This is a follow up to Jacob Moran’s article Keeping it simple – Line breaks in PowerShell.

I am strongly in the pro backtick camp, but I won’t get into that debate here. Instead, I’ll cover more of the common ground between the two camps.

In addition to after a pipe, there are many, many more places where you can put in a line break without a backtick and without breaking your code.

As a rule of thumb, any spot where the syntax unambiguously must be followed by something more, you can break the line.

As an extreme example, this:

Can be written like this:

That example is, of course, silly.

But combine judicious use of the line break with appropriate horizontal whitespace, and you can turn this:

Into this: