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Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 20:03:46 +0200
To: Wojtek Meler <wmeler@wp-sa.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] circular references
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At 19:32 22.05.2003, Wojtek Meler wrote:
>When you run:
><?
>$a=array();
>$b[]=&$a;
>$a[]=&$b;
>?>
>
>You will get warnings about memory leaks. I know that it is ugly code etc. 
>but shouldn't it be solved by ZE? It should free such things properly.
>I know that in this simple case whole memory is freed, but if we add 
>resource to $a table, resource desctructor won't be called because
>of reference - that's why PHP leeks memory. Am I right?

Putting out the warning is better.
Eventually a damn note that the user shoot his self in the knee.
But that would slow down performance.

AND a side note: even java does not handle that.

regards
marcus