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

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。

其他回答

Java有一整本关于它们的书。

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在SQL

NULL不等于NULL

所以你不能:

WHERE myValue == NULL

这将总是返回false。

NULL != NULL

引用尼尔·弗雷泽的话(看那一页的末尾)

try {
    return true;
} finally {
    return false;
}

(在Java中,但在JavaScript和Python中行为显然是相同的)。其结果留给读者作为练习。

编辑:只要我们谈到这个问题,也要考虑到这一点:

try {
    throw new AssertionError();
} finally {
    return false;
}

一个意想不到的特性是,在C、c#、Ruby等语言中,枚举定义列表和数组初始化列表中的末尾逗号。

string[] foods = { "tofu", "grits", "cabbage", }

public enum ArtPeriod {
  Modern,
  Romantic,
  Dada,
}

在Java中可以抛出任何可抛出的东西。

class YourBoss extends Throwable {
}
public class Main{
  public void main(String[] s) throws YourBoss {
   try{
    throw new YourBoss();
   }catch(Exception e){
   }catch(Error e){
   }
  }
}