\section{s:bigarray-access}{Syntax for Bigarray access}
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(Introduced in Objective Caml 3.00)

\begin{syntax}
expr:
          ...
        | expr '.{' expr { ',' expr } '}'
        | expr '.{' expr { ',' expr } '}' '<-' expr
\end{syntax}

This extension provides syntactic sugar for getting and setting
elements in the arrays provided by the \stdmoduleref{Bigarray} module.

The short expressions are translated into calls to functions of the
"Bigarray" module as described in the following table.

\begin{tableau}{|l|l|}{expression}{translation}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1'}'@}
       {"Bigarray.Array1.get "@expr_0 expr_1@}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1'}' '<-'expr@}
       {"Bigarray.Array1.set "@expr_0 expr_1 expr@}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1',' expr_2'}'@}
       {"Bigarray.Array2.get "@expr_0 expr_1 expr_2@}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1',' expr_2'}' '<-'expr@}
       {"Bigarray.Array2.set "@expr_0 expr_1 expr_2 expr@}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1',' expr_2',' expr_3'}'@}
       {"Bigarray.Array3.get "@expr_0 expr_1 expr_2 expr_3@}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1',' expr_2',' expr_3'}' '<-'expr@}
       {"Bigarray.Array3.set "@expr_0 expr_1 expr_2 expr_3 expr@}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1',' \ldots',' expr_n'}'@}
       {"Bigarray.Genarray.get "@ expr_0 '[|' expr_1',' \ldots ','
        expr_n '|]'@}
\entree{@expr_0'.{'expr_1',' \ldots',' expr_n'}' '<-'expr@}
       {"Bigarray.Genarray.set "@ expr_0 '[|' expr_1',' \ldots ','
        expr_n '|]' expr@}
\end{tableau}

The last two entries are valid for any $n > 3$.