diff --git a/src/doc/grammar.md b/src/doc/grammar.md
index 542815e7afe3c..cceab31c61db1 100644
--- a/src/doc/grammar.md
+++ b/src/doc/grammar.md
@@ -96,12 +96,16 @@ explicit codepoint lists. [^inputformat]
 ## Special Unicode Productions
 
 The following productions in the Rust grammar are defined in terms of Unicode
-properties: `ident`, `non_null`, `non_star`, `non_eol`, `non_slash_or_star`,
-`non_single_quote` and `non_double_quote`.
+properties: `ident`, `non_null`, `non_eol`, `non_single_quote` and
+`non_double_quote`.
 
 ### Identifiers
 
-The `ident` production is any nonempty Unicode string of the following form:
+The `ident` production is any nonempty Unicode[^non_ascii_idents] string of
+the following form:
+
+[^non_ascii_idents]: Non-ASCII characters in identifiers are currently feature
+  gated. This is expected to improve soon.
 
 - The first character has property `XID_start`
 - The remaining characters have property `XID_continue`
@@ -118,8 +122,6 @@ Some productions are defined by exclusion of particular Unicode characters:
 
 - `non_null` is any single Unicode character aside from `U+0000` (null)
 - `non_eol` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+000A` (`'\n'`)
-- `non_star` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+002A` (`*`)
-- `non_slash_or_star` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+002F` (`/`) and `U+002A` (`*`)
 - `non_single_quote` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+0027`  (`'`)
 - `non_double_quote` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+0022` (`"`)
 
diff --git a/src/doc/reference.md b/src/doc/reference.md
index 964ef7ca5200f..93440694cd894 100644
--- a/src/doc/reference.md
+++ b/src/doc/reference.md
@@ -65,14 +65,9 @@ explicit code point lists. [^inputformat]
   provided to the grammar verifier, restricted to ASCII range, when verifying the
   grammar in this document.
 
-## Special Unicode Productions
+## Identifiers
 
-The following productions in the Rust grammar are defined in terms of Unicode
-properties: `ident`, `non_null`, `non_eol`, `non_single_quote` and `non_double_quote`.
-
-### Identifiers
-
-The `ident` production is any nonempty Unicode[^non_ascii_idents] string of the following form:
+An identifier is any nonempty Unicode[^non_ascii_idents] string of the following form:
 
 [^non_ascii_idents]: Non-ASCII characters in identifiers are currently feature
   gated. This is expected to improve soon.
@@ -86,15 +81,6 @@ that does _not_ occur in the set of [keywords](#keywords).
 > character ranges used to form the more familiar C and Java language-family
 > identifiers.
 
-### Delimiter-restricted productions
-
-Some productions are defined by exclusion of particular Unicode characters:
-
-- `non_null` is any single Unicode character aside from `U+0000` (null)
-- `non_eol` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+000A` (`'\n'`)
-- `non_single_quote` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+0027`  (`'`)
-- `non_double_quote` is `non_null` restricted to exclude `U+0022` (`"`)
-
 ## Comments
 
 Comments in Rust code follow the general C++ style of line and block-comment