diff --git a/Doc/ext/extending.tex b/Doc/ext/extending.tex
index bfd6b04c805..95e4546effe 100644
--- a/Doc/ext/extending.tex
+++ b/Doc/ext/extending.tex
@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ dynamic allocation and deallocation of memory on the heap.  In C,
 this is done using the functions \cfunction{malloc()} and
 \cfunction{free()}.  In \Cpp, the operators \keyword{new} and
 \keyword{delete} are used with essentially the same meaning and
-we'll restrict the following discussion to the latter.
+we'll restrict the following discussion to the C case.
 
 Every block of memory allocated with \cfunction{malloc()} should
 eventually be returned to the pool of available memory by exactly one