diff --git a/language/control-structures.xml b/language/control-structures.xml
index 6bee9af6b6..e1cec4cbf1 100644
--- a/language/control-structures.xml
+++ b/language/control-structures.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.39 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.40 $ -->
  <chapter id="control-structures">
   <title>Control Structures</title>
 
@@ -154,18 +154,6 @@ if ($a &gt; $b) {
 
   <sect1 id="control-structures.alternative-syntax">
    <title>Alternative syntax for control structures</title>
-   <para>
-    <warning>
-     <simpara>
-      Alternative syntax is deprecated as of PHP 4. Basically,
-      it just generates unreadable code, and it gets
-      very complicated when mixing it with the normal syntax.
-      Although there are no plans to break this syntax, it
-      cannot be ruled out that one day this will stop working.
-      You are warned.
-     </simpara>
-    </warning>
-   </para>
    <para>
     PHP offers an alternative syntax for some of its control
     structures; namely, <literal>if</literal>,