Lean4
/-- Greedily create a sublist of `l` such that, for every two adjacent elements `a, b ∈ l`,
`R a b` holds. Mostly used with ≠; for example, `destutter (≠) [1, 2, 2, 1, 1] = [1, 2, 1]`,
`destutter (≠) [1, 2, 3, 3] = [1, 2, 3]`, `destutter (<) [1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 4, 9] = [1, 2, 5, 9]`. -/
def destutter (R : α → α → Prop) [DecidableRel R] : List α → List α
| h :: l => destutter' R h l
| [] => []