I think you guys are talking at cross purposes. For the kind of non-evaluation that starbucks et al. are talking about, a simple $(,0) is all you need.. sat's suggestion, and I believe arg's points as well, is for a switch to let the line evaluate when /timer is used, but when the time runs out, and the timer fires, don't evaluate the text.. say, just as if it were entered at the command line without the double slashes. This would allow things like using $1- on a timer in an on text event without having to worry about what happens if someone says a $($decode(),2) line. Sounds like a great idea to me. I also think such a switch should be added to /scid and /scon so that various scripts for doing things such as relaying text from one chan/network to another is risk free without writing needlessly complex code. It's not dissimilar to the n switch to $read, so maybe making it -n is suitable.
