# 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