Foreword

This manual documents the release 0.74 of the Caml Light system. It is organized as follows.

• Part 1, ``Getting started'', explains how to install Caml Light on your machine.
• Part 2, ``The Caml Light language reference manual'', is the reference description of the Caml Light language.
• Part 3, ``The Caml Light commands'', documents the Caml Light compiler, toplevel system, and programming utilities.
• Part 4, ``The Caml Light library'', describes the modules provided in the standard library.
• Part 5, ``Appendix'', contains a short bibliography, an index of all identifiers defined in the standard library, and an index of Caml Light keywords.

Conventions

The Caml Light system comes in several versions: for Unix machines, for Macintoshes, and for PCs. The parts of this manual that are specific to one version are presented as shown below:

Unix:

This is material specific to the Unix version.

Mac:

This is material specific to the Macintosh version.

PC:

This is material specific to the PC version.

License

The Caml Light system is copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). INRIA holds all ownership rights to the Caml Light system. See the file COPYRIGHT in the distribution for the copyright notice.

The Caml Light system can be freely redistributed. More precisely, INRIA grants any user of the Caml Light system the right to reproduce it, provided that the copies are distributed under the conditions given in the COPYRIGHT file. The present documentation is distributed under the same conditions.

Availability by FTP

The complete Caml Light distribution resides on the machine ftp.inria.fr. The distribution files can be transferred by anonymous FTP: ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/caml-light/