note 54402 added to function.unset

As of PHP 5 unset doesn't seem to work as a means to make an object self destruct, consider the following code: class A { function Delete() { unset($this); } } In PHP 4 this way worked perfectly, in PHP 5 I haven't found any way to get the above code to work. The use for this is in for example a XML tree structure, I have a XML class which interface I used like this before: $n = &$XMLObeject->doc->FindNodeById( $someID ); $n->Delete(); Very convinient for deleting nodes in the tree, doesn't work anymore though. unset($n) doesn't even work, I think it has to do with the fact that the nodes parent keeps 2 references to this data and that PHP 5 somehow changed how that works. Using $n = NULL do work, even if I think it's very ugly compared to the other 2 sollutions. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unset.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+54402 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54402&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54402&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54402&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54402&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54402&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54402&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+54402&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php