Module self-imports

[David Nadlinger]

On Friday, 5 October 2012 at 11:46:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Interesting. I don't see what bugs or inefficiencies that might 
> cause, so I'd say by the TAWD (Turtles All the Way Down) 
> principle we should allow them as a no-op.

I'd strongly second that. With disallowing self-imports, using 
imports in both string and template mixins might become a major 
pain.

I can't see a good reason why self-imports should be more 
problematic than normal forward references within a module, since 
they can just be ignored.

David