8000 Automatic $? variable (success indicator) is reset to $true when a command is enclosed in parentheses - make $? only reflect command status, not expression status · Issue #3359 · PowerShell/PowerShell · GitHub
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opened on Mar 17, 2017

Not sure if this behavior is by design; if so, it would help to understand the rationale.

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Get-Item -EA SilentlyContinue NoSuchItem; $?  # Failure is reflected in $? being $False
(Get-Item -EA SilentlyContinue NoSuchItem); $? #  Using (...) resets $? to $True

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False
False

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False
True

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PowerShell Core v6.0.0-alpha (v6.0.0-alpha.17) on Darwin Kernel Version 16.4.0: Thu Dec 22 22:53:21 PST 2016; root:xnu-3789.41.3~3/RELEASE_X86_64

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