you *do* need to use = with var. There are plenty of edge cases that break /var when = isn't used.
Even if i agree = should be used in /var, since 6.32 (at least, i think this is true for 6.31 and maybe 6.3), use it or not make no difference.Before, mirc could give an error if ",%var" was used as a data,
here is a interesting topic, where all of this has been already asked/clarified, it seemed that a switch for /var appear to be the best solution
