Add using () statement for automatic disposing

[jborean93]

[essentialexch]

Dave Wyatt wrote a using-object in 2014. I still use it heavily: https://davewyatt.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/using-object-powershell-version-of-cs-using-statement/ - but yes, it suffers from some of the challenges you mention and isn't as flexible. I would just ask that you don't break it. :-)

[DerpMcDerp]

This proposal would be more useful if there was a way for the using in the begin block to be Dispose()d in the end block. i.e.

begin {
    using $a = whatever
    ...
}
process {
    ...
}
end {
    ...
    # $a gets Dispose()d here
}

[jborean93]

@DerpMcDerp that’s what the clean block added in PowerShell 7.3 is great for!