How to make a std::array?

Question

Since std::array hasn't an explicit constructor and my compiler doesn't support initialization list. I'd like to make a std::array with a function like

template<class T, int N>
std::array<T, N> makeArray(T const& t0 = 0, T const& t1 = 0, T const& t2 = 0,
                           T const& t3 = 0, T const& t4 = 0, T const& t5 = 0,
                           T const& t6 = 0, T const& t7 = 0, T const& t8 = 0)
{
 ...
}

Just list 9 elements, can be more. How to implement the function?

Answer 1

Implementing a make_array is a bad idea in general, but the way to create an std::array out of a set of values is using aggregate-initialization:

std::array<int,5> a = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };

Note that it is not an std::initializer_list<int>.