (Times2Plus1 k)) =>
Right $ rewrite plusSuccRightSucc k k in Evidence _ $ Times2Plus1 (S k)