Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

[Rumbu]

On Friday, 17 December 2021 at 13:14:50 UTC, Igor wrote:
> On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 15:59:10 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> * Worst features implemented in a non-toy language
>> * Worst features (in your opinion) in D
>
> I am a bit late to this party :) but after reading all 29 pages 
> of it I would say most of it is said except this one thing:
>
> I hate language constructs that go in opposite order from my 
> thoughts making me type something then having to navigate back 
> to add another thing. Best example for this is casting in any 
> language. I always have to write cast operator before the thing 
> I am casting yet in my head I never think "then I need to cast 
> to int the variable X that I want to add". I think more like 
> "Then I need to add variable X but I have to cast it to int".

In sql you can write ```cast(field as type)```.

Also in c# you can write ```variable as type```, even the 
semantics are not 100% equivalent to the usual cast operator ().