One of my earliest (posts was about implementing an "identity function" in PowerShell to assist in typing lists of strings without bothering with commas.

The function I presented was this:

function identity{

    return $args

}

I recently saw (in a Scripting Games entry) that you don't need to define your own function for this. write-output works just fine.

For example:

$values=write-output apple orange banana

Mike