Add recursive message support#82
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continued from #67
Protobuf can support recursive messages, so long as they are in the same proto file. In the current state of reflection, we assume each message is in its own file, breaking that same-file requirement. This leads reflection clients to go into an infinite loop while reflecting, and they overflow their stacks.
Since reflection should be a tree and not a graph, we can solve this by detecting cycles, and "shrinking" them into the same proto file.