Useless? Well then let me ask, why is your suggestion of constants so much more "useful"? alias -l someconst { return somevalue } would emulate a constant rather nicely. So why is your suggestion so much better?
You are obviously not familiar with common programming philosophy and/or structure. I will not continue any discussion related to my suggestion of adding constants with you since it's obvious that you are quite uneducated on this matter. However, please stop bringing up out-of-context posts. Use the appropriate thread for it if you want to comment on it.
How will it complicate code? I see it simplifying code.
I will not argue with you about your personal taste for coding (which however I find to be quite perverted by looking at your examples), I can only appeal to common sense on this point.
And parser speed setbacks? Are you using a 286? I'm not, I'm using a relatively slow PC, and thats a 1.4Ghz. They already have processors more than double mine. The "speed setbacks" you are talking about are 10nanoseconds. Yeah, 10 billionths of a second. Are you honestly going to tell me that 10ns is so important to you that people should be
deprived of this feature so your script runs in 10 seconds rather than 10.000000001 seconds?
Many small nanoseconds can make up quite a few seconds in the long run. mIRC's script parser is already slow as hell, adding severe structure altering crap such as aliases within aliases would ONLY serve to make the parser even slower.
I mean COME ON!! When did you EVER see a interpreted language with functions inside functions? Or a compiled language for that sake? There's a REASON you know!
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Oh and again I ask, why exactly does local aliases create such complexity and speed issues yet your constants suggestion doesn't?
By now this should be obvious. If you need to learn more about programming, I advice you to use
www.google.com.
