Event handlers and trash collection?

[davej]

Should any extra thought go into trying to avoid the use of local variables inside event handlers? I see some people seemingly do that. I don't know how quickly or efficiently trash collection works but for small variables I would not expect it to be an issue worthy of consideration.

[justsomeguy]

There's nothing wrong with using local variables anywhere.

[Ingolme]

When the event handler is called, local variables are created. When the event handler finishes executing the variables are destroyed. No memory leaks or efficiency problems.