diff --git a/src/macros-by-example.md b/src/macros-by-example.md
index c2a7e885c..5efad772a 100644
--- a/src/macros-by-example.md
+++ b/src/macros-by-example.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
>
> _MacroFragSpec_ :\
> `block` | `expr` | `ident` | `item` | `lifetime` | `literal`\
-> | `meta` | `pat` | `pat2015` | `pat2021` | `path` | `stmt` | `tt` | `ty` | `vis`
+> | `meta` | `pat` | `pat_param` | `path` | `stmt` | `tt` | `ty` | `vis`
>
> _MacroRepSep_ :\
> [_Token_]_except delimiters and repetition operators_
@@ -122,9 +122,8 @@ fragment specifiers are:
* `block`: a [_BlockExpression_]
* `stmt`: a [_Statement_] without the trailing semicolon (except for item
statements that require semicolons)
- * `pat2015`: a [_PatternNoTopAlt_]
- * `pat2021`: a [_Pattern_]
- * `pat`: equivalent to either `pat2015` or `pat2021`, depending on edition (see note below).
+ * `pat_param`: a [_PatternNoTopAlt_]
+ * `pat`: equivalent to `pat_param`
* `expr`: an [_Expression_]
* `ty`: a [_Type_]
* `ident`: an [IDENTIFIER_OR_KEYWORD]
@@ -135,11 +134,6 @@ fragment specifiers are:
* `vis`: a possibly empty [_Visibility_] qualifier
* `literal`: matches `-`?[_LiteralExpression_]
-> **Edition Differences**: In Editions 2015 and 2018, `pat` fragment-specifiers
-> do not allow top-level or-patterns (i.e. they accept [_PatternNoTopAlt_]). In
-> Edition 2021, this was changed so that top-level or-patterns are accepted by
-> `pat` (i.e. [_Pattern_]).
-
In the transcriber, metavariables are referred to simply by `$`_name_, since
the fragment kind is specified in the matcher. Metavariables are replaced with
the syntax element that matched them. The keyword metavariable `$crate` can be