diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
index 58b88c4d37f..20c85a9c867 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -192,9 +192,8 @@ those made in the suite of the for-loop::
 
 Names in the target list are not deleted when the loop is finished, but if the
 sequence is empty, they will not have been assigned to at all by the loop.  Hint:
-the built-in function :func:`range` returns an iterator of integers suitable to
-emulate the effect of Pascal's ``for i := a to b do``; e.g., ``list(range(3))``
-returns the list ``[0, 1, 2]``.
+the built-in type :func:`range` represents immutable arithmetic sequences of integers.
+For instance, iterating ``range(3)`` successively yields 0, 1, and then 2.
 
 
 .. _try: