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MATH.12:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

FailureRepair
Read “there exists” as an available obtaining operationRecover the witness-producing step or name the construction still needed.
Turn an unspecified disjunction into an executable branchSupply a decision and return its case tag with the relevant data.
Change a witness that depends on x into one fixed witness for every xKeep the input parameter and the statement’s quantifier order.
Project program data from a formal proposition that does not expose itUse an appropriate data-bearing construction or obtain the value by another supported method.
Infer termination from a program type that permits general recursionEstablish termination for the actual computation or retain its partial scope.
Replace one calculation by repeated calls while forgetting changing state or costRetain shared results and restore the state needed by the mathematical model.