less verbose way to declare multidimensional std::array

Question

Short question: Is there a shorter way to do this

array,n>,m> matrix;

I was hoping for something like

Answer 1

A palatable workaround for compilers that don't support template aliases yet is to use a simple metafunction to generate the type:

#include 
#include 

template
struct Matrix
{
    typedef std::array, RowsN> type; // row major

private:
    Matrix(); // prevent accidental construction of the metafunction itself
};

int main()
{
    Matrix::type matrix;
}