In the latest entry in the official PowerShell Blog, Jeffrey Snover leaves a little tidbit about a change coming on the next CTP of PowerShell V2:
The
cmdletkeyword is going away and we'll just havefunction. Notice that now you can specify the[Parameter()]attribute on parameters. When you do that, we treat the function like a cmdlet.
I don’t mind getting rid of the cmdlet keyword; honestly, but is the new syntax that much of an improvement? So now instead of an explicit keyword telling you whether something is a function of a cmdlet, you have an attribute spilled around the function parameters? Not sure if that’s good or not, but sounds confusing to me, at first glance.
Maybe what rubs me the wrong way, however, is the [Parameter] attribute. I’m OK with using an attribute to specify the metadata associated with the parameters, honestly. But the whole Param + [Parameter] thing just reads redundant and ugly:
function Emit-XML {
Param ([Parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]$object)
...
} Can anyone more familiar with this chime in? Am I the only one slightly bothered by this?
