Keith Hill

> null checking is complicated in PowerShell I've been too spoiled by C# definite assignment checks. :-)

> I have already stated that aliases like functions can easily be overwritten with greater ease, thereby it's not safer. And the way you fix that, as has been mentioned,...

BTW early in the development of PSSA we postulated the need for different "PSSA profiles". That is, the amount of "linting" needed for a personal module is lower than one...

@Jaykul You just like to suck the joy out of everything. :-p

For PSCX we created a provider for configuration such that you have a PSCX drive to tweak configuration. One issue if you create a permanent storage location for configurations is...

> Always encode in utf-8 BOM or no BOM? That's the question. :-) IIRC the .NET UTF8 encoder has BOM enabled by default and PS uses it that way. >...

Are you sure Visual Studio allows you to configure line endings? You can configure it to warn you of inconsistent line endings.

@Jaykul You only have two reasons for that? 😛

> I will reword the bit about \n -- the point is that you must save your actual PowerShell script with JUST newlines, or shebangs do not work. I think...

@mattmcnabb Keep in mind that with the PowerShellEditorServices, where the debugger lives, we're only at version 0.7.0. It will get better, then worse for a bit, then better. :-) Hopefully...