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Return a datum holding a "deep‐copy" of this object, using the specified `allocator` to supply memory. This method creates an independent deep‐copy of the data of this object, including any referenced data, with the exception of {User Defined Types}. For further information see {Deep Copying}.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdld_datum.h>`

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clone(xref:BloombergLP/bdld/Datum/AllocatorType.adoc[AllocatorType] const& allocator) const;
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