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Return a reference to the first entry of this map.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdld_datum.h>`

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== Description

Return a reference providing non‐modifiable access to the first element of the map this reference object represents. The behavior is undefined unless `size() > 0`.

== Return Value

a reference to the first entry of this map


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