diff --git a/src/librustc/mir/visit.rs b/src/librustc/mir/visit.rs
index 7d8227053b37..d2b0a6a37a74 100644
--- a/src/librustc/mir/visit.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/mir/visit.rs
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ macro_rules! make_mir_visitor {
                 self.super_ty(ty);
             }
 
-            fn visit_canonical_ty(&mut self, ty: & $($mutability)* CanonicalTy<'tcx>) {
+            fn visit_user_ty(&mut self, ty: & $($mutability)* CanonicalTy<'tcx>) {
                 self.super_canonical_ty(ty);
             }
 
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ macro_rules! make_mir_visitor {
                                      c_ty: & $($mutability)* CanonicalTy<'tcx>,
                                      location: Location) {
                 self.visit_place(place, PlaceContext::Validate, location);
-                self.visit_canonical_ty(c_ty);
+                self.visit_user_ty(c_ty);
             }
 
             fn super_place(&mut self,
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ macro_rules! make_mir_visitor {
                     source_info: *source_info,
                 });
                 if let Some(user_ty) = user_ty {
-                    self.visit_canonical_ty(user_ty);
+                    self.visit_user_ty(user_ty);
                 }
                 self.visit_source_info(source_info);
                 self.visit_source_scope(visibility_scope);
diff --git a/src/librustc_mir/borrow_check/nll/renumber.rs b/src/librustc_mir/borrow_check/nll/renumber.rs
index d77863d598f6..15a60badc93e 100644
--- a/src/librustc_mir/borrow_check/nll/renumber.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_mir/borrow_check/nll/renumber.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 use rustc::ty::subst::Substs;
 use rustc::ty::{self, CanonicalTy, ClosureSubsts, GeneratorSubsts, Ty, TypeFoldable};
-use rustc::mir::{BasicBlock, Location, Mir, Place, Statement, StatementKind};
+use rustc::mir::{BasicBlock, Location, Mir, Statement, StatementKind};
 use rustc::mir::visit::{MutVisitor, TyContext};
 use rustc::infer::{InferCtxt, NLLRegionVariableOrigin};
 
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ impl<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> MutVisitor<'tcx> for NLLVisitor<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> {
         debug!("visit_ty: ty={:?}", ty);
     }
 
+    fn visit_user_ty(&mut self, _ty: &mut CanonicalTy<'tcx>) {
+        // `user_ty` annotations represent the types that the user
+        // wrote in the progarm. We don't want to erase the regions
+        // from these types: rather, we want to add them as
+        // constraints at type-check time.
+        debug!("visit_user_ty: skipping renumber");
+    }
+
     fn visit_substs(&mut self, substs: &mut &'tcx Substs<'tcx>, location: Location) {
         debug!("visit_substs(substs={:?}, location={:?})", substs, location);
 
@@ -112,19 +120,6 @@ impl<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> MutVisitor<'tcx> for NLLVisitor<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> {
         debug!("visit_closure_substs: substs={:?}", substs);
     }
 
-    fn visit_ascribe_user_ty(
-        &mut self,
-        _place: &mut Place<'tcx>,
-        _variance: &mut ty::Variance,
-        _c_ty: &mut CanonicalTy<'tcx>,
-        _location: Location,
-    ) {
-        // User-assert-ty statements represent types that the user added explicitly.
-        // We don't want to erase the regions from these types: rather, we want to
-        // add them as constraints at type-check time.
-        debug!("visit_user_assert_ty: skipping renumber");
-    }
-
     fn visit_statement(
         &mut self,
         block: BasicBlock,