23 Containers library [containers]

The header <array> defines a class template for storing fixed-size sequences of objects. An array is a contiguous container ([container.requirements.general]). An instance of array<T, N> stores N elements of type T, so that size() == N is an invariant.

An array is an aggregate ([dcl.init.aggr]) that can be list-initialized with up to N elements whose types are convertible to T.

An array satisfies all of the requirements of a container and of a reversible container ([container.requirements]), except that a default constructed array object is not empty and that swap does not have constant complexity. An array satisfies some of the requirements of a sequence container ([sequence.reqmts]). Descriptions are provided here only for operations on array that are not described in one of these tables and for operations where there is additional semantic information.

namespace std {
  template <class T, size_t N>
  struct array {
    //  types:
    using value_type             = T;
    using pointer                = T*;
    using const_pointer          = const T*;
    using reference              = T&;
    using const_reference        = const T&;
    using size_type              = size_t;
    using difference_type        = ptrdiff_t;
    using iterator               = implementation-defined; // see [container.requirements]
    using const_iterator         = implementation-defined; // see [container.requirements]
    using reverse_iterator       = std::reverse_iterator<iterator>;
    using const_reverse_iterator = std::reverse_iterator<const_iterator>;

    // no explicit construct/copy/destroy for aggregate type

    void fill(const T& u);
    void swap(array&) noexcept(is_nothrow_swappable_v<T>);

    // iterators:
    constexpr iterator               begin() noexcept;
    constexpr const_iterator         begin() const noexcept;
    constexpr iterator               end() noexcept;
    constexpr const_iterator         end() const noexcept;

    constexpr reverse_iterator       rbegin() noexcept;
    constexpr const_reverse_iterator rbegin() const noexcept;
    constexpr reverse_iterator       rend() noexcept;
    constexpr const_reverse_iterator rend() const noexcept;

    constexpr const_iterator         cbegin() const noexcept;
    constexpr const_iterator         cend() const noexcept;
    constexpr const_reverse_iterator crbegin() const noexcept;
    constexpr const_reverse_iterator crend() const noexcept;

    // capacity:
    constexpr bool      empty() const noexcept;
    constexpr size_type size() const noexcept;
    constexpr size_type max_size() const noexcept;

    // element access:
    constexpr reference       operator[](size_type n);
    constexpr const_reference operator[](size_type n) const;
    constexpr reference       at(size_type n);
    constexpr const_reference at(size_type n) const;
    constexpr reference       front();
    constexpr const_reference front() const;
    constexpr reference       back();
    constexpr const_reference back() const;

    constexpr T *       data() noexcept;
    constexpr const T * data() const noexcept;
  };
}