[OT] modules vs filenames in "module-name == filename" package systems

[Nick Sabalausky]

In a language that has a package system that forces package names to be the 
same as the directory name, and module names to be the same the file name 
(Such as Java, but not D): What is the point of having packages/modules 
instead of just simply importing by a relative filepath? Is it just so that 
it's consistent with refering to a symbol by it's fully-qualified name, or 
forcibly disallowing absolute paths when importing, or are there other 
reasons?

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