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consider `include` instead of `import` if you want to break things down to smaller files.

Also, I'm with Araq on this one -- in my experience, every time I reached for a cyclic-cross-file-type-declaration, there was a much simpler acyclic solution I found later.

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Include doesn't work for cyclic types, they need to be in the same "type" block. I do not agree with Araq's stance here, there are often cases when closely-related types need to reference each other, and it's not always convenient to put them in the same file. That's why you see the "types.nim" file in larger Nim projects -- no one has a good solution and just shoves them all together. And, if you use types.nim, you no longer have proper visibility control, since fields cannot be private and there is no package-level visibility. Most languages understand this, C/C++/Rust all allow at least the ability to forward declare a type (and Rust allows cyclic, out-of-order types).

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