RFC: Implementation of binary assignment operators (e.g s.x += 2) for @property functions

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 August 2017 at 03:53:44 UTC, Michael V. Franklin 
wrote:
> An implementation of binary assignment operators for @property 
> functions has been submitted to the DMD pull request queue at 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7079.  It addresses the 
> following issues:
>
> Issue 8006 - Implement proper in-place-modification for 
> properties
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8006
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> This is the primary issue motivating the pull request.  The 
> pull request is only a partial resolution of this issue; it 
> implements binary assignment operators (e.g. `s.x += 2`), but 
> not unary assignment operators (e.g. `s.x++`).  The plan is to 
> implement unary assignment operators in a separate pull request 
> after the fate of the binary assignment operators pull request 
> is decided.

I'm a huge fan of this, but then I am of the mindset that 
@property functions should act like variables much in the way 
that they do for C# properties.