Returning an array in C++

PLEASE /prog/ help me out here. I've read and tested at least 5 "answers" to my question that I've found on google, but I can't get any of them to work. You guys are better than them though, right?

I wanted to call an array by reference in a function. Then, I learned that that was impossible. I tried returning the array, but you can't do that either.

Apparently, I need to do some shit with pointers to return the array. How the fuck do I do this?

>>57
Wow, you're pretty awesome Anonymous.

>>53
Interestingly your destroy_the_stack array doesn't actually destroy the stack. You just declared some stack space which is never actually used. Try destroy_the_stack[0]=0;.

>>50
Way to not get the point. These are not features, they are anti-features. They are a massive overcomplication of something that should be extremely simple.

This thread is like the twilight zone. Since when does /prog/ like sepples?