I wrote this, which seems to solve the problem being discussed:

http://gist.github.com/377278

Thoughts?



On Apr 23, 8:10 am, Armando Blancas <armando_blan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Is there any easy workaround which doesn't involve defing a global
> > conn.
>
> To do all in a single place you'll have to mimic the Java idiom.
>
> (let [conn (atom nil)]
>   (try
>     (reset! conn (API/getConnection ...) ...
>     (catch ...)
>     (finally (if @conn (API/closeConnection @conn)))))
>
> As it's been explained, a better way would be a variant of with-open,
> maybe within a try form if you want to handle open errors locally.
>
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