在你看来,你遇到过的最令人惊讶、最怪异、最奇怪或最“WTF”的语言特性是什么?

请每个回答只回答一个特征。


当前回答

在fortran中(当然是77,可能在95中也是如此),未声明的变量和以I到N开头的参数(“In”组)将是INTEGER,所有其他未声明的变量和参数将是REAL(源)。这与“在某些情况下可选的空白”相结合,导致了最著名的错误之一。

正如弗雷德·韦伯在1990年的《另类民间传说:计算机》一书中所说:

I worked at Nasa during the summer of 1963. The group I was working in was doing preliminary work on the Mission Control Center computer systems and programs. My office mate had the job of testing out an orbit computation program which had been used during the Mercury flights. Running some test data with known answers through it, he was getting answers that were close, but not accurate enough. So, he started looking for numerical problems in the algorithm, checking to make sure his tests data was really correct, etc. After a couple of weeks with no results, he came across a DO statement, in the form: DO 10 I=1.10 This statement was interpreted by the compiler (correctly) as: DO10I = 1.10 The programmer had clearly intended: DO 10 I = 1, 10 After changing the . to a , the program results were correct to the desired accuracy. Apparently, the program's answers had been "good enough" for the sub-orbital Mercury flights, so no one suspected a bug until they tried to get greater accuracy, in anticipation of later orbital and moon flights. As far as I know, this particular bug was never blamed for any actual failure of a space flight, but the other details here seem close enough that I'm sure this incident is the source of the DO story.

我认为这是一个很大的WTF,如果DO10I被作为DO10I,并且反过来,因为隐式声明被认为是类型REAL。这是个很棒的故事。

其他回答

我有点纠结:

1;

在perl中,模块需要返回true。

JavaScript是面向对象的,对吧?因此,在文字字符串和数字上运行方法应该是可行的。比如"hello". touppercase()和3.toString()。第二个是语法错误,为什么?因为解析器期望一个数字后面跟一个点是一个浮点字面值。这不是WTF, WTF是你只需要再加一个点就可以了:

3..toString()

原因是字面上的3。被解释为3.0,3.0. tostring()工作正常。

叫/ cc。Call/cc将一个表示程序其余部分的函数传递给程序体。

在C:

warning C4013: 'myfunc' undefined; assuming extern returning int

我记得由于某些原因没有看到警告(在一些遗留代码中有太多警告?),并且困惑于为什么从int转换会在使用非int返回函数时导致编译器错误。

编译器假设这样的东西是相当出乎意料的。

在Haskell:

let 2 + 2 = 5 in 2 + 2

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