Event handlers: click in mxml tags or in AS?

Question

Is there an advantage to putting click event handlers in AS rather than in the mxml tags?  For example
in AS
button_1.addEventListenter(MouseEvent.CLICK, someFunctionName);
or in mxml tags
<s:Button click="someHandlerName(event) />
Thanks

Answer 1

I will say that there is another advantage to MXML.
For instance, say that I have a static function I want to run any time you click a component and don't care about the event. I can do this in MXML:
<s:Whatever>
click="{doMyStaticMethod()}"
</s:Whatever>
In AS, I cannot do this. A click event in AS requires that I add an ActionListener and that the ActionListener be void and take an event. MXML gives a way around that if you like.