I guess all these misunderstandings on my part come from not knowing how to read the script code, and therefore not being able to recognise what exactly they're meant to do. I'll have to learn it.
The way you recognize exactly what they do, not just meant to do, is through trial and error and the use of /echo. I don't know about the other people on this forum, but I think it is safe to say that most of us learned about scripting by doing more than asking. I ask questions here after I've exhausted all my ideas. I'm not saying don't ask questions. Im just saying you have tools available to you to show you exactly what your scripts are doing line by line.
This will make you more comfortable with how the mirc scripting language works.
I test identifiers and scripts using echo's and /debug @debug.
