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AvoidUsingPositionalParameters is flagging simple "echo"s

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the linked AvoidUsingPositionalParameters rule description and reproduce the reported Write-Host command in the stated PowerShell 1.21.0 environment. Determine why this simple command is flagged despite the documented three-parameter threshold; done means the command is no longer incorrectly reported while the rule still handles its intended cases.

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Description

Area - Rules Issue-Bug

Steps to reproduce

Write-Host Done with projects.

Expected behavior

To prevent this rule from being too noisy, this rule gets only triggered when there are 3 or more parameters supplied.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer/blob/1.21.0/docs/Rules/AvoidUsingPositionalParameters.md#description

Actual behavior

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Environment data

Can't, I'm using GitHub Actions. They claim 1.21.0:
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/win/Windows2022-Readme.md#powershell-modules

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