Hi,

the manual describes the function "abs" as

"Return the absolute value of the argument."

This is not quite true:

        Objective Caml version 3.07+beta 2

# abs min_int;;
- : int = -1073741824

IMO abs should thow an Failure exception or the manual should 
point out this behavior.

Christoph Bauer

-- 
proc self {} {foreach c [split [info body self] ""] d {14 -7 0 0 4 -67 4 73 11
69 24 -83 -15 6 -4 -84 78 20 11 -78 -1 -1 79 19 -8 4} { binary scan $c c c
if {[catch {append r [format %c [expr $c+$d]]}]} {return $r};}};puts [self]

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