>>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, "EG" = Eduardo Gimenez wrote:

  EG> Which is the "prefix" name in Ocaml for the multiplication on
  EG> integers? The symbols (+), (/), etc. work fine for the other
  EG> arithmetic operations, but the symbol (*) does not.

I think you're probably just finding that the (* is being treated as the
start of a comment.  Put a space after the first bracket, thus: ( *), and
it should work as you require.

Chris.

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