在Haskell:

let 2 + 2 = 5 in 2 + 2

收益率5。

在MATLAB(交互式数组语言，目前是TIOBE 20)中，有一个关键字end来表示数组的最后一个元素(它对应于NumPy -1)。这是一个众所周知的MATLAB语法:

myVar = myArray(end)

要从数组中间获取一个元素，通常可以这样写:

myVar = myArray( ceil( length(myArray)/2 ) )

令人惊讶的是，关键字end根本不是一个关键字，而是一种变量:

myVar = myArray( ceil( end/2 ) )

COMEFROM是我见过的最奇怪，也可能是最没用的语言功能。

其次是三元运算符，因为它违反了优化的第一条规则。它带来的危害大于它解决的问题。它的危害更大，因为它使代码可读性更差。

并不是一个真正的语言功能，但有趣/很棒的功能使用是Duff的设备。

Perl的许多内置变量:

$# — not a comment! $0, $$, and $? — just like the shell variables by the same name $ˋ, $&, and $' — weird matching variables $" and $, — weird variables for list- and output-field-separators $! — like errno as a number but strerror(errno) as a string $_ — the stealth variable, always used and never seen $#_ — index number of the last subroutine argument... maybe @_ — the (non)names of the current function... maybe $@ — the last-raised exception %:: — the symbol table $:, $^, $~, $-, and $= — something to do with output formats $. and $% — input line number, output page number $/ and $\ — input and output record separators $| — output buffering controller $[ — change your array base from 0-based to 1-based to 42-based: WHEEE! $} — nothing at all, oddly enough! $<, $>, $(, $) — real and effective UIDs and GIDs @ISA — names of current package’s direct superclasses $^T — script start-up time in epoch seconds $^O — current operating system name $^V — what version of Perl this is

还有很多这样的东西。点击这里阅读完整列表。

在Java中从文本文件中读取一行。

BufferedReader in = null;
try {
   in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("filename"));
   String str;
   str = in.readLine();
   if (str != null) {
      ...
   } 
} catch (IOException e) {
   ...
} finally {
   try {
      if (in != null) {
         in.close();
      }
   } catch (IOException e) {}
}

啊。虽然我承认这并不奇怪……只是邪恶。: -)

更短、更习惯的版本:

try {
   BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("filename"));
   try {
       String str = in.readLine();
       while (str != null) {
          str = in.readLine();
       } 
    } finally {
        in.close();
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

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.