RBXScriptConnections are freed while connected

[metatablecatmaid (metatablecat)]

I believe this a similar issue that affects Instances, although there I get the reasoning.

If you store an RBXScriptConnection in a weak table but dont create a strong reference at the same time, the connection is freed from the table even though its still connected.

This is an issue for me as I track connections in a weak table of sorts to track active connections assigned to different objects. I have my own workaround for this, but its strange behaviour nethertheless.

Expected behavior

A connection to remain unfreeable until its disconnected.

Workaround

My workaround involves creating a strong reference to the connection within the event, which I use to send the connection through to the handler.

[WheretIB]

This is not an issue.

Connections creating reference cycles that were uncollectable in the past, even when not referenced by anything strong externally, is actually a long standing bug in the engine causing many issues for many developers.

We will always be moving in a direction when such cycles will be successfully collected and freed, even if we might not be able to do that in all cases today.