diff --git a/GoForCPPProgrammers.md b/GoForCPPProgrammers.md
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--- a/GoForCPPProgrammers.md
+++ b/GoForCPPProgrammers.md
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ Interfaces are also used where C++ uses templates.</li>
 
 <li>Go provides automatic garbage collection of allocated memory. It is not necessary (or possible) to release memory explicitly.  There is no need to worry about heap-allocated vs. stack-allocated storage, <code>new</code> vs. <code>malloc</code>, or <code>delete</code> vs. <code>delete[]</code> vs. <code>free</code>.  There is no need to separately manage <code>std::unique_ptr</code>, <code>std::shared_ptr</code>, <code>std::weak_ptr</code>, <code>std::auto_ptr</code>, and ordinary, "dumb" pointers.  Go's run-time system handles all of that error-prone code on the programmer's behalf.</li>
 
-<li>Go has pointers but not pointer arithmetic. Go pointers therefore more closely resemble C++ references.  One cannot use a Go pointer<br>
-variable to walk through the bytes of a string, for example.  Slices, discussed further below, satisfy most of the need for pointer arithmetic.</li>
+<li>Go has pointers but not pointer arithmetic. Go pointers therefore more closely resemble C++ references.  One cannot use a Go pointer variable to walk through the bytes of a string.  Slices, discussed further below, satisfy most of the need for pointer arithmetic.</li>
 
 <li>Go is "safe" by default.  Pointers cannot point to arbitrary memory, and buffer overruns result in crashes, not security exploits.  The <code>unsafe</code> package lets programmers bypass some of Go's protection mechanisms where explicitly requested.</li>