Deep access in sass maps with dot notation
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/sass/deep-getset-maps/#comment-1608318
@function ns($map, $path) {
    $keys: ();
    $separator: '.';
    $index : str-index($path, $separator);
    @while $index != null {
        $item: str-slice($path, 1, $index - 1);
        $keys: append($keys, $item);
        $path: str-slice($path, $index + 1);
        $index : str-index($path, $separator);
    }
    $keys: append($keys, $path);
    @each $key in $keys {
        $map: map-get($map, $key);
    }
    @return $map;
}
$config: (
    foo: 'foo',
    bar: (
        baz: 'bar.baz',
        size: (
            m: 14px,
            l: 18px,
            xl: 270px
        )
    )
);
@function config($path) {
    @return ns($config, $path);
}
/// USAGE
.a { font-size: config('bar.size.l'); }