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Design Rationale

There was an important design tradeoff regarding the constructors: We could implement array as an "aggregate" (see Section 8.5.1, [dcl.init.aggr], of the C++ Standard). This would mean:

However, this approach has its drawbacks: passing no initializer list means that the elements have an indetermined initial value, because the rule says that aggregates may have:

Nevertheless, The current implementation uses this approach.

Note that for standard conforming compilers it is possible to use fewer braces (according to 8.5.1 (11) of the Standard). That is, you can initialize an array as follows:

boost::array<int,4> a = { 1, 2, 3 };

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