The Objective Caml system, documentation and user's guide

Release 2.02

Xavier Leroy

(with Didier Rémy, Jérôme Vouillon and Damien Doligez)

Copyright © 1998 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique

• Foreword

An introduction to Objective Caml

• The core language
• Objects in Caml
• The module system
• Advanced examples with classes and modules

The Objective Caml language

• The Objective Caml language
• Language extensions

The Objective Caml tools

• Batch compilation (ocamlc)
• The toplevel system (ocaml)
• The runtime system (ocamlrun)
• Native-code compilation (ocamlopt)
• Lexer and parser generators (ocamllex, ocamlyacc)
• Dependency generator (ocamldep)
• The debugger (ocamldebug)
• Profiling (ocamlprof)
• Interfacing C with Objective Caml

The Objective Caml library

• The core library
• The standard library
• The unix library: Unix system calls
• The num library: arbitrary-precision rational arithmetic
• The str library: regular expressions and string processing
• The threads library
• The graphics library
• The dbm library: access to NDBM databases
• The dynlink library: dynamic loading and linking of object files