+let rec length (A:Type[0]) (l:\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/list.ind(1,0,1)"\ 6list\ 5/a\ 6 A) on l ≝
+match l with
+ [ nil ⇒ \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6
+ | cons a tl ⇒ \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,2,0)"\ 6S\ 5/a\ 6 (length A tl)].
+
+let rec nth n (A:Type[0]) (l:\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/list.ind(1,0,1)"\ 6list\ 5/a\ 6 A) (d:A) ≝
+ match n with
+ [O ⇒ \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/head.def(1)"\ 6head\ 5/a\ 6 A l d
+ |S m ⇒ nth m A (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/tail.def(1)"\ 6tail\ 5/a\ 6 A l) d].
+
+example ex_length: \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/length.fix(0,1,1)"\ 6length\ 5/a\ 6 ? (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/list.con(0,2,1)"\ 6cons\ 5/a\ 6 ? \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a title="nil" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6[\ 5/a\ 6]) \ 5a title="leibnitz's equality" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6=\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,2,0)"\ 6S\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6.
+normalize // qed.
+
+example ex_nth: \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/nth.fix(0,0,2)"\ 6nth\ 5/a\ 6 (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,2,0)"\ 6S\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6) ? (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/list.con(0,2,1)"\ 6cons\ 5/a\ 6 ? (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,2,0)"\ 6S\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6) (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/list.con(0,2,1)"\ 6cons\ 5/a\ 6 ? \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a title="nil" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6[\ 5/a\ 6\ 5span class="error" title="Parse error: [term] expected after [sym[] (in [term])"\ 6\ 5/span\ 6])) \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a title="leibnitz's equality" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6=\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/nat.con(0,1,0)"\ 6O\ 5/a\ 6.
+normalize // qed.
+
+(* Proving that the length of l1@l2 is the sum of the lengths of l1
+and l2 just requires a trivial induction on the first list. *)
+
+ lemma length_add: ∀A.∀l1,l2:\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/list.ind(1,0,1)"\ 6list\ 5/a\ 6 A.
+ \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/length.fix(0,1,1)"\ 6length\ 5/a\ 6 ? (l1\ 5a title="append" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6@\ 5/a\ 6l2) \ 5a title="leibnitz's equality" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6=\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter2/add.fix(0,0,1)"\ 6add\ 5/a\ 6 (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/length.fix(0,1,1)"\ 6length\ 5/a\ 6 ? l1) (\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/length.fix(0,1,1)"\ 6length\ 5/a\ 6 ? l2).
+#A #l1 elim l1 normalize // qed.
+
+(*
+\ 5h2 class="section"\ 6Comparing Costructors\ 5/h2\ 6
+Let us come to a more interesting question. How can we prove that the empty
+list is different from any list with at least one element, that is from any list
+of the kind (a::l)? We start defining a simple predicate stating if a list is
+empty or not. The predicate is computed by inspection over the list *)
+
+definition is_nil: ∀A:Type[0].\ 5a href="cic:/matita/tutorial/chapter3/list.ind(1,0,1)"\ 6list\ 5/a\ 6 A → Prop ≝
+λA.λl.match l with [ nil ⇒ l \ 5a title="leibnitz's equality" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6=\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a title="nil" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6[\ 5/a\ 6] | cons hd tl ⇒ (l \ 5a title="leibnitz's non-equality" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6≠\ 5/a\ 6 \ 5a title="nil" href="cic:/fakeuri.def(1)"\ 6[\ 5/a\ 6])].
+
+(* Next we need a simple result about negation: if you wish to prove ¬P you are
+authorized to add P to your hypothesis: *)