loading configuration file in clojure as data structure

Question

Is there a reader function in clojure to parse clojure data structure? My use case is to read configuration properties files and one value for a property should be a list. I

Answer 1

contrib has functions for reading writing properties,

http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib/java-utils-api.html#clojure.contrib.java-utils/as-properties

If this is for your own consumption then I would suggest reading/writing clojure data structures you can just print them to disk and read them.