improve usability of --mangle-props

README.md

@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ unquoted style (`o.foo`). Example:
 // stuff.js
 var o = {
     "foo": 1,
-    bar: 3
+    bar: 3,
 };
 o.foo += o.bar;
 console.log(o.foo);
@@ -339,6 +339,16 @@ $ uglifyjs stuff.js --mangle-props keep_quoted -c -m
 var o={foo:1,o:3};o.foo+=o.o,console.log(o.foo);
 ```
 
+If the minified output will be processed again by UglifyJS, consider specifying
+`keep_quoted_props` so the same property names are preserved:
+
+```bash
+$ uglifyjs stuff.js --mangle-props keep_quoted -c -m -O keep_quoted_props
+```
+```javascript
+var o={"foo":1,o:3};o.foo+=o.o,console.log(o.foo);
+```
+
 ### Debugging property name mangling
 
 You can also pass `--mangle-props debug` in order to mangle property names

lib/ast.js

@@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ var AST_New = DEFNODE("New", null, {
 var AST_Sequence = DEFNODE("Sequence", "expressions", {
     $documentation: "A sequence expression (comma-separated expressions)",
     $propdoc: {
-        expressions: "[AST_Node*] array of expressions (at least two)"
+        expressions: "[AST_Node*] array of expressions (at least two)",
     },
     _equals: function(node) {
         return all_equals(this.expressions, node.expressions);
@@ -1568,8 +1568,11 @@ var AST_PropAccess = DEFNODE("PropAccess", "expression optional property termina
     },
 });
 
-var AST_Dot = DEFNODE("Dot", null, {
+var AST_Dot = DEFNODE("Dot", "quoted", {
     $documentation: "A dotted property access expression",
+    $propdoc: {
+        quoted: "[boolean] whether property is transformed from a quoted string",
+    },
     walk: function(visitor) {
         var node = this;
         visitor.visit(node, function() {
@@ -1618,7 +1621,7 @@ var AST_Unary = DEFNODE("Unary", "operator expression", {
     $documentation: "Base class for unary expressions",
     $propdoc: {
         operator: "[string] the operator",
-        expression: "[AST_Node] expression that this unary operator applies to"
+        expression: "[AST_Node] expression that this unary operator applies to",
     },
     _equals: function(node) {
         return this.operator == node.operator

lib/compress.js

@@ -13236,6 +13236,7 @@ Compressor.prototype.compress = function(node) {
                         optional: self.optional,
                         expression: expr,
                         property: property,
+                        quoted: true,
                     }).optimize(compressor);
                 }
             }

lib/minify.js

@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ function minify(files, options) {
             toplevel.mangle_names(options.mangle);
         }
         if (timings) timings.properties = Date.now();
+        if (quoted_props) reserve_quoted_keys(toplevel, quoted_props);
         if (options.mangle && options.mangle.properties) mangle_properties(toplevel, options.mangle.properties);
         if (options.parse.expression) toplevel = toplevel.unwrap_expression();
         if (timings) timings.output = Date.now();

lib/output.js

@@ -1517,7 +1517,7 @@ function OutputStream(options) {
         var expr = self.expression;
         expr.print(output);
         var prop = self.property;
-        if (output.option("ie") && RESERVED_WORDS[prop]) {
+        if (output.option("ie") && RESERVED_WORDS[prop] || self.quoted && output.option("keep_quoted_props")) {
             if (self.optional) output.print("?.");
             output.with_square(function() {
                 output.add_mapping(self.end);

lib/propmangle.js

@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ function reserve_quoted_keys(ast, reserved) {
     ast.walk(new TreeWalker(function(node) {
         if (node instanceof AST_ClassProperty) {
             if (node.start && node.start.quote) add(node.key);
+        } else if (node instanceof AST_Dot) {
+            if (node.quoted) add(node.property);
         } else if (node instanceof AST_ObjectProperty) {
             if (node.start && node.start.quote) add(node.key);
         } else if (node instanceof AST_Sub) {

test/compress.js

@@ -307,8 +307,9 @@ function test_case(test) {
             warnings_emitted.push(text);
         }, /"INFO: /.test(expected_warnings));
     }
+    var quoted_props;
     if (test.mangle && test.mangle.properties && test.mangle.properties.keep_quoted) {
-        var quoted_props = test.mangle.properties.reserved;
+        quoted_props = test.mangle.properties.reserved;
         if (!Array.isArray(quoted_props)) quoted_props = [];
         test.mangle.properties.reserved = quoted_props;
         U.reserve_quoted_keys(input, quoted_props);
@@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ function test_case(test) {
     if (test.mangle) {
         output.compute_char_frequency(test.mangle);
         output.mangle_names(test.mangle);
+        if (quoted_props) U.reserve_quoted_keys(input, quoted_props);
         if (test.mangle.properties) U.mangle_properties(output, test.mangle.properties);
     }
     var output_code = make_code(output, output_options, test.expression);

test/compress/properties.js

@@ -353,6 +353,68 @@ mangle_debug_suffix_keep_quoted: {
     }
 }
 
+keep_substituted_property: {
+    options = {
+        evaluate: true,
+        properties: true,
+        reduce_vars: true,
+    }
+    mangle = {
+        properties: {
+            keep_quoted: true,
+        },
+    }
+    input: {
+        var o = { p: [] };
+        function f(b) {
+            return o[b];
+        }
+        function g() {
+            var a = "p";
+            return o[a] === f(a);
+        }
+        console.log(g() ? "PASS" : "FAIL");
+    }
+    expect: {
+        var o = { p: [] };
+        function f(n) {
+            return o[n];
+        }
+        function g() {
+            var n = "p";
+            return o.p === f(n);
+        }
+        console.log(g() ? "PASS" : "FAIL");
+    }
+    expect_stdout: "PASS"
+}
+
+keep_substituted_property_quotes: {
+    options = {
+        evaluate: true,
+        properties: true,
+        reduce_vars: true,
+    }
+    beautify = {
+        keep_quoted_props: true,
+    }
+    input: {
+        function f(o) {
+            var a = "p";
+            return o[a];
+        }
+        console.log(f({ p: "PASS" }));
+    }
+    expect: {
+        function f(o) {
+            var a = "p";
+            return o["p"];
+        }
+        console.log(f({ p: "PASS" }));
+    }
+    expect_stdout: "PASS"
+}
+
 first_256_chars_as_properties: {
     beautify = {
         ascii_only: true,
@@ -899,12 +961,15 @@ issue_2256: {
         },
     }
     input: {
-        ({ "keep": 1 });
-        g.keep = g.change;
+        ({ "keep": 42 });
+        global.keep = global.change;
+        console.log(keep);
     }
     expect: {
-        g.keep = g.g;
+        global.keep = global.l;
+        console.log(keep);
     }
+    expect_stdout: "undefined"
 }
 
 lhs_prop_1: {