Best way to duplicate an associative array

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In article <dvufh2$1e9l$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
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>"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>news:dvuba7$196f$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
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>Actually, this is simpler and may be faster (not sure):
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>template dup(T)
>{
> T dup(T aa)
> {
>  T aa2;
>
>  foreach(key, value; aa)
>   aa2[key] = value;
>
>  return aa2;
> }
>}

Its likely faster as you're not performing a lookup on 'aa' twice per loop.

- EricAnderton at yahoo