occurs, in order to allow developers to gradually migrate to the
version 2.0-style behavior (without automatic clones).
- * delete function.
+ * delete statement.
The Zend Engine 1.0 had no means to force deletion of an object
if there are still references to it. The newly introduced delete
- function calls the object\92s destructor and frees it even if the
+ statement calls the object\92s destructor and frees it even if the
object is referenced by some other places in the engine. Other
references to the deleted object become stale and trying to
access them results in a fatal error.