Re: [Zend Engine 2] RSHUTOWN and destructors

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Zeev Suraski wrote: > All in all, the destructor functionality is *extremely* fragile - to the > degree that in many points in time we thought about removing it (you can > look up the CVS archives to see just how many fixes it required so far - > plenty). Preventing access to resources may be something that we'd just > have to live with. What is the point of having destructors then? I did a little quiz on IRC (yes, I know that that is not our typical userbase) and all of them mentioned that they wanted to use destructors to: "wrap up files", "commit a transaction", "do something with an open file", "really make sure my files are consistent". I am wondering what other use there is for constructors. Perhaps we should ditch them like namespaces because we can not come to a good implementation? I don't think that should be done, as destructors *can* be useful. Besides that I think it's totally uninituitive that: $obj = NULL; ?> works and that the destructor than can access any resource it wants, but that: ?> doesn't work (because the destructor is called from request_shutdown). I'm pretty sure that there is some way to get this working in a decent way... which might perhaps not be the nicest solution. regards, Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ International PHP Magazine http://www.php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------