The pathdir extension already has a lot of that stuff: https://github.com/cstaelin/Pathdir-Extension
-- Nicolas On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Jason Bertsche < [email protected]> wrote: > Is there a reason for the absence of a `current-directory` primitive? > > > I guess I would turn the question around here and ask if there's a > compelling reason for the presence of such a primitive. It's not obvious > to me what good it would really do to know where a model was launched from > and why the model's behavior should change based on that. > > If not, can it be added? > > > My initial inclination is that this sort of thing is fringe enough that, > if you wanted it, it would be best provided by an extension. I could be > convinced that I'm wrong. > > Is there an practical use case that you have in mind for this primitive? > > > On 03/02/2015 03:54 PM, Alan Isaac wrote: > > Is there a reason for the absence of a `current-directory` primitive? If > not, can it be added? > > Today I was walking students through some basic file manipulation at the > command line, and one asked me how to determine his current directory. The > best suggestion I could come up with was to set it explicitly with > `set-current-directory`. (I did not want to discuss the `shell` extension.) > > Thanks, > Alan Isaac > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "netlogo-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "netlogo-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "netlogo-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
