Make MutableList#EMPTY private
RELNOTES: None
@@ -343,12 +343,8 @@ public abstract class SkylarkList<E> extends MutableCollection<E>
* <p>Other immutable empty list objects can exist, e.g. lists that were once mutable but whose
* environments were then frozen. This instance is for empty lists that were always frozen from
* the beginning.
- *
- * @deprecated Prefer {@link #empty()} instead, since that includes a cast for the element type.
- * This field will be made private in the near future.
*/
- @Deprecated
- public static final MutableList<?> EMPTY =
+ private static final MutableList<?> EMPTY =
new MutableList<>(ImmutableList.of(), Mutability.IMMUTABLE);
/** Returns an empty frozen list, cast to have an arbitrary content type. */
