Re: Class instance pointers
| From: | Jim Lucas | Date: | Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:09:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Class instance pointers | ||
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On 11/29/2011 7:56 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
> Is there any benefit to setting a pointer to a class instance to null before returning from a
> function? As in:
>
> function myfunc ()
> {
> $p = new myclass ();
> // do stuff
> $p = null;
> }
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cheers -- Tim
>
>
Nope, AFAIK everything inside the function will disappear when the function
exits. Unless you run into one of the memory release issues talked about in the
past, in that case you might be SOL.
--
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