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

在流行性腮腺炎中,你可以有一个带偏移的GOTO。如果你有(我的腮腺炎已经生锈了…)

some_label if x=1 do_something
           else  do_something_else

然后是代码

           goto some_label+1

将跳转到ELSE语句…

其他回答

我一直想知道这个函数在Java Core库的Math类中的用途:

static double expm1(double x);  // Returns e^x - 1.

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
 }
};

c# yield语句,并不奇怪,但非常有用。

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9k7k7cf0 (VS.80) . aspx

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).

C预处理器及其用法。特别是预处理器元编程和使用预处理器生成可移植代码——完全是胡扯。