It makes sense somehow, but it took me by surprise. Thanks for the explanation.

Is it still good practice to remove listeners when you don’t need the html 
element anymore ? or do modern browser garbage collectors cope with circular 
references between DOM and JS objects ? It was one of the features of Widgets 
that they avoided the leaks automatically.
On 12 Oct 2018, 15:40 +0200, Jens <[email protected]>, wrote:
> Method references and lambdas are anonymous implementations. Each usage will 
> create a new instance.
>
> Even in pure Java you have
>
> Runnable r = this::onClick;
> Runnable r2 = this::onClick;
> System.out.println(Objects.equals(r, r2)); // false
>
>
> So you should keep track of your click handler if you want to remove it later.
>
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