PowerShell comes with a number of hard-coded type accelerators that serve like aliases for commonly used .NET types, and since they are a lot shorter than the original type names, they “accelerate the typing”.
A little-known fact is that the list of type accelerators is extensible. The line below adds a new type accelerator named “SuperArray” that points to “System.Collections.ArrayList”
You can now create new “super arrays” (which behave just like regular arrays, but come with a bunch of extra methods to insert or remove elements at arbitrary positions, and append array elements much faster than with regular arrays):
[PSObject].Assembly.GetType('System.Management.Automation.TypeAccelerators')::Add('SuperArray', [System.Collections.ArrayList]) $a = [superarray]::new()
You can also convert regular arrays into “super arrays”:
PS> $a = [superarray](1,2,3) PS> $a.RemoveAt(1) PS> $a 1 3
Note however that you could have done the same without type accelerators. They just save typing:
PS> $a = [System.Collections.ArrayList](1,2,3) PS> $a.RemoveAt(1) PS> $a 1 3
