Idea: Can declaration emit synthesize imports?

[amcasey]

If an unimported type is referenced repeatedly, each reference will be qualified with the same import("path") expression. Cumulatively, these can significantly enlarge a declaration file.

Probably, this will be the first time we need to make non-local edits to a declaration file, which may substantially increase the code complexity. It should not, however, take much more time to execute (unless I'm missing something).

[amcasey]

@weswigham I'm pretty confident that this is a dup and I wouldn't be surprised to learn you already have a PR. 😉

[weswigham]

I remarked on it back when I first added support for emitting them: #24071 (comment) but I don't think I have a branch. At least not anymore, anyway.