So that leaves arrays ... 5]<BR>ANSI C++ forbids declaration `blah' with no type"<BR>for the declaration of 'blahblah'.<P>Is there any way to get this to work? Ideally, I'd only like to have ...

Let's say I have a class of non-trivial size called MyClass I also have an array of MyClass objects ... STL Vector does use placement new under the hood, but that doesn't solve the OP's issue ...