== Quote from Zeev Suraski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article
> If you're talking about destruction that honors reference counts (which has
> nothing to do with order, it's still randomly-ordered), then yes, it's
> *generally* ok.

Yes, I was talking about that point.

>  But that what we had before, and it had tons of
> problems.  For instance, do you want to give up the ability to access the
> symbol table (e.g. $GLOBALS) from destructors?  Because the symtable
> elements won't have anything to protect them from being deleted, their
> refcount is 1.  Just in case you're willing to live without it, it did use
> to be that way, and people did complain :)

Do you mean that global variables have their refcount "locked to 1", or "never less 
than 1"?

For sure if they are "locked to 1", I now understand why destruction of such objects 
can't reflect "dependences".

Stephane

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