Identifier-name compression.

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 23:22:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/21/2016 4:08 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> A symbol can be uniquely identified with the module it is 
>> defined in and a
>> numerical id.
>
> I've used such for temporaries, but they caused problems and 
> people complained.

I see.
But realistically compression of the symbolName is not diffrent.
If fact the hypothetical id-to-name table would just be the 
external dictionary of a compressor.