diff --git a/lib/pure/uri.nim b/lib/pure/uri.nim
index a828298c299a6..7583dbd1ec075 100644
--- a/lib/pure/uri.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/uri.nim
@@ -151,10 +151,10 @@ func encodeQuery*(query: openArray[(string, string)], usePlus = true,
       result.add(encodeUrl(val, usePlus))
 
 iterator decodeQuery*(data: string): tuple[key, value: string] =
-  ## Reads and decodes query string `data` and yields the `(key, value)` pairs
-  ## the data consists of. If compiled with `-d:nimLegacyParseQueryStrict`, an
-  ## error is raised when there is an unencoded `=` character in a decoded
-  ## value, which was the behavior in Nim < 1.5.1
+  ## Reads and decodes the query string `data` and yields the `(key, value)` pairs
+  ## the data consists of. If compiled with `-d:nimLegacyParseQueryStrict`,
+  ## a `UriParseError` is raised when there is an unencoded `=` character in a decoded
+  ## value, which was the behavior in Nim < 1.5.1.
   runnableExamples:
     import std/sequtils
     assert toSeq(decodeQuery("foo=1&bar=2=3")) == @[("foo", "1"), ("bar", "2=3")]