What if instead of any sort of magic there was a special relative import a
person could specify to get access to the this module?

```
import module from "@currentModule";
```


- Matthew Robb


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvidsson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon Jun 09 2014 at 12:25:42 AM, Domenic Denicola <
> domenic at domenicdenicola.com> wrote:
>
>>  If a magically in-scope binding is necessary to access module meta
>> capabilities, giving it a name like `module` or `System.currentModule`
>> would be much better.
>>
> `System.currentModule` requires magic. It would require the engine to know
> where the call site was.
>
> We also talked about adding a binding, like NodeJS does but @David Herman
> <dherman at mozilla.com> argued that thaw is a non starter.
>
> So, if we don't want to use `this` or introduce a new binding name, or add
> more magic, the only thing left seems to be new dedicated syntax. In ES4 we
> `this function` which is similar to what @Axel Rauschmayer
> <axel at rauschma.de> suggested.
>
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What if instead of any sort of magic there was a special relative import a
person could specify to get access to the this module?

```
import module from "@currentModule";
```