diff --git a/doc/manual/types.txt b/doc/manual/types.txt
index e6875f2df0..2c4b019ad1 100644
--- a/doc/manual/types.txt
+++ b/doc/manual/types.txt
@@ -570,8 +570,7 @@ order. The *names* of the fields also have to be identical.
 
 The assignment operator for tuples copies each component.
 The default assignment operator for objects copies each component. Overloading
-of the assignment operator for objects is not possible, but this will change
-in future versions of the compiler.
+of the assignment operator is described in `type-bound-operations-operator`_. 
 
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diff --git a/doc/tut1.rst b/doc/tut1.rst
index 89893a39a9..be5cd8c115 100644
--- a/doc/tut1.rst
+++ b/doc/tut1.rst
@@ -185,9 +185,8 @@ to a storage location:
   var x = "abc" # introduces a new variable `x` and assigns a value to it
   x = "xyz"     # assigns a new value to `x`
 
-``=`` is the *assignment operator*. The assignment operator cannot be
-overloaded, overwritten or forbidden, but this might change in a future version
-of Nim. You can declare multiple variables with a single assignment
+``=`` is the *assignment operator*. The assignment operator can be
+overloaded. You can declare multiple variables with a single assignment 
 statement and all the variables will have the same value:
 
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