The container std::array
can bundle together a fixed number of return values. This number has to be known at compile-time and all return values have to be of the same type:
std::array<int, 4> bar(int a, int b) {
return { a + b, a - b, a * b, a / b };
}
This replaces c style arrays of the form int bar[4]
. The advantage being that various c++
std functions can now be used on it. It also provides useful member functions like at
which is a safe member access function with bound checking, and size
which allows you to return the size of the array without calculation.