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@@ -3543,9 +3543,6 @@ elements, respectively, in a parenthesized, comma-separated list.
 Because tuple elements don't have a name, they can only be accessed by
 pattern-matching.
 
-The members of a tuple are laid out in memory contiguously, in order specified
-by the tuple type.
-
 An example of a tuple type and its use:
 
 ```