From 1014b22b317b3afbe211dbc0e1b00045a0e9c76f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 10:35:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] remove confusing language about casting types

Fixes #17481
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 src/doc/reference.md | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/doc/reference.md b/src/doc/reference.md
index a772d98583e..a0428450a37 100644
--- a/src/doc/reference.md
+++ b/src/doc/reference.md
@@ -3007,10 +3007,6 @@ A type cast expression is denoted with the binary operator `as`.
 Executing an `as` expression casts the value on the left-hand side to the type
 on the right-hand side.
 
-A numeric value can be cast to any numeric type. A raw pointer value can be
-cast to or from any integral type or raw pointer type. Any other cast is
-unsupported and will fail to compile.
-
 An example of an `as` expression:
 
 ```