call the ACL2 theorem prover to prove the current goal
Major Section: PROOF-CHECKER-COMMANDS
Examples:
prove -- attempt to prove the current goal
(prove :otf-flg t
:hints (("Subgoal 2" :by foo) ("Subgoal 1" :use bar)))
-- attempt to prove the current goal, with the indicated hints
and with OTF-FLG set
General Form:
(prove &rest rest-args)
Attempt to prove the current goal, where rest-args is as in the
keyword arguments to defthm except that only :hints and :otf-flg are
allowed. The command succeeds exactly when the corresponding defthm
would succeed, except that it is all right for some goals to be
given ``bye''s. Each goal given a ``bye'' will be turned into a new
subgoal. (See hints for an explanation of :by hints.)
Note: Use (= t) instead if you are not at the top of the
conclusion. Also note that if there are any hypotheses in the
current goal, then what is actually attempted is a proof of
(implies hyps conc), where hyps is the conjunction of the
top-level hypotheses and conc is the goal's conclusion.
Note: It is allowed to use abbreviations in the hints.