diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
index bc09129de..e865c60dd 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
@@ -63,11 +63,8 @@ cdef class Tokenizer:
         return (self.__class__, args, None, None)
 
     cpdef Doc tokens_from_list(self, list strings):
+        # TODO: deprecation warning
         return Doc(self.vocab, words=strings)
-        #raise NotImplementedError(
-        #    "Method deprecated in 1.0.\n"
-        #    "Old: tokenizer.tokens_from_list(strings)\n"
-        #    "New: Doc(tokenizer.vocab, words=strings)")
 
     @cython.boundscheck(False)
     def __call__(self, unicode string):