Creating a type alias for a templated class

Answer 1

Another way:

#include 

template 
struct MyArray
    :std::vector
{
};

void func()
{
    MyArray my;

    my.push_back(5);

    MyArray::iterator i;
}

Compiles for me, but you may find that some things available in vector<> need to be "pulled up" into MyArray.