下面是Perl调试器中的一些混乱:

  DB<1> sub foo { +(1..20) } 
  DB<2> @bar = foo(); # list of 1, 2, 3, 4...20
  DB<3> x scalar @bar # size of list
0  20
  DB<4> x scalar foo();
0  ''

这是正确的。当您像这样调用方法时，标量上下文从标量向下传播到子例程调用，将看起来无害的..变成一个完全不同的运营商。(这是“触发器”操作符，而不是范围操作符)。

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.

我曾经写过一种编程语言，它有一个“strfry”操作符:

"hello world"?
# => "wdo rlholle"

有用的,是吗?

我一直在想为什么最简单的程序是:

class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
}

然而它可以是:

print "Hello World!"

也许这是为了吓唬计算机科学专业的学生……

C和c++中的三联体。

int main() {
   printf("LOL??!");
}

这将打印LOL|，因为trigraph ??!转换为|。

PHP对字符串中数值的处理。详见之前对另一个问题的回答，但简而言之:

"01a4" != "001a4"

如果你有两个包含不同数量字符的字符串，它们不能被认为是相等的。前导零很重要，因为它们是字符串而不是数字。

"01e4" == "001e4"

PHP doesn’t like strings. It’s looking for any excuse it can find to treat your values as numbers. Change the hexadecimal characters in those strings slightly and suddenly PHP decides that these aren’t strings any more, they are numbers in scientific notation (PHP doesn’t care that you used quotes) and they are equivalent because leading zeros are ignored for numbers. To reinforce this point you will find that PHP also evaluates "01e4" == "10000" as true because these are numbers with equivalent values. This is documented behaviour, it’s just not very sensible.