diff --git a/lib/puppet/functions/versioncmp.rb b/lib/puppet/functions/versioncmp.rb
index 8c9004a9f2d..8059fbbe3c0 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/functions/versioncmp.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/functions/versioncmp.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #
 # Prototype:
 #
-#     \$result = versioncmp(a, b)
+#     $result = versioncmp(a, b)
 #
 # Where a and b are arbitrary version strings.
 #