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7.5  Constants

constant::= integer-literal  
 ∣ int32-literal  
 ∣ int64-literal  
 ∣ nativeint-literal  
 ∣ float-literal  
 ∣ char-literal  
 ∣ string-literal  
 ∣ constr  
 ∣ false  
 ∣ true  
 ∣ ()  
 ∣ begin end  
 ∣ []  
 ∣ [||]  
 ∣ `tag-name

See also the following language extension: extension literals.

The syntactic class of constants comprises literals from the four base types (integers, floating-point numbers, characters, character strings), the integer variants, and constant constructors from both normal and polymorphic variants, as well as the special constants false, true, (), [], and [||], which behave like constant constructors, and begin end, which is equivalent to ().


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