Parser confuses variable 'x' and component 'myVec.x'

[heidemn]

Currently, the minifier glsl-min-stream does not work correctly when a shader contains both the variables x and the vector subscript myVec.x.
The reason is that glsl-parser seems to re-use the node of the AST for both occurences of 'x'. -> The minifier first gets the node with node.type == 'ident', node.token.type == 'ident' (for the variable x). Then, the minifier gets the same node (equal by reference) with node.type == 'literal', node.token.type == 'ident'.
The minifier will minify the occurence as a variable. As a side effect, the occurence as a vector subscript will also be minified! This breaks the shader.
I think that glsl-min-stream is correctly implemented, but glsl-parser should not re-use the same node for different types of AST nodes.

Example: Because of this parser bug, following code...

float w = abs(projPosition.w);
if (projPosition.z > -w && projPosition.z < w) { /*... */ }

...is minified to:

float i = abs(h.i);
if(h.z > -i && h.z < i) { /* ... */ }

[gre]

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BTW this is a duplicate with stackgl/glsl-min-stream#2