Tag Archive for 'closure'

Why anonymous functions are cool

A few months into learning about Actionscript, I started playing around with anonymous functions.  I found them to be a convenient way to do some basic event handling quickly and easily while reducing the complexity of the code.
For review, an anonymous function in Actionscript looks something like this:

foo.addEventListener(EVENT, function (event:Event):void { bar++ } );

When you [...]