Foreword

This manual documents the release 3.04 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.

Conventions

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).

License

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 copyright © 2001 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The Objective Caml documentation and user's manual may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:

- The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be preserved complete on all complete or partial copies.
- Any translation or derivative work of the Objective Caml documentation and user's manual must be approved by the authors in writing before distribution.
- If you distribute the Objective Caml documentation and user's manual in part, instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided.
- Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation is given.

Availability

The complete Objective Caml distribution can be accessed via the `http://caml.inria.fr/`Caml Web site, or directly on the `ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/caml-light/`anonymous FTP archive. The `http://caml.inria.fr/`Caml Web site contains a lot of additional information on the Caml family of languages.