Remove forward-looking statement
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 088e9fc..e5028ab 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -501,9 +501,9 @@
.. note::
- In Python 2.2, the :keyword:`yield` statement is only allowed when the
- ``generators`` feature has been enabled. It will always be enabled in Python
- 2.3. This ``__future__`` import statement can be used to enable the feature::
+ In Python 2.2, the :keyword:`yield` statement was only allowed when the
+ ``generators`` feature has been enabled. This ``__future__``
+ import statement was used to enable the feature::
from __future__ import generators