Add a note about instance visibility across component boundaries
In principle, the *visible* instances are * all instances defined in a prior top-level declaration group (see docs on `newDeclarationGroup`), or * all instances defined in any module transitively imported by the module being compiled However, actually searching all modules transitively below the one being compiled is unreasonably expensive, so `reifyInstances` will report only the instance for modules that GHC has had some cause to visit during this compilation. This is a shortcoming: `reifyInstances` might fail to report instances for a type that is otherwise unusued, or instances defined in a different component. You can work around this shortcoming by explicitly importing the modules whose instances you want to be visible. GHC issue #20529 has some discussion around this. Fixes #20529
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