[commit: ghc] master: Update docs: instance visibility bug is no more. (9ece13d)

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On branch  : master
Link       : http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/9ece13d6e7aa4760b6db34f96d0d375628c135c2/ghc

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commit 9ece13d6e7aa4760b6db34f96d0d375628c135c2
Author: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at cs.stanford.edu>
Date:   Sun Nov 30 11:45:08 2014 -0800

    Update docs: instance visibility bug is no more.
    
    Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at cs.stanford.edu>


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9ece13d6e7aa4760b6db34f96d0d375628c135c2
 docs/users_guide/bugs.xml | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
index f9dfaae..2d6fc65 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/bugs.xml
@@ -584,17 +584,6 @@ Loading package javavm ... linking ... WARNING: Overflown relocation field (# re
       your package into two or more .o's, along the lines of
       how the "base" package does it.</para>
       </listitem>
-
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
-          GHCi does not keep careful track of what instance
-          declarations are 'in scope' if they come from other
-          packages.  Instead, all instance declarations that GHC has
-          seen in other packages are all available at the prompt,
-          whether or not the instance really ought to be in visible
-          given the current set of modules in scope.
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
   </sect2>
   </sect1>



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