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

在Perl中,你可以做到:

my $test = "Hello World";
substr($test, 0, 5) = "Goodbye";

print $test;

这在其他语言中可行吗?

其他回答

这不是一个奇怪的功能,事实上,如果你仔细想想,它是完全有意义的,但还是给了我一个WTF时刻。

在c++(和c#)中,基类的子类不能访问基实例上的私有和受保护成员。

class Base {
protected:
 m_fooBar;
};

class Derived: public Base {
public:
 void Test(Base& baseInstance) {
  m_fooBar=1; //OK
  baseInstance.m_fooBar = 1; //Badness
  //This, however is OK:
  ((Derived&)baseInstance).m_fooBar = 1; //OK
 }
};

在ColdFusion中,数组从1开始。

JavaScript中的变量赋值可以创建全局变量。如果一个变量在函数中被赋值,并且没有在相同的作用域中声明为var,那么它将隐式声明为global。

function foo() {
  x = "juhu";  // creates a global variable x!
  var y = "kinners"
}

foo();
alert(x); // alerts "juhu"
alert(y); // alerts undefined

注意,var语句也可以在给变量赋值后使用:

function foo() {
  x = 12;
  var x; // x is now local
  return x;
}

alert(foo()); // will alert 12;
alert(x); // will alert undefined

学习PowerShell时发现:

试着猜一下结果数组是什么样的:

$a = 1, 2
$b = 1, 2+3
$c = 1, 2*3

答案:

1, 2
1, 2, 3
1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2

哎哟!它动摇了我对PowerShell及其开发人员的信心。

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.