在(MRI/C) Ruby和MacRuby(而不是JRuby)中，整洁的系统相关溢出会导致年份翻转，然后出现更大数量的本地时间错误。这不是一个常见的问题，但很奇怪:

$ ruby -version
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]
$ irb
>> Time.at(67767976233550799)
=> Tue Dec 31 23:59:59 -0500 2147483647
>> Time.at(67767976233550800)
=> Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0500 -2147483648
>> Time.at(67768036191694799)
=> Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 -0500 -2147481749
>> Time.at(67768036191694800)
ArgumentError: localtime error
...
Maybe IRB bug!!

不过，这可能特定于64位环境。

我最喜欢的奇怪的C语言是5[“Hello World”]，但因为已经发布了，我最喜欢的第二个奇怪的是Windows版本结构初始化黑客:

void someWindowsFunction() {
    BITMAPINFOHEADER header = {sizeof header};

    /* do stuff with header */
}

这条微妙的线条达到了以下效果:

Declares a BITMAPINFOHEADER structure Concisely sets the "size" member of the structure, without hardcoding a size constant (since many Window structures, including BITMAPINFOHEADER, follow the convention of specifying the size of the structure as the first member} Declares the version of the structure (since many Windows structures, including BITMAPINFOHEADER, identify their version by the declared size, following the convention that structures definitions are append-only) Clears all other members of the structure (a C standard behavior when a structure is incompletely initialized).

在Perl中，可以通过修改一个类的@ISA数组来改变它的继承链，这让我很惊讶。

package Employee;
our @ISA = qw(Person);
# somwhere far far away in a package long ago
@Employee::ISA = qw(Shape); 
# Now all Employee objects no longer inherit from 'Person' but from 'Shape'

在C语言中，sizeof操作符不计算其实参。这允许编写看起来错误但实际上是正确的代码。例如，给定类型T，调用malloc()的惯用方法是:

#include <stdlib.h>

T *data = NULL;
data = malloc(sizeof *data);

这里，*data在sizeof操作符中不被求值(data是NULL，所以如果它被求值，就会发生糟糕的事情!)。

这使得人们能够编写令人惊讶的代码，无论如何，对于新手来说。请注意，没有哪个头脑正常的人会这么做:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{   
    int x = 1;
    size_t sz = sizeof(x++);
    printf("%d\n", x);
    return 0;
}   

输出1，而不是2，因为x永远不会增加。

对于sizeof的一些真正的乐趣/困惑:

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
    char a[] = "Hello";
    size_t s1 = sizeof a;
    size_t s2 = sizeof ("Hi", a);
    printf("%zu %zu\n", s1, s2);
    return 0;
}

(只有当人们对数组、指针和操作符感到困惑时才会出现这种困惑。)

在C中，a[b][C]与C [b[a]]完全相同。

Python的everything-is-really-a-reference有一个有趣的副作用:

>>> a = [[1]] * 7
>>> a
[[1], [1], [1], [1], [1], [1], [1]]
>>> a[0][0] = 2
>>> a
[[2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2], [2]]