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Return the smallest (non‐negative) index that has not been issued by this index clerk. Note that this function offers the client a "peek" at the next "new" index, but has no effect on the value of this index clerk.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlc_indexclerk.h>`

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int
nextNewIndex() const;
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