X = X + 1

当我还是初学者的时候，这很难消化，而现在函数式语言不使用它了，这就更难了!

如果你不明白这有多奇怪:把等号看作断言语句，而不是赋值操作，就像你在基础代数中经常做的那样，那么这相当于说“0 = 1”。

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。

c++(或Java)中没有封装的事实。任何对象都可以违反任何其他对象的封装，破坏它的私有数据，只要它是相同的类型。例如:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class X
{
  public:
    // Construct by passing internal value
    X (int i) : i (i) {}

    // This breaks encapsulation
    void violate (X & other)
    {
        other.i += i;
    }

    int get () { return i; }

  private:
    int i;
};

int main (int ac, char * av[])
{
    X a(1), b(2), c(3);

    a.violate (c);
    b.violate (c);
    cout << c.get() << endl;    // "6"
}

PL/SQL允许将变量和函数名声明为关键字。下面是可编译的PL/SQL:

create or replace 
  function function 
  return number  as
  return number;
begin 
  function.return := 4;
  return   return;
end function;
/

这创建了一个名为function的函数。后:

SQL> select function from dual;

  FUNCTION
----------
         4

Perl的sub没有真正的参数列表，只有@_数组。同时，sub会自动变平传入的参数。

我不明白为什么这是一个持久的功能;这反映了几年前我不得不在TI-86 BASIC上做的事情，因为这门语言没有足够的特色。

在Python中，每个字符串都包含空字符串。

answer = input("Enter 'Y[es] or N[o]:")
if answer in 'YyNn':        # verify input
    process(answer) 

只要在上面的查询中点击return就会将答案设置为空字符串，将if答案传递给…测试，并被处理为正确答案。更简洁地说:

>>> "ABCDEFGHIJ".__contains__("")
True

像往常一样，Python在这里的行为在数学和逻辑上都是无可挑剔的。就像我在很久以前的集合论课上回忆的那样:空集合是每个集合的成员。

当我偶尔被它咬到的时候，它仍然让我感到惊讶，但我不会有其他的方式。