For me, the question is: If I use someObj in the same way as my example above
(i.e. assigning it to a local variable), when will someObj get garbage
collected?
Is it (potentially) when the result/fault event is dispatched or could it be
earlier?
Alex Harui wrote:
>
> I think Amy's point is that, w/o a reference to the anonfun, you can't
> call removeEventListener on it. If I do:
>
> someObj.addEventListener("foo", function (e:Event) { ... } );
>
> someObj will release the anonfun when it gets garbage collected. However,
> until that time, all objects in the scope chain won't be collectable. I
> don't know if that's the case in Java.
>
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