Re: unable to unset reference

Chris wrote: > Sylvain Rabot wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First of all I would like to know if one day we will be able to unset >> $this into a class in order to destroy the object. It could really be >> useful to prevent big memory usage. > > I doubt the php-dev's will ever allow something like that, seems rather > dangerous to me. > >> As it can't be done I tried to unset an object by unsetting a reference >> of this object but it has no effect on the object but only on the >> reference. >> >> Should unset destroy the reference itself and the object ??? > > No, it's not meant to (and I doubt it will change). Why do you want it > to do that? > > What is the original problem you're trying to solve? > Hence my previous gibberish, I would expect a reference to be destroyed when the object is, but obviously it's not. -Shawn