If you don't, well, maybe try and improve the code which deals with global objects so that you have a better grasp of where they are. There are various ways of achieving that.
Andi
At 08:28 PM 8/9/2004 +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote:
Hello Curt,
Monday, August 9, 2004, 7:46:07 PM, you wrote:
> * Thus wrote Ron Korving: >> i think the object will only cease to exist when all references to it are >> gone
> Well there does seem to be another layer of referencing, since the > a simple assignment without &$ will simply reference the object but > in a different way. The problem I'm running into there doesn't > seem to be a way to reliably detstroy an object without the > programmer keeping track of the variable assignments and removing > those references as well.
> I'm not sure if its possible or even php's responsibility but > perhaps provide a tool that allow's a programmer to explicity > destroy an object? with something like:
> Destroy($obj);
This is not possible at all. Reference counting + garbage collection means we do know the exact number of references to an object. Destroying the referenced object before its reference count goes to zero means that we leave a reference pointing to nirvana. That would result in a SEGV.
regards marcus
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