Identifier too long - Should this be considered a bug?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.418.1192276971.16939.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> It's OK. I've decided to do things differently so as not to encounter
> the problem.
>
> Thanks guys.

I also ran into this with my MiniD binding library (very similar to Kirk's 
Pyd), but at least for me it was very easy to solve.  Instead of writing 
something like:

WrapModule!(
    "moduleName",
    AMember,
    ... 150 more members ...
)();

I did:

mixin WrapModule!(...) WM;
WM.WM();

The compiler won't generate that extremely long symbol name if you use it in 
a mixin.

The compiler does actually compress the symbol names; you'll see all kinds 
of scary characters if you i.e. use -profile or -cov, or just look at the 
debug symbols.