1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/io/ioutil.ts b/io/ioutil.ts
index 2d189620d..484aba281 100644
--- a/io/ioutil.ts
+++ b/io/ioutil.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright 2018-2019 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
 import { BufReader } from "./bufio.ts";
-import { Reader, Writer } from "deno";
+type Reader = Deno.Reader;
+type Writer = Deno.Writer;
 import { assert } from "../testing/asserts.ts";
 
 /** copy N size at the most. If read size is lesser than N, then returns nread */