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

下面的c#代码抛出NullReferenceException而不是打印1:

    static void SomeMethod(string format, params object[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(args.Length);
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        SomeMethod("blabla", null, "Ok here"); // print 2
        SomeMethod("blabla", null); // exception
    }

其他回答

在javaScript中,NaN是一个全局变量。

我不敢说XML是一种编程语言,但它不是贴近我们的内心吗?: -)

在我看来,XML中最奇怪的特性是以下是一个格式良好的文档:

<_....>
</_....>

下面是允许连续点的NT-Name的词法定义。

这里有一大堆奇怪的C特性:http://www.steike.com/code/useless/evil-c/

我认为这实际上不是一个“语言特性”(C),我很可能在发布它时很无知,但我不知道为什么会发生这种情况,所以我会问。如果它被证明与一些奇怪的语言特征有关…这真的让我很不爽,所以这个地方是值得的。

int a = 0;
int *p = &a;

printf("%d, %d, %d.\n", *p, (*p)++, *p); // Outputs "1, 0, 0.\n" on MinGW's GCC 4.4.1

Why?

——编辑

刚拿到的,没什么大不了的。我能感觉到c++大师们现在在嘲笑我。我猜函数参数计算的顺序是未指定的,所以编译器可以自由地调用它们(我想我已经在boost的文档中读到过)。在本例中,实参语句是向后求值的,这可能反映了函数的调用约定。

INTERCAL可能是最奇怪的语言特征的最佳汇编。我个人最喜欢的是COMEFROM语句,它(几乎)与GOTO相反。

COMEFROM is roughly the opposite of GOTO in that it can take the execution state from any arbitrary point in code to a COMEFROM statement. The point in code where the state transfer happens is usually given as a parameter to COMEFROM. Whether the transfer happens before or after the instruction at the specified transfer point depends on the language used. Depending on the language used, multiple COMEFROMs referencing the same departure point may be invalid, be non-deterministic, be executed in some sort of defined priority, or even induce parallel or otherwise concurrent execution as seen in Threaded Intercal. A simple example of a "COMEFROM x" statement is a label x (which does not need to be physically located anywhere near its corresponding COMEFROM) that acts as a "trap door". When code execution reaches the label, control gets passed to the statement following the COMEFROM. The effect of this is primarily to make debugging (and understanding the control flow of the program) extremely difficult, since there is no indication near the label that control will mysteriously jump to another point of the program.