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<h4>Arrays</h4>
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An <i>array</i> is a data structure consisting of a two-element <i>tuple</i>.
The first element is the number of elements in the <i>array</i>.
The second element is another <i>tuple</i> of the elements in the <i>array</i>.
For example,
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(<i>3</i>, (<i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, <i>c</i>))
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...is an <i>array</i> of <i>3</i> elements--<i>a</i>, <i>b</i>, and <i>c</i>.
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The primary strength of <i>arrays</i> is that they store their own size.
Because of this, access to elements does not require the size.
It only requires that an element exists at a certain index.
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This allows macro parameters to be variable in size and allows data states to change
size without the user explicitly keeping track of the size independently.
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Elements of an <i>array</i> can be extracted with <b>BOOST_PP_ARRAY_ELEM</b>,
an <i>array's</i> size can be extracted with <b>BOOST_PP_ARRAY_SIZE</b>, and
an <i>array</i> can be converted to the more primitive <i>tuple</i> data structure
with <b>BOOST_PP_ARRAY_DATA</b>.
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<h4>Primitives</h4>
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<li><a href="../ref/array_data.html">BOOST_PP_ARRAY_DATA</a></li>
<li><a href="../ref/array_elem.html">BOOST_PP_ARRAY_ELEM</a></li>
<li><a href="../ref/array_size.html">BOOST_PP_ARRAY_SIZE</a></li>
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