toplevel

Many OCaml guides and tutorials refer to the OCaml toplevel, but what exactly is this thing? In short, the toplevel is OCaml’s Read-Eval-Print-Loop (repl) allowing interative use of the OCaml system. You can consider the toplevel an alternative to compiling OCaml into an executable. In this mode, the OCaml system is configured to repeatedly read phrases from input, typecheck, compile, and evaluate them, then print the inferred type and result value....