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

我很惊讶居然没有人提到Visual Basic的7个循环结构。

For i As Integer = 1 to 10 ... Next
While True ... End While
Do While True ... Loop
Do Until True ... Loop
Do ... Loop While True
Do ... Loop Until True
While True ... Wend

因为粘!你面前的条件实在是太复杂了!

其他回答

在Java中,字符串如何处理==操作符取决于它是如何构造的,这存在一些不一致性。

String a = "Hello";
String b = "Hello";
System.out.println(a == b ); // prints true.
String c = new String("Hello");
String d = new String("Hello"); 
System.out.println(c == d ); // prints false

好吧,既然问题是断断续续的,我就加入到“有趣”中来

Go(又名Issue9)使用大写的可见性:

如果你用大写字母命名某个东西,它就会被公众访问。 如果你使用小写,它将被包保护:

包装外可见:

func Print(v ...) { 
}

包外不可见

func print( v ... ) {
}

你可以在这个原始答案中找到更多。

在Python中,函数参数的“编译时”(或声明时)计算可能令人困惑:

def append(v, l = []):
    l.append(v)
    return l


print append(1)
print append(2)

>>> [1]
>>> [1,2]

其意图可能是:

def append(v, l = None):
    if l is None:
        l = []
    l.append(v)
    return l

print append(1)
print append(2)

>>> [1]
>>> [2]

这种行为对于缓存之类的事情很有用,但它可能是危险的。

附加特性:具有可变内容的元组:

a = (1,2,[3])
a[2][:] = [4] # OK
a[2] = [2] # crashes

在JavaScript(和Java)中,你可以转义这样有趣的字符:

var mystring = "hello \"world\"";

如果你想把回车放到字符串中,那是不可能的。你必须像这样使用\n:

var mystring = "hello, \nworld";

这是正常的,也是意料之中的——至少对于一种编程语言来说。奇怪的是你也可以像这样转义一个实际的回车:

var mystring = "hello, \
world";

A very tiny thing that annoyed me in COBOL was that there was no dedicated modulo operation. Instead you could do a division specifying that you only wanted whole number results and store the rest in a different variable. Since COBOL is very sensitive when it comes to variables that means that you ended up with a variable you didn't really need, i.e. the actual result of the division. This is the story of how I once named a variable "USELESS" - that was the most appropriate name I could think of.