Hi Stefan,

How is this different from Base.source_path()?

Thanks,
Michael

On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 6:17:48 AM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> There's a @__FILE__ macro that gives the path name of the current source 
> file, so if you want to load resources relative to that, you can do 
> joinpath(dirname(@__FILE__), "test", "data"). We might want to expose this 
> as @__DIR__ or something like that.
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Michael Francis <mdcfr...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to load some local files from a module package directory. This 
>> is akin to the way java has resources. If this were julia code I could just 
>> include( 'foo.jl' ) and that will do mostly the right thing. Is there an 
>> equivalent without having to perform string math on Pkg.dir() ... 
>>
>> I've seen the following in DataFrames - Is this the idiomatic way 
>>
>> cd(Pkg.dir("DataFrames", "test", "data")) do ... and then perform file 
>> reads ? 
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>

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