Erik Price wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 03:59  PM, Robert Cummings wrote:
> 
> > Now if what you meant was the following:
> >
> > $objectFoo = new MyObject();
> > $objectFee = &$objectFoo;
> >
> > unset( $objectFoo );
> >
> > Then the object shouldn't be deleted since $objectFee is still
> > referencing
> > it. You will just break the reference. Correct me if I'm wrong *chuckle*
> 
> What if I did
> 
> $objectFoo = new MyObject;
> $objectFee = $objectFoo;
> 
> unset($objectFoo);
> 
> essentially, does PHP make a (deep|shallow) copy of an object in this
> reassignment, or is it just creating a new reference?

Should be a copy, and it should be safe... though I recall a discussion
last week that displayed an interesting bug (feature?).

Cheers,
Rob.
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