The Caml Light system, documentation and user's guide

Release 0.74, December 1997

Xavier Leroy

• Foreword

Getting started

• Installation instructions

The Caml Light language reference manual

• The core Caml Light language
• Language extensions

The Caml Light commands

• Batch compilation (camlc)
• The toplevel system (camllight)
• The runtime system (camlrun)
• The librarian (camllibr)
• Lexer and parser generators (camllex, camlyacc)
• The debugger (camldebug)
• Profiling (camlpro)
• Using Caml Light under Emacs
• Interfacing C with Caml Light

The Caml Light library

• The core library
• The standard library
• The graphics library
• The unix library: Unix system calls
• The num library: arbitrary-precision rational arithmetic
• The str library: regular expressions and string processing

Appendix

• Further reading