Server-side functions are not scripts though and referring to d3m0n's comment, in many cases he's right though the issue of whether an oper can be nailed or not is specific to a given IRCd. Some IRCds protect opers from just about everything while others offer no protection over and above what any user gets while others still offer some sort of half-way measures.
Getting back to your comment, given that opers make up about 0.0001% of total IRC users it would be pointless to use server-side protection as a worthwhile statistic in a thread such as this.
