I think your latter point is part of my confusion. Is this a proposal for what PHP should be or what it currently is? I'm as excited as anyone for the upcoming

I think your latter point is part of my confusion. Is this a proposal for what PHP should be or what it currently is? I'm as excited as anyone for the upcoming jPHP but, array bug aside, breaking BC is huge in PHP. I've used the __destruct method plenty of times to automate DB changes without explicitly calling a function to save those changes