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Chapter 8 Language extensions

This chapter describes language extensions and convenience features that are implemented in OCaml, but not described in the OCaml reference manual.

• 8.1 Recursive definitions of values
• 8.2 Recursive modules
• 8.3 Private types
• 8.4 Locally abstract types
• 8.5 First-class modules
• 8.6 Recovering the type of a module
• 8.7 Substituting inside a signature
• 8.8 Type-level module aliases
• 8.9 Overriding in open statements
• 8.10 Generalized algebraic datatypes
• 8.11 Syntax for Bigarray access
• 8.12 Attributes
• 8.13 Extension nodes
• 8.14 Extensible variant types
• 8.15 Generative functors
• 8.16 Extension-only syntax
• 8.17 Inline records
• 8.18 Documentation comments
• 8.19 Extended indexing operators
• 8.20 Empty variant types
• 8.21 Alerts
• 8.22 Generalized open statements
• 8.23 Binding operators

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