Accessing Hidden Module Members

Modules in PowerShell v.2 can declare which functions, variables, aliases etc. are public and visible to the caller and which ones are hidden. With a trick, you can also access hidden members. Let's assume you have saved the following module as example.psm1:

You need to import this module with a reference to gain access to hidden members:

Now, you can submit a script block to the module, which executes in its private context and has access to all members, regardless of what Export-ModuleMember has declared public:

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