diff --git a/modules/juce_core/streams/juce_InputStream.h b/modules/juce_core/streams/juce_InputStream.h
index 972047c6ef..c36b8d06a8 100644
--- a/modules/juce_core/streams/juce_InputStream.h
+++ b/modules/juce_core/streams/juce_InputStream.h
@@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ public:
 
     /** Reads and discards a number of bytes from the stream.
 
-        Some input streams might implement this efficiently, but the base
-        class will just keep reading data until the requisite number of bytes
-        have been done.
+        The base class implementation will try to do this efficiently by moving the
+        position along by numBytesToSkip, but if this fails it will fall back to reading
+        the data until the requisite number of bytes have been done.
     */
     virtual void skipNextBytes (int64 numBytesToSkip);