Better fix for #343

We can in fact lift sequences, but only if the operation is assignment and
the left-hand side has no side effects nor property access -- that should
guarantee that whatever we place before it cannot affect the sense of the
assignment.

Dropped contrived test case (too hard to support it now), added a more
meaningful one.

lib/compress.js

@@ -1865,6 +1865,14 @@ merge(Compressor.prototype, {
         return self.evaluate(compressor)[0];
     });
 
+    function has_side_effects_or_prop_access(node, compressor) {
+        var save_pure_getters = compressor.option("pure_getters");
+        compressor.options.pure_getters = false;
+        var ret = node.has_side_effects(compressor);
+        compressor.options.pure_getters = save_pure_getters;
+        return ret;
+    }
+
     AST_Binary.DEFMETHOD("lift_sequences", function(compressor){
         if (compressor.option("sequences")) {
             if (this.left instanceof AST_Seq) {
@@ -1876,8 +1884,8 @@ merge(Compressor.prototype, {
                 return seq;
             }
             if (this.right instanceof AST_Seq
-                && !(this.operator == "||" || this.operator == "&&")
+                && this instanceof AST_Assign
-                && !this.left.has_side_effects(compressor)) {
+                && !has_side_effects_or_prop_access(this.left, compressor)) {
                 var seq = this.right;
                 var x = seq.to_array();
                 this.right = x.pop();

package.json

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "description": "JavaScript parser, mangler/compressor and beautifier toolkit",
     "homepage": "http://lisperator.net/uglifyjs",
     "main": "tools/node.js",
-    "version": "2.4.2",
+    "version": "2.4.3",
     "engines": { "node" : ">=0.4.0" },
     "maintainers": [{
         "name": "Mihai Bazon",

test/compress/sequences.js

@@ -101,10 +101,12 @@ lift_sequences_1: {
 lift_sequences_2: {
     options = { sequences: true, evaluate: true };
     input: {
-        q = 1 + (foo(), bar(), 5) + 7 * (5 / (3 - (a(), (QW=ER), c(), 2))) - (x(), y(), 5);
+        foo.x = (foo = {}, 10);
+        bar = (bar = {}, 10);
     }
     expect: {
-        foo(), bar(), a(), QW = ER, c(), x(), y(), q = 36
+        foo.x = (foo = {}, 10),
+        bar = {}, bar = 10;
     }
 }