remove excess unused std variables

[redspacecat]

right now when including the standard library, extra variables are added to the final project, even if they aren't used.
example code:

main.gs

costumes "assets/blank.svg";

%include std/string

causes 22 variables and 2 lists to be added excessively

[faretek1]

This is a problem with libraries in general. But you can just use a sb3 project optimization tool to get rid of them - it's just suboptimal code output. Goboscript is not designed to produce optimal output in that sense. You can just get rid of the vars/lists when you actually want to make a release, albeit a little tedious unless you use a proper tool. Hopefully something like inflator could support this in the future. Let me add that to my future plans...

[redspacecat]

okay then

[aspizu]

could u make an issue for the variables that should be optimized away, because we do remove unused functions but the vars are not removed for some reason Regards, Priyanshu Dangare https://github.com/aspizu Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for Android.

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[redspacecat]

could u make an issue for the variables that should be optimized away, because we do remove unused functions but the vars are not removed for some reason

Goboscript is not designed to produce optimal output in that sense

Are extra std variables intentional or not?

[faretek1]

Are extra std variables intentional or not?

no, they're just part of the var optimization issue which I thought was low priority