Regardless of whether circular import is permitted, isn’t it best avoided from a layering point of view? In general I would think that a module should be importing things that (a) it needs, and (b) don’t need it. W.
> On 29 Aug 2016, at 11:34, Ladislav Lhotka <lho...@nic.cz> wrote: > >> On 29 Aug 2016, at 09:17, Bogaert, Bart (Nokia - BE) >> <bart.boga...@nokia.com> wrote: >> >> Just taking another approach on this: why do we have the restriction on >> circular imports? Is this really required? If not then this may be solved >> in another way too (but will take some time before it gets into the YANG >> compilers I'm afraid). > > In fact, it isn't really needed. Unlike imports in programming languages such > as Python, import in YANG doesn't incorporate the imported module contents, > just gives access to objects in a foreign namespace. _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
