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I don't understand.

Why would one submit a minified code for a review?

A friend of mine used to work at a place where one of the coder actually used 'a', 'aa', 'aaa'...when naming variables.

I was joking. The example sort of looks like something that would fall out of minify -- although 'a' - 'z' would have to be used/visible in a scope before 'aa' would be generated as a name.

I should have clarified. The coder style of naming might seem to be run through minifier, but the coder actually wrote 'a', 'aa', 'aaa'...

My guess is that the coder saw a minified code a took it as a standard or something.

And that was the joke: that the original code "out-minified" minify - that running the original gibberish through minify would NOT make it any smaller :-)

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