PHP vs. Ruby, again

I don’t want to drive this topic into the ground because as I’ve said before, PHP and Ruby come from completely different directions, but here’s what I miss when I’m writing in PHP:

* Buggy static method inheritance – this is well noted in the PHP community
* Buggy class reflection – also well noted
* Symbols like :this
* Having to specify $this-> all over the place
* $a = array(‘test’=>’true’) instead of $a = {‘test=>’true’}
* $ all over the place
* Not being able to pass hashes into functions
* Blocks

None of these are showstoppers, they’re just little annoyances that make me feel like PHP is more crude than Ruby. Ruby is very elegant, even more so than Python.