Compilation times and idiomatic D code

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 15 July 2017 at 11:10:32 UTC, Enamex wrote:
> On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 22:45:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I have some stupid questions:
>
> - What does everyone mean when they say 'symbol' here? I'm 
> probably misunderstanding symbols gravely or it's something 
> that DMD in particular handles in a strange way.
>
> [...]

A symbol is anything which has an address and can/could be picked 
up by the linker.
In other words a symbol is anything which has a name. (or could 
have a name)