My point is not only the fact that the eval brackets are obsolete, but that you can put $nick $+ $ticks in a var, and shorten your code incredibly, and also increasing readability.
Though each has his own methods, so nvm
It's the difference between:
.timerbla $+ $nick $+ %ticks ..... timerbla $+ $nick $+ %ticks
set -u7 %something. $+ $nick $+ %ticks
.othertimer $+ $nick $+ %ticks
vs.
.timerbla $+ %a ..... timerbla $+ %a
set -u7 %something. $+ %a
.othertimer $+ %a
Greets
