Minifyer skips some variables when written below Main()

I suppose this behavior is expected if it minifies from top-to-bottom, going through A to Z. I tried to see if I could balance characters written and instruction count by writing a sort of library of strings that has to be repeated throughout the script. Since I found it messy to keep the library above Program(), I moved it below Main(). As a result, not all of the variables got abbreviated upon deploy.

string
            _TARGET = "Target",
            _RANGE = "Range",
            _METEORS = "Meteors",
            _MISSILES = "Missiles",
            _SMALLSHIPS = "SmallShips",
            _LARGESHIPS = "LargeShips",
            _CHARACTERS = "Characters",
            _STATIONS = "Stations",
            _NEUTRALS = "Neutrals",
            _ON = "_On",
            _OFF = "_Off",
            _ONOFF = "OnOff",
            _ATMOSPHERIC = "atmospheric",
            _HYDROGEN = "hydrogen",
            _ION = "ion";

string y=“Target”,_RANGE=“Range”,_METEORS=“Meteors”,_MISSILES=“Missiles”,C=“SmallShips”,D=“LargeShips”,E=“Characters”,F=“Stations”,G=“Neutrals”,H=“_On”,_OFF=“_Off”,J=“OnOff”,K=“atmospheric”,L=“hydrogen”,M=“ion”;

When I moved the collection of strings back up to the top, above Program(), it was no longer an issue.

Easiest solution: User writes variables at the top where they are expected to be found procedurally.

[malware-dev]

Well I would have preferred if you’d actually zipped your solution, but I can probably make this work 😉

PS: You should probably make those strings const string, I assume they’ll never actually change during runtime.

[malware-dev]

Since the minifier is being completely rewritten from scratch, this issue is no longer relevant.