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> Why do I have to laugh when I read the new feature list?

yeah. Why? What particular items makes you laugh?

Let's start with "support for finally in try/catch blocks". In 2012 this is a new feature?

So far it was argued that by virtue of having no memory management, there will be nothing that needs to be freed and hence no finally clause would be needed.

Of course this was flawed reasoning as there are still many other resources that will require manual freeing, so now the problem has been fixed.

While it was bad that the flawed reasoning existed in the first place. I don't see how fixing bad assumptions made a decade ago is laughable.

Let's not argue here. Obviously he's a cool kid and we should all learn a thing or two from him. Like how to be the very last person here who still thinks its fun to take pot shots at PHP.

So PHP would be better off without adding a missing feature? I don't get your reasoning.

It wasn't reasoning, he's just taking cheap shots at PHP -- effectively ranting rather than making an thoughtful argument.

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