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@drjokepu
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opened on Jan 19, 2016

As discussed in nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#7872, EventEmitter's listeners are still called if they are removed during the emit() cycle. It was agreed that this is the intended behavior, however, there is nothing in EventEmitter's documentation that would explicitly indicate that.

I think the documentation needs to be updated to clarify this behavior, because it's not necessarily obvious.

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  1. cjihrig commented on Jan 19, 2016

    @cjihrig
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    on Jan 19, 2016
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    Documentation patches are welcome.

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  3. dirceu
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    doc: emitter.removeListener clarification

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  4. vaibhav93
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    doc: update removeListener behaviour

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  6. evanlucas
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    doc: update removeListener behaviour

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    doc: update removeListener behaviour

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    doc: update removeListener behaviour

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    doc: update removeListener behaviour

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    doc: update removeListener behaviour

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