什么是“。” （点或句点）在Go import语句中做什么？

In the Go tutorial, and most of the Go code I've looked at, packages are imported like this:

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "launchpad.net/lpad"
    ...
)

But in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~niemeyer/lpad/trunk/view/head:/session_test.go, the gocheck package is imported with a . (period):

import (
    "http"
    . "launchpad.net/gocheck"
    "launchpad.net/lpad"
    "os"    
)

What is the significance of the . (period)?