Well, std::array is meant to be a direct replacement for what jenadine mentioned, the C style of doing static arrays. I think under the hood it takes over the a

Well, std::array is meant to be a direct replacement for what jenadine mentioned, the C style of doing static arrays. I think under the hood it takes over the array initialization syntax as well (or array initialization of objects got added to the standard to support std::array?) and IIRC there are some functions that are simply unavailable to std::array because of its array based construction. I don't remember exactly what but I have run into it before, I think the iterator implementation is a raw pointer and that breaks the interface expectations a bit?