associative arrays: how to insert key and return pointer in 1 step to avoid searching twice

[Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d]

is there a way to do this efficiently with associative arrays:

aa[key]=value;
auto ptr=key in aa;

without suffering the cost of the 2nd search (compiler should know ptr
during aa[key]=value but it's not exposed it seems)
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