So how do you work around the problems where, for example. (Simplest, quickest example I could thing of.) PHP = strtoupper($str) Ruby = "Hello".upcase Since

So how do you work around the problems where, for example. (Simplest, quickest example I could thing of.) PHP = strtoupper($str) Ruby = "Hello".upcase Since Ruby is a method on the string object and PHP takes the string as an argument. To make them the same you would need to do either PHP = upcase($str) Ruby = "Hello".upcase In which case you lose context in PHP or PHP = strtoupper($str) Ruby = "Hello".strtoupper In which case you are repeating yourself in ruby.