Re: [PSH] Methods/functions and blank spaces


"Marcel J. Ortiz Soto [MSFT]" <mosoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I agree, its unfortunate we need this, but its the kind of tradeoff we have
to make because PowerShell is both a shell and a scripting language. In
shells people are used to using space as the delimiter.

copy a.txt b.txt
move a.txt b.txt
netstat -p tcp

Thus we need to support whitespace as a parameter delimiter. Other
programming languages on the other hand, don't need to support this.

Careful there. I can't do this:

ri a.txt b.txt

I have to specify it like so:

ri a.txt, b.txt

This has bitten me a couple of times until I remember that I have to use a
comma.

We know people get really attached to their coding styles and this might
cause them some grief at first but hopefully they'll be able to live with
this. Its not a change we made lightly. Try it out. If people still
can't get used to this after some time then go ahead and open a feature
request bug asking us to change it back.

I agree with dreeschkind, I never liked whitespace between a function name
and parens. So I'm OK with this change - at least for now. :-)

--
Keith


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