Understanding GHC error "Qualified name in binding position"

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If I create a module AModule with a typeclass Foo,

module AModule where
class Foo a where
   bar :: a

and in another module BModule import AModule qualified and try to make some type an instance of Foo, i.e.

module B where
import qualified AModule as A
instance A.Foo Int where
   A.bar = 0

GHC tells me "Qualified name in binding position: A.bar".

From what I understand, this is related to GHC ticket 3197, which is labeled as fixed. I'm running GHC 6.12.1 and am still getting the error. Am I just misunderstanding something here?

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