is there a cleaner way to new a static sized array?

[BCS]

Hello Daoryn,

> BCS Wrote:
> 
>> I need a function that works like the following:
>> 
>>> T* New(T)() { return new T; }
>>
>> But that also works with static arrays:
>> 
>>> auto i = New!(int)();
>>> auto a = New!(int[27])();
>>
>> The cleanest solution I can think of is:
>> 
>>> T* New(T)() { return (new T[1]).ptr; }
>> 
>> but that seems ugly. Any ideas?
>> 
>
> I'm sorry, but I dont understand the purpose. Whats wrong with "T[27] array"?

I need to, under some cases, allocate it array out of a mem-mapped file and 
under others, allocate it off the heap.

> Unless you want to use the heap but if so, why not just go with
> dynamic arrays? Whats the advantage of using static arrays on heap vs
> dynamic?

I expect to have piles of arrays, all the same length where I know their 
length at compile time. In short, aside from the problem of allocating them, 
I have no reason /not/ to use static arrays.

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