diff --git a/doc/tutorial.md b/doc/tutorial.md
index 3b2930347d3..60b2d9177e6 100644
--- a/doc/tutorial.md
+++ b/doc/tutorial.md
@@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@ they apply to.  Thus, Rust allows functions and datatypes to have type
 parameters.
 
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-fn for_rev<T>(vector: ~[T], action fn(T)) {
+fn for_rev<T>(vector: ~[T], action: fn(T)) {
     let mut i = vec::len(vector);
     while i > 0u {
         i -= 1u;