What is the state of opAssign?

[BCS]

Reply to Nathan,


> Frankly, I think this is a very bad idea.  With the usual semantics of
> assignment are it *doesn't* depend on the current value of the lhs.
> Overloading an operator such that its semantics violates the
> assumptions programmers normally make about it is never good imho.
> This is why D doesn't allow commutative operators to be overloaded as
> non-commutative, etc...
> 
> Thanks,
> Nathan Reed

Point taken. However In the case I'm using, the semantics would be as expected 
because I'd be modeling a different semantic system. OTOH, I think I might 
be able to avoid that issue by defining the assignment from the left side 
(I might be forced to anyway by other constrains).