Lets say we want to return the actual number of the token found with $matchtok or $wildtok. In order to do so, currently you have to use $findtok along with your $matchtok/wildtok like this example here:
$findtok(a b c d,$matchtok(a b c d,c,1,32),32)
To me, this looks ugly and seems like a wasteful step just to retrieve a number. I think if $matchtok and $wildtok both had a prefix like .num to return the token number of the string the match is found in would make for much cleaner looking code, and mIRC wouldn't have to iterate through the same string twice. (string being in this example "a b c d").