Can a setInterval function stop itself?

Question

I have a jsFiddle up with an example to work from.

$().ready(function() {
    $('.test').each(function() {
        $this = $(this);
        $this.data('Worker', function() {
            $('#stop').html((parseInt($('#stop').html()) + 1))
        })
        setInterval($this.data('Worker'), 100);
    });

    $('#stop').click(function() {
        // I want the worker function to stop being triggered here
        $('.test').remove();
    });
});

What I would like to do is attach a worker function to an element in the DOM so that when the element is removed, the worker function stops.

Is something like this possible?

Answer 1

Late to the party, but I solved this way:

var id = setInterval(function()
{
    if(some_condition)
    {
        clearInterval(id);
    }
}, 1000);

Definitely the simplest way out of all: no unnecessary storing, no tricks.