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

[Gary Willoughby 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

I thought @property's behaviour had been removed from the 
language and even though the attribute remains, it doesn't 
actually do anything?