Has it been discussed to use dot relative path notation like in python's import?

[Brandon Gillespie]

So in elixir. From the module "Some.Module.Part"

Synonymous reference to 'current':

   import __MODULE__.More
   import .More
   import Some.Module.Part.More

Similarly, walking up the tree:

   import ..Another.Part
   import Some.Module.Another.Part

[Ben Wilson]

I think a challenge here is that we're creating entirely new syntax. There isn't any support in the language today for `.` or `..` as leading characters, and I don't know that on its own this scenario is so common as to warrant entirely new syntax. In particular `..Another` I think is just generally less good than `Some.Module.Another.Part`, the extra characters aren't onerous to write and they improve readability because I don't need to look elsewhere to compute the module being imported.