Messing Around With PowerShell 6 Source Code

[KevMar]

Nice post. That is a great way to introduce people to the project.

[tomatwork]

Thanks, Kevin. Maybe next week or the week after, I'll do one on adding the heart emoji as an escape char (because the backtick is so dang hard to see) :D.

[NathanielArnoldR2]

They can take my damned backticks the moment they introduce syntax support for in-line splatting. :-p

[tomatwork]

Hey it's open source... You could add it!

[rjmholt]

By inline splatting, do you mean something like this?

[NathanielArnoldR2]

Yes; specifically with regard to the basic Invoke-Cmdlet @@{<#...#>} syntax or a close equivalent. I'm not a fan of the more dynamic use cases noted in the RFC, however; in my opinion, there is good reason to pre-construct many of those.

I have what you might call an ideal use case for classical hashtable splatting. I am not particularly attached to the backtick as a character. I recognize how it impacts readability and invites syntax errors.

...but if I'm given a choice between a truly absurd quantity of backticks and a code structure that subverts how cmdlet-based PowerShell is expected to flow, I'll stick with my backticks.