Mangling and top level symbols

[rspivak]

Mangling and top level symbols

[davidkhess]

After thinking about it some more, the core of the problem was that I was losing a reference to $ (jQuery) – I believe the mangler was using $ for a symbol of it's own. So, it may be more of an issue that somehow the mangler needs to know what identifiers it should not use when mangling at the top level.

Regardless, of how you look at it, this approach still handles it by leaving the global scope alone.

[rspivak]

I think it's a good idea not to mess with global scope by default.
I made some changes so that Slimit doesn't mangle global scope any more and added a -t / --mangle-toplevel command line option that allows you to enable the global scope mangling for better minification results if that's what one needs and understands the possible consequences.

[davidkhess]

Sounds like a good solution. Thanks!