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

Attila Szegedi szegedia at gmail.com
Sat Jan 13 10:02:25 UTC 2018


Can I get another review?

> On Dec 25, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Attila Szegedi <szegedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, JDK 11. There’s no visible changes, so it doesn’t really make sense pushing it into JDK 10.
> 
>> On Dec 21, 2017, at 9:37 PM, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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>:
>>> 
>>> 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:
>>> 
>>> 	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.
>> 
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