fix: make elabTermEnsuringType
respect errToSorry
when there is a type mismatch
#3633
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Floris van Doorn reported on Zulip that it is confusing that the
have : T := e
tactic completely fails if the bodye
is not of typeT
. This is in contrast tohave : T := by exact e
, which does not completely fail whene
is not of typeT
.This ends up being caused by
elabTermEnsuringType
throwing an error when it fails to insert a coercion. Now, it detects this case, and it checks theerrToSorry
flag to decide whether to throw the error or to log the error and insert asorry
.This is justified by
elabTermEnsuringType
being a frontend toelabTerm
, which insertssorry
on error.An alternative would be to make
ensureType
respecterrToSorry
, but there exists code that expects being able to catch whenensureType
fails. Making such code manipulateerrToSorry
seems error prone, and this function is not a main entry point to the term elaborator, unlikeelabTermEnsuringType
.