Looking at "idiomatic modern C++", I am often at a loss for words at what lengths they've gone to in order to reinvent things while greatly obfuscating them in the process. Is there a std::pointer_to<T> too? I don't know, but something like this

    std::array<std::pointer_to<byte>, 10> str;

certainly does not look any more readable to me than

    byte *str[10];

. (Disclaimer: I mainly work with C, but find some C++ features genuinely useful, although the majority of the time they seem more like absurd complexity for the sake of complexity.)

Or Nim:

    var str: array[10, ptr byte]

(and much richer types)

Edit: and while I'm here, Nim has other sensible syntax for this low level stuff...

    var b: byte = 10
    str[0] = addr b
    echo $str[0][]