If you’re writing a function that returns a collection then don’t forget to include the comma operator in the return statement. If you forget it your function will work correctly when the collection contains multiple objects, but fails when it contains 1 object.

Take the following buggy example:

function GiveMeAllTheThings()
{
    $myarray = @()
    #fill $myarray with results of type String. Assume that
    #run-time conditions determine if it is filled with 
    #0, 1 or more items and that each item is a string
    return $myarray;
}
$result = GiveMeAllTheThings
$result.GetType().FullName

If you execute this code when $myarray has many strings in it, the returned type from the function is System.Object[]. If $myarray has only 1 string in it, then the returned type will be System.String.

The code should have been written like this:

function GiveMeAllTheThings()
{
    ...
    return ,$myarray;
}