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Remove positional selectors

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Since Jun 29, 2020.

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Description

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To be able to reduce selector code size drastically, we should remove custom traversing code from the selector module. That requires dropping positional selectors, though.

Originally reported at https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/issues/293, see the discussion there.

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