From 6740561f911e82d0b023f8f9f8e90ef9b7d3c11d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian McKenzie <sebmck@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 16:27:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] remove comments from old node after inheriting from new one
 when replacing nodes - closes #2490, closes #2489

---
 packages/babel-traverse/src/path/replacement.js | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/babel-traverse/src/path/replacement.js b/packages/babel-traverse/src/path/replacement.js
index 1094e447a3..eb0ef5c61b 100644
--- a/packages/babel-traverse/src/path/replacement.js
+++ b/packages/babel-traverse/src/path/replacement.js
@@ -137,8 +137,11 @@ export function replaceWith(replacement, whateverAllowed) {
     return this.replaceExpressionWithStatements([replacement]);
   }
 
-  var oldNode = this.node;
-  if (oldNode) t.inheritsComments(replacement, oldNode);
+  let oldNode = this.node;
+  if (oldNode) {
+    t.inheritsComments(replacement, oldNode);
+    t.removeComments(oldNode);
+  }
 
   // replace the node
   this._replaceWith(replacement);