merge issue #707 by hand

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diff --git a/doc/manual.txt b/doc/manual.txt
index 260f0807a..baa0f3366 100644
--- a/doc/manual.txt
+++ b/doc/manual.txt
@@ -4672,6 +4672,10 @@ These rules ensure that the construction is tied to a variable and can easily
 be destructed at its scope exit. Later versions of the language will improve
 the support of destructors.
 
+Be aware that destructors are not called for objects allocated with ``new``.
+This may change in future versions of language, but for now use 
+the ``finalizer`` parameter to ``new``.
+
 
 delegator pragma
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