{"id":8511,"date":"2007-02-23T08:26:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T08:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2007\/02\/23\/why-isnt-new-object-aliased-to-new\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:20:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:20:43","slug":"why-isnt-new-object-aliased-to-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/why-isnt-new-object-aliased-to-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn’t “New-Object” aliased to “New”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alistair Young made a Note to Self<\/a> :\n<\/p>\n

In a standard PowerShell installation, “new” is not<\/strong> an alias for “new-object”. You added that. You should therefore know better that to make this kind of dumbass mistake.\n<\/span><\/p>\n

We talked about making “New” an alias to “New-Object” but decided against it in the end because it leaves open the door for us to provide a C#-like NEW keyword sometime in the future. We want PowerShell to provide a nice glide path to C# so in the future, we’d like the following to be equivalent:\n<\/p>\n

$x = New-Object System.DateTime 2007,12,25\n<\/span><\/p>\n

$x = new System.DateTime(2007,12,25)\n<\/span><\/p>\n

So if we decide to implement this in the future and you’ve aliased New to New-Object, your scripts will break.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows PowerShell\/MMC Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at: http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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