opIndexAddAssign? ...

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Lionello Lunesu" <lio at lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message 
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> opIndexAssign was needed because D has no "inout" return type. It's a 
> hack, if you ask me.

Ehhh, I don't really think so.. having opIndexAssign is nice because you can 
do some processing on the value when it's assigned.  How, for example would 
you do something as simple as this:

void opIndexAssign(int value, int key)
{
    mData[key] = value % 10;
}

using inout return values?  In almost every one of my opIndexAssign 
overloads, I do some kind of checking or processing on the value before 
inserting it into the internal container.