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authorManish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com>2016-06-01 12:57:41 +0530
committerManish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com>2016-06-01 12:57:41 +0530
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Rollup merge of #33606 - tshepang:future-talk, r=brson
doc: format! may or may not handle streams in future

No need to talk about that here
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diff --git a/src/libcollections/fmt.rs b/src/libcollections/fmt.rs
index 0ebb89b8a22..6f77d79ab0b 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/fmt.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/fmt.rs
@@ -8,19 +8,16 @@
 // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
 // except according to those terms.
 
-//! Utilities for formatting and printing strings
+//! Utilities for formatting and printing `String`s
 //!
 //! This module contains the runtime support for the `format!` syntax extension.
 //! This macro is implemented in the compiler to emit calls to this module in
-//! order to format arguments at runtime into strings and streams.
+//! order to format arguments at runtime into strings.
 //!
 //! # Usage
 //!
 //! The `format!` macro is intended to be familiar to those coming from C's
-//! printf/fprintf functions or Python's `str.format` function. In its current
-//! revision, the `format!` macro returns a `String` type which is the result of
-//! the formatting. In the future it will also be able to pass in a stream to
-//! format arguments directly while performing minimal allocations.
+//! printf/fprintf functions or Python's `str.format` function.
 //!
 //! Some examples of the `format!` extension are:
 //!