diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
index ba2048a..5c72b2b 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ## 1.0-a6
 
+- #65 mutual dependent class not working
 - #68 CompilationException doesn't provide any information about the udnerlying problem
 - #69 Expose EvalException details
 
diff --git a/jjava/src/main/java/org/dflib/jjava/execution/CodeEvaluator.java b/jjava/src/main/java/org/dflib/jjava/execution/CodeEvaluator.java
index 2332233..ef0b3e0 100644
--- a/jjava/src/main/java/org/dflib/jjava/execution/CodeEvaluator.java
+++ b/jjava/src/main/java/org/dflib/jjava/execution/CodeEvaluator.java
@@ -148,8 +148,12 @@ protected Object evalSingle(String code) {
                     throw new RuntimeException(e);
                 }
 
-                if (!event.status().isDefined())
+                // Undefined snippets are generally bad, unless we can still recover from them. E.g.,
+                // "Unresolved dependencies" errors are recoverable when those dependencies are defined in the later
+                // snippets.
+                if (event.status() != Snippet.Status.RECOVERABLE_NOT_DEFINED && !event.status().isDefined()) {
                     throw new CompilationException(event);
+                }
             }
         }