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Return a `const` reference to the element at the front of this array. The behavior is undefined unless `0 < length()`. Note that this method is logically equivalent to: ` operator `

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlc_compactedarray.h>`

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----
TYPE const&
front() const;
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