If the way Arc's lib/ directory has been used is any indication, the way to do it is:

- Start in the Arc directory when you run Arc, and never cd out of it.

- (load "lib/foo.arc"), or (require "lib/foo.arc") if you want to avoid running the same file multiple times

But I think for some Anarki users, the preferred technique has been somewhat different:

- Invoke Anarki from any directory.

- Ignore lib/ as much as possible. On occasion, load a library from there by using (load "path/to/arc/lib/foo.arc"), but a few libraries may make this difficult (e.g. if they need to load other libraries).

When I started writing Arc libraries, the first thing I wrote was a framework for keeping track of the location to load things relative to, so that my other libraries could load each other using relative paths regardless of which of the above techniques was in use. But the Lathe module system didn't catch on with anyone else. XD

Yeah, this makes sense if you're making something that only you use, but if I'm trying to make something a little more portable, like (as you mention) a library.

rocketnia is right that I tend to just run Arc from within its directory, keeping it alongside any Arc program I may be working on at the moment. As a result, I'd kinda always assumed you could run it from anywhere and find yourself in the Arc directory once you loaded up. Now I find this isn't the case:

  $ pwd
  /home/akkartik
  $ ./anarki/arc.sh
  arc> ($:current-directory)
  #<path:/home/akkartik>