diff --git a/src/reader/async_tokio.rs b/src/reader/async_tokio.rs
index 4f1ceb6f..aac79fcf 100644
--- a/src/reader/async_tokio.rs
+++ b/src/reader/async_tokio.rs
@@ -30,15 +30,6 @@ impl<R: AsyncBufRead + Unpin> Reader<R> {
     /// An asynchronous version of [`read_event_into()`]. Reads the next event into
     /// given buffer.
     ///
-    /// > This function should be defined as
-    /// > ```ignore
-    /// > pub async fn read_event_into_async<'b>(
-    /// >     &mut self,
-    /// >     buf: &'b mut Vec<u8>
-    /// > ) -> Result<Event<'b>>;
-    /// > ```
-    /// > but Rust does not allow to write that for recursive asynchronous function
-    ///
     /// This is the main entry point for reading XML `Event`s when using an async reader.
     ///
     /// See the documentation of [`read_event_into()`] for more information.