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More flexible event binding #87

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@pindia pindia commented Jul 4, 2012

Adds a public method bindFrom and private method unbind to enable more powerful event binding.

bindFrom is useful for short-lived objects to subscribe to events in long-lived, shared, or global objects. For example, many temporary objects may want to subscribe to a certain model key in a global settings object. When using just bind, many event handlers can pile up on long-lived objects and there can be other undesired side effects from event handlers being called on destroyed objects. bindFrom also provides part of the foundation for eventual model-model bindings.

bindFrom only works with Agility events because of the limited use-cases for dynamically binding and unbinding DOM events.

unbind is a private method used to implement bindFrom. It's private to discourage unbinding of all handlers for a name rather than the selective unbinding provided by bindFrom.

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