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====== Quirks in mIRC ======
This page is meant to be an unnordered placeholder for all the little quirks in mIRC that either need little explanation or still warrant an in depth explanation. 




===== Weird $eval behaviour =====
When $eval() or $() is used to evaluate text that is just either "{" or "}", and N is a number greater than 0 and less than 4294967296, then $eval() returns N-1. Otherwise, $eval() returns text.

  alias test { 
    var %e = 8
      while (%e) { 
        echo -s Number: %e
        %e = $({,%e)
      }
    }
  }

(Note: There is some odd behavior for numbers greater than 4294967296, but they have not been explored in depth yet.)



===== $* =====
$* appears to store the raw data as `~$*

  alias test { 
    tokenize 32 1 2 3 4
    echo $left($*,1) $left($*,2) $left($*,3) $left($*,4) $right($*,1) $right($*,2) $right($*,3) $right($*,4) `~$*
  }

This returns:
  ` `~ `~$ 1 * $* ~$* 1 1
  ` `~ `~$ 2 * $* ~$* 2 2
  ` `~ `~$ 3 * $* ~$* 3 3
  ` `~ `~$ 4 * $* ~$* 4 4

Furthermore, $* will only evaluate correctly when it is evaluated last. One way around this is to use brackets.