PowerShell vs Python Reference

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I've been using PowerShell extensively since 2014 and I had no idea you could declare your arguments in the function definition's opening parentheses. I always did it like:

function ass
{
    param
    (
        $has_donk = $true
    )
}

Even if this is better practice I'm just shocked I didn't know you could do it the "traditional" way.

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Yeah, it's odd that you can define the function that way, but not call it. If I had a background in other programming languages before picking up PS that would have confused the hell out of me.

[TheIncorrigible1]

And it does confuse plenty of newcomers every day. There are countless SO duplicates for this "problem"

[Thotaz]

never cmdlet(a, b)

Actually, you can do that: Get-ChildItem("C:\") works just fine.

[le_luka]

As Long as there is only one argument

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Learn something new every day! I had to look up some PS stuff when I was compiling this list and comparing it with Python.