Review request for JDK-8193295: Remove no longer used COMMALEFT

[Hannes Wallnöfer]

Interesting. I bet the answer is in the commits from before we went open source.

+1

I assume this is for JDK 11?

Hannes

> Am 21.12.2017 um 19:20 schrieb Attila Szegedi <szegedia at gmail.com>:
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> Please review JDK-8193295 "Remove no longer used COMMALEFT" at <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~attila/8193295/webrev.jdk> for <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193295>
> 
> I love deleting code :-)
> 
> COMMALEFT was an odd duck, as there’s not really anything in the ES specification that’d require it, and we really don’t even use it for anything. I had a memory that we used to use it for some behavior around object literals, but I can’t find any traces of that… I run:
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> 	hg log --template "{ifcontains('COMMALEFT', diff(), '{node} {desc}\n', '')}”
> 
> and trawled through the diffs for all changesets it brought up, but I haven’t found a single use of COMMALEFT ever.
> 
> Thanks,
>  Attila.