Originally Posted By: Loki12583
This destroys the $nick() identifier
Posted by Tiago
I think you need to read the help a little better
I think he was referring to your alias - alias nick {
and sometimes you need to not believe what the help file says.
It states that you need to referance an alias with a $ prefix if it returns a value. I have found, however, that in some cases I have to add that prefix to an alias if I send parameters to the alias, despite it being purely procedural, no return value.
As he said, if you have to prefix it with a $ symbol, then it takes precedent over the actual $nick identifier (why are they called alias and idenfiers, why not procedures and functions like in other languages).
There are ways round that as detailed in either the mIRC help file or on wikichip. Personally I would forget help, it hasn't been updated in god knows how long. Wikichip is being (almost) constantly updated
