/** Static array helper from p0nce's D idioms

 *

 * Use with "auto" to get a static array with automatically-deduced

 * size. DO NOT assign the return value to a variable of type T[], or

 * you will get a dangling pointer.

 */

pure nothrow @nogc @safe

T[n] staticArray(T, size_t n)(auto ref T[n] array)

{

    return array;

}

​

enum a = staticArray(["a"]);

​

extern(C) void main() {

        int i = 0;

        auto s = a[i];

}