fix for #8088 (Cannot name a struct field `new` due to ancient syntax)

remove code for parsing ancient syntax
added a run-pass test

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/obsolete-syntax.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/obsolete-syntax.rs
index 8ba5e2815a5..49af0972341 100644
--- a/src/test/compile-fail/obsolete-syntax.rs
+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/obsolete-syntax.rs
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ struct s {
     //~^ ERROR obsolete syntax: `let` in field declaration
     bar: ();
     //~^ ERROR obsolete syntax: field declaration terminated with semicolon
-    new() { }
-    //~^ ERROR obsolete syntax: struct constructor
 }
 
 struct q : r {
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/struct-new-as-field-name.rs b/src/test/run-pass/struct-new-as-field-name.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fb93c560e0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/struct-new-as-field-name.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+struct Foo {
+    new: int,
+}
+
+pub fn main() {
+    let foo = Foo{ new: 3 };
+    assert_eq!(foo.new, 3);
+}