So was I, but instead of accepting the fail, I had to blame something else
It seemed unecessary and it was made to work correctly in the next version so I was rather happy with it, the only problem one had not using it before was because ",%var" would be seen as a new declaration:
var %a 1,%b $mid(text,%a,1) would fail without '=' with $mid invalid format.
That's the kind of stuff that won't be fixed, the help file is only misleading because it doesn't work properly, but it is supposed to, and it's not like Khaled wants to document all the quirks in mIRC, would take an entire lifetime, though we started working on
http://wikichip.org/wiki/mirc for this reason, so the real behaviors and all the known and important quirks are documented, with better examples and documentations.
