5 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/libcollections/slice.rs b/src/libcollections/slice.rs
index 050997f2dd3..929c97dceb2 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/slice.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/slice.rs
@@ -557,7 +557,6 @@ impl<T> [T] {
     /// ```rust
     /// # #![feature(core)]
     /// let s = [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55];
-    /// let s = s.as_slice();
     ///
     /// let seek = 13;
     /// assert_eq!(s.binary_search_by(|probe| probe.cmp(&seek)), Ok(9));
@@ -924,7 +923,6 @@ impl<T> [T] {
     /// ```rust
     /// # #![feature(core)]
     /// let s = [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55];
-    /// let s = s.as_slice();
     ///
     /// assert_eq!(s.binary_search(&13),  Ok(9));
     /// assert_eq!(s.binary_search(&4),   Err(7));
diff --git a/src/libcollections/str.rs b/src/libcollections/str.rs
index 9ddf8988f1e..f517ce7d535 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/str.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/str.rs
@@ -1470,12 +1470,12 @@ impl str {
     /// let gr1 = "a\u{310}e\u{301}o\u{308}\u{332}".graphemes(true).collect::<Vec<&str>>();
     /// let b: &[_] = &["a\u{310}", "e\u{301}", "o\u{308}\u{332}"];
     ///
-    /// assert_eq!(gr1.as_slice(), b);
+    /// assert_eq!(&gr1[..], b);
     ///
     /// let gr2 = "a\r\nb🇷🇺🇸🇹".graphemes(true).collect::<Vec<&str>>();
     /// let b: &[_] = &["a", "\r\n", "b", "🇷🇺🇸🇹"];
     ///
-    /// assert_eq!(gr2.as_slice(), b);
+    /// assert_eq!(&gr2[..], b);
     /// ```
     #[unstable(feature = "unicode",
                reason = "this functionality may only be provided by libunicode")]
@@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ impl str {
     /// let gr_inds = "a̐éö̲\r\n".grapheme_indices(true).collect::<Vec<(usize, &str)>>();
     /// let b: &[_] = &[(0, "a̐"), (3, "é"), (6, "ö̲"), (11, "\r\n")];
     ///
-    /// assert_eq!(gr_inds.as_slice(), b);
+    /// assert_eq!(&gr_inds[..], b);
     /// ```
     #[unstable(feature = "unicode",
                reason = "this functionality may only be provided by libunicode")]
diff --git a/src/libcollections/string.rs b/src/libcollections/string.rs
index dbf214a712b..2adece30307 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/string.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/string.rs
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ impl String {
     /// ```
     /// # #![feature(collections, core)]
     /// let s = String::from_str("hello");
-    /// assert_eq!(s.as_slice(), "hello");
+    /// assert_eq!(&s[..], "hello");
     /// ```
     #[inline]
     #[unstable(feature = "collections",
diff --git a/src/libcollections/vec.rs b/src/libcollections/vec.rs
index 3595288a6c9..242efbcd45b 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/vec.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/vec.rs
@@ -823,13 +823,13 @@ impl<T> Vec<T> {
     /// # #![feature(collections, core)]
     /// let v = vec![0, 1, 2];
     /// let w = v.map_in_place(|i| i + 3);
-    /// assert_eq!(w.as_slice(), [3, 4, 5].as_slice());
+    /// assert_eq!(&w[..], &[3, 4, 5]);
     ///
     /// #[derive(PartialEq, Debug)]
     /// struct Newtype(u8);
     /// let bytes = vec![0x11, 0x22];
     /// let newtyped_bytes = bytes.map_in_place(|x| Newtype(x));
-    /// assert_eq!(newtyped_bytes.as_slice(), [Newtype(0x11), Newtype(0x22)].as_slice());
+    /// assert_eq!(&newtyped_bytes[..], &[Newtype(0x11), Newtype(0x22)]);
     /// ```
     #[unstable(feature = "collections",
                reason = "API may change to provide stronger guarantees")]
diff --git a/src/libcollections/vec_deque.rs b/src/libcollections/vec_deque.rs
index 392e5092e3b..6083f03477c 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/vec_deque.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/vec_deque.rs
@@ -527,7 +527,8 @@ impl<T> VecDeque<T> {
     /// buf.push_back(3);
     /// buf.push_back(4);
     /// let b: &[_] = &[&5, &3, &4];
-    /// assert_eq!(buf.iter().collect::<Vec<&i32>>().as_slice(), b);
+    /// let c: Vec<&i32> = buf.iter().collect();
+    /// assert_eq!(&c[..], b);
     /// ```
     #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
     pub fn iter(&self) -> Iter<T> {