commit 8b5638a6b6420bc1fb0cb383c654cc3abf2077e4
author Kevin Moore <kevmoo@google.com> Wed Jul 31 12:57:54 2019 -0700
committer Kevin Moore <kevmoo@users.noreply.github.com> Wed Jul 31 13:15:18 2019 -0700
tree 9a96288f03c07383a8e6eac9a63a05495117ecc8
parent 4d4b0e3a7412f51dbe6bda15088152aa1aeaa951

Remove very old work-around

Fixes https://github.com/dart-lang/string_scanner/issues/1

lib/src/string_scanner.dart

diff --git a/lib/src/string_scanner.dart b/lib/src/string_scanner.dart
index 4506355..f6243aa 100644
--- a/lib/src/string_scanner.dart
+++ b/lib/src/string_scanner.dart
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@
 import 'exception.dart';
 import 'utils.dart';
 
-/// When compiled to JS, forward slashes are always escaped in [RegExp.pattern].
-///
-/// See issue 17998.
-final _slashAutoEscape = RegExp("/").pattern == "\\/";
-
 /// A class that scans through a string using [Pattern]s.
 class StringScanner {
   /// The URL of the source of the string being scanned.
@@ -148,7 +143,6 @@
     if (name == null) {
       if (pattern is RegExp) {
         var source = pattern.pattern;
-        if (!_slashAutoEscape) source = source.replaceAll("/", "\\/");
         name = "/$source/";
       } else {
         name =