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Return a reference to the shared pointer at the front of this buffer.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_fixedsizerecordbuffer.h>`

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== Description

Return a reference of the shared pointer referring to the record positioned at the front end of this record buffer. The behavior is undefined unless this record buffer has been locked by the `beginSequence` method and unless `0 < length()`.

== Return Value

reference to the shared pointer at the front of this buffer


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