Misleading error message in PowerShell script: "Invalid assignment expression. The left hand side of an assignment operator need

I recently ran into the following error message while modifying a PowerShell script:

Invalid assignment expression. The left hand side of an assignment operator needs to be something that can be assigned to like a variable or a property

The cause of the error was that I had added a line of code in front of my param declaration:

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Set -StrictMode -Version 2   param(      [string][parameter(mandatory= $true )] $WebsitePhysicalPath ,