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Yes, PHP has some warts, but so do ruby & javascript [1], python [2], and all other similar languages. The keyword to look for people explaining some of these warts is "wat" (popularized by the talk at [1] I think). [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat [2] https://github.com/cosmologicon/pywat

Most (non-strongly-typed?) languages have weird edge cases of this sort. There's a very funny presentation by Gary Bernhard highlighting some of these for Ruby/Javascript: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat If you look hard enough, you'll probably find some site that shows surprising behaviors of your favorite language. Examples: Python: https://github.com/cosmologicon/pywat Javascript: https://loomcom.com/blog/0097_the_wats_of_javascript.html Ruby: https://idiosyncratic-ruby.com/29-limitations-of-language.ht...

There's a nice list here: https://github.com/cosmologicon/pywat Here's another one. Compare "x = 256; y = 256; x is y" with "x = 257" (enter) "y = 257" (enter) "x is y" with "x = 257; y = 257; x is y". It makes a difference whether x and y are assigned on the same line or not. From here: http://glasnt.com/blog/2016/05/28/on-language-oddities.html