Yep I'm with you – it definitely makes sense to have it default to false...would lead to a lot of unexpected behaviour especially for beginners if it defaulted to true.
Piers On 8 Feb 2010, at 14:41, Merrill, Jason wrote: > So what would be wrong with always using strong references and always > deleting them when you're done? That's what I do - I feel like I have > more control over what's going on in my code that way. Sure, if I > forget to remove it, it could still be out there, but if you get in the > habit of always removing them when they are no longer needed, it's > second nature. To me, it makes sense that it defaults to false because > of the problems already mentioned. > > > Jason Merrill > > Bank of America Global Learning > Learning & Performance Soluions > > Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community and visit our > Instructional Technology Design Blog > (note: these are for Bank of America employees only) > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of W.R. de > Boer > Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:06 AM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Re: is it ever ideal to NOT use weak > references? > > Yes, but it can also cause a lot of trouble when used. I have had causes > where the event listener got deleted too early and then you spend a lot > of time finding the issue. And that was not with the Loader-class and > Event.COMPLETE or others. > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
