Do you honestly think he forgot about $true and $false? Maybe about half of the scripts pasted on here use those. There is no way he could have forgotten they exist.
For example, should I forget about $nickmode because it's undocumented and instead write a script that parses 005 and stores that info somewhere?
Well thats what I did, $isupport(token), it determines if the token exists, and if it has a value the value is returned. I'd much rather use that than rely on something that may suddenly disappear.
And it isn't suprising that people use it, it's just stupid imho. Consider /setlayer. I make a script that uses setlayer. My users love it, they love that you can make it transparent, and everything. Now 6.04 comes out, and /setlayer is gone. Users complain it doesn't work anymore. I can't simply "code a workaround" because there is no workaround, the feature is gone, now I am forced to remove a popular feature of my script. I don't consider that to be a good thing.
