diff --git a/pep-0498.txt b/pep-0498.txt
index 73b3612d0..1ac1d80eb 100644
--- a/pep-0498.txt
+++ b/pep-0498.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Formatting. In this PEP, such strings will be refered to as
 "f-strings", taken from the leading character used to denote such
 strings.
 
+This PEP does not propose to remove or deprecate any of the existing
+string formatting mechanisms.
+
 f-strings provide a way to combine string literals with Python
 expressions, using a minimal syntax. It should be noted that an
 f-string is really an expression evaluated at run time, not a constant
@@ -38,9 +41,6 @@ values. Some examples are::
   >>> f'He said his name is {name!r}.'
   "He said his name is 'Fred'."
 
-This PEP does not propose to remove or deprecate any of the existing
-string formatting mechanisms.
-
 A similar feature was proposed in PEP 215 [#]_. PEP 215 proposed to
 support a subset of Python expressions, and did not support the
 type-specific string formatting (the __format__ method) which was