Rule request: The Catch (or Finally) statement is missing its Try block.

[iRon7]

There is a rule for The Try statement is missing its Catch or Finally block.:

Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -ScriptDefinition {function Test { Try { write-verbose 'Test' } }}.ToString()
ParserError:
Line |
   1 |  … criptDefinition {function Test { Try { write-verbose 'Test' } }}.ToSt …
     |                                                                 ~
     | The Try statement is missing its Catch or Finally block.

But there is no rule for the opposite: a Catch (or Finally) statement that is missing its Try block:

Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer -ScriptDefinition {function Test { Catch { write-verbose 'Test' } }}.ToString()

Even it produces a syntax error during run time (as it assumes it is a cmdlet, which is definitely not a recommend function name):

Catch { write-verbose'Test' }
Catch: The term 'Catch' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

[bergmeister]

If you look at the first output, there is no rule, PSSA just passes the parser error back. PSSA generally relies on parser and if parser cannot tell whether this is a command or catch block with no try block, then life will be hard because there must be a reason, which is likely PowerShell's generic nature that one could write a function called catch that accepts a scriptblock

[iRon7]

If you look at the first output, there is no rule, PSSA just passes the parser error back.

Right, I missed that.

there must be a reason, which is likely PowerShell's generic nature that one could write a function called catch that accepts a scriptblock

Apart from the fact that this probably concerns a mistake (that actually happend in our environment), it concerns a reserved word which cannot be used as identifiers because they have a special meaning in PowerShell. I did an additional rule request for this, see: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/issues/2099

[iRon7]

@bergmeister, Taken the response from the Engine WG: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/25491#issuecomment-2851915260, I still think this is a valid rule request for the script analyzer.