Making ShrinkSafe more useful

[ilia]

Currently, Rhino shortens only truly private variables, making compression 100%-safe.

But most of time, there is a *bunch* of internal code that is never called from outside, e.g dojo DOM-manipulation functions, many internal processing methods, etc etc.

Let Rhino compress all that stuff, making only *few* methods for public calls. In my projects I can list such methods explicitly.

This will make JS shorter and programs run faster, because short names are easier for JavaScript? to interpret.

[peller]

sounds a bit like the jslinker project... is there any intention to add this to shrinksafe? I'm taking the 0.9 milestone off.

[dylan]

moving shrinksafe bugs to 1.2

[peller]

future? wontfix?

[jburke]

Marking as wontfix: if you want this behavior and the functions are really private, wrap them in a code in a (function(){})(); call. This should make it possible to shorten the variables.