On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote:
> While slurp and spit are beautifully elegant it's not so elegant to tell 
> slurp how to find the file you want it to slurp. In many other 
> languages/environments there's a concept of the working directory or project 
> directory, relative to which you can specify locations. In Clojure you have 
> to deal with the classpath, outside of the language proper, and many of the 
> common ways of running Clojure programs handle this differently. I don't know 
> if there's a good, general solution to this, but for me (both as a programmer 
> and especially as a teacher) it is definitely a pain point.

What about (System/getProperty "user.dir")?

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