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jyurkiw
September 22nd, 2004, 07:07 PM
Is there any advantage, in PHP, to creating a clear-type function for a class (one that will manually reset the state of the object to what it was at construction)

vs.

just dropping the old instantiation and making a new one?

...as in taking something like $anOldObject and going

$anOldObject = new someClass();

I'm not sure how the Zend engine handles garbage collection so...

Jeff