diff --git a/uuid/v4.ts b/uuid/v4.ts
index bd7199bc56d11..8ffc0a2122bb3 100644
--- a/uuid/v4.ts
+++ b/uuid/v4.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,4 @@
-import { NIL_UUID } from "./mod.ts";
-
 // Copyright 2018-2019 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
-/**
- * Super-small uuid generation.
- *
- * Based on
- *  https://gist.github.com/jed/982883
- */
 
 const UUID_RE = new RegExp(
   "^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$",