From 226d5d816288af4d3910cf07c9c1ae2e868b515c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sanjana This part of the manual is a tutorial introduction to the
-OCaml language. A good familiarity with programming in a conventional
+OCaml language. A good familiarity with programming in any of the conventional
languages (say, Pascal or C) is assumed, but no prior exposure to
functional languages is required. The present chapter introduces the
core language. Chapter 2 deals with the
-module system, chapter 3 with the
-object-oriented features, chapter 4 with
+module system, Chapter 3 with the
+object-oriented features, Chapter 4 with
extensions to the core language (labeled arguments and polymorphic
-variants), and chapter 5 gives some advanced examples.Chapter 1 The core language
For this overview of OCaml, we use the interactive system, which is started by running ocaml from the Unix shell, or by launching the