This is a handy bit of code I've written more than once. I thought I'd throw it in here so I can refer back to it later. Basically, it lets you read a config file to produce a Clojure map. The config files themselves can contain one or more forms, each of which can be either a map or a list. Maps are simply merged. Lists correspond to invocations of extension points, which in turn produces a map, which is merged along with everything else.
Consider the following files:
names.edn