This manual documents the release 3.01 of the Objective Caml
system. It is organized as follows.
-
Part I, ``An introduction to Objective Caml'',
gives an overview of the language.
- Part II, ``The Objective Caml language'', is the
reference description of the language.
- Part III, ``The Objective Caml tools'', documents
the compilers, toplevel system, and programming utilities.
- Part IV, ``The Objective Caml library'', describes the
modules provided in the standard library.
Objective Caml runs on several operating systems. The parts of
this manual that are specific to one operating system are presented as
shown below:
MacOS:
This is material specific to MacOS 7, 8, 9. (For MacOS
X, see ``Unix''.)
Unix:
This is material specific to the Unix family of operating
systems, including Linux and MacOS X.
Windows:
This is material specific to Microsoft Windows (95, 98, ME,
NT, 2000).
The Objective Caml system is copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998,
1999, 2000, 2001 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique (INRIA).
INRIA holds all ownership rights to the Objective Caml system.
The Objective Caml system is open source and can be freely
redistributed. See the file LICENSE in the distribution for
licensing information. The present documentation
is distributed under the same conditions.
The complete Objective Caml distribution can be accessed via the
Caml Web site, or directly on the
anonymous FTP archive.
The Caml Web site
contains a lot of additional information on the Caml family of
languages.