Evaluate "foo".length ==> 3

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/compress.js b/lib/compress.js
index b589aca5..fd3f7a21 100644
--- a/lib/compress.js
+++ b/lib/compress.js
@@ -775,6 +775,14 @@ merge(Compressor.prototype, {
             if (d && d.constant && d.init) return ev(d.init, compressor);
             throw def;
         });
+        def(AST_Dot, function(compressor){
+            if (compressor.option("unsafe") && this.property == "length") {
+                var str = ev(this.expression, compressor);
+                if (typeof str == "string")
+                    return str.length;
+            }
+            throw def;
+        });
     })(function(node, func){
         node.DEFMETHOD("_eval", func);
     });
@@ -2349,7 +2357,7 @@ merge(Compressor.prototype, {
                 return make_node(AST_Dot, self, {
                     expression : self.expression,
                     property   : prop
-                });
+                }).optimize(compressor);
             }
             var v = parseFloat(prop);
             if (!isNaN(v) && v.toString() == prop) {
@@ -2361,6 +2369,10 @@ merge(Compressor.prototype, {
         return self;
     });
 
+    OPT(AST_Dot, function(self, compressor){
+        return self.evaluate(compressor)[0];
+    });
+
     function literals_in_boolean_context(self, compressor) {
         if (compressor.option("booleans") && compressor.in_boolean_context()) {
             return make_node(AST_True, self);