Note on stubs and forward references

As discussed in python/mypy#3169 (comment)
dmoisset · Sep 22, 2017 · 8772aa0 · 8772aa0
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@@ -1672,6 +1672,9 @@ Additional notes on stub files:
   or ``from .ham import Ham``, then ``ham`` is an exported attribute
   of ``spam``.
 
+* Stub files do not need to quote forward references, given that they are not
+  supposed to be actually executed.
+
 * Stub files may be incomplete. To make type checkers aware of this, the file
   can contain the following code::