If you are building PowerShell longer than a few lines, it is good practice to break up your code into reusable snippets. This way you can only call the code snippet over and over instead of ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

Bash functions are essentially reusable wrappers around commands. You can use them to define complex command pipelines or to perform some detailed work and echo the result. They accept arguments and ...

Sometimes using ValidateSet isn't enough -- for instance, when you have multiple functions with the same parameter that you need to perform a task on. PowerShell has a data type called an enum, which ...

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The C and C++ standards do not specify the order of evaluation for function arguments. This can lead to subtle portability problems. As I explained in my column last month (“As Precise As Possible”), ...

Function calling is a feature that allows you to describe specific functions to ChatGPT models within an API call. The model, in turn, intelligently decides whether to generate a JSON object, ...

Oscilloscope measurement parameters provide accurate measurements of acquired waveforms. Most digital oscilloscopes offer around twenty-five standard parameters like frequency, peak-to-peak amplitude, ...