On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:22 AM Michel Levieux <m.levi...@capitaldata.fr> wrote:
>
> The last few days I've been thinking a lot about the fact that Go does not 
> allow circular imports.
> I'm not really sure of why it currently works that way, but from what I've 
> understood the way the compiler works - which is also the reason why 
> compilation of Go programs is much faster than other languages - makes it 
> quite difficult to authorize circular imports.

That's not the real reason.  The real reason is to make program
initialization as clear and unambiguous as possible.

Ian

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