diff --git a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala
index 49e65bbb0b1f..e7da58fd5644 100644
--- a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala
+++ b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/config/ScalaSettings.scala
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ class ScalaSettings extends Settings.SettingGroup {
   val Ydumpclasses = StringSetting("-Ydump-classes", "dir", "Dump the generated bytecode to .class files (useful for reflective compilation that utilizes in-memory classloaders).", "")
   val YstopAfter = PhasesSetting("-Ystop-after", "Stop after") withAbbreviation ("-stop") // backward compat
   val YstopBefore = PhasesSetting("-Ystop-before", "Stop before") // stop before erasure as long as we have not debugged it fully
-  val YmethodInfer = BooleanSetting("-Yinfer-argument-types", "Infer types for arguments of overriden methods.")
   val YtraceContextCreation = BooleanSetting("-Ytrace-context-creation", "Store stack trace of context creations.")
   val YshowSuppressedErrors = BooleanSetting("-Yshow-suppressed-errors", "Also show follow-on errors and warnings that are normally supressed.")
   val YdetailedStats = BooleanSetting("-Ydetailed-stats", "show detailed internal compiler stats (needs Stats.enabled to be set to true).")
diff --git a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala
index 9e75ade74971..6adac05db82a 100644
--- a/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala
+++ b/compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/parsing/Parsers.scala
@@ -1914,15 +1914,10 @@ object Parsers {
         }
         atPos(start, nameStart) {
           val name = ident()
-          val tpt =
-            if (ctx.settings.YmethodInfer.value && owner.isTermName && in.token != COLON) {
-              TypeTree()  // XX-METHOD-INFER
-            } else {
-              accept(COLON)
-              if (in.token == ARROW && owner.isTypeName && !(mods is Local))
-                syntaxError(VarValParametersMayNotBeCallByName(name, mods is Mutable))
-              paramType()
-            }
+          accept(COLON)
+          if (in.token == ARROW && owner.isTypeName && !(mods is Local))
+            syntaxError(VarValParametersMayNotBeCallByName(name, mods is Mutable))
+          val tpt = paramType()
           val default =
             if (in.token == EQUALS) { in.nextToken(); expr() }
             else EmptyTree