From 2d3dd8563284087874cc05ba0bcd6ca4f712b72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Hanson <anhans@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:55:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Simplify parseTypeReference

Create the node first, rather than creating it later and setting its pos to another node that was created first.
---
 src/compiler/parser.ts | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/compiler/parser.ts b/src/compiler/parser.ts
index fcb85f4fbdc..2ae72417426 100644
--- a/src/compiler/parser.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/parser.ts
@@ -2054,9 +2054,8 @@ namespace ts {
         // TYPES
 
         function parseTypeReference(): TypeReferenceNode {
-            const typeName = parseEntityName(/*allowReservedWords*/ false, Diagnostics.Type_expected);
-            const node = <TypeReferenceNode>createNode(SyntaxKind.TypeReference, typeName.pos);
-            node.typeName = typeName;
+            const node = <TypeReferenceNode>createNode(SyntaxKind.TypeReference);
+            node.typeName = parseEntityName(/*allowReservedWords*/ false, Diagnostics.Type_expected);
             if (!scanner.hasPrecedingLineBreak() && token() === SyntaxKind.LessThanToken) {
                 node.typeArguments = parseBracketedList(ParsingContext.TypeArguments, parseType, SyntaxKind.LessThanToken, SyntaxKind.GreaterThanToken);
             }